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…

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…

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…