2025 MLB All-Star Game Odds and Preview: Who Comes Out on Top?

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00:00The 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game known as the Midsummer Classic tonight in Atlanta

00:06between the American League and the National League. The starting lineups officially named

00:11yesterday. Over the weekend, we got those All-Star Game starters for both sides. For the AL,

00:16it's our reigning Cy Young winner in Tarek Skubal, who is greater than a $2 favorite to do it back

00:22to back. Paul Skeens gets the nod for the National League as well. Second consecutive year, right?

00:29Skeens got the start last year as a rookie, if I'm not mistaken, in Arlington as well. Here are the

00:36odds, DRS, for tonight's affair in Atlanta. The NL, an ever-so-slight favorite, minus 116 on that

00:44money line currently. Total is minimal because you are going to get the best pitchers in the sport

00:49with their best stuff on a limited window of opportunity. That total is seven. It is interesting,

00:56though, DRS, to see the NL, even if more talented, be a favorite in the Midsummer Classic, as the

01:03American League has won 10 of the last 11 All-Star Games, including last year in Arlington, when the

01:10AL won 5-3, and Boston's Jaron Duran was named the All-Star Game MVP. The American League has owned

01:18the All-Star Game in the last three decades, and yet the NL, a slight favorite tonight.

01:22Yeah, and there's no rhyme or reason to this. It's an All-Star Game. They're great players on

01:28both sides. There's no expectations for how long a pitcher is going to go. If it was like, let's

01:33just say, when it mattered, where, you know, the winner, Lee got home field advantage, you see the

01:37starters and the starting pitchers and the star closers play a little bit more because those

01:42games actually mean something. Going into this game and handicapping, it's the same thing like an

01:45NBA All-Star Game or an NHL All-Star Game. Hey, yeah, okay. Like, that's your handicap. Like,

01:51this guy's good. This guy's good. And I just have a feeling that the National League is better.

01:55You take a look at, like, the roulette table, Ben. You ever walk into a casino? It's like,

01:58red, black, red, black. Like, wait a second. Red has hit 16 times in a row. There's no rhyme or

02:03reason for that. It just happened. Oh, that means black is due next. No, it's not. If you're just

02:07betting on, hey, the National League is due, you're going bankrupt the past, what, 15 years or so at

02:11this point because that's not the way it works. For my money, it's like, you know what? If you want to

02:15coin flip, it's fine. If you want to just look at, like, the totals, which we'll get to,

02:19six out of the past eight games have been under eight total runs because why? You have the best

02:24pitchers in the sport understanding this, Ben. They're only in for one inning. They don't know.

02:29Paul Skeen's doesn't make, hey, you know what? I could throw 100 on the black right now, but I

02:33got to go seven innings today and give my team my best effort. Maybe I'll dial it down. Nobody dials

02:37it down in the All-Star Game. You are throwing heat missiles every single pitch from the best pitchers

02:42in baseball. That's why these games tend to trend lower. That's the only side I really look at it

02:48from a total perspective as opposed to who's going to win. How do you have to predict that

02:51other than just, oh, the American League always wins when that's not a handicap?