Major League Baseball (MLB) announced today the Commissioner’s Office has worked closely with its sportsbook partners to proactively create new safeguards to limit pitch-level markets. Effective immediately, all MLB Authorized Gaming Operators will cap wagers on pitch-level markets at $200 and exclude those bets from parlays. These new measures -- implemented across sportsbook operators representing more than 98% of the U.S. betting market -- are intended to mitigate integrity risks, and maintain the transparency and data access benefits that the regulated sports betting market provides.

Most prop bets present limited integrity risk because they take into account multiple events that are influenced by more than one actor. However, “micro-bet” pitch-level markets (e.g., ball/strike; pitch

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