MLB Betting – The Pitcher’s Real Record

Online betting sites list a lot of stats that can help MLB betting enthusiasts to make some money. But some of the more helpful stats you will have to dig for on websites or even try to keep track yourself. The serious MLB betting enthusiasts keep a wide range of stats that they use when betting. Betting baseball is like betting March Madness, the more you really know about the teams involved, the better your chance of making a profitable bet.

In MLB, the record you see for each pitcher is the wins and losses assigned to that pitcher based on a set of guidelines. While these stats can be helpful in determining a pitcher’s effectiveness, they are not always indicative of the real season he is having. For example, if a pitcher has a habit of getting pulled from a game because he consistently loads up the bases, he can still avoid being saddled with the loss and preserve his posted record. A pitcher who is 5-2 at the mid-point of the season may have been saved more than once by being yanked from games before he was part of the final decision. But that pitcher is still responsible for creating the runs that eventually beat his team. In reality, that pitcher may have a real record of 5-7, which would make him a bad bet.

When you do your MLB betting, see if you can find a site that follows the record a team has when a certain pitcher is in the game. If you cannot find those stats, then start keeping them for yourself. You may find that a pitcher with a winning record is not always the best bet. It is the pitchers that help their teams to win games that will help you to make a betting profit.