The NL Central has been one of the most competitive division in baseball betting over the past decade. And every year without fail this MLB odds division seems to produce one of the most interesting pennant races in the NL betting –if not the all of MLB betting.

This year the sports betting gurus will once again have their hands full trying to pick a winner. On paper the MLB odds makers like the St Louis Cardinals chances, and how can you not? This is a team that won the baseball betting last year and has probably only gotten better in the off season. Read more…

2009 and was a disastrous MLB baseball betting season for the New York Mets. The season was practically over before it even began due to a string of injuries and unusual bad luck. In what was supposed to be a banner sports betting season, one in which the Mets were preseason favorites among MLB odds makers to win the NL East, the team was lucky just to finish the season.

But with plenty of time to rest and get healthy again the Mets are looking to reverse their fortunes in the 2010 baseball betting season and once again compete for the MLB wagering post season.

After finishing a hugely disappointing 2009 in last place in the NL East betting standings and winding up the season 23 games out (70-92) the Mets are ready to give the Phillies a run for the money. Read more…

There are some divisions in baseball that seem to be perennial dogs. One or two teams that dominate the baseball betting year in and year out followed by a bunch of .500 MLB odds cellar dwellers. And then there is the AL Central.

This is one of the most exciting divisions in the baseball betting and in recent years no division in the MLB odds has been as competitive year in and year out. Last year baseball fans surely remember the drama that capped off the regular season finish to the MLB odds competition in this division. 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…