Prospectus Hit List for July 22
Hit List for July 20
Hit List for July 24
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 |  | 52 | 43 | 54.7 | 56.2 | 56.4 | .577 | .596 | 32.3% | 40.9% | 73.3% | 5.1% | 9.6% |
| If you're going to designate Joe Thatcher for assignment, you need to really make sure he was ever on your team in the first place, because that's an awkward conversation. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 56 | 36 | 53.4 | 51.4 | 51.3 | .576 | .596 | 84.8% | 8.3% | 93.1% | 2.5% | 4.4% |
| Yordano Ventura getting demoted to find more innings for Joe Blanton is a typical Royals move, and these aren't typical Royals, so we need to be told how to feel about this. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 59 | 34 | 59.1 | 53.6 | 53.7 | .606 | .587 | 87.0% | 12.4% | 99.4% | 0.3% | 1.3% |
| Stephen Piscotty may never replace Albert Pujols, unless all you care about is snickering at people's last names, in which case he'll fit in nicely. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 53 | 40 | 53.1 | 51.4 | 51.7 | .562 | .582 | 65.2% | 22.1% | 87.3% | 1.9% | 11.5% |
| Is Albert Pujols a first-ballot Hall of Famer? Well, five eligible players ahead of him on the homer list are still not in the Hall of Fame, so I guess not. | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 53 | 42 | 54.9 | 59.9 | 58.0 | .594 | .575 | 85.0% | 7.1% | 92.1% | -2.0% | -1.1% |
| I am assuming the Dodgers called up Chin-hui Tsao, who has been kicked out of Chinese baseball for match-fixing, to halt the Yasiel Puig haters in their tracks. (Or at least try to.) | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 51 | 41 | 49.0 | 51.5 | 51.2 | .551 | .571 | 65.6% | 14.6% | 80.3% | 3.4% | 6.4% |
| Brett Gardner got in trouble from wearing white cleats, but mostly from the guy that does the Yankees laundry. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 48 | 47 | 56.9 | 51.9 | 51.5 | .548 | .568 | 21.1% | 24.3% | 45.5% | 7.4% | 15.5% |
| Tragedy struck Northern Ontario as a doomsday cult was found dead after they all held their breath waiting for Chris Colabello to regress. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 43 | 52 | 52.8 | 54.0 | 54.4 | .537 | .557 | 1.2% | 4.5% | 5.7% | -2.8% | -1.5% |
| There are no current discussions involving Ben Zobrist at this very second, the moment you are reading this sentence, most likely. Check back in five minutes. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 54 | 39 | 52.9 | 52.3 | 50.7 | .564 | .544 | 8.1% | 68.7% | 76.8% | -4.4% | -10.8% |
| Jordy Mercer missing six weeks to injury is going to put a severe cramp in his quest to break the season record for Most Intentional Walks By A Jordy Mercer (12). | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 46 | 46 | 50.7 | 47.9 | 47.4 | .522 | .542 | 6.4% | 9.1% | 15.5% | -3.7% | -2.5% |
| Should Jonathan Schoop do a commercial for Listerine? Or should I direct this particular request to the good folks at Listerine? | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 50 | 42 | 48.5 | 51.9 | 52.5 | .552 | .532 | 4.9% | 66.2% | 71.1% | 1.4% | 2.3% |
| The Edwin Jackson era in Chicago may be best remembered for when a couple of fans, years from now, say "oh yeah I remember him. Tall guy, kinda quiet, always drank milk," having no actual clue who Edwin Jackson was. | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 44 | 48 | 43.3 | 49.2 | 50.1 | .507 | .527 | 2.7% | 10.5% | 13.2% | -4.5% | -3.4% |
| It's so hard to tell when a team has Anthony Swarzak or Jeff Manship when both have the same venerable nickname, Ol' You Know That Guy I'm Talkin' About. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 50 | 44 | 51.0 | 51.0 | 49.8 | .537 | .517 | 14.3% | 24.3% | 38.5% | 4.5% | 11.7% |
| "Degenerative hip" or "less hip," what this means for Tim Lincecum is that he's getting older and losing touch with the younger generation. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 50 | 42 | 49.5 | 49.6 | 48.0 | .536 | .516 | 69.8% | 7.3% | 77.1% | -5.1% | -2.2% |
| Did the Home Run Derby ruin Bryce Harper's swing? He wasn't in the Derby, but it's a valid question. | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 46 | 47 | 44.4 | 46.4 | 47.1 | .494 | .514 | 6.1% | 19.5% | 25.6% | -2.9% | -2.7% |
| I swear, honey, that story about Shane Greene's ERA gets larger every time you tell it. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 48 | 48 | 45.9 | 46.5 | 47.0 | .488 | .508 | 5.5% | 12.6% | 18.1% | 2.3% | -10.3% |
