May 23 MLB Picks — Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Indians

These are the condensed versions of picks for Thursday’s Major League Baseball games. There are links to the full preview(s) 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) from each individual game.

Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Indians:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rays (-136) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Indians UNDER 4 runs (+100) — 3/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (+105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 3 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (+130) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 6-0-0 (1.00)
Previous Day’s Record: 7-5-0 (.667)
May Record: 130-94-2 (.580)

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

Season Record: 307-285-14 (.518)

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: 4-0 (1.00)          (72-58-1 (.553) in May)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (34-22-1 (.605) in May)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (24-14-0 (.632) 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

(Carlos Santana photo courtesy Ken Blaze/USA TODAY Sports)