{"id":8605,"date":"2009-02-20T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:31:29","slug":"betus-2009-odds-to-win-world-series-200209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/betus-2009-odds-to-win-world-series-200209\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Odds To Win World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>MLB World Series 2009 &#8211; Who you Got?<\/h2>\n<p>The 2008 <a title=\"MLB Picks\" href=\"\/mlb\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MLB<\/strong><\/a> season turned out to be a flat-out thriller on the field and in the BetUS Sportsbook in 2008 as the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays reached the annual fall classic in their respective leagues, setting the baseball world on its collective ear as surprise (but totally deserving) participants.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The race to take the Phillies World Series championship &#8211; and the jaw-dropping MLB Futures Odds that accompany this season-long futures wager \u2013 is already under way in the BetUS Sportsbook.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at a portion of the complete MLB <strong>World Series Odds<\/strong>, followed by my in-depth analysis on the 2009 MLB World Series winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The complete odds list can be found in the BetUS Sportsbook MLB futures section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leading Contenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York Yankees +400<br \/>\nBoston Red Sox +800<br \/>\nChicago Cubs +850<br \/>\nLos Angeles Angels +900<br \/>\nNew York Mets +900<br \/>\nPhiladelphia Phillies +1200<br \/>\nTampa Bay Rays +1400<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Long Shots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida Marlins +3500<br \/>\nArizona Diamondbacks +2500<br \/>\nAtlanta Braves +3000<br \/>\nChicago White Sox +2000<br \/>\nLos Angeles Dodgers +1400<br \/>\nOakland Athletics +4000<br \/>\nSeattle Mariners +10000<br \/>\nSt Louis Cardinals +2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analysis<\/strong>: I know I\u2019m not going out on a limb much, but I\u2019ll eat my words, no, make that my keyboard, if one of the four aforementioned AL teams in my \u2018leading contenders\u2019 category doesn\u2019t win the AL Pennant in 2009, I\u2019m just not certain it will be the Yankees as some are already deeming.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/mid\/1432\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportsimagestore.com\/showbanner.asp?affid=11892&amp;banid=1432\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I fully expect the Red Sox, Rays and Angels to give the Yankees all they can handle and then some in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Over in the National League, I like the Cubs first and foremost to get over the \u2018choke pill\u2019 they took in last season\u2019s playoffs, though I\u2019m certainly not counting out either the defending-champion Phillies or New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>While the top six teams on the board here are my favorites to win it all in 2009, I will readily admit that the 2009 season could produce another surprise of epic proportions as it did in 2008 when the Tampa Bay Rays capitalized on years of solid drafting and grooming within their organization to win the AL East in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Marlins are the National League\u2019s version of a young and talented team that has been built through its excellent farm system.<\/p>\n<p>I think the D-Backs and Dodgers could contend, particularly Arizona with its pitching. I never count out Tony LaRussa\u2019s Cardinals and as everyone in baseball knows, the A\u2019s have a plethora of talented young arms, (too bad they keep trading them).<\/p>\n<p>In short, BetUS MLB baseball bettors can expect a thrilling fight to the finish in both leagues that could be highly profitable in the end for the MLB bettor who nails this season-long MLB Futures pick just right.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/baseball\" rel=\"nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO LAY YOUR EARLY BET DOWN ON THE 2009 WORLD SERIES CHAMP AT BETUS SPORTSBOOK &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a look at a portion of the complete MLB World Series Odds, followed by my in-depth analysis on the 2009 MLB World Series winner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[10801,10800,10798,10802,10546,10799,4650,10795,1871,8745,10796,10797,3883],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-2009-mlb-baseball-lines","tag-2009-mlb-baseball-odds","tag-2009-mlb-futures","tag-2009-mlb-lines","tag-2009-mlb-odds","tag-2009-world-series-futures","tag-2009-world-series-odds","tag-baseball-props","tag-mlb-futures","tag-mlb-world-series-odds","tag-odds-to-win-al-pennant","tag-odds-to-win-nl-pennant","tag-odds-to-win-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107538,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/107538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}