The experienced sport betting enthusiasts know that a baseball doubleheader presents a unique opportunity to use a betting system called a chase. It is a way to help you make a profit betting on baseball, but there is also risk involved. As with any betting system, you could lose all of your money. But if you use a chase, then you can use the price per head bookie odds to your advantage.

Fewer than five percent of the games played in any given MLB season are doubleheaders. But of those doubleheaders that are played, 48 percent are sweeps and nearly 50 percent of those sweeps are by the home team. In baseball, the home team is generally favored to win. In a doubleheader, the home team usually wins at least one game. With a chase, you can cash in on those odds and realize a profit when betting on MLB doubleheaders.

Let’s say that the Toronto Blue Jays are hosting a doubleheader with the Oakland A’s. You bet $10 on the Blue Jays to win the first game. If the Jays win, then you are done and you have won your bet. You do not bet on the second game. But if the Jays lose the first game, then you would bet $20 on the second game. The odds are in your favor that the Jays will win that second game and you will recover your loses from the first game and then some.

The sports betting experts are sitting around the old hot stove and contemplating the moves that have been made in free agency to this point. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim took a little from both of the contenders for the 2011 World Series when it signed former St. Louis Cardinal slugger Albert Pujols and former Texas Ranger pitcher C.J. Wilson. Considering the vacancies that each of those players filled on the Angels’ roster, it is safe to say that the Angels improved its team for 2012.

The pay per head sportsbook experts are now keeping a close eye on the Milwaukee Brewers to see what will happen with slugger Prince Fielder. The Brewers traded third-baseman Casey McGehee to Pittsburgh for relief pitcher Jose Veras. McGehee’s drop off in productivity made him expendable. To fill in the spot at third base, the Brewers picked up former Chicago Cubs’ third baseman Aramis Ramirez. That would add some considerable power to the Brewers’ batting order if Prince Fielder stays with the team. The problem is that no one knows what Fielder is going to do.

There are almost no rumors about where Prince Fielder will wind up circulating, but there is some speculation that the Cardinals may be interested. A betonline review of Fielder’s stats versus those of Albert Pujols show that Fielder is not necessarily a complete replacement for the departed Pujols. But the Cardinals know that Fielder is the only way that St. Louis can hope to maintain offensive production at the first base position.

With the baseball winter meetings coming up, it is expected that MLB fans will start hearing about some big signing news in the very near future. The betting sites are buzzing with speculation and much of the speculation is expected to end in the next week or two.

While the pay per head sportsbook world ponders the fate of St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols, the Marlins are wasting no time trying to get a new look to their franchise. The Marlins have changed its name from the Florida Marlins to the Miami Marlins and are getting ready to move into its new stadium in 2012. To go along with the new logo and new uniforms, the Marlins are hoping to put a new marquee pitcher on the mound in the form of left-hander C.J. Wilson. The talks between the Marlins’ management and Wilson’s agent are getting serious, and a deal could be expected as early as next week.

Cubs’ third baseman Aramis Ramirez is a name that had not been mentioned much in the MLB free agency talks. But a betonline review of the talks going on between general managers shows that there are as many as four teams interested in Ramirez, but none seem as serious as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. While the Angels are denying the rumors, all indications point to a Ramirez signing in Anaheim by early next week. The team considered to be giving the Angels the most competition for Ramirez is the Detroit Tigers, but observers say it will be Ramirez going to Anaheim by next week.

As the sports betting sites learned in the 2011 MLB season, pitching is alive and well in the major leagues. When the AL Cy Young ballots come out a little later, many people are starting to think that only one name needs to be on those ballots. Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander and his 24 wins in 2011 appear to be a lock to win the AL Cy Young in 2011.

The most impressive part of Verlander’s season, and the thing that probably pushed him past other contenders such as C.C. Sabathia, was the fact that Verlander’s price per head record against the AL Central was 14-1. This was a key component to the Tigers’ winning the pennant and also helped Verlander to get consideration as AL MVP.

In other AL pitching news, it looks like the Boston Red Sox will be looking for a new closer for the 2012 season as Jonathan Papelbon has signed with the already pitcher-heavy Philadelphia Phillies. The Toronto Blue Jays and other teams expressed interest in Papelbon when the Red Sox’ season ended. But, in the end, the lure of closing for one of the best starting rotations in baseball was what brought Papelbon to Philadelphia.

There is still no definitive word on where Philadelphia Phillies’ pitcher Roy Oswalt will play in 2012, but the growing consensus is that it will not be in Philadelphia. One of the strongest contenders for Oswalt’s services is the Washington Nationals, who have opened up talks with Oswalt’s agent that are said to be productive.