Prospectus Hit List for July 20
Hit List for July 13
Hit List for July 22
Teams are ordered based on Adjusted Hit List Factor, a computer generated number, and the author isn't responsible for the order of the teams.
| Rk | Tm | W | L | W1 | W2 | W3 | HLF | AHLF | Win Div% | Win WC% | Playoff% | 1-Day | 7-Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 53 | 40 | 54.3 | 59.2 | 57.4 | .599 | .580 | 88.7% | 5.9% | 94.6% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Zack Greinke hasn’t given up a run in 301 dog innings. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 47 | 47 | 55.8 | 50.9 | 50.4 | .543 | .563 | 18.7% | 19.9% | 38.6% | 3.8% | 9.7% |
| By batting average, the two best hitters on the Blue Jays are Marco Estrada and Chris Colabello. This is why batting average is junk. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 58 | 34 | 58.3 | 52.8 | 53.1 | .577 | .557 | 84.0% | 15.2% | 99.2% | -0.4% | 0.6% |
| It’s tough to be upset about losing when you score one run in 18 innings, except the Cardinals also gave up one run in the first 17 innings and still LOST. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 50 | 40 | 49.2 | 47.7 | 48.1 | .535 | .555 | 56.1% | 20.3% | 76.5% | -2.4% | -0.1% |
| Next, the New Yorker will do a doomsday portrait of Mike Trout game-winning homers in the bottom of the ninth inning. Watch out, MLB, the damage will be epic! | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 51 | 43 | 53.7 | 55.1 | 55.2 | .533 | .553 | 38.9% | 28.3% | 67.2% | 4.9% | 2.0% |
| Dallas Keuchel struck out 13 bringing the total to 127 batters this season who can correctly pronounce his name. | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 50 | 41 | 48.3 | 50.6 | 50.3 | .530 | .550 | 60.3% | 15.4% | 75.7% | 3.9% | 4.4% |
| Mark Teixeira has 23 homers. So, another way of putting it is he’s huffed and puffed and blown 23 houses down. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 43 | 51 | 52.9 | 54.1 | 54.3 | .528 | .548 | 2.3% | 5.1% | 7.4% | 0.9% | 0.4% |
| Saturday the A’s beat the Twins 3-2 in 10 innings. Sunday they beat them 14-1. The A’s are trying to tell us something! Is Timmy trapped in the well?? What is it guys?? | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 55 | 35 | 52.5 | 50.6 | 50.6 | .516 | .536 | 82.2% | 11.3% | 93.5% | 3.1% | 5.1% |
| The Royals have the best record in the American League the year after they went to the World Series…!!Sdrawkcab gnihtyreve gniod er’yeht | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 45 | 46 | 43.4 | 45.6 | 46.3 | .510 | .530 | 6.0% | 19.1% | 25.1% | -6.0% | -0.3% |
| Maybe next season the Tigers should actively try to build a bad bullpen. Reverse psychology. Can’t be worse than the way they’ve been doing it. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 49 | 41 | 47.5 | 50.8 | 51.4 | .546 | .526 | 6.9% | 65.0% | 71.9% | 2.2% | 1.6% |
| It’s criminal the Cubs aren’t having a Back To The Future day where they all dress up like Marty McFly and Doc Brown to commemorate their winning the World Series this season. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 49 | 41 | 48.5 | 48.8 | 47.1 | .546 | .526 | 72.0% | 5.9% | 77.9% | -5.8% | -0.3% |
| Bryce Harper homered in consecutive games against Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke. Can you win the MVP in two games even though your team lost both? Harper is so good that you even believed that first sentence! | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 42 | 49 | 40.5 | 42.9 | 43.1 | .502 | .522 | 3.8% | 5.8% | 9.5% | -0.7% | -3.2% |
| Remember that apocryphal story of the guy who goes to a party and wakes up in a bucket of ice with no kidneys? That’s Mike Napoli. He still has his kidneys but his bat and glove are gone, and the bucket of ice is outside the locked gates of Fenway Park. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 44 | 47 | 43.6 | 49.1 | 50.0 | .501 | .521 | 3.5% | 12.8% | 16.3% | 1.7% | -2.8% |
| Two more hits and two more walks for Jason Kipnis who is still not the guy staring in Trainwreck. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 46 | 45 | 50.3 | 47.8 | 47.3 | .498 | .518 | 9.5% | 10.6% | 20.2% | 3.5% | 2.9% |
| Manny Machado has been more valuable by WARP than the next three best Orioles combined. | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 53 | 38 | 51.8 | 51.1 | 49.3 | .538 | .518 | 9.1% | 66.0% | 75.1% | -6.3% | -8.1% |
