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MLB Predictions / Previews: L.A. Angels

MLB Team Preview – Los Angeles Angels

Few MLB odds competitors have had easier rides over the last five years than the Los Angeles Angels. Consistently fielding strong, well-rounded teams and sharing a division with weak competition have translated into four AL West titles in the last five years. Though the Angels made a few changes in the offseason, they remain strong in virtually every area, so there’s no reason for online sports betting fans to expect anything less than continued success in 2009.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Oakland Athletics

MLB Team Preview – Oakland Athletics

In MLB betting, general managers don’t come much crazier than Billy Beane. The man who popularized Moneyball was thinking outside the box again this offseason, but not in his usual sense. Sure, he grabbed another handful of on-base machines from free agency, but they weren’t they typical no-name guys whose peripheral stats suggested breakouts.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Texas Rangers

MLB Team Preview – Texas Rangers Betting

Same old, Same old. MLB betting fans shake their heads when they look at the Texas Rangers‘ 2009 roster. Nothing has changed in Arlington since the days when a certain former U.S. President owned them. Bandbox ballpark, powerful hitters, and a completely empty cupboard in the pitching department.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Seattle Mariners

MLB Team Preview – Seattle Mariners

How do the Mariners’ MLB odds look for 2009?

Next question, please. Uh, hey, how about that Ken Griffey Jr.? Pretty cool to have him back home, huh?

Sorry for changing the subject, but it’s difficult to discuss the Mariners’ chances in MLB betting without a barf bag present.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Minnesota Twins

MLB Team Preview – Minnesota Twins

After they lost Johan Santana via free agency and then Francis Liriano to injury, not many people thought the Minnesota Twins would be competing for a playoff spot in 2008. But the Twins persevered and finished just one game back of the White Sox.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Chicago White Sox

MLB Team Preview – Chicago White Sox

If those who bet on MLB take a quick glance at the 2009 Chicago White Sox roster, they’ll realize it’s out with old, in with the new in the South Side. The Pale Hose are only four years removed from a World Series title, but only a few key pieces of that championship squad remain.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Cleveland Indians

MLB Team Preview – Cleveland Indians

In the 2009 MLB odds, the AL Central looks like a division on the rise. The Cleveland Indians, while they sputtered to a .500 record last year, could be one of baseball’s biggest bounce-back stories this season despite their increasingly tough local competition. They have enough young talent to challenge for the division crown, but only time will tell whether or not it all comes together at once.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Detroit Tigers

MLB Team Previews – Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers flabbergasted MLB betting fans last year; so much talent, such poor results. While the Tigers weren’t the only bust in last year’s MLB odds – the Diamondbacks and Indians come to mind – they may be the least likely to bounce back of all last year’s disappointments.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: KC Royals

MLB Team Previews – Kansas City Royals

This hasn’t been said in MLB betting circles in ages – maybe the mid 1980s? – but things may finally be looking up for the Kansas City Royals, especially in the anything-goes AL Central. Raise your hand if you knew they went 18-8 last September. All those draft picks are finally arriving and the pitching staff even offers a glimmer of hope.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: New York Yankees

MLB Team Preview: New York Yankees

After just one year of disappointing MLB betting fans and sitting out the postseason, the big, bad Bronx Bombers are back in a big way in the 2009 MLB odds. With a new stadium and some, big, shiny new free agents, the New York Yankees enter this online betting season as the top sportsbook favorites for the World Series.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Boston Red Sox

MLB team preview – Boston Red Sox

If the early 2000s represented World War II between the Red Sox and Yankees, it looks like World War III looms in this year’s MLB odds. In a wild offseason, both the Bombers and BoSox made big acquisitions. Boston arguably had less work to do and wasn’t quite as active but seriously bolstered its rotation.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Tampa Bay Rays

MLB team preview – Tampa Bay Rays

For years, the Tampa Bay Rays were a laughing stock in baseball betting circles. Last year, though, the stars finally aligned. Sucking for all those years allowed the Rays to stockpile prospects and everyone seemed to break out simultaneously. After the Rays defied the MLB odds in 2008, one question weighs heavily on sports betting fans’ minds: was last season a fluke?

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Toronto Blue Jays

2009 MLB Team Preview – Toronto Blue Jays

What a difference a season can make. A year ago, the Jays were on everyone’s sleeper list in the MLB odds. They had, arguably, the best pitching in the AL, featuring a one-two punch of Roy Halladay and A.J. Burnett, good young arms in Dustin McGowan and Shaun Marcum and the league’s stingiest bullpen.

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MLB Predictions / Previews: Baltimore Orioles

2009 MLB Team Preview – Baltimore Orioles

Most MLB betting fans say playing the AL East is a death sentence if you’re not the Red Sox or Yankees. Well, now that the Rays join that elite list, life gets even harder for Baltimore and Toronto. Then again, the Rays’ story gives online sports betting players and young teams like Baltimore hope, doesn’t it?

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PGA Golf

Northern Trust Open Picks / Predictions

PGA Betting: Northern Trust Open Preview

They say the West Coast is the best coast and we’ll find out this weekend as the PGA Tour heads to the outskirts of Los Angeles for the Northern Trust Open. As we get set to tee off, here’s a six pack of golfers who present decent odds for PGA betting: