Baseball season has arrived. We’re less than 48 hours away from opening pitches of opening day. We’ve looked at all six divisions from a betting perspective and have given you our futures bets and predictions. Traditionally baseball is my best sport to handicap, but we did have a losing season in 2022. All time tracked record in MLB still shows a 1.8% ROI and we’ll be getting back to our winning ways in 2023. You’ll be able to find my MLB betting package available here at TheOddsbreakers.com. It is $400 for every MLB game all the way through the playoffs.
Now, we’ll finish up the season previews with a brief article about how I see the playoffs going and where there is value in pennant and World Series odds. We’ll throw in some season long props as well and MVP, CY and ROY predictions.
The Playoffs
AL Seeding
(1) Toronto (2) Houston (3) Cleveland (4) New York (5) Seattle (6) Los Angeles
NL Seeding
(1) San Diego (2) New York (3) St. Louis (4) Atlanta (5) Los Angeles (6) San Francisco
AL Wild Card
Cleveland Vs LA Angels – The Angels have too much in this short Series and win 2-1
New York Vs Seattle – Give me the up and coming Mariners 2-1
NL Wild Card
St. Louis vs San Francisco – SF overachieved to get here and the Cards lineup is too much. The Cards win 2-0
Atlanta vs LA Dodgers – The Freddie Freeman revenge tour wins here 2-1
AL Divisional
Houston vs LA Angels – Trout and Ohtani carry the Angels in a classic 3-2
Toronto vs Seattle – The Blue Jays get revenge from the 2022 playoffs 3-1
NL Divisional
NY Mets vs St. Louis – Scherzer and Verlander get the Mets past the Cards 3-2
San Diego vs LA Dodgers – The Padres finally get past the Dodgers 3-2
ALCS
Toronto vs LA Angels – The Blue Jays find a way thanks to a better bullpen 4-3
NLCS
San Diego vs NY Mets – The Padres get it done as Verlander and Scherzer’s age finally catches up to them 4-3
World Series
Toronto vs San Diego – The number of teams to have never won a world series stays at 6 as the Blue Jays take the title north of the border 4-2
MLB Futures & Post-Season
There’s really no value on the League winner odds in the NL unless you want to play St. Louis which I don’t hate at +825 as they should be in the playoffs.
On the AL side I’ve got the Blue Jays at +525 and the Angels at +1600.
For the World Series I have the Padres at +750, Blue Jays at +1000 and Angels at +3500
All these bets are .25 Units.
Awards
AL ROY – Josh Jung +1800
NL ROY – Jordan Walker +210 – Not much value here, but he’s the favorite for a reason
AL MVP – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. +1000
NL MVP – Pete Alonso +1500
AL Cy Young – Dylan Cease +1000
NL Cy Young – Corbin Burnes +750
Player Props
NL Top Prop – Clayton Kershaw Over 10.5 Wins
AL Top Prop – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Over 102.5 RBIs
That’s it folks! Good Luck betting this MLB season! Hit me up here at TheOddsbreakers.com or on Twitter @TheGreatKnoche
