Today is Opening Day in baseball and every team starts out 0-0 and a dream. Well, every team starts out 0-0 except for the Seattle Mariners, Oakland A’s, Miami Marlins, and St. Louis Cardinals. Be it as it may, this year baseball is wide open. You could make the argument for at least 12 teams [...]
Every year I take on 25 bets for the upcoming baseball season. The bets I take on are player prop bets such as over/under for batting average, hits, home runs, etc… I also take on bets for teams such as over/under for wins. In 2009, I went 64 percent on my bets. Good, but not [...]
Next up in our “Key” player series is the key player for each National League West team. Without any further adieu, let’s get to it. Arizona Diamondbacks – Stephen Drew: Drew saw his season end after 86 games last year due to a brutal ankle injury. He wasn’t having a typical Drew year, but losing [...]
Every year, there are players who just rip it up during spring training. A lot of times, those players carry it over to the regular season. Last year, Mark Trumbo hit six HR’s during the spring and carried that over to the regular season to the tune of 29 big flies. Here is a quick [...]
The San Francisco Giants just missed out on making the postseason in 2011. They finished four games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the Wild Card and who knows, maybe if they had Buster Posey for the whole season, things would have been different. Let’s take a look at how the 2012 version of the [...]
With spring training right around the corner and all of the major free agents signed and ready to go with their respective teams, I thought it would be interesting to see which teams have positioned themselves for a playoff run in 2012. Obviously things are going to change from now to Opening Day, but it’s [...]
