Pitching: As the blog title suggests one of the main factors that went into this pick is the pitching matchup. I trust Lynn. I don’t trust Pineda. As you can see from the image below Lynn comes in with about half the ERA (2.02) of Pineda (4.00) and that is just the beginning. Lynn also dominates Pineda in strikeout percentage, xFIP, and BABIP all of which are key factors the Line Prophet algorithm takes into account. In Lynn’s last start he went six innings and allowed just 1…