Baseball Betting

With Spring training in full swing and the smell of freshly cut grass and white chalk in the air the baseball betting season can’ t be far off. And this year as in most recent years it’s not hard to pick out the top divisions in the MLB odds. In fact, this year will be little changed from last season’s baseball betting when it comes to hierarchy of the divisions.

It’s no secret that the AL East will once again be the hardest neighborhood to win an MLB odds playoff spot. Thumbing through the stats from last season it’s easy to see that the top AL East far outperformed any other division in AL baseball betting competition and the entire MLB odds competition for that matter. Read more…

Last year was not a good time to be a New York Mets fans. In fact, the entire past decade…no scratch that, almost the entire Mets baseball betting history, has not been a good time to be a Mets fan. Aside from the ‘Amazin’ ’69 season and some good years in the 1980s MLB odds with Straw and Gooden, there hasn’t been much to celebrate for the other team in the Big Apple.

But the most recent failures of the Mets in the baseball betting standings might be the toughest of all to swallow. The reason that the futility in the MLB odds that this team has suffered in the past few years is much more egregious is the fact that this team has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to be competitive, yet they finishes last season in the NL East baseball betting standings last season -23 games out of the first place Phillies! Read more…

The world of baseball betting competition at the professional level is a bit different than say the NBA or NFL. In those sports there are no great disparities between the spending of the top clubs and the worst clubs. But in MLB odds competition the payrolls of the biggest spenders can be five times as much as the lowest spenders.

Granted, money spent does not always equal baseball betting success, but it’s little coincidence that the Yankees (the biggest spenders in the MLB odds) are the World Series champs and the Pirates, Royals and Orioles (some of the lowest spenders in baseball betting) finished 2009 with some of the worst records in baseball betting. Read more…

There is no doubt that New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is a controversial figure. Whether it’s the steroid admissions, his amorous endeavors with A-list celebrities, the constant coverage of his life in the New York press, or his baseball betting post-season failures, A-Rod truly is a Lightening-Rod in the MLB odds community.

But love him or hate him, there is no denying that A-Rod is not only one of the great players of today, but also one of the all time greats in the history of baseball betting. Say what you will about his personal life or his supposed ‘choke artist’ act in the post season, but his numbers in his MLB odds career are some of the best ever produced. Read more…

Welcome to the Big Leagues Steven Strasburg. You’ve recently arrived at your first baseball betting spring training. Your team the Washington Nationals are looking for its first winning MLB odds season since the days of Ted Williams and the fans, what Nationals fans there are, are looking for savior.

Congratulations you have been chosen the baseball betting messiah by both the team’s front office and the Nationals faithful. No pressure though. Just go out and single handedly lift this team out of the baseball betting cellar, lead to a World Series title and rack up as many individual MLB odds accolades as you can. Read more…