Prospectus Hit List for June 3
Hit List for June 1
Hit List for June 5
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 | 34 | 18 | 33.4 | 31.2 | 31.2 | .573 | .554 | 66.9% | 20.8% | 87.8% | 1.4% | 1.1% | |
I'm not sure why Busch Stadium even pays for air conditioning when they claim to have the best fa— well, you know. | |||||||||||||
2 | 31 | 21 | 32.3 | 35.1 | 34.2 | .616 | .596 | 80.3% | 13.4% | 93.7% | -0.7% | -0.2% | |
Joc Pederson is crushing it as a rookie, but nobody is talking about his brother Nerd Pederson winning another geography bee. | |||||||||||||
3 | 28 | 24 | 30.4 | 29.5 | 28.8 | .538 | .518 | 13.6% | 31.3% | 44.9% | 7.1% | 14.0% | |
Winning with the help of a fan interference call is always nice. That it was a Pirates fan with a Bonds jersey in San Francisco increased the irony. But the Pirates fan still couldn't throw out Sid Bream at home. | |||||||||||||
4 | 29 | 20 | 29.8 | 29.6 | 29.9 | .528 | .548 | 27.9% | 17.3% | 45.3% | -2.4% | -4.5% | |
Look, if we could have voted for Royals this much 300 years ago, there'd have been no need for a Bill of Rights. | |||||||||||||
5 | 24 | 30 | 29.7 | 27.2 | 26.6 | .499 | .519 | 8.8% | 5.9% | 14.7% | 0.1% | -3.0% | |
More like E.R.A. Dickey if you ask me, or rather if you ask everyone he faces. But you can't ask them because they're too busy scoring runs off him. | |||||||||||||
6 | 33 | 20 | 29.5 | 31.7 | 32.3 | .537 | .557 | 40.5% | 25.7% | 66.1% | 2.8% | 0.9% | |
Evan Gattis and Luis Valbuena went back to back, and we're not talking about a Charlie's Angels pose. (Unfortunately.) | |||||||||||||
7 | 28 | 25 | 28.3 | 29.0 | 29.5 | .521 | .541 | 36.9% | 12.1% | 49.1% | 3.7% | 7.6% | |
A league-fewest seven players in their 20s have batted for the Yankees—eight if you count Alex Rodriguez as a 21-year-old that began playing baseball since birth. | |||||||||||||
8 | 27 | 26 | 28.2 | 29.3 | 28.8 | .523 | .543 | 29.3% | 12.7% | 42.0% | 2.9% | 2.9% | |
In honor of the Stanley Cup finals, Tropicana Field should also run a carpet cleaner across the outfield between every inning. Time of game: 7 hours, 48 minutes. | |||||||||||||
9 | 30 | 24 | 27.9 | 29.3 | 29.1 | .535 | .515 | 15.0% | 38.5% | 53.5% | -3.7% | -7.2% | |
Tim Lincecum is on pace to throw a no-hitter against the Padres in September by throwing nothing but 11 mph fastballs. | |||||||||||||
10 | 29 | 23 | 27.5 | 28.0 | 26.7 | .550 | .530 | 68.0% | 12.2% | 80.2% | -0.3% | -7.7% | |
This year, Jordan Zimmermann has driven in Ryan Zimmerman once, but Ryan hasn't driven in Jordan yet. Life isn't fair. | |||||||||||||
11 | 29 | 24 | 27.5 | 26.1 | 25.3 | .511 | .491 | 28.2% | 18.4% | 46.6% | -3.2% | 4.1% | |
Here are the pitchers who have recorded at least three hits and three RBI in a season age 42 or order: Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux, Bartolo Colon. | |||||||||||||
12 | 21 | 33 | 27.3 | 29.6 | 30.4 | .505 | .525 | 1.5% | 3.2% | 4.6% | 0.7% | 1.1% | |
Ben Zobrist hit his sixth career grand slam, which ties him all time with Yuniesky Betancourt, which is all the more reason to hit another one today. | |||||||||||||
13 | 28 | 25 | 27.3 | 26.0 | 26.6 | .532 | .552 | 37.3% | 23.9% | 61.2% | -5.0% | 9.5% | |
Albert Pujols caught Jimmie Foxx in the home run standings, so we should now call him Albert Coyote. | |||||||||||||
14 | 27 | 25 | 27.2 | 25.5 | 26.0 | .499 | .519 | 10.6% | 16.7% | 27.4% | 4.0% | 5.1% | |
Imagine Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati pronouncing Chi Chi Gonzalez ad nauseum. | |||||||||||||
15 | 30 | 20 | 27.2 | 21.8 | 22.0 | .473 | .493 | 14.0% | 15.5% | 29.5% | -3.3% | 3.7% | |
If you expect this team to fall back down to earth, you can be dead sure they will land several feet in front of Torii Hunter. | |||||||||||||
