June 20 MLB Picks — Minnesota at Kansas City; L.A. Angels at Toronto

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 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.

Minnesota Twins at Kansas City Royals:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Twins -1.5 runs (-131) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10 runs (-115) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Royals UNDER 4 runs (-125) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Twins -1.5 runs (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Royals UNDER 1 run first 3 innings (-121) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Los Angeles Angels at Toronto Blue Jays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Angels -1.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Angels OVER 5.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Angels -1.5 runs (+130) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings:OVER 6 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Angels OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 5-6-1 (.458)
Previous Day’s Record: 6-12-0 (.333)
June Record: 79-93-3 (.460)

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

Season Record: 431-427-19 (.502)

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: 3-3-1 (.500)       (45-50-3 (.474) in June)  (241-263-10 (.479) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-2 (.333)          (22-26-0 (.458) in June)  (110-104-4 (.514) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (12-17-0 (.414) in June)  (80-60-6 (.568) 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

(Jake Odorizzi photo courtesy Bruce Kluckhohn/USA TODAY Sports)