Aug. 30 MLB Picks — Miami at Washington; Oakland at N.Y. Yankees

These are the condensed versions of picks for Friday’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 Judge photo courtesy Joe Nicholson/USA TODAY Sports)

Miami Marlins at Washington Nationals:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Nationals -1.5 runs (-125) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 10 runs (-115) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Nats’ Rendon to hit HR (+280) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Nationals 3-way ML (-176) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-121) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 0.5 runs/NO 1st inning run (+115) — 3/5 — LOSS!

Oakland Athletics at New York Yankees:

Side Prediction/Full Game: Yankees ML (-145) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 11 runs (-121) — 5/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Yankees OVER 6 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: A’s 3-way ML (+140) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 6.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: A’s OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (+111) — 4/5 — LOSS!

Day’s Record: 2-10-0 (.167)
Previous Day’s Record: 6-6-0 (.500)
August Record: 187-137-12 (.574)

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: 833-797-50 (.511)

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: 1-5 (.167)          (107-78-7 (.576) in August) (474-479-33 (.497) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 1-3 (.250)          (48-33-3 (.589) in August)   (213-192-8 (.525) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 0-2 (.000)          (32-23-2 (.579) in August)   (146-125-9 (.538) 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