What We Have Learned So Far About The MLB’s Two Favorite Underdogs
We are roughly six weeks in to the MLB season and as we stated in the recent future odds update, the murky water that is the early season is beginning to clear up. Contenders are beginning to show themselves and pretenders are beginning to slip down the rankings. Â Below are some big takeaways from the MLB season.
We All May Have Jumped The Gun On The Mets
The New York Mets kicked off their season with 13 wins in their first 16 games with 11 of those wins being consecutive victories. Â They climbed to the top of the future odds. They started the season with the far-and-away best win-loss record in baseball.
Fast forward six weeks:
The Mets have lost five straight games. They still sit atop the NL East but have fallen to 16/1 in the World Series odds.
This is not to say that the Mets are not a good ball team. It is just that we may have all got a little too excited about the Mets at the start of the season.
The Cubs Have Real Value
The Chicago Cubs opened the season near the top of the future odds. The Cubs have a tendency to open well in the future odds due to die hard fans going all-in on them at the start of the season. This year the excitement was heightened by the arrival of Kris Bryant.
The Cubs looked like they were going to settle back into mediocrity at the beginning of the season. They opened with a loss and their third-base prospect seemed to a flop.
The Cubs are not on a five-game winning streak and sit at 20-15. Bryant has hit four homeruns over the last seven games.
They hoover around 16/1 in the future odds and their moneylines have yet to catch up to their talent in individual game odds, showing great potential value to sports bettors.
