{"id":355930,"date":"2025-07-05T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=355930"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:59:16","slug":"angels-vs-blue-jays-picks-july-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/angels-vs-blue-jays-picks-july-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels vs. Blue Jays prop picks July 5: Target Max Scherzer, Addison Barger for Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays look for their seventh straight win when they play the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Toronto is atop the AL East thanks to an offensive hot streak that shouldn&#8217;t be cooling off today. The Angels send Jack Kochanowicz (5.44 ERA) to the mound to try and handle the Jays&#8217; sizzling bats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Angels vs. Blue Jays picks for July 5, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/addison_barger\/batting-stats\">Addison Barger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/max_scherzer\/pitching-stats\">Max Scherzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Angels vs. Blue Jays picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Bet: Barger over 0.5 RBI (+114)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things are working in Bargers&#8217; favour for this wager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He&#8217;s currently on a tear, batting .289 with a .614 SLG since May 28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>During that time, he had nine home runs and 22 RBI. That pace would equal 47 HR and 115 RBI over 162 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On Saturday, he&#8217;ll face Kochanowicz, whose xERA (4.98) and xBA (.277) rank in the 15th percentile or lower. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The righty also gives up a ton of power. His average exit velocity of 91.4 mph ranks in the fifth percentile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barger also has the luxury of hitting cleanup in MLB&#8217;s hottest offence. No team has more runs than the Jays over the last 10 games (65).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> The 25-year-old will have a platoon advantage on Saturday. Barger has an .879 OPS against RHP and a .622 OPS against LHP. He hit all 11 of his home runs off righties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/baseball\/mlb?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_mlb\">Full MLB betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\">MLB injury report<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\">MLB stats &amp; standings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick pick<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scherzer over 15.5 outs (+120):<\/strong> This is a great spot for Scherzer to have his first lengthy start of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since returning to Toronto&#8217;s rotation, the 40-year-old has pitched 5.0 innings in back-to-back starts. But those were against the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Guardians \u2014 two offences far better than L.A.&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the Angels own one of the worst offences in baseball. They have the fourth-lowest batting average (.228) in the majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They strike out a ton (9.80 times per game) and take walks at the fourth-lowest rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Los Angeles&#8217; hitters have an ugly head-to-head history with Scherzer. As a team, the lineup has a .206 average against the veteran righty with a 42.4% K rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they have just two walks in 99 plate appearances. Everything suggests that &#8220;Mad Max&#8221; will have a dominant outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blue Jays picks made at 9:57 a.m. ET on 07\/05\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays look for their seventh straight win when they play the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday. The pregame narrative: Toronto is atop the AL East thanks to an offensive hot streak that shouldn&#8217;t be cooling off today. The Angels send Jack Kochanowicz (5.44 ERA) to the mound to try and handle the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":355947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-355930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mlb-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blue Jays picks vs. Angels: July 5 MLB betting | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Angels vs. Blue Jays picks for July 5, 2025. 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