No player in all of baseball betting has received more attention from the media for activities off the field than A-Rod. He’s the highest paid player in not just baseball wagering but in all of sports betting. He dates high profile celebrities, lives in the biggest media market in MLB betting and in case anyone forgot is also an admitted user of steroids.

So while it’s quite understandable why the baseball betting public (or at least the people who buy newspapers and magazines) are fascinated by A-Rods behavior both on the baseball wagering diamond and off it this massive spotlight has no doubt been a distraction to the player. Read more…

If you look purely at the numbers 2009 wasn’t all that bad a season for the Boston Red Sox. The team compiled a record of 95-67 winning .586% of their games and clinching a wild-card spot in the baseball betting postseason. Most teams would give their left eye for that kind of MLB odds success.

But the BoSox are not your average baseball betting team, nor it their season measured by wins and losses. The only thing that determines Red Sox success is victory over the hated New York Yankees. And in the 2009 Boston’s failures in the MLB odds against the Yankees was well documented. Read more…