Beating The Book: 2025 Q3 MLB Derivative Stats Show
Beating The Book with Gill Alexander
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4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Check it out, now. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, let's do it. |
| 0:07.2 | Q3, Major League Baseball, betting derivatives show. |
| 0:10.7 | We do it every quarter on the beating the book podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | We have done it every quarter since I'm going to guess the year 2011 on a podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | That's right, we were podcasting in the Dark Ages. At least. At least. It might have been 2008, I think. I'm thinking that's when we started doing it. Really? You know better than our, I guess, loss in the, the, the, the, the story historian. Yeah. You would know that for sure. We did it all the way back in the betting dork days. |
| 0:39.5 | This is Mark Bortchard, everybody. |
| 0:40.9 | He is base winner at base winner on Twitter, basewinter.com. |
| 0:45.3 | Does the Betus show every morning on Major League Baseball. |
| 0:48.9 | What we try to do is go through stats through three quarters of the season |
| 0:52.7 | and figure out what of these stats is narrative, |
| 0:56.3 | what is predictive, what we can glean from this betting moving forward and we get progressively |
| 1:01.3 | more proprietary as the show goes on. So we do some ones that are readily available, best |
| 1:05.7 | money line teams, best run line teams in major league baseball, best starting pitchers if you had backed |
| 1:10.2 | them blindly. |
| 1:13.5 | And then we narrow that down to umpires. |
| 1:17.2 | Mark has a lot of historical data on umpires when they call balls and strikes, |
| 1:22.1 | whether they tend to go over or under as home plate umpires. |
| 1:24.4 | And then we'll do first five stats, which are always. |
| 1:26.5 | And I just took a peek at them. |
| 1:45.0 | Once again, unbelievable and first innings with starters. How are you doing, man? Your season going okay? Yeah, I'm doing good, dude. I'm ahead on the show. I think the chart plays could be a little bit better, but, you know, sometimes you have years like that. But on the show, I'm ahead, gosh, over 20 units. So happy about about that. Mostly parley, as I might say. So you guys, you're a parlay haters. Well, just check, |
| 1:50.3 | just go look at, go to MLB Show BetUS on YouTube and search and what we will come up. Not |
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