Recently at a holiday Christmas party, I found myself in the midst of a heavyweight conversation with some baseball fans discussing the activity of the winter meetings. One of the gentleman mentioned to me that he was taking a trip to Los Vegas over Christmas week and wanted my “expert” opinion on some MLB Futures bets he should make on the 2015 season. We here at NatsGM fully condone gambling, primarily because it is fun and brings added interest to the game of baseball.
With this in mind, I did a Google search to find out what the current odds are to win the 2015 World Series and quickly found three sources, MyTopSportsBooks, ESPN.com, and Vegas Insider. I have provided the links here:
http://www.mytopsportsbooks.com/free-picks/mlb-baseball/mlb-futures-2015-world-series-odds
http://www.vegasinsider.com/mlb/odds/futures/
After examining the odds, these are my current 3 favorite wagers available as we near Christmas Day.
Without hands-on maintenance and functional fine-tuning, they often unknowingly reinforce dysfunctional movement patterns ingrained from long-forgotten micro- or macro-traumatic injuries. acheter pfizer viagra Apart from this, cut on alcohol or with smoking, nitrates, certain antibiotics and interacting levitra cheap online agents. Powerful herbs in this herbal pill viagra generic cialis nourish, heal and strengthen the reproductive organs. When PDE5 is inhibited, the body spontaneously increases levitra uk nitric oxide level. #1 Boston Red Sox 28:1 Bet On
The Red Sox suffered through a miserable 2014 season where virtually everything went wrong and the majority of their team underachieved statistically. However, just 14 months ago Boston was celebrating a World Series championship and appeared poised for a healthy run of success. Certainly Baltimore looks formitable and Toronto has improved this winter, but Tampa and New York do not appear strong at the moment. Boston has overhauled their offense this winter adding Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval, and upgraded their rotation by adding Justin Masterson, Wade Miley, and Rick Porcello.
If Boston can now use their surplus of prospects to acquire an Ace-level pitcher like Johnny Cueto or Jordan Zimmermann, the Red Sox could quickly be the best team in the American League. That feels like a good value at 28-1.
#2 New York Yankees 25:1 Bet Against
The Yankees will always be bet due to their passionate fan base and enormous payroll, but 2015 is shaping up to be another rebuilding year in the Bronx. Sure the additions of Andrew Miller and Justin Wilson improve the bullpen and Chase Headley improves third base, but with questions throughout the rotation and the infield, the Yankees feel like a .500 team if everything breaks right for them next year.
#3 Chicago White Sox 45:1 Bet On
Dear Priceline and William Shatner, please book me the next flight to Vegas to put my own money on this one – The White Sox are coming off a 73 win season and have struggled in recent years, but Chicago’s offseason has upgraded their many areas of weakness this winter. Acquiring Samardzija thoroughly improves the starting rotation, and the signings of Zach Duke and David Robertson should solidify the bullpen.If Adam LaRoche can replace Paul Konerko in the lineup and Avisail Garcia can have a breakout season, the White Sox should score plenty of runs. In addition, Chicago has top pitching prospects Carlos Rodon and Francellis Montas near major league ready, and they should bolster the pitching staff midseason.
Certainly improving from 73 wins to the playoffs is extremely difficult, but the talent and potential is there for a magical season on the south side of Chicago.