Futures bets aren't for everyone. You have to stomach the fact that a certain amount of your bankroll is going to be tied up for 6-7 months before your potential payday.
For this upcoming MLB season, there is one futures bet I'm all over — Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll to win National League Rookie of the Year.
If you're a prospect nerd or dynasty fantasy player, you already know this is hardly a crazy call.
Carroll, the 16th overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft, has been a fixture on top prospects lists since 2020 — and for good reason. With five tools and then some, Carroll raked at every level of the minors, and he probably would've made the big leagues sooner if he hadn't suffered a season-ending posterior capsular avulsion and a labrum tear in his shoulder in 2021 — an injury he sustained while hitting a home run, which is kind of badass and almost makes losing a season of development worth it.