Prospectus Hit List for April 17
Hit List for April 16
Hit List for April 18
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 |
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1 | 12 | 1 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 10.6 | .684 | .667 | 47.8% | 23.5% | 71.3% | 2.2% | 14.4% | |
Perhaps it's time for Turner Field to have a home run sculpture of Justin Upton that also hits a home run. | |||||||||||||
2 | 11 | 4 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 9.4 | .593 | .612 | 27.4% | 25.4% | 52.8% | 3.0% | 12.5% | |
Add Jed Lowrie to the burgeoning list of unlikely cleanup hitters. | |||||||||||||
3 | 10 | 4 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 8.2 | .542 | .522 | 3.9% | 6.8% | 10.7% | 3.5% | 4.2% | |
In hindsight, it was a wasted opportunity by Coors Field not to build snowmen into all the empty seats. | |||||||||||||
4 | 9 | 5 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.3 | .553 | .533 | 21.1% | 24.3% | 45.4% | -3.3% | 3.7% | |
Those nine runs allowed by Barry Zito brings his total number of runs allowed on the season to ... carry the one ... about nine. | |||||||||||||
5 | 9 | 4 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 8.4 | .605 | .624 | 29.0% | 28.6% | 57.6% | 2.6% | 7.2% | |
That was nice of Terry Francona to deliver them a gift basket of chicken and beer before the game. At least it looked like Terry Francona. | |||||||||||||
6 | 9 | 5 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 8.4 | .591 | .611 | 52.1% | 19.3% | 71.4% | 3.2% | 1.5% | |
Slowly but surely, the Rangers are ready to consider turning Michael Young's empty locker into a sewing room. | |||||||||||||
7 | 8 | 5 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.6 | .565 | .546 | 20.2% | 28.9% | 49.0% | -2.3% | 2.1% | |
Another loss in Yankee Stadium, but Byung-Hyun Kim was nowhere to be found. | |||||||||||||
8 | 8 | 5 | 8.9 | 9.6 | 10.0 | .636 | .654 | 79.2% | 7.8% | 87.0% | 1.5% | 8.3% | |
Assisted suicide remains illegal in the United States, which makes it even more puzzling pitchers choose to give Miguel Cabrera something to hit. | |||||||||||||
9 | 8 | 5 | 9.4 | 6.8 | 6.9 | .551 | .531 | 26.5% | 12.6% | 39.1% | 1.3% | 8.1% | |
They're hitting .395 with runners on base and .207 with the bases empty. That's no way to go through life. | |||||||||||||
10 | 8 | 6 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.7 | .495 | .475 | 31.6% | 24.8% | 56.4% | -1.7% | -6.8% | |
I know it's just one game, but how did Dan Haren allow seven runs to a team that hadn't even scored seven runs total in a three-game stretch since April 5-7? | |||||||||||||
11 | 7 | 5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.6 | .586 | .605 | 50.3% | 20.7% | 71.0% | 2.2% | 8.1% | |
Vernon Wells will start in left field for the American League in the All-Star game and there is nothing you can do about it, except perhaps e-stuff the ballot for someone less mind-blowing. | |||||||||||||
12 | 7 | 6 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.6 | .540 | .520 | 9.7% | 13.4% | 23.1% | -3.1% | -4.4% | |
All things considered, a snowy doubleheader in Denver with extra innings only ranks as a 7.4 on the Metropolitan Emotional Scar Scale. | |||||||||||||
13 | 7 | 7 | 5.8 | 9.2 | 8.9 | .565 | .545 | 53.6% | 21.3% | 74.9% | -2.2% | -2.6% | |
All those injury issues around the league and Carl Crawford is healthy as a mule, playing well too. Baseball. | |||||||||||||
14 | 7 | 6 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 6.6 | .502 | .522 | 6.0% | 10.4% | 16.4% | -1.6% | -1.4% | |
Chris Getz had the most plate apperances without a home run (925) in Royals history until yesterday. That honor now falls to Jason Kendall (490). | |||||||||||||
15 | 7 | 6 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 7.7 | .514 | .534 | 3.0% | 6.7% | 9.7% | 1.5% | 3.7% | |
Matt Wieters hit a home run then later bunted. If this sounds like a bathroom limerick, it's not, but here's a magic marker. | |||||||||||||