| The New York Times' latest “36 hours in…” travel piece recommends fun things to do in Pittsburgh but doesn’t mention the Pirates, proving the Wilpons' reach is farther than we ever imagined. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 49 | 43 | 49.6 | 50.0 | 48.9 | .532 | .512 | 10.4% | 27.5% | 38.0% | 3.3% | 10.9% |
| The Giants have got better production from third base than the Red Sox have. [insert snickering here] | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 47 | 47 | 45.1 | 45.5 | 46.3 | .491 | .511 | 7.8% | 13.2% | 21.0% | -3.8% | -10.1% |
| What does getting shut out by Marco Estrada say about your team? If you’re Tampa then nothing that hasn’t been said before. | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 50 | 42 | 47.5 | 41.5 | 41.4 | .480 | .500 | 8.0% | 29.9% | 37.8% | -6.1% | 3.0% |
| Joe Mauer will start a new website dedicated to telling the stories of bad baseball players. It will be called the Replacement Player’s Tribune. | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 43 | 48 | 41.8 | 40.3 | 41.3 | .474 | .494 | 1.7% | 3.9% | 5.5% | -1.6% | -2.6% |
| If the Hall of Fame has a sense of humor they won’t put a hat on Adrian Beltre’s bust. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 42 | 50 | 40.2 | 42.4 | 44.5 | .471 | .491 | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3.1% | -0.5% | -5.6% |
| Six Flags is developing a ride based on Fernando Rodney. A platform takes you 150 feet in the air. There they pretend to tie you to a rope system but you find out after they push you off that, oops, they didn’t. | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 48 | 44 | 44.6 | 45.6 | 45.0 | .502 | .482 | 27.1% | 10.0% | 37.1% | 7.2% | -5.1% |
| The Mets beat St. Louis in 18 innings Sunday, though that was shorter than the longest game in Mets history which was every game ever that Mets fans were reminded the Wilpons still own the team. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 42 | 48 | 36.0 | 35.8 | 37.1 | .453 | .473 | 0.4% | 2.3% | 2.7% | -0.8% | -2.6% |
| They gone. | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 42 | 48 | 44.4 | 44.3 | 44.2 | .482 | .462 | 0.5% | 1.6% | 2.1% | -0.8% | 0.6% |
| Did you know Oliver Perez is still in the league? He is! Guess which team he plays… oh rats, I gave it away. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 39 | 51 | 39.3 | 38.8 | 38.1 | .476 | .457 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| Nolan Arenado has a lower slugging percentage in games at Coors Field which begs the question, why do you have to beg to ask a question? | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 38 | 54 | 42.5 | 45.6 | 45.7 | .473 | .453 | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.7% | -0.1% | -0.4% |
| Hey! Know who has a good bullpen? The Marlins! Hey! Know who doesn’t care about that? Everyone! | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 41 | 52 | 42.4 | 40.5 | 40.8 | .465 | .446 | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| Putting Matt Garza on the trade block is a bit like your four-year-old trying to sell you their broken toys. ‘No, honey, I don’t need a Barbie without a head, but thanks.’ | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 43 | 49 | 41.1 | 38.1 | 39.2 | .455 | .436 | 0.3% | 1.3% | 1.6% | 0.2% | -0.4% |
| The Padres have won four straight but are still nine back of first place. Looks like another long summer of great beer, wonderful beaches, and perfect weather. Curses! | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 40 | 49 | 39.0 | 42.7 | 41.9 | .454 | .435 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | -0.2% | -0.3% |
| Question: If the Reds trade Aroldis Chapman, how long do you think it will take him to get to his new team? Answer: the same as anyone else who gets traded duh. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 43 | 49 | 41.2 | 39.1 | 38.4 | .422 | .403 | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.5% | -0.4% | -0.3% |
| Cameron Maybin has been the most valuable Brave so far this season. That is a completely crazy sentence on so many levels. | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 32 | 62 | 30.8 | 30.2 | 30.2 | .366 | .348 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Cole Hamels has given up 14 runs in 6.1 innings over the last two starts. In other news, he’s the lead actor of the new ABC sitcom “Screw’n With Ruben”. | |||||||||||||
After a week of no Hit List, just make sure to limber up beforehand. It's important!