June 29 MLB Picks — Kansas City at Toronto; Oakland at Los Angeles Angels

These are the condensed versions of picks for Friday’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.

Kansas City Royals at Toronto Blue Jays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Blue Jays -1.5 runs (Even) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 9 runs (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Blue Jays OVER 5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Blue Jays -0.5 runs (-111) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-125) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Blue Jays UNDER 2.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Oakland Athletics at Los Angeles Angels:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Athletics (+125) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-110) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Angels UNDER 5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Athletics -0.5 runs (+155) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 3 runs first 3 innings (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 10-2-0 (.833)
Previous Day’s Record: 0-11-2 (.042)
June Record: 139-140-5 (.498)

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

Season Record: 491-474-21 (.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: 6-1 (.857)          (83-75-5 (.525) in June)  (279-288-12 (.492) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 2-1 (.667)          (35-39-0 (.473) in June)  (123-116-4 (.514) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.00)          (21-26-0 (.447) in June)  (89-69-6 (.561) 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

(Tyler Skaggs photo courtesy Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA TODAY Sports)