MLB Betting Odds: Yankees Off To Unusually Hot Start

The Major League baseball season is less than two weeks old, but the defending champion New York Yankees are showing all other teams that they have no World series hangover. The Yankees, typically slow starters, have come out of the gates strong this year.

New York has gotten off to slow starts in each of the past several seasons. Even last year, when the Yankees won the World series, the Bronx Bombers started so poorly that some were wondering if Joe Girardi would make it through June. They lost a ton of games to Boston early, prompting some fans to call for Girardi's head.

These are not, however, George's Yankees. This front office has preached patience and it paid off last year. Alex Rodriguez came back from surgery and provided the spark needed to carry the team all the way through the playoffs.

This season, the Yankees have started strongly despite neither Rodriguez or Mark Teixeira having yet hit a home run. Teixeira has spent most of the season's first two weeks hitting under .200. Rodriguez has hit better, just not for much power yet.

That could be bad news for those who were expecting the Red Sox and Rays to compete with the Yankees in the American League East. It has been Boston who started this year slow, leading to many wondering if David Ortiz's days in Boston may be numbered. Ortiz, like he had last year, began the season in a terrible funk at the plate.

It may still be early, but the line has been drawn in the sand. If the rays, Red Sox, or the upstart Blue Jays intend on staying in the division race, they had better raise their game. The Yankees look poised to repeat as champions, not only in the division, but in the entire league.

April 17, 2010
Posted By Vincent Tapoglia III
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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