Aug. 7 MLB Picks — New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox

These are the condensed versions of picks for Wednesday’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.

(Gleyber Torres photo courtesy Andy Marlin/USA TODAY Sports)

Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox: — SUSPENDED!

Side Prediction/Full Game: Red Sox -1.5 runs (-171) — 4/5
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10.5 runs (-115) — 5/5
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Devers to hit HR (+320) — 3/5
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox -1.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 6 runs (-125) — 3/5 — PUSH!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Red Sox OVER 2 runs first 3 innings (-105) — 4/5 — LOSS!

New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Yankees -2.5 runs (-110) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10 runs (-105) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Torres to hit HR (+250) — 3/5 — NO BET (DID NOT PLAY)
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Yankees -0.5 runs (-171) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 5.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 –WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Yankees OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (-131) — 4/5 — LOSS!

Day’s Record: 4-1-0 (.800)
Previous Day’s Record: 3-9-0 (.250)
August Record: 30-32-3 (.485)

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: 673-690-40 (.494)

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: 2-0 (1.00)          (18-16-1 (.529) in August)   (385-415-27 (.482) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.000)          (7-10-2 (.421) in August)     (172-169-7 (.504) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-0 (1.00)          (5-6-0 (.455) in August)       (119-108-7 (.521) 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