May 9 MLB Picks — Texas Rangers at Houston Astros

These are the condensed versions of picks for Thursday’s Major League Baseball game. There are links to the full previews on the Winners and Whiners website below. The confidence rating on a scale from 1 to 5 is in parentheses.

Note: The 5/5 does NOT represent the best overall pick of the day’s games when there are multiple games, simply the best pick(s) of each individual game.

Texas Rangers at Houston Astros:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rangers (+146) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 27.5 runs+hits+errors (-115) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rangers (+125) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-120) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: NO to 1st-inning run (-115) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 4-2-0 (.667)
Previous Day’s Record: 9-9-0 (.500)
May Record: 51-45-0 (.531)

April Record: 159-156-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)

Season Record: 228-236-12 (.492)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in May)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in May)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-1 (.667)          (29-28-0 (.509) in May)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (12-10-0 (.545) in May)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (10-7-0 (.588) in May)

1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March
2-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March
3-Star by month: 93-95-4 (.495) in April; 7-27-1 (.214) in March
4-Star by month: 35-43-3 (.451) in April; 6-4-0 (.600) in March
5-Star by month: 31-18-4 (.623) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March

(Mike Minor photo courtesy Jennifer Buchanan/USA TODAY Sports)