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Prospectus Hit List for June 14



by Matt Sussman

Hit List for June 13 Hit List for June 17
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.

Featuring 29 comments this site can be proud of.

RkTmWLW1W2W3HLF AHLFWin Div%Win WC%Playoff%1-Day7-Day
1

36

28

40.4

45.2

44.4

.608

.627

90.2%

3.2%

93.4%

-0.6%

2.6%

Jose Valverde couldn't be less popular in the city of Detroit if he was spotted driving a foreign car.
2

41

27

41.7

40.8

39.9

.567

.586

47.4%

33.1%

80.5%

-1.9%

1.8%

Of their last 19 plate appearances (starting in the eighth inning), the only batter who reached base was on catcher's interference.
3

38

28

37.0

37.6

37.5

.559

.579

48.7%

27.0%

75.8%

-1.7%

-9.3%

In Yu Darvish's last four starts, he's gone seven-plus innings but took no decisions. Wins? Yu Dar-wish!
4

43

23

43.9

42.2

41.4

.593

.573

64.9%

31.1%

96.0%

0.4%

3.2%

Adam Wainwright beat everyone to 10 wins, which explains why your wagon has not yet been repaired.
5

41

27

39.0

39.4

38.1

.551

.571

49.3%

29.2%

78.5%

3.9%

10.1%

They're 6-2 in extra inning games and 2-0 in games that last at least 18 innings. So they're entirely beatable in the first 17 innings, as we all suspected.
6

37

29

34.2

32.4

32.8

.545

.565

32.3%

35.1%

67.4%

-2.4%

-4.7%

Derek Jeter has been cleared for baseball activities, so he made a poster of his favorite baseball player using magic markers and elbow macaroni.
7

35

31

35.0

36.8

38.0

.539

.558

12.2%

25.5%

37.6%

-6.8%

-2.2%

Jeremy Hellickson has given up eight runs in two different starts this year, and is 1-1 in such games.
8

40

27

40.4

40.4

39.7

.577

.557

27.5%

59.7%

87.2%

-2.6%

0.1%

Against his first major league batter, Curtis Partch allowed a grand slam. Two appearances later he allowed two baserunners in four innings. He improved.
9

39

27

40.1

41.0

39.3

.559

.539

83.1%

7.0%

90.1%

-0.3%

-0.6%

Dan Uggla is turning into a poor man's Adam Dunn. Wait ... [checks contract] ... Dan Uggla is now Adam Dunn.
10

28

38

30.9

32.4

31.5

.514

.534

1.7%

5.6%

7.4%

0.6%

-3.0%

Chris Iannetta has 32 hits and 37 walks. Bats: what are they good for?
11

38

29

34.7

35.2

35.2

.501

.521

7.8%

22.8%

30.6%

6.1%

6.5%

You know, I wonder if Chris Davis' walk-off soft single to left field is going to be on his BLOOPER REEL.
12

32

33

33.3

32.2

33.5

.498

.518

7.7%

11.0%

18.6%

0.8%

-5.5%

In their last 19 games they've scored more than five runs once — and that game featured a 7-run inning.
13

37

29

35.3

33.9

34.5

.525

.505

46.8%

11.8%

58.7%

-0.9%

-5.6%

Their coaching staff has a combined 216.2 WARP. Without looking it up, this has to be a record, at least until someone hires Barry Bonds to be an assistant intentional walks quality control coordinator.
14

39

27

34.7

32.6

33.6

.518

.498

7.5%

49.8%

57.3%

-7.1%

9.9%

Zero runs in a game is bad, but 20 in a three-game series is pretty nifty.
15

34

31

31.5

34.0

35.4

.516

.496

26.5%

9.1%

35.6%

5.6%

7.2%

Matt Cain's career ERA on June 13 is 0.40. June 13 is also National Juggling Day, and juggling is easy with just one baseball. So that explains it.
16

29

36

29.2

28.0

29.6

.472

.492

0.4%

1.8%

2.1%

1.1%

0.9%

Esmil Rogers has won two games this year; both on the road, and none in the Rogers Centre.
17

35

32

37.2

39.0

38.1

.510

.490

14.9%

6.5%

21.5%

-0.4%

-0.7%

Other than losing Tulowitzki, CarGo and Dexter Fowler to injury, what's important is that you have your health and may need to play center field for a couple games.
18

31

33

33.6

27.5

28.1

.470

.490

1.3%

3.5%

4.8%

1.5%

3.1%

Their collective ERA this month is 1.49. They can't even buy a bottle of water with that in some gas stations.
19

28

37

27.3

29.2

29.5

.506

.486

8.1%

3.6%

11.7%

-0.7%

-7.9%

Yasiel Puig and Brandon League have been mentioned in the same breath, according to several prominent rhyming dictionaries.
20

29

38

28.1

31.9

32.0

.466

.486

0.2%

0.8%

1.0%

-0.0%

0.0%

For what it's worth, they're the first team to employ five different players at catcher. And here's what it's worth: a collective .204/.275/.323.
21

33

32

29.3

28.8

29.0

.492

.472

13.8%

15.1%

28.8%

5.1%

2.2%

They're back over .500 for the first time in 10 games, so everything is fixed! [everyone in Congress gets re-elected]
22

28

35

27.7

27.5

26.1

.448

.467

0.5%

0.7%

1.2%

-0.5%

-0.1%

When Alex Rios has your team's highest on-base percentage, it's time to petition baseball to move the bases closer.
23

29

34

28.8

28.2

29.2

.433

.453

0.4%

0.6%

0.9%

-0.1%

-0.2%

How much overhead could the team save if they just charge Minnesotans 10 bucks a day to watch Joe Mauer take batting practice?
24

26

38

30.1

31.8

32.1

.472

.452

0.0%

0.4%

0.4%

-0.3%

-2.2%

Nate Schierholtz had two triples and two walks. Starlin Castro had two stolen bases and two errors. And it's wasn't even Two For Tuesday.
25

32

34

30.7

30.2

30.3

.469

.449

3.6%

1.8%

5.4%

-0.1%

1.7%

Everth, Yonder, Gyorko, Yasmani, and now someone named Jaff. This baseball team is clearly a front for a World of Warcraft guild.
26

27

38

28.4

29.6

30.5

.463

.443

0.0%

0.6%

0.6%

0.1%

0.4%

Daily reminder that the Brewers are platooning two people at first base (Yuniesky Betancourt and Juan Francisco) who never played first base in the majors until this year.
27

32

35

28.7

29.6

28.6

.460

.440

2.8%

3.1%

5.9%

1.7%

-6.6%

Another successful interleague series with Delmon Young at DH. (Successful meaning everybody had fun and nobody got suspended.)
28

24

37

25.2

24.5

23.9

.445

.426

0.3%

0.3%

0.7%

-0.4%

-1.1%

Where would this team be without Marlon Byrd? Probably still in Queens.
29

23

44

23.5

20.8

22.8

.361

.379

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Their longest winning streak is a single six-game stretch. Their longest losing streak is six; they've had four of those.
30

19

46

21.3

18.3

17.8

.347

.329

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Idea: a reboot of "Big" where everything is exactly the same except for Zoltar is the home run sculpture.