This baseball betting matchup between a 5-2 team and a 2-5 team doesn’t seem all that appealing at first glance but if the right pieces fall into place it just might turn into a can’t miss MLB odds matchup on Saturday April 18th.

The St. Louis Cardinals (5-2) have been dominating opponents so far in the young 2010 MLB betting season. The team started the year with a 4-2 road record before opening up the baseball betting action at Busch Stadium.

The New York Mets (2-5) have done just the opposite of the Red Birds in the 2010 betting odds action. This team has been a bit of a disappointment after stocking up on free agent bats in the baseball betting off season and getting its pitching staff more or less healthy. When the team heads to St Louis it will definitely have its work cut out for it and no baseball odds maker is going to give the team much of a chance in the game. Unless ace Johan Santana is pitching.

And this is a real possibility. Santana, the Cy Young winner, will either pitch the opening night of this 3-game baseball betting series on Friday, or he’ll pitch in this game. If that were to happen the Mets’ MLB odds of winning this game would increase tremendously. Santana only has one win this season and his ERA of 4.91 in 11 innings of work is hardly impressive but he’ll be ready to pitch in this series.

The Cards just might have their ace, Adam Wainright, on the mound which would turn this MLB odds matchup into a pitching duel between two of the best in the NL. Regardless of the teams’ records, that pitching matchup would make this a very interesting baseball betting proposition.

Still, the Cards offense is far superior to the Mets and it would take a near perfect performance by Santana to win this MLB betting matchup.