National League hitters (and baseball betting fans of any NL team, save the Phillies) would have much preferred pitching ace Roy Halladay to remain in Toronto. During his tenure north of the border Halladay was little more than a distant headline; a worry for the giants of the AL East like the Red Sox and Yankees. Out of sight out of mind.

But now that the Philadelphia Phillies traded for Halladay in the MLB betting off-season and the NL batters have to face him all year long, no team or player in the Junior League is pleased at this sports betting prospect.

For the teams and batter of the NL East betting competition things are even worse as they have to face Halladay at a much greater frequency than any of the other NL teams.

On Tuesday the Atlanta Braves (7-5) should get a bird’s eye view of the Phillies’ ace and chances are they’re not going to like it. Halladay has been all but unhittable so far this baseball betting season and he looks like the only man on the planet that might be able to pry the NL Cy Young Award from the Giants Tim Lincecum. Halladay has pitched an incredible 24 innings in his three MLB betting starts (8.0 innings per start), won all three (3-0 in the MLB odds action), struck out 21 batters in those 24 innings and held his ERA to just 1.12. Good luck if you’re the Atlanta Braves, the next MLB betting victims on the schedule.

But the Braves will have an ace of their own on the mound for this MLB odds action. Derek Lowe is likely to take the mound for Atlanta and is a perfect 3-0 to start this MLB betting season. However, unlike Halladay, his ERA is a pudgy 4.67 and it’s been the team’s run support not his stellar pitching that’s padded his baseball betting record. And he can’t afford to make mistakes against a batting lineup like Philly’s –one of the best in baseball betting.

The only way the Braves win this one is if they can hit Halladay early and knock him out of the game. This is a MLB betting matchup that Atlanta’s bats will have to win on their own. Martin Prado and young hitting sensation Jason Heyward have been red hot and they’ll have to continue against Halladay.

If not, the Braves will just one more team on the growing list of NL betting opponents that grew the day that Halladay was traded to the Phillies.