Monday MLB Betting - Trends as your Friends

Whether it’s been a good or bad week for those betting on baseball, the beauty of the sport is it will start its 10th week of the season, meaning we’ve gone through a great deal already, with a whole lot more to go. As the week begins anew, here are a number of hot betting trends that will be less controversial than Rachael Ray wearing a scarf pushing Dunkin’ Donuts ice coffee.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are in first place in the AL West, despite having a team batting average of only .255, which is ninth in the junior circuit. They are thankful not to be their opponent, Seattle, tonight in the series opener between these division rivals who were supposed to be duking it out. The Mariners are the worst wager in the American League at 21-36, -18.1 units. They are 9-25 (-18.4 Units) against the money line vs. an AL team with a team batting average of .265 or worse this season, losing by two runs a game.

The defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox have had their problems on the road this season at 14-19 and have lost -7.5 units. After starting 10-game road trip on the West Coast with 1-5 record, the Red Sox returned east and went a place where they have often felt welcomed and enjoyed success. Boston completes a four-game series in Baltimore, having taken the first three at Camdem Yards, moving record to 16-7 at the Orioles ball park. Boston is 24-6 when playing against a team with a losing record this season.

This just in, the Colorado Rockies smell worse than a week old opened can of Coors Light at 20-37 (-18.8 units). The Rockies own the worst record in the majors; have the most negative run differential in baseball at -74 and are otiose 8-23 on the road. Without Troy Tulowitzki, Matt Holliday or Brad Hawpe, punch-less Colorado’s current 0-7 road trip continues in Los Angeles, being 6-23 vs. a good bullpen like the Dodgers, whose ERA is 3.75 or better in 2008.

If there is one team glad to be home today, it is the Atlanta Braves. The team has been one of the biggest mysteries in baseball this year, given their home/road dichotomy. After another sickly road trip that saw Atlanta go 1-5, they return to Turner Field to open up a seven game homestand against Florida and Philadelphia, who are both ahead of them in the NL East. The Braves confidence is boosted being 21-7 at home, winning by two runs a game.

The Chicago Cubs are starting to frighten fans of the lovable losers. With 100 years of failure in the books, the Cubs owned the best record in the major leagues on June 1, the last time that happened, 1908, which happens to be the year of last World Series championship season. Off a perfect 7-0 homestand, Chicago heads to the left coast to play San Diego and are 16-2 after four or more consecutive home games this season. The lovable Cubs are -165 money line favorites to open series and have won these games by better than three runs.