June 18 MLB Picks — Boston at Minnesota and Cleveland at Texas

These are the condensed versions of picks for Tuesday’s Major League Baseball games. 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.

Boston Red Sox at Minnesota Twins:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox -1.5 runs (+130) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Twins UNDER 4.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox -0.5 runs (+146) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Twins UNDER 2.5 runs (-140) — 3/5 — WIN!

Cleveland Indians at Texas Rangers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rangers (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10.5 runs (-110) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Indians UNDER 5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rangers -0.5 runs (+125) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 6 runs (-125) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rangers UNDER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (-140) – 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 4-8-0 (.333)
Previous Day’s Record: 13-5-0 (.722)
June Record: 68-75-2 (.476)

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

Season Record: 420-409-18 (.506)

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: 3-3 (.500)          (40-39-2 (.506) in June)  (236-252-9 (.484) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 0-4 (.000)          (19-21-0 (.475) in June)  (107-99-4 (.519) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (9-15-0 (.375) in June)    (77-58-6 (.567) 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

(David Price photo courtesy Bob DeChiara/USA TODAY Sports)