July 5 MLB Picks — Baltimore at Toronto; Boston at Detroit

These are the condensed versions of picks for Friday’s Major League Baseball game(s). 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.

Baltimore Orioles at Toronto Blue Jays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Blue Jays (-136) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10.5 runs (-105) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Blue Jays OVER 5.5 runs (-105) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Orioles (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 6 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Orioles OVER 2.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox -1.5 runs (-150) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox OVER 6 runs (-131) — 4/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox -0.5 runs (-125) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 6 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox OVER 2 runs first 3 innings (Even) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 6-6-0 (.500)
Previous Day’s Record: 0-10-2 (.083)
July Record: 7-25-4 (.250)

June Record: 147-149-6 (.497)
May Record: 178-146-5 (.549)
April Record: 156-153-11 (.505)
March Record: 18-35-1 (.343)

Season Record: 506-508-26 (.499)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in July)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in July)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-3 (.400)          (2-13-4 (.211) in July)    (286-306-16 (.484) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 3-2 (.600)          (4-7-0 (.364) in July)      (130-125-4 (.510) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (1-5-0 (.167) in July)      (90-76-7 (.540) overall)

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

3-Star by month: 88-80-5 (.523) in June; 99-92-2 (.518) in May; 90-94-4 (.489) in April; 7-27-1 (.214) in March

4-Star by month: 38-41-0 (.481) in June; 46-33-1 (.581) in May; 36-41-3 (.469) in April; 6-4-0 (.600) in March

5-Star by month: 21-28-1 (.430) in June; 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March

(Eduardo Rodriguez photo courtesy Brian Fluharty/USA TODAY Sports)