Bookmaker.eu no longer offers listed pitchers at all. Every baseball wager it books is action, at a price that locks the moment you place it. That single rule change reorganises the whole question of which book is best for MLB.
Baseball is the one sport where the grading rule matters more than the price. A starting pitcher is scratched at 4pm and your bet is either void, repriced against you, or standing exactly as you placed it, depending entirely on which book you used and which box you ticked. Most bettors never tick the box, because most books default it for you.
So we went and read the actual rules at sixteen books, and we are going to give you the matrix rather than a ranking, because the matrix is the thing that decides money.
On this page
The listed pitcher matrix
Every book we could load defaults baseball moneylines to action. The difference is what you can opt into, and what happens to your price if you do not.
| Book | Default | Can you choose listed pitchers? | Is an action bet repriced? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bookmaker.eu | Action only | No. Abolished | No. Price locked |
| BetOnline | Action | Yes, both or single | Yes, to a new opener |
| SportsBetting.ag | Action | Yes | Yes, to the opening price |
| Heritage Sports | Action | Yes, both or single | Yes, recalculated |
| BetAnything | Action | Yes. Run lines always listed | Yes, to the opening price |
| DraftKings | Action | Yes, separate market | No. Stands as struck |
| FanDuel | Action | Yes, both or single | No. Stands as struck |
| BetMGM (app) | Action | Yes, separate market | No |
| Caesars | Action | Both listed only | No. Stands as struck |
| Circa | Action | Yes. Action, one listed or both | Yes, to a new opener |
Bookmaker.eu’s baseball rules page states it plainly: listed pitchers is no longer being offered, and all baseball wagers across MLB, college, softball and foreign professional leagues are now action wagers. It then adds the part that matters most, which is that all wagers have action at the confirmed price. Take a team at plus 200, watch the starter get scratched and the price fall to plus 180, and you still have plus 200.
That is a genuinely better deal than it sounds, and it is the opposite of what most affiliate pages say about this book. We could not find an effective date on the rule change, so we are not going to tell you when it happened.
A discrepancy worth knowing about
BetOnline and SportsBetting.ag are sister skins running near-identical rule pages, but SportsBetting.ag states that run lines require listed pitchers to start for action while BetOnline’s page is silent on the point. Same operator, same wording everywhere else, different outcome on a scratched starter. If you bet run lines at either, ask support in writing before the season gets serious.
We could not load baseball rules for Pinnacle, bet365, Fanatics or MyBookie, and Bovada publishes no pitcher-change clause we could find. Any page showing you a complete sixteen-book matrix filled those rows in from somewhere other than the books.
Two very different things called action
This is the finding we have not seen anywhere else, and it is the most useful thing on this page.
Books use the word action for two mechanically different outcomes. Under the first, your bet survives the pitching change but is repriced to the new opening line. Under the second, your bet stands exactly as you placed it.
| Repriced to the new opener | Stands as struck |
|---|---|
| BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag, BetAnything, Circa, MGM retail | Bookmaker.eu (explicitly), FanDuel, DraftKings |
Think about what that means directionally. You bet an underdog because you liked the pitching matchup. The favourite’s ace is scratched. Your underdog is now shorter. At a repricing book you get the worse number and the reason you bet is gone. At a price-locked book you keep the number you took and the scratch has handed you value.
Now flip it. You bet a favourite, their own ace is scratched, and your price gets worse. Repricing protects you slightly in that direction. Which mechanic you prefer depends on whether you think you are betting the matchup or the team.
The point is not that one is better. The point is that “action” appears in both columns and tells you nothing on its own.
Run lines are where offshore is stricter
The received wisdom is that offshore books are looser than regulated ones. On baseball run lines it is the other way round.
BetAnything states that run lines are always listed pitchers, meaning a scratch voids the bet whether you wanted that or not. It also prohibits parlaying the run line with the total from the same game. MGM’s retail rules in Massachusetts require listed pitchers to start for run lines and totals to have action, which is a different rule from the BetMGM app, and the two get conflated constantly.
Meanwhile DraftKings, FanDuel, Caesars, BetMGM online, Circa and Bookmaker.eu all leave run lines standing through a pitching change.
On the official-game threshold everyone agrees: nine innings, or eight and a half if the home team is ahead. Alternate run line pricing is published by nobody, which means comparison tables of it are constructed rather than sourced.
The dime line story has flipped
For twenty years the pitch was that you went offshore for dime lines. In August 2026 the only book we can point at with a published dime line commitment is a regulated one.
Hard Rock Bet ran a ten-cent line promotion for the whole of August 2026, covering pregame MLB moneylines, run lines and totals with odds between minus 250 and plus 250, and excluding player props, alternate lines and live betting. It is a promotion rather than standing pricing, and that is exactly the point: it is time-limited, published and verifiable, which is more than any offshore book offers.
Because here is what we found. None of BetOnline, Bookmaker.eu, Heritage, Pinnacle, DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars, bet365, Circa or Fanatics publishes a dime line schedule or a favourite threshold at which the line widens. BetAnything publishes that it offers less juice on MLB baseball, with no specification.
Any dime line comparison table you find was not built from published terms. It was built from observation, or from nothing.
What the betting community says, and this is forum reporting rather than anything confirmed, is that the offshore dime line has largely died. A widely-read Bookmakers Review thread from March 2026 titled around the death of the MLB dime line posts examples of Bookmaker and BetOnline pricing at widths like minus 127 against plus 113 and minus 152 against plus 138, with sharp money moving to exchanges. We cannot verify those observations and we are not going to present them as fact. We are telling you they exist because the alternative is repeating a twenty-year-old claim nobody has checked.
