{"id":67903,"date":"2025-08-08T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67903\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:40:06","slug":"mlb-urged-to-limit-player-prop-bets-in-light-of-nba-crackdown-player-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67903\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB urged to limit player prop bets in light of NBA crackdown, player suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA persuaded major U.S. sportsbooks to \u201cstop offering \u2018under\u2019 prop bets on the league\u2019s lowest-paid players\u201d after it banned Raptors C Jontay Porter<\/a> and now it is \u201ctime for MLB to consider a similar intervention, perhaps on single-pitch prop bets,\u201d according to Ira Boudway of BLOOMBERG NEWS. If leagues and sportsbooks do not \u201cvoluntarily adopt such restrictions,\u201d states may have to \u201cconsider imposing them.\u201d Several states \u201calready have limits on player props for college sports.\u201d Extending prop bans to the professional ranks \u201ccould help deter corruption\u201d and give fans \u201cgreater confidence in the integrity of games.\u201d After MLB placed Guardians P Luis Ortiz and P Emmanuel Clase on leave<\/a>, Ohio Gov.\u202fMike DeWine \u201ccalled on his state\u2019s gaming regulator\u202fto ban props across the board.\u201d He also said that he would \u201curge the commissioners of MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA, the NHL and MLS to support his efforts.\u201d Player props are \u201cpopular with bettors and sportsbooks alike,\u201d so banning props at regulated U.S. sportsbooks \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll cease to exist.\u201d If enough bettors want them, \u201coffshore and black-market bookies will offer them.\u201d Bets on increments \u201cas small as a single pitch\u201d do not seem \u201cespecially necessary to the business models of sportsbooks or the habits of most bettors.\u201d The \u201ctrick\u201d for leagues, sportsbooks and regulators is \u201cto get the balance right.\u201d Players \u201cneed to know the risks.\u201d Boudway: \u201cThey need to know that monitors from IC360 and elsewhere are watching and that their fixing schemes are likely to be exposed\u201d (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 8\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA persuaded major U.S. sportsbooks to \u201cstop offering \u2018under\u2019 prop bets on the league\u2019s lowest-paid players\u201d after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1558,402,15363,363,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-67903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-gambling","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}