{"id":220492,"date":"2025-08-02T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/220492\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:06:12","slug":"mlb-picks-best-bets-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/220492\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB picks, best bets for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tGambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/betting-editorial-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">editorial standards<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>You know, if everyone did what they were supposed to do, we would be riding in the black. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, former two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/best-baseball-betting-sites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NL Cy Young Award<\/a> winner Jacob deGrom is supposed to outpitch Luis Castillo, and the Rangers are supposed to outscore the Mariners and win Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Not a very deGrom-like performance for Big Jake in his last start. <\/p>\n<p>He allowed five runs over 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings to the low-flying Halos. <\/p>\n<p>Before that, deGrom had given up just three runs in his previous 12 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s Castillo dominated the Athletics (one run over seven innings), but the Brewers blasted 10 hits and beat Luis in his previous outing. <\/p>\n<p>We will play $50 on deGrom and the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36719195\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Luis-Castillo.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Castillo pitching during July 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-36719195\"  \/>Luis Castillo pitching during July 2025. AP<\/p>\n<p>Not much interest in Mitchell Parker or Stitches at the trade deadline. <\/p>\n<p>Parker made general managers around the league look good after giving up eight runs over four futile frames. <\/p>\n<p>Learn all you need to know about MLB Betting<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers zapped the Nats 16-9. Oh, the humanity! Down -592 hindenburgs.<\/p>\n<p>Why Trust New York Post Betting<\/p>\n<p>The one and only Stitches has been handicapping baseball, daily, for the Post since 2019. Miraculously, he has finished in the black twice. But wait there\u2019s more. He showed his versatility by winning the Post\u2019s NFL Best Bet crown last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,684,620,4,722,619,65,3235,185,1272,723,724,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-220492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-betting","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-betting","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-mariners","15":"tag-seattlemariners","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-betting","18":"tag-sports-picks","19":"tag-stitches","20":"tag-texas-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114960032400513593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}