MLB Betting: Best 'Over' And 'Under” Teams For MLB Wagering: June 21st 2010

Best MLB Baseball Teams To Bet The ‘Over’
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Season Standings
1: Arizona Diamondbacks (43-25-2) – Arizona’s offense really isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain right now, but the bottom line is that the pitching staff is as woeful as it has ever been this year. The team’s ERA is up to 5.46 for the season, but thanks to a week with three games at three runs or less, the bats are only knocking in 4.70 runs per game on the season. No wonder why making MLB picks on this team has been impossible with it now 16-games under .500.

2: Milwaukee Brewers (37-28-4) – It’s been a few weeks since the Brewers have posted a good mark for MLB betting fans wagering on ‘overs’. We warned earlier that oddsmakers have started posting overinflated ‘totals’ for this team, and it has officially caught up to them; four of their L/5 has stayed below the closing number.

3: Chicago White Sox (36-28-4) – The ChiSox are playing great ball right now and have clawed back into the race in the AL Central with wins in ten of their L/11. In that stretch, they are averaging 5.70 runs per game, and that’s in spite of the fact that they were nearly no-hit by LHP Ted Lilly and the Cubs last Sunday.

Who’s Hot?
1: Detroit Tigers (5-1) – A string of five straight ‘overs’ was snapped on Sunday in a 3-1 win over the D’Backs. That also stopped a streak of eight straight games with at least four runs scored for the Tigers, who are suddenly just a game and a half back of the Twinkies for first place in the AL Central. Detroit may only be scoring 4.48 runs per game, but that number has most certainly been on the rise in recent weeks.

2: San Diego Padres (4-1) – You have to go back to June 10th to find the last time that the oddsmakers lined a Padres game ‘total’ at more than seven runs, and it looks as though it is finally starting to catch up to them. They have played seven of their L/9 past the number (7-1-1) and are doing so consistently by putting exactly seven or eight runs across the plate in a game.

3: Chicago Cubs (4-1-1) – The wind feels like it is starting to blow out in Wrigley Field for the summer. In a three game series with the Angels at home over the weekend, all three games reached at least 12 runs. Of course, only one team was doing the scoring in each of the L/2, as Anaheim scored 12 on Saturday only to give up 12 on Sunday, but ‘over’ bettors don’t care how the total number of runs gets there. As long as the nine-run ‘total’ was surpassed in both games, they were happy.

Best MLB Baseball Teams To Bet The ‘Under’
Under’ is still the word for a ton of teams on the diamond this season, and there is no reason to believe that won’t continue through the summer. The teams on this week’s MLB odds list of ‘under’ teams may surprise you though!
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Season Standings
1: St. Louis Cardinals (41-26-2) – St. Louis finally knocked the Orioles from their perch as the top ‘under’ team in the game thanks to yet another stellar week of low scorers. The pitching staff didn’t allow more than four runs in a game all week, while the bats had four of their L/5 played with less than four runs scored as well. This feels like a trend going on that you should take note of when analyzing the MLB odds lines. If you add together team ERA and offensive runs per game for the Redbirds, you only have a total of 7.62.

2: Baltimore Orioles (40-26-3) – Even though they have had some more luck lately, the Orioles are still just an atrocious offensive club. They’ve score an average of just 3.21 runs per game and have only knocked 52 home runs for the season. To put that in perspective, fellow division dwellers, the Toronto Blue Jays, have over double the number of dingers!

3: Colorado Rockies (40-27-2) – It’s not just RHP Ubaldo Jimenez that is leading the ‘under’ charge for the Rocks this year. As a staff, Colorado only has a 3.64 ERA. Unfortunately though, over a third of the quality starts belong to Jimenez, which leads us to believe that if he ever cools off just a tad, the Rockies are going to end up playing more ‘over’ contests than ‘under’ ones.

Who’s Hot?
1: Seattle Mariners (5-0) – Give it up for Seattle’s pitching staff! The M’s have only given up a grand total of two runs in their L/4 games, and in spite of the fact that they have only scored nine, they are a perfect 4-0. Save for that 9-3 dud against the Cardinals back on June 14th, this has really been a dead nuts ‘under’ team for awhile, and as long as the staff is rolling and the lineup is only producing 3.41 runs per game, that’s going to continue.

2: New York Yankees (5-1) – For the second time in three weeks, the Bronx Bombers appear on the ‘under’ list for “Who’s Hot,” which takes them off of the list of the top ‘over’ teams for the season. The “Subway Series” against the Mets produced three low scorers, and with the ‘totals’ in the Philly series all inflated, it should come as no surprise that two of those three games stayed ‘under’ as well – Buyer beware on the Yanks right now!

3: Cincinnati Reds (5-1) – It is already well documented just how bad Cincinnati’s offense was in Seattle over the weekend, but it wasn’t significantly better against the Dodgers at home either. Save for scoring seven runs on Thursday, the team only plated three runs in the other five games through the course of the week. If not for allowing a dozen to the LA on Tuesday, it would’ve been a clean ‘under’ sweep.

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