| Nate Karns and Esteban Yan: the list of two Rays pitchers that have hit home runs. Nate Karns and Esteban Yan: two pitchers you didn't know pitched (or pitches) for the Rays until this sentence. | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 50 | 43 | 47.3 | 41.0 | 40.8 | .481 | .501 | 6.1% | 23.1% | 29.3% | -7.6% | -6.1% |
| Eduardo Escobar and Eduardo Perez are both Twins. Well, you know what I mean. | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 44 | 49 | 43.6 | 42.2 | 42.9 | .464 | .484 | 0.9% | 3.9% | 4.8% | 0.7% | -3.2% |
| Adrian Beltre has been playing with a thumb injury, so you CERTAINLY don't want to touch his head with his thumb. | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 43 | 51 | 41.4 | 43.5 | 45.9 | .462 | .482 | 0.4% | 2.5% | 2.9% | 0.8% | -4.8% |
| There's nothing more I hate than big liars, and someone named Taijuan Walker has walked one batter in his last seven starts. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 49 | 45 | 45.6 | 46.8 | 46.5 | .500 | .480 | 29.0% | 10.0% | 38.9% | 6.6% | 0.3% |
| Stand-up comedy tip: punch up the hilarity of any, ANY joke with "so the Mets are in the news again," even if it's joke about Viagra. | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 42 | 52 | 40.1 | 42.8 | 43.1 | .447 | .466 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 4.0% | -1.8% | -9.6% |
| What if the Red Sox called up Quintin Berry just to run out David Ortiz home runs? Might save some time and make some kids happy. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 43 | 49 | 45.3 | 44.9 | 44.8 | .484 | .464 | 0.3% | 1.5% | 1.8% | -0.5% | -1.6% |
| David Peralta has 16 career triples and 10 career stolen bases, because, well, you're already at third, too risky to steal any more bases. | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 39 | 55 | 43.6 | 47.1 | 47.0 | .470 | .450 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.4% | -0.0% | -0.8% |
| 41-year-old Ichiro is tied for second in team steals with eight, and when he started playing professional baseball, stealing a base was punishable by a fortnight in the pillory. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 41 | 50 | 40.0 | 43.6 | 42.8 | .460 | .440 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | -0.1% | -0.1% |
| Maybe just mail other teams threatening letters enclosed with Johnny Cueto's hair with the message "step up your trade proposal"? | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 42 | 49 | 36.2 | 36.1 | 37.4 | .417 | .436 | 0.3% | 1.3% | 1.6% | -0.7% | -3.3% |
| To call their offense "punchless" lately is really overlooking the fact that there is plenty of punch, only it's spiked with NyQuil. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 42 | 52 | 43.6 | 41.3 | 41.7 | .448 | .429 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| Gerardo Parra became the first Brewer to hit two triples in the same game since ... huh, seems nobody in Milwaukee has been keeping stats on the local baseball team since 1985. You learn something new every day. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 45 | 49 | 42.5 | 40.4 | 39.9 | .446 | .427 | 1.0% | 0.5% | 1.4% | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| Nick Markakis hit his first homer of the year Monday night, then a triple last night. What's next? A double? A single? | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 44 | 50 | 41.6 | 39.1 | 40.2 | .439 | .419 | 0.3% | 1.0% | 1.3% | -1.0% | -0.0% |
| There are no official rules stopping AJ Preller from trading everybody away at the deadline and replacing them with baseball players he buys on Amazon Prime. Guaranteed two-day free shipping! | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 40 | 52 | 39.5 | 39.0 | 38.3 | .426 | .407 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | -0.4% | 0.0% |
| You can just shut down all those trade rumors about Troy Tulowitzki. He doesn't want to be traded. He prefers the term "bartered for a sum." | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 33 | 63 | 31.8 | 31.0 | 31.0 | .330 | .313 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Other than allowing a home run to the pitcher, that went well for Aaron Nola. But it was against the Rays, and odds are the Phillies won't see them in the playoffs this year. | |||||||||||||
The Hit List sleeps alone tonight (after the Schwarbs turns off their lights).