Time to talk MLB Best Bets and Betting Picks today so get yourself ready! Following an early-May slump, we have been steadily rebuilding our bankroll and are coming off a solid 3-0 Saturday which puts breaking even well into our sights. While we pulled back from some of the MLB player props over my last two columns, we’ll probably start to hop back onto that train today with just eight games from which to choose. We do have some suspect starting pitching which may help with some of our individual match-ups, so be sure to check out, not just our MLB betting odds page, but also our daily MLB DFS projections as that should help us even more with our prop bets.

  • Saturday’s Record: 3-0
  • Season Record: 80-77-2
  • Bankroll: -5.25 units

Again, just a short slate today so here’s what looks good:

 

 

MLB Best Bets for June 5 

St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers

As a baseball guy, I love Adam Wainwright – still getting after it at 41-years-old following an absolutely outstanding career. As a bettor, I also love Wainwright, but for, obviously, a much different reason. He just doesn’t have it anymore. His 6.15 ERA with a 1.71 WHIP and inability to pitch past the sixth inning are important to note, especially when you’re talking about him facing a Rangers lineup that has the second-highest wOBA (.344) against righthanded pitching, but also has the best overall team wOBA (.403) over the past seven days. They’re also doing it with power as evidenced by the .212 ISO over this past week. Texas is coming off a sweep of the Mariners in which they outscored their opponent 30-9 and now they’ll get Wainwright and a Cardinals bullpen that has a 7.32 ERA over the past week. We’ll back the Rangers bats and get some shares of Corey Seager who has nine hits over his last four games

Pick: Texas Rangers team total over 5.5 runs (+115 on Caesars Sportsbook)

Pick: Corey Seager over 0.5 RBI (+145 on DK Sportsbook)

Oakland Athletics at Pittsburgh Pirates

While I don’t like the pitchers on either side of this game, the scales still tilt towards the Pirates coming away with a win. There’s no value on this money line, but given the overall match-up, we can get some run-line plus-odds here even with the home team. The A’s have a few lefty bats who could give Johan Oviedo some trouble, but not only does Oakland ranks dead-last in wOBA against righties with a .277 mark and a 26.5-percent strikeout rate, they also have a .246 wOBA with an even more miserable .048 ISO over the past week. On the other side, the Pirates face lefty JP Sears who looks like an improved guy over his last few starts but is sitting on a 5.97 road ERA where hitters are posting a .335 wOBA against him. The Pirates are middle of the road with regard to their .328 wOBA against southpaws, but they are seeing the ball extremely well right now, posting a .351 wOBA with a 119 wRC+ over the past week where they’ve won five in a row against the Giants and Cardinals.

Pick: Pittsburgh Pirates -1.5 Run Line (+105 on BetMGM)

 

 

Houston Astros at Toronto Blue Jays

We’ve got two high-powered, surging offenses here with the Blue Jays and Astros with two tomato cans on the mound in Alek Manoah and Brandon Bielak. But that 10-run total seems a little high even at the Rogers Centre. Instead, I’m going to focus on the fact that Toronto, winners of five-straight, are at home and with a slightly more-potent offense over the last week. It’s not by a steep margin at all, but then we look at the pitchers and there is a little (not much) more faith in Manoah early on than Bielak who could get annihilated by this Jays offensive attack. The Jays bullpen has also looked significantly better than that of the Astros, so for the first game of the series, we’ll favor the home team and their one of their hottest bats over the past week.

Pick: Toronto Blue Jays Money Line (-115 on DraftKings Sportsbook)

Pick: Brandon Belt over 1.5 Hits + Runs + RBI (-105 on DraftKings Sportsbook)