16 | 24 | 27 | 26.2 | 25.8 | 25.5 | .484 | .465 | 1.0% | 5.0% | 6.0% | 2.1% | 2.1% | |
Paul Goldschmidt takes too many walks. If for each walk, he instead hit a three-run homer, he'd break a lot of records. | |||||||||||||
17 | 28 | 25 | 26.2 | 29.7 | 29.9 | .523 | .542 | 32.2% | 18.2% | 50.4% | -1.6% | -11.1% | |
Five years ago yesterday, Armando Galarraga didn't throw a perfect game. And every day since then, too. | |||||||||||||
18 | 25 | 26 | 26.0 | 28.5 | 28.4 | .521 | .541 | 21.8% | 15.8% | 37.6% | 4.9% | 15.3% | |
A big win for the team yesterday involved using three relievers in the eighth inning, presumably all at once. | |||||||||||||
19 | 26 | 28 | 25.9 | 22.2 | 23.2 | .487 | .467 | 3.4% | 15.3% | 18.7% | 2.9% | -2.6% | |
Yeah, someone with 15 home runs would be worth six wins at this point in the season. Enter James Shields, who has allowed a league-highest 15 home runs and is 6-0. | |||||||||||||
20 | 26 | 26 | 25.2 | 22.2 | 21.4 | .439 | .420 | 1.9% | 2.2% | 4.1% | -0.7% | 0.7% | |
Here's a fun party trick: show non-baseball fans current photos of Juan Uribe and Terry Pendleton and have them guess who's older. | |||||||||||||
21 | 27 | 23 | 24.9 | 27.4 | 27.4 | .536 | .516 | 18.9% | 36.5% | 55.5% | -4.8% | -5.2% | |
Joe Maddon, you've done it again! You found a way to get Edwin Jackson to pitch late innings! | |||||||||||||
22 | 23 | 28 | 24.8 | 23.7 | 24.0 | .470 | .490 | 4.4% | 2.8% | 7.2% | -2.2% | -6.8% | |
Adam Jones was a single, double, triple and home run shy of the cycle. He hit for the Segway! | |||||||||||||
23 | 21 | 32 | 24.0 | 25.5 | 25.3 | .473 | .453 | 1.8% | 1.9% | 3.8% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |
New Orleans is a fun place to visit, and the Marlins have a Triple-A team there, which is why they sent Steve Cishek to Double-A Jacksonville instead. | |||||||||||||
24 | 24 | 28 | 23.1 | 23.8 | 24.8 | .497 | .517 | 10.1% | 16.0% | 26.1% | -3.0% | -11.8% | |
I'm not saying the team's desperate to start scoring runs, but batting seventh for them last night was a fiberglass replica of Jay Buhner. (He went 0-for-2 with a walk.) | |||||||||||||
25 | 23 | 28 | 22.2 | 22.5 | 22.6 | .449 | .430 | 0.2% | 1.9% | 2.1% | -0.2% | 0.9% | |
Mariano Rivera got to wear #42 after the fact, and Rafael Betancourt should be grandfathered in against the pace of play rules, dang nabbit. | |||||||||||||
26 | 22 | 28 | 22.1 | 23.3 | 23.1 | .458 | .438 | 0.5% | 2.2% | 2.7% | -0.3% | 0.7% | |
Sorry, there's no Hit List formula adjustment to temporarily move down to 30th after a loss to the Phillies. Yet. | |||||||||||||
27 | 23 | 29 | 20.9 | 23.2 | 23.1 | .490 | .510 | 20.5% | 9.4% | 29.9% | 0.1% | -9.1% | |
Years from now, archaeologists will be baffled by Clay Buchholz's eight innings of shutout baseball last night. "We must have the year wrong," they'll mutter. | |||||||||||||
28 | 18 | 35 | 19.6 | 17.8 | 18.4 | .417 | .398 | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | -0.2% | -0.5% | |
Designating Elian Herrera for assignment to claim Hernan Perez off waivers is a move that sent shockwaves through the baseball community, all the way from Elian Herrera's family to Hernan Perez's family. | |||||||||||||
29 | 23 | 27 | 19.0 | 18.1 | 18.5 | .443 | .463 | 4.0% | 4.8% | 8.8% | -1.7% | 0.2% | |
Reliever Dan Jennings' ERA jumped up to 7.54. Exactly how many more teams will the Marlins meddle with? | |||||||||||||
30 | 20 | 33 | 18.1 | 19.0 | 18.6 | .386 | .368 | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | -0.3% | |
The 2015 Phillies are like the final season of Seinfeld. It's not funny, everyone's still here, and in the end everybody's locked up for at least one year. |
Hey Hit List, you're so fine. You're so fine you blow my mind. Hey Hit List.