The 2024 Major League Baseball season starts today. Sure, I know the Dodgers and Padres played a couple games last week in Korea that baseball says count in the standings, but I don't call those games played in the middle of the night (for us) 'opening day.' Besides, the only...
The 2024 Major League Baseball season starts today. Sure, I know the Dodgers and Padres played a couple games last week in Korea that baseball says count in the standings, but I don't call those games played in the middle of the night "opening day." Besides, the only noteworthy thing to come out of those games was the game's greatest player possibly being embroiled in a gambling scandal.
Indeed, the baseball season as WE choose to recognize it starts today, and in Houston, that means the hated Yankees coming to Minute Maid Park. We can't wait! It's a long season, though, and if you need something to help keep your attention during the dog days of summer, there's nothing better than having a few season long prop bets open on some of your team's best players and their season stats.
So here are five wagers that allow you to have some skin in the game, and still root for your Houston Astros! Odds are courtesy ofBoth of these bets are strictly a bet on Yoirdan Alvarez staying healthy enough to play, say, 140 games. If he plays that many games, he will sail past these numbers.
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