As the air starts getting warmer and the days grow longer that can mean only one thing, Baseball season is about to begin. With a month till the seasons first game I already hear people talking about what players are looking good in spring training and what team is going take the championship. This is especially true for the Betting fans.
Here are the top things to remember when betting on baseball in order to have great and merry experience.
1) The most important thing to remember when trying to pick a winner before the season starts is the off season. What did the players do? Usually players will go to some warmer climates like Mexico or South America and play ball, but it is also not uncommon for a player to site around getting fat and lazy. Then right before the season begins they will push themselves at the gym. This is bad because it is the best way to get injured, and I am sure that if you check out most players who have early season injuries you will find this to be the case. So check out what players did what. If you can find a team where more then half went south to play for the winter, then this is a team to watch. If most of the team went on vacation or sat around you may want to bet against this team.
2) The next thing to think about it off season trades and pick ups. This means looking at what teams have many new players or players new to their team. If a team has too many new players what happens is you have a team that does not play as a team. When a team has been together for a few seasons each player can almost predict what the others are going to do and there is a unity that a new group of players just does not have.
3) The next step is to look at individual player skills. Does the team have good pitching and good hitting? Because you cant win without both. What good is having great pitchers who can stop the other team from scoring if your team can't score?
4) Pre-season is also a good sign of what the team is going to do. If in pre-season the team seems like they are still playing from the season before this is a team to watch, but if they seem like they never played together before this may be a year to look at another team
Keep these things in mind when trying to pick your team to bet on for the season, but remember this is just a guide. Players who trained and played in the winter also get injured and sometimes new players can get it together quickly.