2024 MLB Betting Lines
The start of the 2024 MLB season has gone about as expected for the futures odds favorite Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have the most wins of any team in the senior circuit and are the only NL West club with a winning record. And the scary part is they are going to get better when several members of the pitching staff have recovered from injuries. Until then the makeshift rotation has performed well with plenty of help from an offense that leads the Majors in home runs and averages nearly 5.5 runs.
The early season returns have been better than expected for teams like the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates. They both reached double figures in wins making for a tight race in the NL Central. Over in the AL the Kansas City Royals are an early season surprise winning 10 of their first 15 games with a MLB best run differential. We’re only a few weeks into a marathon campaign and the Royals possess significant futures odds since things will change. But the AL Central isn’t the strongest division so there’s hope the rebuild is starting to come to fruition.
When you have teams with surprisingly fast starts you also have clubs that have struggled out of the gate. The Houston Astros are the most prominent of that group. With four World Series appearances and two championships in the previous seven seasons, the Stros were picked by many to win the AL West for the seventh time in eight seasons. They’ve already had two four-game losing streaks and closed the week in last place in the AL West. The rough start hasn’t affected their championship odds, though, as they remain among the top futures favorites.
MLB Betting Lines
2024 MLB World Series Betting Odds
| ODDS TO WIN 2024 - MLB WORLD SERIES |
| Arizona Diamondbacks +3750 |
Atlanta Braves +500 |
Baltimore Orioles +1340 |
| Boston Red Sox +8000 |
Chicago Cubs +2800 |
Chicago White Sox +100000 |
| Cincinnati Reds +4500 |
Cleveland Guardians +4350 |
Colorado Rockies +60000 |
| Detroit Tigers +5700 |
Houston Astros +1050 |
Kansas City Royals +9000 |
| Los Angeles Angels +12500 |
Los Angeles Dodgers +310 |
Miami Marlins +32500 |
| Milwaukee Brewers +5300 |
Minnesota Twins +3150 |
New York Mets +6500 |
| New York Yankees +730 |
Oakland Athletics +37500 |
Philadelphia Phillies +1385 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates +8500 |
St. Louis Cardinals +4800 |
San Diego Padres +5500 |
| San Francisco Giants +5700 |
Seattle Mariners +2400 |
Tampa Bay Rays +3600 |
| Texas Rangers +1300 |
Toronto Blue Jays +2600 |
Washington Nationals +35000 |
*Odds as of Monday, April 15, 10:00 AM ET
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Dodgers have tried to build a championship club in the past but only once in their current run of 11 straight playoff appearances have they accomplished the feat, in the COVID shortened 2020 campaign. They acquired Shohei Ohtani to bolster the offense and Tyler Glasnow to solidify the rotation. They’ll likely win 100 games again and are easily the best team in the NL West. However, they need a World Series title to justify their spending and to erase the memories of early playoff exits the last two seasons.
Atlanta Braves
It hasn’t been the best start for the Braves with ace Spencer Strider lost for the season with an elbow injury and preseason MVP favorite Ronald Acuna Jr. struggling at the dish. Still the Braves forged a lead in the NL East behind a potent offense that scores 6.3 runs per game with a team average of nearly .300. Imagine what happens when Acuna starts contributing.
New York Yankees
Injuries and slow starts have plagued the Yankees in previous seasons. While we don’t know about the former, the latter has been taken care of. Though they dropped a tough 8-7 game to Cleveland on Sunday giving up three runs in the bottom of the 10th, the Yankees close the week in first place in the AL East at 12-4 boasting the most wins in the Majors. The Juan Soto trade has worked out. He’s hitting .344 with three homers and a team-best 17 RBIs.
Houston Astros
It’s way too early to cancel the Astros with only 10 percent of the season in the books. And they showed how dangerous they can be in a weekend set with the Rangers. After losing the first game to fall to 4-11, the Stros salvaged the final two games scoring at least eight runs in each encounter and totaling 25 runs. They scored that many times in their previous seven games combined.
Baltimore Orioles
Three years after losing 110 games the Orioles were pegged by many as a World Series contender. They’re stacked with young talent and added a veteran ace to the rotation in Corbin Burnes. The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner is 2-0 with a 2.28 ERA and the O’s won all four of his starts. And with Kyle Bradish starting a rehab assignment, the club could boast a deadly one-two punch. Bradish was 12-7 with a 2.83 ERA in 30 starts last year but was shelved with an elbow injury in January. Anything close to last year’s form is a bonus making the O’s stronger.
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