After a dismal start to the season, thee Los Angeles Dodgers are starting to live up to preseason expectations put on them by oddsmakers. The Dodgers were mired in a slump in April that saw them looking more like National League West cellar dwellers than World Series contenders. The team […]
The Seattle Mariners have the longest postseason drought of any team in baseball — of any team in all major professional sports, actually — and going into the year there was no reason to expect their streak to end. It had been 17 years since the M’s saw the playoffs, […]
This season’s market for baseball free agents was unusually insipid. There was no bumper crop of marquee players available, and those who were hardly experienced a feeding frenzy from teams looking to shore up their rosters in the offseason. Trades seemed to be the preferred method of choice with baseball […]
Traditionally, baseball pundits have said that it’s not worth looking at the MLB standings until at least Memorial Day. There’s some logic to this: in a league where almost every team will both win and lose at least 50 games during the season, it takes a while to separate short […]
Though Florida sputtered at the end of the regular season, they were still named the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Baseball Tournament that begins Friday. The Gators are 8/1 to repeat as College World Series champions. They begin their quest Friday when they host one of 16 regional tournaments […]
When ever is 5/1 equal to 500/1? Forty-two games into the Major League Baseball season, when both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami Marlins share the same bleak fortunes with records of 16-26. Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter made the decision to unload his best players in the offseason, creating […]
Second baseman Robinson Cano was supposed to be the driving force behind the Seattle Mariners’ first playoff berth since 2001. Now, they’ll have to climb that mountain without him. The star slugger has been suspended a whopping 80 games by Major League Baseball for violating the league’s drug policy. It […]
When you’re 8-27 and dead last in all of Major League Baseball, all potential moves are on are on the table. For the Baltimore Orioles, that includes the prospect of trading their best player, three-time All-Star Manny Machado. Sure, the Orioles insist they’re not interested in shipping off their 25-year-old […]
The Chicago Cubs have put starting pitcher Yu Darvish on the 10-day disabled list due to illness, adding to the early season struggles for the team’s biggest offseason acquisition. Darvish was placed on the DL because of “parainfluenza virus,” a common virus that can cause respiratory infections (but is not […]
It may not yet be legal to place a sports bet in Pennsylvania, but you can now get a stake in the outcome of sporting events via daily fantasy sports. The latest beneficiary of the sweeping changes to state gambling laws last year, daily fantasy sports (DFS) is now officially […]
The Orioles may already be all but out of contention in the American League East, but they’re not yet ready to entertain thoughts of trading superstar shortstop Manny Machado. Speculation about Machado’s future has been a hot topic since the offseason, as the shortstop will be a free agent after […]
Nevada sportsbooks collected a record $522 million, with $436.5 million on both professional and college basketball. Of that half-billion amount, casinos kept $38 million. It was the 56th consecutive month sportsbooks have collected a profit, a streak that dates back to July 2013. In that month fan favorite Phil Mickelson […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced that shortstop Corey Seager will be out for the rest of the season with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm, an injury that will further lengthen the team’s chances of making a World Series run. Seager will undergo Tommy John surgery […]
The Dodgers struggling season continued and their latest embarrassment also broke a record. Los Angeles lost to lowly Miami on Wednesday after being posted as huge favorites. According to BetLabSports, a company that runs a sports betting database since 2005, it was the biggest favorite to lose since the Washington […]
The estranged wife of baseball legend Pete Rose has alleged in court documents that he is still making more than a million dollars a year from autograph signings, and that he spends most of that money on gambling. According to TMZ, these and other allegations are included in new divorce filings […]
For all the projections and predictions before a baseball season begins, there are always a few surprises. A player who was supposed to have a breakout year maybe hasn’t delivered, for example, or a player who was hardly given much thought is suddenly going crazy at the plate or on […]
Rumors about Cincinnati Manger Bryan Price losing his job had been bandied about for the past three years, and Wednesday they finally came true. After four seasons with the worst winning percentage in baseball, .419, the club finally fired their skipper — before the end of the first month of […]
It’s only the second week of the season so it’s seems like a perfectly appropriate time to talk about which baseball manager will be the first to be fired. Bovada has put together the prop bet on which skipper will be first to be shown the door. The favorite is […]
With each game it seems like Los Angeles Angel Shohei Ohtani gets better, and sportsbooks are taking notice. The Japanese free agent has seen his odds to win the American League MVP plummet since the beginning of the season. BetDSI had the two-way player at +10000 before the season began […]
The New York Mets rallied on Tuesday night to defeat the Miami Marlins 8-6, continuing what is now the best start in the history of the team. The Mets are now 9-1, and have won seven straight games. That’s the best record through the first 10 games of the season […]
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