MLB Baseball Over Under Betting: Which Team Should I Bet On? September 7th 2010

BetUS Sportsbook continues its analysis of betting action on the diamond with our look at more ‘total’ trends. Our MLB picks continue with our top ‘over’ teams on the aging season.

Season Standings
1: Arizona Diamondbacks (80-54-3) – Look at that! Arizona can indeed get its team ERA down under 5.00 for the year! The D’Backs finally reached that elusive mark this past week, as they are down to a not so svelte 4.95 for the season. Holding five of their six foes to four or fewer runs on this six game home stand helped a ton.

2: Milwaukee Brewers (72-57-7) – We wouldn’t be shocked to see the Brew Crew fall off this list in weeks to come, as they clearly aren’t going to keep up their average runs per game total of 4.70. This is a team that is just going through the motions right now and isn’t going to end up making an impact on anything except for potentially the race between fourth and fifth place teams in the NL Central.

3: Florida Marlins (70-59-6) – The bats are clearly still humming for the Marlins, as they have scored at least six runs in six of their L/10 games overall to at least keep their faint hopes for the playoffs alive. Florida has a lot of work to do, and keeping that ‘O’ rolling into this week’s series with the Phils is important, as only a sweep will probably do.

Who’s Hot?
1: Toronto Blue Jays (4-1) – We can all thank Jose Bautista for blowing up the Triple Crown race in the American League. He has 43 homers on the season and is leading the league by a country mile in that category. The Jays have still blasted the most dongs in the league at 208, and the threat is there to reach at least 250 on the season.

2: New York Yankees (4-2) – The Bronx Bombers are still bashing the cover off the ball. They have scored 46 runs in the first seven games of this ten game home stand, which is an average of 6.57 runs per game. It’s no wonder why New York went on an eight game run of wins which might have ultimately nailed down the best record in baseball in the regular season.

3: Baltimore Orioles (4-2) – First it was the pitching. Now it is the bats that are starting to ring. Yes, manager Buck Showalter has got it going on right now in Baltimore, and his team has won six out of nine games against the Angels, Red Sox, and Rays, teams that are all annual playoff contenders. In that stretch, the Orioles scored at least four runs in six of the nine games. Play like that is going to have this team playing with some momentum going into 2011.

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Season Standings
1: Seattle Mariners (74-54-9) – The M’s rank 30th in baseball in runs per game (3.21), batting average (.236), OPS (.640), and home runs (85). Numbers like that make teams like the Yankees want to laugh, as that is what they average for run production and home runs… in the first four innings of games. Clearly, Seattle has given up on the season, and the next destination might be 100 losses.

2: Houston Astros (75-55-6) – The ‘Stros have been pitching tremendously of late, which is why they have really righted the ship and might threaten the .500 mark on the year. The last time this team allowed more than five runs in a game was way back on August 21st. Those two bad games against the Marlins that day and the day before were the only times five runs were exceeded since August 11th.

3: Baltimore Orioles (75-56-6) – Baltimore’s pitching staff is getting better by the day, so a 4.81 ERA for the season doesn’t seem so bad considering the fact that it was well over 5.00 not that long ago. The O’s are clearly responding well to their new manager, Buck Showalter, and the end result is going to be a lot of good feelings going into the offseason.

Who’s Hot?
1: St. Louis Cardinals (4-0-1) – This might be too little, too late for the Cardinals. They went on a horrifying losing streak in which the Reds opened up a lead that got as big as nine games, and though it is down to just six in the loss column, the offense still isn’t awake enough to really make the big move. The Redbirds are going to be relegated to Wild Card duty if they can get into the postseason.

2: Seattle Mariners (5-1) – Give the pitching staff for Seattle some credit for pitching two shutouts in the L/3 days and holding five of its L/9 foes to one run or less. The problem is the offense, which has now gone 14 straight games without scoring more than five runs. What’s even worse is that all but one of those games ended with no more than three runs.

3: San Francisco Giants (4-1) – The oddsmakers are clearly underestimating the ability of the pitching staff for the Giants. They have kept six straight foes to four runs or less, averaging just 2.17 runs per game allowed. With the Padres slumping, this could be San Fran’s last chance to really make a move in the NL West. After all, this might be the last gasp to make the playoffs for the first time in a number of seasons.

Source: BetUS Locker Room Featured on: Handicapperspicks.com

Related posts:

1. MLB Baseball Betting: Best Teams To Bet The “Over”: May 31st 2010
2. MLB Baseball Betting: Best Teams to Bet the “Over”
3. MLB Betting: Best Baseball Teams To Bet The “Under” – June 8th 2010