MLB Betting: How I bet on baseball in 2022.

1796 Sports
3 min readMay 23, 2022

Baseball was my first love. I know much of the writings on this page involve football, but baseball is and always will be my favorite sport. Thus, it is also my favorite sport to bet on. Typically when you think “sports betting”, you think of football and basketball. For whatever reason, baseball doesn’t get talked about as much as other sports regarding betting. Well, if you’re ignoring baseball betting, you could be doing yourself a great disservice. Baseball has 30 teams who each ply 162 games, so there are ample opportunities to exploit throughout the season. Not to say the house ignores baseball, per se, but with MLB games, there are so many going on each day that the lines don’t get manipulated as much as other sports. Moneylines in baseball are almost always at 1.5, which means you can definitely exploit matchups if you know what to look for. ​

Without further ado, here are my tips for ​baseball betting in 2022:

3. Alternate run lines for days!

If you’ve read my writing about football betting, you know I love ​alternate spreads. In baseball, I believe alternate spreads are even MORE useful. This is due to simple math- the vast majority of baseball games are going to end with the winner and loser only a few runs apart. In football, it’s not uncommon to see a final score with 20+ points separating the winner and…

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