How To Bet On MLB

Major League Baseball is the oldest of North America’s four major sports. It was born in 1876 when the National League first organized, while the American League came to life in 1900. By contrast, the NHL didn’t launch until 1917, the NFL came to be in 1920 and it wasn’t until 1946 that the NBA was born. The first World Series was held in 1903, with Pittsburgh representing the NL and Boston the AL. That was more than 60 years prior to the initial Super Bowl game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.

Thanks to the Toronto Blue Jays, World Series champions in 1992 and 1993, Major League Baseball is the only one of three U.S.-born major North American sports to be international in flavour in terms of teams that have won a title.

From 1903-53, just 16 teams – eight in the American League and eight in the National League – populated the Major Leagues, and these teams were housed in only 10 cities, with no teams further west than St. Louis.

In 1953, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee and in 1964, the St. Louis Browns relocated to Baltimore and became the Orioles. Significant change was just ahead, and in 1957 the Brooklyn Dodgers left for Los Angeles and the New York Giants moved to San Francisco. Major League Baseball was truly a coast-to-coast entity for the first time. Today there are 30 teams in Major League baseball’s six divisions, 15 clubs in each league.

No sport offers up the smorgasbord of betting opportunities that Major League Baseball does. The chance to bet on games is seemingly endless. There are 30 big-league teams – 15 each in the American and National Leagues – and they each play 162 regular-season games between late March and early October. Do the math and that works out to 2,430 games per season, and we haven’t even taken into account postseason play.

That means oodles of betting action every day. There are no lazy, hazy days of summer for the baseball bettor, just a never-ending forecast featuring opportunities to cash in a winning wager. Professional bettors view baseball as the sport that offers the greatest opportunity to turn a profit, because with so many games in play each day, the smart bettor that does their homework is bound to unearth a gem of a wager most every day.

Another beautiful asset to betting on baseball is that it is the sport that provides the most in-depth statisical information. Baseball was into analytics long before the other sports had ever heard of the word. Stay ahead of the betting game by referencing the up-to-date MLB game odds on a regular basis. We can guarantee it will help your overall betting returns.

Here is where you will find the Major League Baseball standings and they are a wealth of information to the baseball bettor. You can instantly figure out which teams are enjoying homestands and which teams are enduring road trips. The data provided will tell the teams that are homers, meaning they are dominantly successful in their own ballpark, and which teams are capable of taking their show on the road and maintaining their winning ways.

Study the standings with a fine-toothed comb and you will unearth data that will reveal to you where the smart-money wagers are located. At MLB.com, some of the added statistical columns at your disposal include runs for and against, so you can see which teams are productive and which keep the opponents from piling up the runs. Check a team’s record against lefty and righty starting pitchers, and then correlate the info with that day’s pitching matchups.

An interesting nugget to devour is the X-W/L column. This calculates what a team’s won-loss record should be based on their runs for and aganist. This data enables you to determine the teams that are underachieving and the teams that are playing above their heads. Each team’s record against teams with records above .500 are also calculated.