Having just passed the MLB season’s first-half cutoff, this past week produced a varying level of success with my MLB Bullpen Systems, dependent largely upon whether you were able to shy away from the overpriced favorites and instead opt for underdogs with better bullpen ratings or those teams streaking positively. If you’ve been reading these weekly articles and following along, I’m confident you have employed those principles. Those are two of the pillar strategies I have been sharing, and this past week they paid off big-time for bettors. I will continue to stress how much I believe in the foundation of the bullpen systems I have been tracking and how easy they are to utilize.
Remember, to fully implement these strategies into your daily baseball betting routine, you only need two things: 1) the details of the systems as noted below and 2) VSiN Pro Access to the Makinen Daily Power Ratings page under the MLB tab on VSiN.com.
As I just indicated, overpriced favorites had a rough week, regardless of whether or not that team had a better bullpen rating, following the pattern that has continued to thrive this season (and past seasons). I will start off my drill-down MLB Bullpen Systems with those updated results and share all the rest just afterward.
Avoid/fade better bullpen overpriced favorites
Highly-priced better bullpen teams were 7-8 this past seven days but still lost -12.4 units. Now, in games this season through Sunday 7/2 in which the team with the Steve Makinen better-rated bullpen was listed as a favorite of -190 or more, that team is 142-78, but for –38.84 units. I have said this on numerous occasions this year (and in past seasons), but in my opinion, bullpens prove to be the difference in games that are priced more competitively, and I personally don’t like backing heavy favorites with this high of prices on any single regular season baseball game. Earlier I indicated that avoiding overpriced teams in baseball is a strategy must. Hopefully, some of you have embraced the concept that backing the underdogs in these games is a profitable endeavor.