Opening day of the Major League Baseball season is here and we’re discussing 2023 MLB player futures, specifically 2023 MLB Rookie of the Year odds. Bettors can find an array of wagering markets at the top sportsbook apps, including but not limited to futures, player, team, and game props.
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2023 MLB Player Futures, Props, Odds, Picks
Odds for MLB player props, just like other betting markets, are subject to change over the course of a season. Be sure to check the best MLB betting sites for the most up-to-date numbers and prices.
2023 Rookie of the Year Odds & Picks
2023 MLB Rookie of the Year Favorites
Betting on the big MLB awards is certainly fun, but there’s something about prepping a Rookie of the Year wager. Generally speaking, there are only so many legit MVP and Cy Young candidates. The top rookie can come in many more shapes and sizes.
The preseason favorites are Gunnar Henderson and Masataka Yoshida in the AL; and Jordan Walker and Corbin Carroll in the NL.
Unless you’re the type of seamhead who adds every annual of the Baseball America Prospect Handbook to his or her collection, you may not recognize these names. To that point, don’t underestimate the power of a cup of coffee, even if the results are quiet.
Both Henderson and Carroll saw big league action in 2022 with varying degrees of success.
That’s not to suggest Yoshida, a first-year Japanese import, or the hulking Walker, who enters his first Major League action as the game’s No. 4 ranked prospect, can’t ultimately win the hardware. There’s just something to be said about a player getting his feet wet and feeling like he belongs.
2023 Rookie of the Year Value Picks
Enter Tristan Casas, one of our favorite targets for AL ROY honors. He played 27 games in 2022, logging 95 plate appearances. The batting average was ugly (.197), but he did some nice things nonetheless.
His patient approach produced a 19-to-23 walk-to-strikeout rate and he homered once per 19.4 plate appearances. Plus his measured, all-fields approach will work well at Fenway Park.
Don’t sleep on Mets starting pitcher Kodai Senga in the National League. Making the transition from Japan to the bigs is a different challenge for every individual player, and Senga will experience his own.
Still, he enters a multicultural market that knows something about embracing its Japanese stars, and just as importantly, joins a team with plenty of veterans and surrounding talent.
Senga will, theoretically, be afforded the ability to simply take his turn in the rotation and compile a quality stat line.
And remember, he’s a “rookie” despite being 30 years old with over 1,000 innings of high-level baseball under his belt. Even if Senga falls short of dominant, he has the talent and opportunity to compile a rock-solid stat line that will garner votes.
