Best MLB Prop Bets Today - Daily MLB Player Props, Picks, Odds

The Major League Baseball regular season stretches across 162 games. With that, you’ll have almost endless possibilities for prop bets that you can make.

Here at WSN, we provide you with a “Best MLB Prop Bets Today” article each day to help with your decision-making for making prop bets.

Not only will that help if you’re new, but below, we’ll cover how we choose the best prop bets, provide insight into how our writers perform, go over various types of bets, and look at online sportsbooks that offer them.

See our coverage of today's best MLB prop bets, October 24th.

Here's what you can find on this page: 

1. How We Choose the Best Prop Bets
2. Best MLB Prop Bets Leaderboard
3. Types of MLB Prop Bets
4. How to Place MLB Prop Bets
5. Best Sportsbooks for MLB Prop Betting
6. Best MLB Prop Bets Today Frequently Asked Questions

How We Choose the Best Prop Bets

When we make our prop bet selections, we do so while knowing that you may potentially wager them. Thus, we take our research and guidance through these bets seriously. When evaluating which prop bets we advise making daily, we consider the following things:

• Recent Performance of a Team/Player: In baseball, “getting hot” is something we often hear about. Sometimes, players and teams get into a groove where they hit everything that comes their way or are dominant on the mound—tracking recent performance, especially against certain types of pitchers or hitters or against specific teams, factors into the decision-making process. 

• Evaluating the Pitcher: Starters in Major League Baseball typically last five or more innings. With that, players will get a chance to face a starting pitcher two or more times, making them a vital part of deciding which prop bets to make. If a pitcher struggles against left-handed hitters, we may see how that hitter performs to see if they’re an excellent option to take advantage of a favorable matchup. 

• Evaluating Odds: With betting of any kind, the odds play a vital role in deciding what has value and what doesn’t. While we only want to recommend winning wagers, there’s sometimes something to be said of finding a bet that may present more value (for example, those with “+” odds). On the flip side, while we may be confident in a prop, sometimes taking a chance on something with odds of -200 or greater may diminish all its value. 

• Odds Shopping: With so many online sportsbooks on the market today, we’ll often shop around to see what sportsbook has the best odds. Let’s use an example to explain this further. Let’s say we think Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani will have 10 strikeouts. The lines at most online sportsbooks show an over/under of 8.5, with the over at -120 and the under at +110. We could settle on that -120 line, but by spending a bit of time shopping around, we may find a line at over 8.5 that’s better or perhaps one that has an over/under of nine strikeouts but has +100 odds. We’ll do this research for you so that you know exactly where to go to get the best odds. 

Types of MLB Prop Bets

When betting on the MLB, you typically find two types of prop bets: Game and player props. While both have bets based on events within the game, they focus on different things. 

Below, we’ll list the prop bets you’d typically find with each. 

Game Props

• Team total runs
• Number of runs in the first inning
• Total hits
• Team to score first run
• Race to “X” runs
• Winning margin
• And more!

Player Props

• Players to hit a home run
• Total player hits 
• Total bases by a single player
• RBIs by a single player
• Runs scored by a single player
• Hits + Runs + RBIs
• Stolen Bases
• Player to hit the first home run
• Player to have the first hit 
• Total strikeouts by a pitcher
• Outs recorded by a pitcher
• Pitcher to record a win
• Hits allowed by a pitcher
• Walks allowed by a pitcher
• Earned runs allowed by a pitcher
• And more!

How to Place MLB Prop Bets

1. Decide which sportsbook you want to play at. We have numerous reviews for all the top sites to play at that you can read, or you can check out the information on each sportsbook below that we’ll provide.
2. Visit the sportsbook site by using our exclusive link to receive a welcome bonus. 
3. Register for an account. During this process, you’ll need to provide information such as your name, date of birth, address, last four digits of your social security number, and more. This is to identify you wholly. 
4. After you’ve created an account, it’s time to make your first deposit. 
5. On the homepage, you may find a link to it directly in the upper right-hand corner. Otherwise, there will be a menu with a link to a “cashier” page. 
6. On this page, choose which method you want to use. Remember the welcome bonus when making your first deposit to ensure you claim it. 
7. After you’ve loaded funds into your account, head back to the homepage.
8. Navigate to the MLB page and choose which game(s) you’re interested in betting on. 
9. When you click on the game, you’ll see all available betting markets, including props.
10. Find which you want to bet on, add it to your bet slip, confirm your wager, and wait for the results.

Best Sportsbooks for MLB Prop Betting

DraftKings MLB Prop Bets

At DraftKings Sportsbook, you’ll have access to the most extensive library of prop bets—especially player props—on the market today. Some sites have more options for multiple home run props, but DraftKings covers most individual player statistics, especially for pitchers. 

As a new player, you’ll receive a 20% deposit bonus worth up to $1,000 when you click our exclusive link. When you make a deposit, the 20% bonus you receive will be put into a pool, and you’ll be able to draw off of it in $1 increments per $25 wagered in cash.

FanDuel MLB Prop Bets

FanDuel Sportsbook also has an excellent library of prop bets. Compared to DraftKings, there are few pitcher props. Still, you’ll have plenty of options for betting on home runs, including multiple home runs hit by a single player. 

For new players, you’ll receive up to $200 in bonus bets when you wager $20 by clicking our exclusive link. 

BetMGM MLB Prop Bets

At BetMGM Sportsbook, you’ll have most of the player props listed above, but the field of players you can bet on is quite vast, including the projected starting lineup for each team. BetMGM also adds another wrinkle by offering up pre-packaged Same Game Parlay bets, including prop bets.

Like FanDuel, BetMGM offers a $1,000 bonus bet welcome offer. If your wager loses, you’ll receive it back as free bets. You'll get a free bet if the wager is less than $50. If it’s over $50, you’ll receive five free bets equal to 20% of the original wager. 

Caesars MLB Prop Bets

On top of having player props available for the projected starting lineup in a game, Caesars Sportsbook doesn’t have a single menu for all the prop bets. Instead, you’ll see all of the available props in a horizontal menu instead of needing to scroll down a page that can appear almost endless due to the number of available bets. The menu includes home runs, hits, total bases, RBIs, batter runs, runs, and there is a single page for pitching props. 

Caesars Sportsbook offers new players a $1,250 bonus bet and 1,000 Tier and Reward credits toward the Caesars Rewards program when you sign up with our link. 

If your first wager up to $1,250 loses, you’ll receive it back as a free bet. 

PointsBet MLB Prop Bets

While PointsBet has perhaps the shallowest market of prop bets on the list, it has PointsBetting, a unique betting market you’ll only find here.

To best understand this betting market, let’s use an example.

One option you have for PointsBetting is total hits in a game. You can bet whether it’ll go over or under, but here’s the twist—if your wager is correct, your winnings will reflect the stake made multiplied by the number of hits or whatever other stat you’re betting on. Let’s say the line is 16 hits, you bet $10 on the over, and at the end of the game, there are 20 hits. Not only did you make a successful wager, but you’ll also receive your wager ($10) multiplied by the number of hits over the line (4). 

In this example, you’d win $40.

When you sign up at PointsBet Sportsbook, you’ll receive five $100 second-chance bets. You’ll receive a $100 bet each day over the first five days. You must use the $100 bet daily, or it’ll expire in 24 hours. 

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