"LG, Hanwha, and Samsung compete for the championship → Lotte 9th - bottom of the league" predicted KBO rankings of overseas gamblers

*This content was translated by AI.

As the opening of the KBO League in the 2026 season approaches, major overseas betting companies are attracting attention by unveiling their winning dividends all at once. As expected, the eyes of overseas gamblers were cold. Despite predicting the dominance of the "defending champion" LG Twins, the Hanwha Eagles and the Samsung Lions will establish a three-way system. On the other hand, Lotte Giants and Kiwoom Heroes analyzed that it is difficult to get out of the bottom swamp.

According to the dividend rate announced by major overseas betting companies such as Britain-based BET365 and Cyprus-based 1xbet, LG, the unified winner of the "2025 Season," was expected to be the leading candidate for the title with the lowest score of 3.5 times.

If you bet 10,000 won on LG, you will receive 35,000 won back after the Korean Series championship is confirmed. In other words, the lower the dividend rate, the more feasible it is, and on the contrary, the larger the dividend, the thinner it is.

The team that closely follows LG is the Samsung Lions, who signed Choi Hyung-woo (43) ahead of the 2026 season against the Hanwha Eagles, who faced off in the Korean Series in the 2025 season. Overseas gamblers classified LG, Hanwha, and Samsung as the "big three" and predicted that they would actually compete in a three-way race for the championship.

LG's "key outfielder" Kim Hyun-soo (38) left for KT Wiz, but it minimized the power leakage by staying all three foreign players, including Park Hae-min (36). Hanwha also has Cody Ponce (32, Toronto Blue Jays) and Ryan Weiss (30, Houston Astros) left for the Major League, but gamblers believe they are still committed to winning. Analysts say Samsung has also secured all of its internal power and brought Choi Hyung-woo and Matt Manning (28) new to close to winning the championship.

On the other hand, the gaze toward Lotte (34 times) and Kiwoom (50 times) is very cold. Lotte focused on "internal fostering" and "low cost and high efficiency" foreign players without recruiting external FA in this stove league. However, gamblers judged that Lotte's unstable backdoor and chronic defensive ups and downs were not enough to withstand the long season, so they expected that ninth place would be a strong candidate.

Kiwoom, which has been at the bottom for three consecutive years, also failed to avoid the stigma of being the "lowest possible" as the power reinforcement was not clear after the departure of the main players. The lack of cards to rebound power other than the composition of foreign players was cited as the reason for the low dividend rate.

In the middle ranks, five clubs, including KIA Tigers (8 times), Doosan Bears (9 times), KT Wiz (11 times), SSG Landers (13 times) and NC Dinos (15 times), are expected to stage a fierce battle for the place in the fifth round. Fans are paying keen attention to whether this cold scenario of overseas gamblers based on data and statistics will become a reality at the ground in the 2026 season.

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*This content was translated by AI.