16 | 6 | 7 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.6 | .441 | .421 | 11.2% | 8.0% | 19.2% | 0.4% | 2.7% | |
Their promising 4-2 lead in the second inning was literally destroyed by a rainstorm. Okay, figuratively. No, literally! | |||||||||||||
17 | 6 | 8 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.6 | .468 | .448 | 10.8% | 14.3% | 25.1% | 4.2% | 2.9% | |
It's not often that a team accumulates two singles, strikes out 12 times and still gets a chance to win the game the next day. | |||||||||||||
18 | 6 | 8 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 5.7 | .450 | .470 | 4.2% | 9.0% | 13.3% | 2.1% | -4.2% | |
Adam Dunn currently has more strikeouts (17) than total bases (13), plus he's only walked twice. | |||||||||||||
19 | 6 | 8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.1 | .446 | .466 | 8.2% | 13.0% | 21.2% | -2.2% | 1.3% | |
They've had four consecutive one-run games, going 2-2 in them. It's exactly why they call Toronto "The Bell Curve City," possibly. | |||||||||||||
20 | 6 | 8 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.7 | .543 | .523 | 51.2% | 11.8% | 63.0% | -1.5% | -16.9% | |
Their game against the Phillies resumes in the bottom of the ninth. Zack Cozart gets all night to dream about how he'll bat against Phillippe Aumont, right after a dream about showing up to third grade math naked. | |||||||||||||
21 | 6 | 7 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.8 | .436 | .455 | 0.5% | 0.8% | 1.2% | 0.3% | -0.4% | |
Aaron Hicks may have only reached base six times in 51 plate apperances, but he's scored four times. You gotta admire that rate. | |||||||||||||
22 | 6 | 9 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.5 | .431 | .451 | 3.5% | 6.0% | 9.5% | -2.2% | -3.6% | |
Judging by his facial hair, Eric Wedge has gone full Deadliest Catch. | |||||||||||||
23 | 5 | 7 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.9 | .454 | .474 | 10.1% | 13.4% | 23.6% | -3.1% | -0.4% | |
If Ubaldo Jimenez has turned a corner, then he keeps turning corners around the factory where they make E.R.A. | |||||||||||||
24 | 4 | 9 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 | .417 | .437 | 9.4% | 15.6% | 25.0% | -2.2% | -9.5% | |
They've gone eight straight games without scoring five runs in a game — and they've only done it twice. | |||||||||||||
25 | 4 | 10 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 5.1 | .400 | .381 | 1.2% | 2.5% | 3.7% | 0.9% | -3.6% | |
If the Padres wanted to face Chris Capuano so badly instead of Zack Greinke, they could have at least asked the Dodgers nicely. | |||||||||||||
26 | 4 | 8 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 | .405 | .385 | 6.4% | 3.9% | 10.4% | 1.5% | 0.5% | |
Where were you when Yuniesky Betancourt crushed that grand slam, and why weren't you hugging your children? | |||||||||||||
27 | 4 | 10 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 5.4 | .365 | .383 | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | -0.1% | -0.1% | |
They've gone from plain bad to struggling, and that's absolutely in the right direction. | |||||||||||||
28 | 4 | 9 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.6 | .428 | .408 | 4.7% | 3.7% | 8.4% | 0.2% | -3.3% | |
Why don't they just make the entire plane out of Nate Schierholtz pinch hits? | |||||||||||||
29 | 4 | 10 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 5.8 | .453 | .473 | 17.0% | 23.2% | 40.2% | -5.2% | -22.9% | |
With the highest collective starter ERA (5.80), have they considered seeing if Jered Weaver can throw left-handed? | |||||||||||||
30 | 3 | 11 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | .325 | .307 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.4% | -0.3% | -0.9% | |
They did it! A home run at home, thanks to Adeiny Hechavarria! Now they can start the center field machine ... oh, the batteries died. |
Ice-cold Hit List action!