Two long-shot home run props cashed in the latest Daily Dinger column, and there’s another slate with a few angles worth chasing on Thursday.
Boston’s Roman Anthony (+610) and Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman (+559) both went deep on Sept. 2, giving the column one of its best days ever. Now the focus shifts to Sept. 3, where the board is shorter and the prices are still attractive - including one bet north of +500 and a look at AL MVP favorite Yordan Alvarez.
Alvarez hasn’t been on quite the same heater he was earlier in the season, but the setup is still hard to ignore. The Astros slugger has just one homer over the last two weeks, yet he enters Thursday hitting .317 with 37 home runs and a 1.037 OPS.
Against right-handed pitching, he has 28 homers and a .335 batting average. More importantly, he draws White Sox starter Luis Castillo, who has already allowed 23 home runs in 25 appearances this season.
The real selling point is the history between them. Alvarez is 11-for-21 with a double, four home runs and an OPS of 1.726 against Castillo in his career.
That kind of damage is rare, and Castillo is in the middle of one of the roughest seasons of his career. The call here is simple: back the AL MVP favorite to launch his 38th homer of the year Thursday afternoon.
George Springer is another veteran bat worth a look. The Blue Jays outfielder has been locked in at the plate, hitting .311 over his last 24 games, .405 over his last 12 and .455 over the last week. He’s also left the yard twice over the past seven days, bringing his season total to 14 homers in 100 games.
That makes his +506 price against the Guardians stand out. Springer has already homered off Cleveland starter Tanner Bibee, going 2-for-9 with one long ball in their meetings.
Bibee has also had trouble keeping the ball in the yard, giving up 26 homers in 28 appearances this season. His ground-ball rate sits in the 20th percentile, which gives Toronto a chance to get the ball airborne Thursday afternoon.
Springer may not be carrying elite power numbers overall this season, but the form is real, and the number is appealing.
Randy Arozarena rounds out the card. The Mariners outfielder has taken a step forward in 2026, batting .272 with 22 homers after hitting 27 last season. Seattle, though, is still on the outside looking in on the playoff picture, and Thursday brings a matchup with the Athletics and right-hander Jack Perkins.
Perkins has allowed 18 home runs and carries a 6.42 ERA, and he’ll also be backed by an Oakland bullpen that has the worst ERA in MLB at 5.56 and has surrendered 80 home runs this season. Arozarena has been especially dangerous lately, with eight homers over his last 25 games and five over the last two weeks.
He’s hitting .260 in that two-week stretch, but the matchup history is the eye-opener: he is 2-for-4 against Perkins, and both hits were home runs. At nearly 5/1, he looks undervalued to hit his 23rd of the season.
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