Aug. 25 MLB Picks — Tampa Bay at Baltimore; Philadelphia at Miami

These are the condensed versions of picks for Sunday’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.

(Aaron Nola photo courtesy Eric Hartline/USA TODAY Sports)

Tampa Bay Rays at Baltimore Orioles:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Rays -1.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 9.5 runs (-115) — 5/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Rays OVER 5.5 runs (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays -0.5 runs (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 5.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Rays OVER 2.5 runs (-131) — 3/5 — WIN!

Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Marlins:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Phillies -1.5 runs (-125) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 8 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Phillies OVER 4.5 runs (-121) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Phillies -0.5 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 4 runs (-125) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Phillies OVER 2.5 runs (+105) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Day’s Record: 3-9-0 (.250)
Previous Day’s Record: 7-4-1 (.625)
August Record: 158-112-12 (.582)

July Record: 147-177-15 (.456)
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: 804-772-50 (.510)

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)          (0-1-0 (.000) in August)      (0-1-0 (.000) overall)
3-Star Pick Record: 2-5 (.286)          (90-64-7 (.581) in August)   (457-465-33 (.496) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 0-3 (.000)          (40-27-3 (.593) in August)   (205-186-8 (.524) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 1-1 (.500)          (28-18-2 (.604) in August)   (142-120-9 (.541) 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