With summer upon us, the Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing, which means bettors have dozens of games on the daily schedule.
Division races are warming up, contenders are emerging out of the crowd, and even cellar-dwellers have prospects coming up to the big display to determine what they can do. Between the exploits of two-way rookie Shohei Ohtani — blowing off batters as an ace starter and bashing dingers as a DH for the Los Angeles Angels — into New York Yankees sluggers Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge leading the most recent incarnation of the Bronx Bombers, baseball is back in full effect.
But the beauty of America’s Pastime is in the game’s subtle intricacies, something enthusiastic bettors understand very nicely. You don’t have to stick with the sport score when betting on baseball, since most sportsbooks provide heaps of proposition wagers — also called prop bets — for every single game on the day’s docket.
I’m talking everything from stakes depending on the match’s first five innings — if starting pitchers tend to decide the results — to wagers on which team will cross the plate first, or reach a certain number of runs. You can bet on whether or not a huge basher will go yard, or which batter will collect the most offensive statistics.
Pretty much everything and anything that occurs on the field during an MLB game is up for grabs if you’re prop betting. And these fun wagers aren’t confined to the internet sportsbook world either. You’ll find a long run of baseball prop bets waiting at any major sportsbook at Nevada — or Delaware and New Jersey as of the June.
Number is always pleasant, but what about quality?
The goal for any thinking bettor is not simply to find down action, but to derive consistent gains from your hobby. And while a good prop bet can certainly be entertaining, if not downright exciting, they’re typically longshots that prefer the house.
Given the ongoing hubbub about sports betting legalization on the federal level, and with all the All-Star Game quickly approaching, it’s time to research your baseball prop bets. Below you’ll find a listing of the most popular baseball prop bets, together with descriptions about how each one works.
From that point, I will explore each bet’s comparative values from the perspective of profitability. The goal here is to determine which baseball prop bets are worth your time, and that ought to be sent down to the minors.
In the end, I expect to leave subscribers better prepared to bet on baseball props throughout 2018 and beyond.