The MLB Betting Market through 5/24: May 25th 2010
If you look at baseball betting as if it were the stock market, here’s a look at what we’re buying and selling through another week of play on the diamond.
Bullish Squads
Boston Red Sox (6-2, +$586) – Don’t look now, but here come the Red Sox. Manager Terry Francona’s team is finally starting to get some semblance of a pitching staff together, as his team used great efforts by RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka and RHP Tim Wakefield to take care of the Phillies over the weekend in Interleague play. Now, Boston did something that it couldn’t do once during a long series at home earlier this year: It beat the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night at Tropicana Field.
TOP NEWS
Assessing Every MLB Team's Development System ⚾
.png?w=256)
10 Scorching MLB Takes 🌶️
Yankees Call Up 6'7" Prospect 📈
Tampa Bay Rays (6-2, +$361) – Tampa Bay’s pitching staff showed some chinks in armor over these L/2 days of MLB betting action, as RHP Wade Davis was lit up for six runs on Monday, and LHP David Price was knocked around for five on Sunday. However, the offense is still clicking on all cylinders for the Rays, who have outscored their opponents by nearly as many runs this year as they did in the entire 2008 regular season, the year that they went to the World Series.
Bearish Squads
Cleveland Indians (1-7, -$657) – The Tribe have fallen a game behind the Kansas City Royals for dead last in the AL Central standings, and even though manager Manny Acta is in his first year on the job, one has to wonder whether or not he is going to survive this miserable season or not. The Indians rank 26th in offense, averaging just 3.77 runs per game, which is awful news for a pitching staff that ranks 21st in the bigs in ERA.
New York Yankees (2-5, -$552) – When the Red Sox and Rays are bullish, and the Yankees are bearish, the Steinbrenner family isn’t going to be chalk full of happy campers. New York has slipped to 5.5 games behind Tampa Bay for first place in the AL East, and it is only hanging on to the Wild Card position by a slender half game over Toronto heading into Tuesday’s action. LHP CC Sabathia had better avoid more miserable outings like the one he had on Sunday night against the Mets, or the Bronx will be burning in a hurry.
Player to Buy – Edwin Encarnacion, Toronto Blue Jays (.333 BA, 6 HRs, 11 RBIs): Encarnacion has been tearing the cover off of the baseball lately. He only has seven hits in his L/21 ABs, but six of those have flown out of the park. The suddenly surging third baseman has helped give Toronto an MLB best 76 home runs this year, and if he and his teammates can keep this up, the Jays are going to be an MLB betting fanatic’s dream for the rest of the season.
Player to Sell – Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees (.120 BA, 8 Ks): Teixeira is historically a slow starter, but this is getting a wee ridiculous. Last week, Tex only batted 3/25, didn’t have an extra base hit, didn’t drive in a single run, and tied with his teammate 3B Alex Rodriguez for the sixth most strikeouts by any batter with eight. Slugging .120 isn’t going to cut it in Yankee Stadium, and Teixeira is a big part of this skid that has seen the men in pinstripes drop five out of seven.
Related posts:
.png?w=480)
