Slumping Mets Facing Criticism in Baseball Betting

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4 Aug 2010

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Since competition with the baseball probabilities resumed after the All Star break, baseball betting odds makers have been burned badly by the New York Mets.



Baseball wagering fortunes for New York started to turn with 3 losses with the baseball probabilities in their last four matches before the break.

Yet when New York came back to perform after the All Star Game things began to totally implode as they lost two out of their 1st 11 matches to begin the 2nd half of the season in uncertainty as demands for the firing of manager Jerry Manuel and also his coaching staff have reached a fever pitch.

After their bad and underachieving performance last year even with having 1 of the deepest payrolls in baseball, the Mets were not a betting sports fave to contend for the National League East Division championship.

The fantastic start was a nice surprise to bettors and enthusiasts and the Mets were, remarkably enough, 1 of the biggest surprise teams on the board, at least until mid-July.

New York was in a neck and neck race with the Atlanta Braves for 1st place in the NL East but their slump lowered them to 4th in the division as they battled to retain a .500 record.

“There’s no question that everybody’s frustrated,” explained 3rd baseman David Wright about the Mets’ slump. “Everybody wants to go out there and score runs. It just hasn’t been in the cards. I think that part of that is early on we saw some real good pitching. It kind of put us in a tailspin.” The Mets wasted the efforts of a pitching staff that rated 6th in the big leagues for staff earned run average in big part due to the fact they rated 24th in all of sports book betting for run production.

The Mets rated 24th in the majors for home runs, and they continue to suffer from a power outage that’s been going on for the past two seasons.

Mets general manager Omar Minaya said that Manuel’s job was safe for now but gave no assurances for the coaching staff, including hitting coach Howard Johnson, who is taking the brunt of heat from baseball betting enthusiasts.


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