Monday July 22 MLB Picks — Cleveland Indians (57-41) at Toronto Blue Jays (38-63) and Chicago Cubs (54-45) at San Francisco Giants (50-50)

These are the condensed versions of picks for Monday’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.

(Mike Clevinger photo courtesy David Richard/USA TODAY Sports)

Cleveland Indians at Toronto Blue Jays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Indians -1.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game:  Clevinger OVER 7.5 strikeouts (-110) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Indians 3-way money line (-131) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings:  UNDER 3 runs first 3 innings (-136) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco Giants:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Giants (Even) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 9 runs (Even) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Bryant to record RBI (+106) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Giants +0.5 runs (-140) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4.5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 0.5 runs/YES 1st inning run (-125) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Day’s Record: 4-7-1 (.375)
Previous Day’s Record: 6-11-1 (.361)
July Record: 101-114-10 (.466)

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: 600-597-33 (.501)

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: 3-5-1 (.389)       (53-72-10 (.430) in July)  (337-365-22 (.481) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-2 (.333)          (30-23-0 (.566) in July)    (156-142-4 (.523) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.00)          (18-19-0 (.486) in July)    (107-90-7 (.542) 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