Houston and Texas both sit at 78-79 with five games left, which means one of them will win the American League West and host a playoff series while owning a losing record, unless one of them wins at least three of its last five. The AL West odds have swung from one team to the … Read more
Joshua Baez homered on the first pitch he ever saw in the major leagues, 449 feet to dead center at Wrigley Field. He homered again in his second at-bat. Then he homered in his third, and became the first player in the history of the sport to do that. Two days later the NL Rookie … Read more
On the night of August 1, Los Angeles sent three prospects to Detroit for Tarik Skubal, and DraftKings cut the Dodgers World Series odds from +190 to +150 before anyone had seen him throw a pitch in the uniform. Five and a half points of implied probability, bought in a few hours. We looked at … Read more
Texas is 60-61. Through Wednesday’s games that record holds the third wild card in the American League, which means the AL wild card race has reached the middle of August with a losing team sitting inside the playoff field. Six more clubs with losing records are stacked behind it within four games. Minnesota and Detroit … Read more
The Mets are 51-67 through Saturday, last in the National League East, 11 games behind the final wild card spot. Back in March they opened at +1200 at BetMGM and +1300 at DraftKings to win the World Series, third or fourth shortest on the board depending on the book. ESPN’s second-half preview put it about … Read more
On Saturday we asked whether a deadline acquisition moves a team’s probability as far as it moves the price. Skubal trade odds have answered, and the answer arrived early, because Los Angeles landed Tarik Skubal that same night rather than waiting for Monday’s six o’clock cutoff. Detroit sent the back-to-back American League Cy Young winner … Read more
The trade deadline closes Monday at 6 p.m. Eastern, and Tampa Bay goes into Sunday holding the best record in the American League at 65-45. Rays World Series odds have come in from 50-1 to somewhere near 16-1 since Opening Day. The money has not followed. On BetMGM’s championship board in the last week of … Read more
The trade deadline closes Monday at 6 p.m. Eastern. Whoever lands Tarik Skubal or Freddy Peralta will watch their World Series price shorten inside the hour, and plenty of people will read that move as information about October. The Brewers Peralta trade from January is worth sitting with first. That deal let the market put … Read more
Back in February, FanDuel posted the Chicago White Sox win total for 2026 at 67.5. Sportsbook Review logged the same figure at BetMGM a few weeks later, with DraftKings sitting a game lower at 66.5. Nobody objected much. Chicago had lost 101 games in 2023, 121 in 2024 and 102 in 2025, and Baseball-Reference lists … Read more
Two baseball teams spent July doing opposite things as hard as they could. Boston won fifteen straight, matching a franchise record set in 1946, when Ted Williams was putting together an MVP season. Miami lost twelve, a first for the Marlins. This morning Boston is 55-51 and Miami 54-54. One win and three losses apart. … Read more