The MLB season is officially underway with the Los Angeles Dodgers beating the San Diego Padres early Wednesday morning in Seoul, South Korea. After a second game on Thursday, the season will begin in full when the rest of the league opens on March 28. There's plenty of value to be had on the MLB futures board, and a nearly endless slate of options. Will Shohei Ohtani, now with the juggernaut Dodgers, win a third MVP award? Can Atlanta's Spencer Strider stay healthy and capture the NL Cy Young Award? Will the Yankees win yet another World Series ring with Juan Soto in the fold?

Before you make any 2024 MLB futures picks, you need to see who SportsLine MLB expert Angelo Magliocca is backing. Magliocca, also known as Amags, is a rising MLB capper who uses his deep knowledge of baseball to find value on player props, sides and totals. Over the 2022 and 2023 MLB seasons, Amags went 549-450 (plus 63.4 units) on straight plays and parlays while winning an additional 34.6 units on ladder plays. He produced those results, in part, by leveraging the strikeout prop market. Amags appears regularly on The Early Edge, SportsLine's popular daily betting show.

Now Magliocca has shared his 2024 MLB futures best bets. We can tell you he's on Strider to lock up the NL Cy Young Award. "[Strider's] already one of the best pitchers in baseball," Magliocca says.

Amags is also on a rising star to win AL MVP! Be sure to check out his plays before locking in any of your own.

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