July 18 MLB Picks — Milwaukee Brewers (50-47) at Arizona Diamondbacks (49-47); New York Mets (44-51) at San Francisco Giants (47-49)

These are the condensed versions of picks for Thursday’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.

(Pete Alonso photo courtesy Charles LeClaire/USA TODAY Sports)

Milwaukee Brewers at Arizona Diamondbacks:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Diamondbacks (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-110) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Brewers UNDER 4.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Diamondbacks -0.5 runs (+115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-125) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 0.5 runs/NO 1st inning run (+105) — 3/5 — WIN!

New York Mets at San Francisco Giants:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Giants (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 7.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Giants OVER 3.5 runs (-125) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Giants -0.5 runs (+125) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Mets 3-way money line 1st inning (+330) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 6-6-0 (.500)
Previous Day’s Record: 2-4-0 (.333)
July Record: 73-81-8 (.475)

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: 572-564-31 (.503)

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: 4-4 (.500)         (35-53-8 (.406) in July)    (319-346-20 (.480) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (23-16-0 (.590) in July)    (149-135-4 (.524) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)         (15-12-0 (.556) in July)    (104-83-7 (.554) 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