Who’s Hot MLB’s Hottest SU Teams
by: Alex Smart Sports
Teams are starting to jockey for position at the quarter pole of the MLB betting season. Find out which teams are rounding into form as potential playoff teams with this week’s list of teams that are on fire…
1: Colorado Rockies (26-32, -$485) (5-0, +$651 in L/5) Not only is Colorado the hottest team in baseball, this is one of the best five-game stretches for any team in the bigs this season. The Rockies have won six straight games, all as underdogs, winning over $800 for their baseball bettors. They’ve done it with tremendous pitching, as none of the starters have allowed more than three runs in that stretch. It also helps when the lineup produces at least five runs in five out of six games for you. The nice run may be a feel-good story for a team that just fired its manager, but truth by told, all the Rockies are doing is amassing a bunch of tradable players, because they aren’t going to be running down any of the big boys in the National League for the Wild Card spot in the playoffs, and they’re certainly not erasing the 12-game margin that the Dodgers have built on them.
2: Toronto Blue Jays (34-27, +$525) (4-1, +$324 in L/5) The Jays have acquired a pulse again after seemingly falling off of the face of the earth over the L/3 weeks or so. In their L/4 ‘W’s, they have outscored their opponents by a 28-6 margin, and have absolutely been dominant. SP Roy Halladay did his share in this stretch, throwing a complete game shutout against the Royals three days ago for his MLB-best tenth win of the season. Still, thanks to the fact that it plays in the AL East, Toronto has little to no chance of ever really going anywhere in the playoffs. It is three games behind the Sox and Yanks in the loss column in the division, and is about as close to falling into fourth place (four games ahead of Tampa Bay in the loss column) as it is getting up to second.
3: Chicago Cubs (29-26, -$318) (4-1, +$296 in L/5) The Cubbies are starting to play better baseball, which has to be bad news for the rest of the teams in the NL Central. After a sluggish start to the season, the pitching staff has settled down, lowering its team ERA to 3.94, the sixth best number in the majors. Still, the bullpen has a whopping nine blown saves, and only one pitcher with at least 15 appearances in the pen has an ERA of less than 3.50, and neither one is 8th inning man, Carlos Marmol or closer Kevin Gregg. There’s no question that the bats are going to heat up in the summer months, as someone on this team is going to hit .300 for the season, but the pen has to be what’s scaring manager Lou Pinella right now.
And the rest…
4: Oakland Athletics (26-31, -$267) (4-1, +$296 in L/5)
5: Cleveland Indians (26-34, -$832) (3-2, +$112 in L/5)