Does Defense Matter in Baseball ?

Absolutely!

If you look at stats for football and basketball you can easily find how teams are doing defensively. However, defense is probably the most overlooked significant stat in baseball.

Very few sports bettors look at how a MLB team is doing defensively. The reason is that baseball is a lower scoring game than football and basketball. The effects of a bad defense are easy to overlook in baseball. But if you look at every one run game in Baseball, most times you will find that the losing team had more errors than the winning team.

Last year, if you bet every game on the worse three teams defensively you would have been down 45-50 units.

This is not the holy grail that will make you a winner. But it is something you should look at when picking a play.

I always look at this stat when I am handicapping. It is one of many factors that I use to handicap games, and sometimes it will determine whether or not to move forward.

For my clients, I do this as part of my service. If you see me make a play, you can be sure that I looked at defense vs defense.

If you are not yet a client, and have questions feel free to contact me.

Regards,


George K
703-217-0805
gak555@yahoo.com