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.
Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins:
Side Prediction/Full Game: Rays (Even) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Twins’ Rosario to have RBI (+105) — 4/5 — NO BET/DNP
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (+125) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 5.5 runs (-115) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 3.5 runs first 3 innings (+115) — 3/5 — WIN!
Day’s Record: 2-3-0 (.400)
Previous Day’s Record: 5-7-0 (.417)
June Record: 129-127-4 (.504)
May Record: 178-146-5 (.549)
April Record: 156-153-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)
Season Record: 481-461-20 (.510)
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: 2-2 (.500) (77-68-4 (.530) in June) (273-281-11 (.493) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000) (33-35-0 (.485) in June) (121-113-4 (.517) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000) (19-24-0 (.442) in June) (87-67-6 (.563) 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
(Jorge Polanco photo courtesy Jay Biggerstaff/USA TODAY Sports)
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