Major League Baseball’s trade deadline has come and gone. While that doesn’t necessarily mean that there won’t be any more trades the rest of the season, it does give us an idea of which general managers think their teams are out of the playoff picture, and which ones expect their teams to make a run in the postseason.
There isn’t a team in the game employing a four-man rotation at the moment, which means that each week, each team will send out five different starting pitchers. That’s five players from each of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams, meaning that at least 150 different names will hit the betting board in a given week.
It was Dickens who penned the line “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and for our purposes I’ll use that as a way of leading into this week’s Trend Report, one which focuses on teammates that are trending in opposite directions.
You’ve surely heard it many times before: The baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint. As the third month of play comes to an end and we near the midway point of the season, let’s re-evaluate some names we see on the betting board every fifth day, while noting a few that may have been overlooked.
Here are three starting pitchers worth backing, and three you’re going to want to fade.
The mountains of data offered to fans can sometimes be intimidating, but once in a while a gem appears that can help us to make sense of what we can expect to see out on the diamond.
The Philadelphia Phillies (100-71 SU, 88-81 RL, 77-84-8 O/U) and New York Yankees (110-61 SU, 95-76 RL, 79-83-9 O/U) will square off in Game 1 of the 2009 World Series tonight at 7:45 PM ET with both ballclubs looking to get off to a solid start behind their respective staff aces.
The Twins finally caught up to the Tigers on Saturday, and they did not back off on Sunday winning while the Tigers won with Justin Verlander on the hill. Now it comes down to a tie breaker on Tuesday night between these two teams. The Twins won 11 of the 18 match ups this season and were 7-2 in Minnesota where they will be on Tuesday.
Another full set of Interleague games is on tap for this weekend, and the American League is starting to distance itself from the Senior Circuit once again, as A.L. teams own a 67-58 record in the MLB betting matchups to date.
For this weekend, there are several intriguing matchups, including Milwaukee visiting Detroit in a battle of divisional leaders, as well as the renewal of regional rivalries between St. Louis and Kansas City and Dodgers-Angels.
Baseball’s second full weekend in May features several intriguing series’ between divisional mates, as well as a matchup between a surprising early front runner and an expected contender that is still finding its feet in ‘09.
With the usual 15 MLB matchups slated each day, it figures to be an exciting weekend on the diamond.
Phillies’ Howard Having Blast In Hometown State, Cards Look To Snap Skid
The St. Louis Cardinals (17-9 SU, 15-11 RL, 13-11-2 O/U) will be looking to snap their modest two-game losing streak for BetUS MLB sports betting backers when they host the Philadelphia Phillies (13-10 SU, 9-14 RL, 13-8-2 O/U) at Busch Stadium tonight at 8 PM ET.
Baseball’s third weekend of the 2009 season offers up the first meeting between the sports biggest rivals, the Yankees and Red Sox.
Nothing says “intense baseball” more than when these two teams get together. Most often it doesn’t even matter what the clubs’ records are, the disdain with which they view one another trumps all.
In this case, both teams come in playing well, so it should be an exciting three-game set.
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