Aug. 6 MLB Picks — Kansas City at Boston and Toronto at Tampa Bay

These are the condensed versions of picks for Tuesday’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.

(Austin Meadows photo courtesy Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)

Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox -1.5 runs (-105) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 11 runs (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox OVER 6 runs (-110) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox -0.5 runs (-145) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 6.5 runs (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox 3-way ML first inning (+205) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rays -1.5 runs (Even) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 8.5 runs (-110) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Meadows to hit HR (+320) — 3/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (-136) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4.5 runs (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (+111) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Day’s Record: 3-9-0 (.250)
Previous Day’s Record: 7-5-0 (.583)
August Record: 26-31-3 (.458)

July Record: 143-163-15 (.469)
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: 669-689-40 (.493)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in August)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in August)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 3-3 (.500)          (16-16-1 (.500) in August)  (383-415-27 (.481) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 0-4 (.000)          (6-9-2 (.412) in August)       (171-168-7 (.504) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 0-2 (.000)          (4-6-0 (.333) in August)       (117-108-7 (.519) overall)

1-Star by month: 0-0-0 (.000) in July; 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 July; 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: 83-106-14 (.443) in July; 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: 39-40-1 (.494) in July; 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: 25-31-0 (.446) in July; 21-28-1 (.430) in June; 33-21-2 (.596) in May; 30-18-4 (.615) in April; 5-4-0 (.556) in March