If you follow MLB odds at all, you’ve probably heard this chant at a game:

“OVER-RATED! CLAP-CLAP, CLAP-CLAP-CLAP.”

They tantalize you with their gaudy minor league numbers, magical rookie seasons or colorful personalities. Maybe they lead you astray at the sportsbook too. It’s time for those betting online to get revenge on the most overrated players in baseball betting by nailing their names to this top-10 list.

Without further ado, let’s review the most overrated players in MLB odds today.

10. Jeff Francoeur – outfielder, Atlanta Braves

His cannon arm and quick bat earned him the nickname “the Natural” and landed him on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a rookie, but it’s been all downhill since then. I don’t care how toolsy you are, Jeff – you can’t hit a breaking ball. You strike out four times as often as you walk.

9. Troy Tulowitzki – shortstop, Colorado Rockies

This one pains me, as I really love him as a player both offensively and defensively, but he’s getting too much mileage out of one good season. If he really wants to help the Rockies odds, he better raise that .205 average this MLB betting season.

8. Billy Butler – designated hitter, Kansas City Royals

As Dmitri Young once proved, being fat doesn’t automatically make you a power hitter. Scouts slobber all over Butler because of his gaudy minor league numbers, but the kid has 21 career homers in 242 games. Are we baseball betting fans supposed to be impressed?

7. Delmon Young – outfielder, Minnesota Twins

The former top prospect in baseball is heading the way of his aforementioned brother – looking more portly by the day, playing poor defense and doing very little with the bat. His career high for homers is 13 – not what you expect from a guy many MLB betting pundits dubbed a “future Hall-of-Famer” before he’d seen a major league pitch.

6. Joel Zumaya – relief pitcher, Detroit Tigers

A 103-MPH fastball doesn’t help the Tigers odds much when the guy who throws it spends more time in the infirmary than most doctors. Need we discuss the Guitar Hero injury again?

5. Daisuke Matsuzaka – starting pitcher, Boston Red Sox

Dice-K is a good example of how being overrated doesn’t have to mean being a bad ballplayer. He can definitely pitch, but he’s fallen short of his “Second Coming of Nolan Ryan” expectations. The bottom line: he nibbles too much, trying to strike every guy out. I’ll give him respect when he starts going more than six innings per start.

4. Carlos Zambrano – starting pitcher, Chicago Cubs

I love the emotional Big Z and he’s a good contributor to the Cubs odds at the sportsbook, but Cy Young he ain’t. His stuff is just filthy, but he can’t hit the plate to save his life. He has two 100-walk seasons in his career already!

3. Kosuke Fukudome – outfielder, Chicago Cubs

Hit .257 with 10 homers and 58 RBI last year – and was named a friggin’ All-Star starter. Didn’t bet on that at the damn sportsbook. What’s that? He tanked in the second half but warranted the first-half selection? Sorry – I didn’t realize his pre-Break stats (.279, 7 HR, 36 RBI in 90 games) were superior to the snubbed Carlos Lee’s (.301, 21 HR, 76 RBI in 94 games).

2. Francisco Rodriguez – relief pitcher, New York Mets

Relax. I said RELAX! He’s a dominant pitcher and he got the save record last year, but he had an absurd number of opportunities. I’d argue he wasn’t even a top-five closer in MLB betting last year; Mariano Rivera, Joakim Soria, Brad Lidge, Joe Nathan and Jonathan Papelbon were better. Few closers walk more guys than K-Rod. He gets it done, but not without giving sportsbook players heart palpitations.

1. Carl Crawford – outfielder, Tampa Bay Rays

I debated putting him on this list as his luster is in fact starting to wear off, but we can’t discuss overrated ballplayers in baseball betting picks without discussing Carl Crawford. The “All-Star” leadoff man has a career on-base percentage of .331 and he’s only topped 100 runs twice in six full seasons –bizarre stats for a supposed table setter. To put it in perspective, Rickey Henderson, to whom some nitwits have equated Crawford in the past, had a .401 career OBP and topped 100 runs five times in his first six full seasons.