Prospectus Hit List for June 23
Hit List for June 20
Hit List for June 25
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 |  | 41 | 33 | 41.4 | 45.8 | 45.8 | .588 | .607 | 24.1% | 62.0% | 86.1% | 2.4% | 4.4% |
| Perhaps the best thing about Mike Trout is how good he is. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 32 | 47 | 32.6 | 33.9 | 34.1 | .420 | .400 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | -0.3% | -1.1% |
| The Diamondbacks' grand experiment, trying to win with bad pitching and bad hitting, is inching toward a conclusion. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 38 | 37 | 35.8 | 36.2 | 37.5 | .492 | .472 | 23.6% | 12.3% | 36.0% | -4.4% | -19.3% |
| When a pitcher who strikes out nine and walks one in six innings loses to a pitcher who struck out three and walked three in 5.1 innings, that’s called baseball. Or Braves baseball if you’re from the Atlanta area. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 39 | 35 | 38.0 | 37.3 | 37.0 | .511 | .531 | 16.7% | 12.0% | 28.7% | 4.0% | 5.5% |
| J.J. Hardy hit his first homer of the season yesterday putting him just 17 behind Troy Tulowitzki for the most by a shortstop. Watch your rear view, Tulo, J.J.’s a-comin! | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 35 | 41 | 36.1 | 36.7 | 36.9 | .476 | .496 | 7.7% | 7.1% | 14.8% | 2.9% | 2.1% |
| Koji Uehara has given up five runs this season and all of them have come on solo homers. (This has been an Official Effectively Wild Fun Fact™.) | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 35 | 41 | 35.0 | 34.7 | 34.4 | .457 | .477 | 1.6% | 1.4% | 3.1% | -1.5% | -1.9% |
| The White Sox aren’t very interesting on nights Jose Abreu doesn’t homer, giving the White Sox a league-low 24 percent Interesting Percentage. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 31 | 42 | 35.5 | 36.8 | 36.5 | .479 | .459 | 0.2% | 0.8% | 0.9% | -0.3% | -0.2% |
| At this point batting order for the Cubs should be a performance art project. Like, today we’ll try to spell a naughty word with the first letter of the player’s last names. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 37 | 37 | 37.5 | 36.4 | 36.9 | .499 | .479 | 5.3% | 15.8% | 21.1% | 1.1% | 4.5% |
| The Reds are 8-7 in Johnny Cueto’s starts because, despite his baseball-leading 1.86 ERA, Cueto does a lousy job of scoring runs for himself. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 37 | 39 | 35.3 | 35.3 | 35.7 | .472 | .492 | 7.9% | 8.0% | 15.9% | -3.5% | -8.2% |
| Nick Swisher’s OPS by month (.615, .646, .432) very disappointingly doesn’t make the phone number 1-800-Dude-Bro. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 34 | 41 | 37.3 | 38.5 | 36.1 | .481 | .462 | 0.2% | 1.8% | 2.0% | -1.5% | -9.2% |
| The epitaph for the 2014 Rockies probably won’t be a GIF of Corey Dickerson falling down and getting tagged out trying to turn a triple into a little league home run. But it should be. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 40 | 32 | 36.7 | 38.4 | 37.4 | .530 | .549 | 72.7% | 8.1% | 80.8% | 5.6% | 3.3% |
| It's not Matt Sussman's day for the Hit List, so we'll just raid his Twitter feed: "TWO WEEKS AGO: Oh crap the Tigers lead is down to 2.5 games TODAY: Oh sweet, the Tigers lead is up to 2.5 games." | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 33 | 44 | 32.5 | 34.3 | 36.0 | .441 | .461 | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | -0.3% | -0.8% |
| Prospect Carlos Correa suffered a serious ankle injury which is even worse for the Astros than winning 20 games in a row. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 39 | 36 | 39.1 | 35.3 | 35.7 | .497 | .517 | 13.3% | 11.2% | 24.5% | -4.4% | -2.1% |
| Sal Perez has grounded into 13 double plays this season, or one per every 17.9 plate appearances. That might not be the worst ratio in baseball, but it’s close enough my stomach can’t take any more research. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 42 | 35 | 43.0 | 42.7 | 41.2 | .548 | .528 | 38.3% | 48.9% | 87.2% | 0.9% | 9.3% |
| Complaining about Dee Gordon batting leadoff despite his lousy on-base percentage when he’s on a team with Clayton Kershaw seems like complaining about the Sistine Chapel because the rest room isn’t clean. | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 37 | 38 | 37.6 | 34.8 | 34.2 | .479 | .459 | 2.1% | 1.7% | 3.8% | -1.4% | -5.2% |
