The 2026 MLB season kicks off tonight with the New York Yankees vs. San Francisco Giants. From today until July, there will be MLB games every single day. Every sports bettor should be turning their attention to baseball right now.
Reasons to Bet on MLB Games
Enormous Sample of Opportunity - With 162 games per team, opportunities to find an edge are constant. Variance runs high game to game, but a long-term approach to a sample this large can produce serious profit.
SO MUCH DATA - The amount of data available on every single MLB bet is astounding. Data for every pitch, swing, batted ball, and player movement is so widely available that public tools are consistent sources for edges. When you identify a prop with value in the WalterPicks app, there is no sport easier to do your own follow up research with tools like baseball savant and FanGraphs available.
Smaller Edge for Sportsbooks - Because baseball betting is less popular than the NFL or NBA, MLB lines carry lower vigs and receive less-sharp scrutiny. That creates more opportunities for bettors willing to do the work.
Using Tools in the WalterPicks App
Everyday the prop evaluator will surface the highest Value MLB props across 15+ books. Identify the bet types you feel comfortable targeting, filter the app for those ones, and then use the WalterPicks app and other tools to do follow up research.
For example, if you’re taking the under on a pitchers strikeout prop, you will want to look at his recent outings, performances vs. his opponent, and the length of his recent starts.
If you want to go deeper, you can check out his pitch shapes on baseball savant, or see how popular Stuff+ models grade recent performances.
You can also scan for moneyline and spread opportunities every day in our game betting tool!
What is your favorite baseball bet?
Futures Bets We Like 🤞
Milwaukee Brewers Over 84.5 Wins (-120)
If you’re new to betting baseball, the Brewers are a great entry point. They are perennial overachievers, who have surpassed this total in ALL of the last five years. Coming off of a 97-win season that brought them to the NLCS, the prediction models continue to give this team no respect. They have a solid lineup of good/not-great position players, a pitching staff that over performs their pedigree year over year, and a rock solid bullpen that will help them hold onto close leads.
Sure, they lost their ace pitcher Freddy Peralta in a trade with the Mets. But the Brewers have bled stars like this in every year of this winning run. Expect the return package of Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams to provide value sooner than expected, for Jesus Mead to have immediate impact as one of the top prospects in the game, and for starting pitcher Kyle Harrison to smash expectations courtesy of the team’s pitching lab.
- Patrick
Max Fried UNDER 1.5 10+ strikeout games
Fried is one of my favorite pitchers in Braves history, but strikeouts are not how he’s created such a lucrative career for himself. He’s capable of having games with lots of strikeouts, but Fried’s only recorded double-digit K’s in a game 7 times in his career. If he records 10 strikeouts in his first start this future will be a sweat. However, even if that does happen, he could fall under this line.
- Samps
Michael Harris over 18.5 stolen bases (-119)
Money Mike has played 4 seasons in the majors. He’s recorded exactly 20 stolen bases in 3 of them. I’m expecting a more aggressive base-running approach from new manager, Walt Weiss. With all of Atlanta’s pitching injuries, manufacturing chaos on the base paths is a way for them to score more runs and win more games. Let’s go Money Mike!
- Samps
Atlanta Braves Under 86.5 Wins (-105)
Atlanta's offseason can only be described as a disaster. Spencer Schwellenbach and Hunter Waldrep, two high-upside young arms, are both facing injuries that could cost them the full season. Spencer Strider has yet to regain his pre-injury velocity and begins the year on the injured list. Shortstop signing Ha-Seong Kim tore a tendon in his finger slipping on ice in Korea. Jurickson Profar is suspended for the full season for a PED violation.
Coming off a 76-win season, Atlanta needs to overcome significant attrition just to reach average. The Mets and Phillies figure to punish this pitching staff, while the Nationals and Marlins are more competitive than their projections suggest.
- Patrick
Jung Hoo Lee over 140.5 hits (-119)
Prior to exiting his second MLB season prematurely due to injury, Lee was looking like he was on a trajectory to becoming one of the elite base knock guys in baseball. In 37 games, he recorded 38 hits. For what it’s worth, he also recorded 5 hits in 5 WBC games this year. I have lots of belief in his talent, and it’s a virtual certainty he’ll be on my fantasy team this year.
- Samps
