The month of May has gotten started for MLB betting fans, and here at Bankroll Sports, we are taking yet another look at the updated World Series odds for 2012. Join us for our MLB picks for the rest of the season!

The new favorites on the odds to win the World Series this year are the Texas Rangers (2012 Favorites On The Odds To Win The World Series – 4.50 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). The Rangers aren’t quite as hot as they were at the outset of the season, but they are still 4.5 games ahead of the Oakland Athletics for first place in the AL West and 7.5 ahead of the team that figures to be the biggest challenge for the year, the Los Angeles Angels. There just isn’t a day off in terms of starting pitchers when you get the Rangers, and that pitching depth is only going to help out a lineup that is one of the best in baseball as well. With the rest of the American League starting to take a turn for the worse for the most part, the Rangers are clearly a team that you are going to want to back on the World Series odds.

List Of Past World Series Champions (Since 2000)
2011 World Series Champions: St. Louis Cardinals
2010 World Series Champions: San Francisco Giants
2009 World Series Champions: New York Yankees
2008 World Series Champions: Philadelphia Phillies
2007 World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox
2006 World Series Champions: St. Louis Cardinals
2005 World Series Champions: Chicago White Sox
2004 World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox
2003 World Series Champions: Florida Marlins
2002 World Series Champions: Anaheim Angels
2001 World Series Champions: Arizona Diamondbacks
2000 World Series Champions: New York Yankees

Elsewhere in the American League, we think that the Tampa Bay Rays (2012 Odds To Win The World Series – 14 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook) have great MLB odds for the rest of the year. The Rays are 19-8 and in first place in the AL East, and they are just starting to get into the thick of one of their easiest stretches of the schedule. Tampa Bay is 13-1 at Tropicana Field this year, and as long as that keeps up, this team is going to be a wreck to try to beat. The New York Yankees no longer have Mariano Rivera, and the Boston Red Sox are still trying to get out of the gutter in the division, and with a 4.5 game lead on the Yanks and seven on the Sox, we have to think that Tampa Bay is going to be winning this division.

In the National League, the team that we are ready to get hitched to is the Washington Nationals (2012 World Series Odds – 20 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). We just look around at the rest of the National League right now and shake our head. We think that the Philadelphia Phillies are a bit of a farce, and there just aren’t any other teams in this league that we think are going to be absolute locks for the playoffs. Stephen Strasburg is pitching like a Cy Young Award winner, while Bryce Harper has already flashed some remarkable skills in the outfield and might be one of the best outfielders that baseball has to offer by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, in the NL West, we really don’t have a lot of confidence in a lot of the rest of the teams in this division. The San Francisco Giants clearly don’t have the pitching that they once did with Tim Lincecum losing a lot of his velocity, while the Arizona Diamondbacks just seem to be a team that is going to be hovering right around .500 for most of the year. Instead, the Los Angeles Dodgers (2012 World Series Lines – 27 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook) are stealing headlines left and right and might be set to go to the playoffs. There is a new ownership group in Tinseltown, and the team is playing well. Chad Billingsley has found his stuff again, and if he and Clayton Kershaw keep pitching like this, this might be the best 1-2 punch in NL West. The Dodgers might turn out to be legit this year.

Of all of the teams at the bottom of the odds to win the World Series, there aren’t a lot that we would be willing to take a shot on. However, we at least would be willing to take a look at the Cleveland Indians (Odds To Win the 2012 World Series – 66 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). The team goes into this weekend four games above .500, and there are already nine wins in 12 games on the road this year. Jason Kipnis is playing well, and Carlos Santana is turning into one of the best catchers in the game. At some point, Ubaldo Jimenez and Justin Masterson are likely to not have ERAs in the fives as well. Derek Lowe has been a great addition for this team as well. The Tribe are still a long way out, but with five teams getting into the playoffs this year and the Detroit Tigers starting to look like they are going to fall apart, the Indians might be a team to watch out for at these types of odds.

Current 2012 World Series Odds @ SportBet Sportsbook (as of 5/5/12):
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Texas Rangers 4.50 to 1
Philadelphia Phillies 6.75 to 1
New York Yankees 7 to 1
Detroit Tigers 8 to 1
Boston Red Sox 14 to 1
St. Louis Cardinals 14 to 1
Tampa Bay Rays 14 to 1
Los Angeles Angels 15 to 1
Arizona Diamondbacks 20 to 1
Atlanta Braves 20 to 1
Washington Nationals 20 to 1
San Francisco Giants 22 to 1
Cincinnati Reds 25 to 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 27 to 1
Toronto Blue Jays 30 to 1
Miami Marlins 40 to 1
Milwaukee Brewers 40 to 1
Colorado Rockies 50 to 1
Cleveland Indians 66 to 1
Chicago White Sox 70 to 1
Baltimore Orioles 100 to 1
New York Mets 100 to 1
Oakland Athletics 150 to 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 150 to 1
Seattle Mariners 200 to 1
Chicago Cubs 225 to 1
Kansas City Royals 250 to 1
Minnesota Twins 250 to 1
San Diego Padres 250 to 1
Houston Astros 350 to 1

Odds To Win 2012 World Series @ JustBet Sportsbook (as of 5/5/12):
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Arizona Diamondbacks 20 to 1
Atlanta Braves 10 to 1
Baltimore Orioles 50 to 1
Boston Red Sox 12 to 1
Chicago Cubs 150 to 1
Chicago White Sox 40 to 1
Cincinnati Reds 35 to 1
Cleveland Indians 50 to 1
Colorado Rockies 50 to 1
Detroit Tigers 7 to 1
Houston Astros 250 to 1
Kansas City Royals 100 to 1
Los Angeles Angels 16 to 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 14 to 1
Miami Marlins 40 to 1
Milwaukee Brewers 35 to 1
Minnesota Twins 200 to 1
New York Mets 50 to 1
New York Yankees 6.50 to 1
Oakland Athletics 125 to 1
Philadelphia Phillies 7 to 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 125 to 1
San Diego Padres 250 to 1
San Francisco Giants 20 to 1
Seattle Mariners 125 to 1
St. Louis Cardinals 12 to 1
Tampa Bay Rays 8.50 to 1
Texas Rangers 3.75 to 1
Toronto Blue Jays 16 to 1
Washington Nationals 18 to 1

2012 World Series Betting Lines/World Series Futures @ Bovada Sportsbook (as of 5/5/12):
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Texas Rangers 19 to 4
Detroit Tigers 8 to 1
New York Yankees 17 to 2
Philadelphia Phillies 9 to 1
Tampa Bay Rays 10 to 1
St. Louis Cardinals 12 to 1
Los Angeles Angels 15 to 1
Boston Red Sox 16 to 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 16 to 1
Atlanta Braves 18 to 1
Washington Nationals 18 to 1
Arizona Diamondbacks 22 to 1
San Francisco Giants 22 to 1
Toronto Blue Jays 22 to 1
Cincinnati Reds 25 to 1
Miami Marlins 28 to 1
Milwaukee Brewers 35 to 1
Chicago White Sox 40 to 1
Cleveland Indians 40 to 1
Colorado Rockies 40 to 1
Baltimore Orioles 65 to 1
New York Mets 75 to 1
Oakland Athletics 80 to 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 100 to 1
Chicago Cubs 150 to 1
Houston Astros 150 to 1
Kansas City Royals 150 to 1
Seattle Mariners 150 to 1
Minnesota Twins 200 to 1
San Diego Padres 200 to 1

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