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MLB futures: Who can knock Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. from run-scoring throne?

By A Mystery Man Writer

Technically the season has started. However, DraftKings is still taking bets on season stats leaders because it was only a couple of teams that got the season going in Seoul.
Technically the season has started. However, DraftKings is still taking bets on season stats leaders because it was only a couple of teams (featuring significant players for sure) that got the season going in Seoul. Last year, Atlanta OF Ronald Acuna Jr. scored an amazing 149 runs, running away with the category. To put that in context, nobody had broken 140 since A-Rod back in 2007 (143), and the last player to have more runs was Jeff Bagwell back in 2000. Scoring mega runs usually comes from a combination of getting on base mixed with some power. Sometimes you gotta drive yourself in, right? The top of the table features a lot of familiar names from previous articles so I am going to frame them in logical pairs with who I like better from each. Ronald Acuna Jr., Atlanta Braves + $400 or Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers +550 There are very good reasons why these two are at the top of the odds tables for this category. I would lean into Acuna Jr. here as he is at the top of the same lineup and there is no