Baseball preseason bet action for most people is not too meaningful.
They may make a few wagers and watch a few games but for the most part they ignore the baseball betting results. If you are one of those people you may want to rethink that idea.
Baseball preseason bet results do matter. Do you remember the teams that topper their respective leagues last season in the preseason? The Yankees had the best record in the Grapefruit League while the Los Angeles Angels has the best record in the Cactus League. Do you remember which two teams met for the American League title last season? That’s right; it was the Yankees and the Angels. Now before you go getting too excited, it doesn’t always work that way but it does tell you that you can’t just overlook the exhibition games. Milwaukee did well in the preseason a year ago and collapsed during the regular season. The Oakland A’s a couple of years ago were great in the spring and terrible in the regular season. A few years ago the Florida Marlins were excellent in the spring and struggled in the regular season.
Do baseball preseason bet results really matter. Let’s do a little bit of research beyond just last year. Going back to 2003, 16 of the 20 best spring training teams did better than what they were projected to do. Look at last year’s Angels. They were expected to be just over .500 but they thrived in exhibition games and definitely outperformed expectations in the regular season. What about another team from last year? The Arizona Diamondbacks were expected to be a pretty good team last year but they were terrible in the spring and they were terrible in the regular season in baseball betting. Oftentimes we can get a clue as to how a team will perform in the regular season based on what they did during the spring training games.
When you look to make a baseball preseason bet you shouldn’t look too much at last year’s results. Conversely, when you make a regular season baseball bet you should not ignore what happened in the exhibition season. There can be clues as to how a team will do based on their spring training results. Just ask the Yankees and Angels from last year if you don’t think baseball preseason bet results matter.