How to actually check
Open two books, find a game where the favourite is around minus 150, and add the two implied probabilities. A true dime line at minus 150 and plus 140 holds 3.48%. A twenty-cent line at minus 150 and plus 130 holds 5.45%. Over 500 bets of $110 that difference is about $1,090 of extra expected loss. Do that check once a week rather than trusting a table.
What is actually published on limits
Regulated books publish payout caps. Offshore books mostly do not publish baseball limits at all.
- bet365: baseball moneyline, run line, game totals and outrights all at 500,000 per 24 hours on its international page, the same tier as the NFL and NBA. Note this renders in euros and we could not load a dollar version.
- DraftKings: $1,650,000 maximum net payout.
- FanDuel: $1,000,000 per bet.
- Fanatics: $1,000,000.
- Caesars: $3,000,000 per customer per day online, with individual wagers up to $1,000,000.
- Circa: no stated maximum, but a parlay payout ratio cap.
BetOnline, Bookmaker.eu, Heritage, Pinnacle and MyBookie publish no MLB limits. Their limits are account-specific and set by risk management, which is a real answer and a worse one. See how published limits compare across sports.
Pitch-level markets after the indictments
Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz are charged in the Eastern District of New York with wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery. Both entered not guilty pleas. The trial was moved from May and now begins on 2 November 2026, starting with jury selection. Both have been on non-disciplinary paid leave since July. There is no verdict and there has been no trial.
What did change is the market. In November 2025 MLB announced, jointly with its sportsbook partners, that all authorised gaming operators would cap wagers on pitch-level markets at $200 and exclude those bets from parlays. That covers more than 98% of the US regulated market.
Note what that is not. Pitch-level markets were not pulled. Full-game player props were not touched. And because the agreement binds authorised gaming operators, offshore books are not covered by it and none of them publishes a comparable cap.
On the regulatory side, Ohio drafted a ban on player-specific live micro bets and then dropped it in November 2025. No US state rule bans MLB pitch-level or prop markets as of August 2026. If you have read that a $500 prop cap or a micro-betting ban is in force, it is not, and it is inconsistent with MLB’s own announcement.
How to choose
- Decide whether you are betting the matchup or the team. If the matchup, you want either a listed-pitcher option or a book that locks your price. If the team, action-with-repricing is fine and you get a better default price for it.
- Bookmaker.eu’s price lock is a real edge for matchup bettors, and it is the opposite of how the book is usually described. It also removes your choice, so know that going in.
- If you bet run lines, check the pitcher dependency at your book specifically. This is the row most likely to surprise you, and offshore is stricter than regulated here.
- Do not choose a book on a published dime line, because there are no published dime lines. Measure the hold yourself on a minus 150 game.
- Pitch-level markets are capped at $200 and unparlayable at regulated books. If that is your game, offshore is the only place it still runs at size, with everything that implies about recourse.
Common questions
What is the best sportsbook for MLB betting?
It depends on how you bet the starting pitcher. If your bet is really about the pitching matchup, you want either a book offering a listed-pitcher option, which includes FanDuel, Circa, BetOnline, Heritage and Caesars in various forms, or Bookmaker.eu, which has abolished listed pitchers entirely but locks your price so a scratch cannot move your number against you. If you bet teams rather than matchups, the default action wager at any book is fine and you should choose on price instead. Measure that price yourself, because no book publishes its baseball line width.
Does Bookmaker.eu still offer listed pitchers?
No. Its published baseball rules state that listed pitchers is no longer being offered and that all baseball wagers, across MLB, college, softball and foreign professional leagues, are now action wagers. The compensating rule is that all wagers have action at the confirmed price, so if you took a team at plus 200 and a pitching change moves the price to plus 180, you keep plus 200. That price lock is unusual and most books that offer action instead reprice your bet to a new opening line. There is no effective date published for the change.
What does an action bet mean in baseball?
It means your bet stands if a listed starter is scratched, but the word covers two different mechanics and books rarely explain which one they use. BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag, BetAnything, Circa and MGM’s retail books reprice the bet to the new opening line, so your number changes. Bookmaker.eu, FanDuel and DraftKings let the bet stand exactly as placed. If you backed an underdog because of the pitching matchup and the opposing ace is scratched, a repricing book gives you a worse number while a price-locked book hands you the value.
Which sportsbook has the best MLB dime lines?
Nobody publishes one, which is the honest answer. We checked eleven books and none publishes a dime line schedule or the favourite threshold at which the line widens. The only verifiable dime line commitment we found in August 2026 was a promotion at Hard Rock Bet, a regulated book, covering pregame moneylines, run lines and totals between minus 250 and plus 250 for the month, excluding props, alternate lines and live betting. Community reporting suggests the traditional offshore dime line has largely disappeared. Check the hold yourself: minus 150 against plus 140 is 3.48%, minus 150 against plus 130 is 5.45%.
Were pitch-level bets banned after the Clase and Ortiz case?
No. In November 2025 MLB and its sportsbook partners agreed to cap wagers on pitch-level markets at $200 and exclude them from parlays, covering over 98% of the US regulated market. The markets still exist, they are just small and unparlayable. Full-game player props were not affected. No state rule bans MLB pitch-level or prop markets, and Ohio dropped a draft micro-betting ban in November 2025. The agreement binds authorised gaming operators only, so offshore books are outside it.
What is the status of the Clase and Ortiz case?
Both pleaded not guilty and the trial has been moved from May to 2 November 2026, beginning with jury selection, in the Eastern District of New York. The charges are wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery. Both players have been on non-disciplinary paid leave since July. There has been no trial and no verdict as of 20 August 2026.
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