| Rumor says the Marlins plan to bolster their roster at the trade deadline so, Marlins fans, when players take the field with stakes tied to their arms and legs on August 1, try not to look disappointed. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 47 | 30 | 42.5 | 41.2 | 40.4 | .555 | .535 | 53.2% | 30.0% | 83.2% | 0.0% | 18.8% |
| More surprising: 1) Lyle Overbay hitting a pinch-hit homer in Colorado, or 2) that all three of his homers haven’t come in Colorado, or 3) that Lyle Overbay is on the roster of a first place team? | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 36 | 38 | 35.3 | 35.3 | 35.2 | .479 | .499 | 4.4% | 5.7% | 10.1% | 0.9% | -0.7% |
| The Twins finished off Chicago for their first ever four-game sweep at Target Field, a fact that is equal parts happy and very, very sad. | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 39 | 35 | 33.7 | 33.8 | 35.1 | .478 | .498 | 31.1% | 12.1% | 43.2% | -7.3% | 5.8% |
| Masahiro Tanaka finally had a clunker: seven innings, six hits, three runs, one walk, and six strikeouts. Hold this comment up to your ear and you can hear catcalls. | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 35 | 41 | 37.8 | 35.7 | 35.5 | .474 | .454 | 2.6% | 1.7% | 4.3% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| The Mets got 17 hits in their 11-5 win, improving their record to 1-1 in games in which they got 17 hits this season. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 47 | 29 | 52.2 | 50.9 | 50.7 | .661 | .678 | 72.4% | 24.9% | 97.3% | -0.8% | 1.7% |
| Down by one with two outs in the 10th inning the A’s sent reliever Sean Doolittle to bat. ‘Hitters pitching? Screw that,’ says Billy Beane. | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 34 | 40 | 34.1 | 33.4 | 33.9 | .458 | .438 | 3.6% | 2.2% | 5.8% | -2.3% | 3.5% |
| When Ryan Howard plays and doesn't strike out the Phillies are 8-7. The All-Star break is coming up. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 37 | 38 | 35.5 | 38.2 | 39.2 | .500 | .480 | 3.7% | 13.3% | 17.0% | 1.4% | -1.7% |
| Hold on because the Pirates lead baseball in holds and I’m not talking about cup holders! | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 32 | 44 | 29.9 | 27.5 | 27.4 | .384 | .366 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | -0.1% | -0.3% |
| Padres Fire Byrnes. Get it? | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 40 | 36 | 42.4 | 40.4 | 40.0 | .535 | .555 | 3.3% | 31.1% | 34.4% | 4.5% | 12.0% |
| In two of their three games against Kansas City, the Mariners used a clean-up hitter with a .522 OPS, and in the third they batted him fifth. They won all three of course. #LoMoPower | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 45 | 30 | 43.6 | 44.0 | 43.5 | .581 | .562 | 61.5% | 31.7% | 93.2% | 1.4% | -1.3% |
| The Giants went 17-12 in Spring Training so we probably should’ve seen this coming. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 41 | 35 | 41.1 | 43.9 | 43.9 | .559 | .539 | 37.5% | 32.5% | 70.1% | 1.9% | -4.8% |
| The Cardinals have the second fewest wild pitches this season because Yadier Molina is slipping. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 31 | 46 | 34.0 | 38.8 | 38.7 | .463 | .483 | 1.2% | 1.1% | 2.3% | 0.7% | 0.2% |
| The last five Rays in yesterday’s lineup are hitting .190, .245, .208, .208, .148 so you shouldn’t be surprised the five runs Tampa scored yesterday were scored by other people. | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 35 | 40 | 32.6 | 30.1 | 31.3 | .430 | .450 | 0.2% | 3.0% | 3.1% | -0.4% | -3.7% |
| Whether or not Adrian Beltre makes the Hall of Fame there needs to be a bust of him in the main gallery with a mechanical hand that smacks you when you rub his head. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 42 | 35 | 41.1 | 39.6 | 39.6 | .527 | .547 | 43.2% | 12.0% | 55.3% | -2.7% | -17.5% |
| Losing Brett Lawrie to a broken finger was tough but the Blue Jays showed their camaraderie by all getting “<.300 OBP” tattoos. | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 39 | 35 | 41.7 | 41.3 | 41.2 | .551 | .532 | 68.0% | 6.7% | 74.7% | 3.0% | 6.1% |
| Putting Ryan Zimmerman in left field was supposed to work great because he wouldn't be expected to throw much, but he heard ‘hit.’ | |||||||||||||
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