MLB Baseball Betting: Coldest Teams to Bet on

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Whereas the picture is getting rosier for the hot squads in the bigs, there are plenty of teams in baseball that are singing the blues. Check out BetUS Sportsbook’s list of teams down in the dumps that you should stay away from at all costs if recent form is any indicator.

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1: Kansas City Royals (37-56, -$1,896) (0-5, -$524 in L/5) These are the Royals that baseball bettors have come to know and love. KC hasn’t won a game since July 9, and in that stretch, no one can seem to figure out how to pitch. Royals pitchers have given up a whopping 55 runs in their last seven games.

SP Zach Greinke, who was a legitimate Cy Young Award candidate once upon a time, is just 10-5 now. Though his 2.05 ERA is still very, very impressive, the fact that his Royals are just 2-7 in his last nine starts isn’t going to help his case any.

This offense still can’t hit its way out of a paper bag, only batting .252 as a team this year (25th), and it has the second worst run production of any team in baseball (3.92 runs per game).

2: Boston Red Sox (55-38, +$605) (1-4, -$379 in L/5) If the Yankees and Rays are both "hot," and the Red Sox are "not," there’s bound to be problems in Beantown. The Sox have opened the second half of the season on a miserable stretch of games, and now they find themselves a game behind the Yankees and only 3.5 up on the Rays for the Wild Card spot.

It’s starting to feel like this may be the odd team out of the playoffs, as Boston blew its chance to build a huge lead in the division with an easy schedule. The fun and games are about to be over. Starting in August, the Sox have to play the Rays, Yankees, Tigers, Rangers, Blue Jays, Yankees, White Sox, Blue Jays, Rays, White Sox, Rays, and Angels without any breaks in the middle.

Oh, to be manager Terry Francona during that stretch.

3: Washington Nationals (27-66, -$3,395) (1-4, -$326 in L/5) The Nats are back, and they’re taking their weekly place on the "Who’s Not" list once again. After firing manager Manny Acta, the brass in Washington was hoping to see at least some sort of spark from their club. If by "spark," you mean committing six errors and getting outscored 26-9 in a four-game home set against the Cubs, that’s exactly what Washington management got!

The Nationals have committed an MLB-worst 89 errors to add to the hilarious comedy known as baseball in our nation’s capitol. 1B Nick Johnson and OF Adam Dunn can only hope that they’re going to be traded out of DC before the July 31 trade deadline. The rest of the team only has No. 1 overall draft pick, SP Steven Strasbourg, to look forward to soon, and there’s a serious question as to whether or not the team will ever be able to come to contract terms with him.

And the rest…

4: San Diego Padres (37-57, -$1,415) (1-4, -$300 in L/5)
5: San Francisco Giants (50-43, +$729) (1-4, -$339 L/5)