These are the condensed versions of picks for Saturday’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.
(Yadier Molina photo courtesy Benny Sieu/USA TODAY Sports)
Side Prediction/Full Game: Reds (-110) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 8 runs (-110) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Reds OVER 4 runs (Even) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Reds -0.5 runs (+125) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 4.5 runs (-131) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 0.5 runs/NO 1st inning run (-115) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/Full Game: Orioles ML (-131) — 4/5 — LOSS!
Total Prediction/Full Game: UNDER 9.5 runs (-121) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Royals UNDER 4 runs (-105) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Orioles -0.5 runs (Even) — 5/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: UNDER 5.5 runs (-140) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Orioles OVER 1 run first 3 innings (-145) — 3/5 — LOSS!
Side Prediction/Full Game: Pirates ML (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/Full Game: OVER 13.5 runs (-115) — 4/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/Full Game: Pirates OVER 6.5 runs (-125) — 5/5 — WIN!
Side Prediction/1st 5 innings: Pirates -0.5 runs (-105) — 4/5 — WIN!
Total Prediction/1st 5 innings: OVER 7.5 runs (-131) — 3/5 — WIN!
Prop Prediction/1st 5 innings: Pirates OVER 2 runs first 3 innings (-110) — 3/5 — WIN!
Day’s Record: 9-9-0 (.500)
Previous Day’s Record: 2-10-0 (.167)
August Record: 196-146-12 (.571)
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: 842-804-50 (.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: 4-7 (.364) (111-85-7 (.564) in August) (478-486-33 (.496) overall)
4-Star Pick Record: 2-2 (.500) (50-35-3 (.585) in August) (215-194-8 (.525) overall)
5-Star Pick Record: 2-0 (1.00) (34-23-2 (.593) in August) (148-125-9 (.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
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