Aug. 14 MLB Picks — Pittsburgh at L.A. Angels; St. Louis at Kansas City

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.

(Jorge Soler photo courtesy Jay Biggerstaff/USA TODAY Sports)

Pittsburgh Pirates at Los Angeles Angels:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Angels ML (-125) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 10 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Angels OVER 5 runs (-121) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Pirates 3-way ML (+130) — 2/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 5.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 3.5 runs first 3 innings (+115) — 3/5 — LOSS!

St. Louis Cardinals at Kansas City Royals:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Cardinals -1.5 runs (+121) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Royals UNDER 4.5 runs (-131) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Royals +0.5 runs (-136) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Cardinals UNDER 2.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — WIN!

Day’s Record: 10-2-0 (.833)
Previous Day’s Record: 14-3-1 (.806)
August Record: 80-65-4 (.550)

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: 723-723-41 (.500)

1-Star Pick Record: 0-0 (.000)          (0-0-0 (.000) in August)      (0-0-0 (.000) overall)
2-Star Pick Record: 0-1 (.000)          (0-1-0 (.000) in August)      (0-1-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 5-1 (.833)          (49-35-2 (.581) in August)   (416-434-28 (.490) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 3-0 (1.00)          (19-16-2 (.541) in August)   (184-175-7 (.512) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.00)          (12-13-0 (.480) in August)   (126-115-7 (.522) 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