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How does AI think the MLB Playoffs and Wild Card will play out? Check out the Supercomputer’s picks for the 2024 MLB Playoffs. Key Highlights: Dodgers predicted to win the 2024 World Series. Yankees and Orioles set for a showdown in the ALCS. Phillies could pull off a surprise win against the Braves. As the […]
Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) sued DraftKings and FanDuel on Monday, alleging the sports betting companies and two others of using the names and likenesses of hundreds of players on their platforms without permission. MLBPA seeks compensatory, punitive damages from DraftKings, bet365, FanDuel, and Underdog Fantasy According to Reuters, players are seeking compensatory and […]
MGM Resorts International announced their new partnership with the New York Yankees. According to the press release, the two organizations will collaborate to deliver exclusive VIP experiences to MGM Rewards members and baseball fans. MGM Resorts will have brand placement at Yankee Stadium on LED signage, back of the pitcher’s mound Exclusive VIP experiences include […]
Major League Baseball (MLB) icon Pete Rose said the gambling scandal that got him banned from baseball cost him “a hundred million dollars” during episode 1 of Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose, a new HBO documentary series. Former MLB star Pete Rose said he would have made $100 million playing baseball had […]
Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Friday it has disciplined umpire Pat Hoberg for violating the league’s gambling rules. This comes 10 days after the league levied a lifetime ban on a player for gambling and suspended four others for one year. MLB umpire Pat Hoberg is appealing the discipline and has denied gambling on baseball […]
Kansas City Mayor Tyrone Garner has endorsed the idea of using sports betting revenue and STAR bonds to attract two major league franchises – the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and the MLB’s Kansas City Royals – to move from Missouri to the Kansas side of the city. Kansas City to use sports betting revenue and […]
Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitcher Andrew Saalfrank, a reliever in Triple-A Reno for the Diamondbacks who was a part of last year’s World Series team, has been issued a one-year suspension by the MLB for betting on baseball games when he was a minor leaguer in 2021 and 2022, the commissioner’s office announced. Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher […]
MLB has issued San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano a lifetime ban for gambling on baseball after the league received information that he wagered on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates when he was with the team last season. Tucupita Marcano placed 387 baseball bets, including 231 MLB-related wagers, between 2022 and 2023 Marcano, 24, violated […]
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred was asked Monday at the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors Commissioners Meetings if the league has decided to shift its stances toward legalized sports betting. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred wants prop bets carefully monitored, praises integrity system Prop bets are one specific area of concern. With side wagers, fans can bet […]
Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case in which prosecutors allege he stole about $17 million from the Japanese pitcher to pay off gambling debts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Ippei Mizuhara will plead guilty to […]
