{"id":189,"date":"2012-05-04T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-08-18T23:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:13:42","slug":"betting-on-misleading-baseball-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/library\/mlb\/betting-on-misleading-baseball-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"Betting on Misleading Baseball Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is a stat driven league. That means that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/baseball-picks.html\">baseball handicappers<\/a> who want to be successful have to have a good grasp on statistics and how to interpret them. The problem, though, is that some of the statistics that are regularly published in newspapers and magazines, discussed on TV, and embrace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/library\/mlb\/betting-on-misleading-baseball-stats.html#more-189\" class=\"more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Betting on Misleading Baseball Stats\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is a stat driven league. That means that baseball handicappers who want to be successful have to have a good grasp on statistics and how to interpret them. The problem, though, is that some of the statistics that are regularly published in newspapers and magazines, discussed on TV, and embrace (more&hellip;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Betting on Misleading Baseball Stats - Sports Betting Library<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Better handle these misleading baseball stats that lead bettors astray. 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