June 14 MLB Picks — Los Angeles Angels at Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians at Detroit Tigers

These are the condensed versions of picks for Friday’s Major League Baseball game. There are links to the full preview(s) on the Winners and Whiners and Stat Salt websites 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.

Los Angeles Angels at Tampa Bay Rays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rays -1.5 runs (+111) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 7.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Angels UNDER 3 runs (-125) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (-125) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 3.5 runs (-125) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 2.5 runs 1st 3 innings (-145) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Cleveland Indians at Detroit Tigers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Tigers +1.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 9.5 runs (-110) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Indians OVER 5 runs (-131) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Indians -0.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 5.5 runs (-105) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Indians OVER 1.5 runs 1st 3 innings (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 6-6-0 (.500)
Previous Day’s Record: 8-4-0 (.667)
June Record: 42-48-1 (.467)

May Record: 178-146-5 (.549)
April Record: 156-153-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)

Season Record: 394-382-17 (.508)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in June)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in June)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-5 (.286)          (24-28-1 (.462) in June)  (220-241-8 (.478) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 3-0 (1.00)          (12-11-0 (.522) in June)  (100-89-4 (.528) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (6-9-0 (.400) in June)      (74-52-6 (.583) overall)

1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in May; 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March

2-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in May; 0-0-0 (.000) in April; 0-0-0 (.000) in March

3-Star by month: 99-92-2 (.518) in May; 90-94-4 (.489) in April; 7-27-1 (.214) in March

4-Star by month: 46-33-1 (.581) in May; 36-41-3 (.469) in April; 6-4-0 (.600) in March

5-Star by month: 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March

(Shohei Ohtani photo courtesy Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)