Prospectus Hit List for April 25
Hit List for April 23
Hit List for April 28
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 | 14 | 7 | 13.9 | 15.2 | 15.0 | .597 | .578 | 37.1% | 23.9% | 61.0% | 0.5% | 5.9% | |
Aaron Harang has an 0.85 ERA after striking out 11 and walking just WAKE UP AARON, YOU’RE LATE FOR SCHOOL | |||||||||||||
2 | 14 | 8 | 15.0 | 14.9 | 14.4 | .594 | .613 | 40.6% | 23.6% | 64.2% | 2.9% | 1.8% | |
Two seasons ago Scott Kazmir had a 5.34 ERA for the Sugar Land Skeeters. Now his 1.62 ERA is the 14th best ERA in the majors. The lesson? Sign Tracy McGrady immediately! | |||||||||||||
3 | 16 | 6 | 13.5 | 14.7 | 14.3 | .581 | .561 | 44.2% | 18.7% | 62.9% | 1.4% | 17.0% | |
The Brewers are 9-1 on the road, 7-1 in day games, and 10-0 when they play in front of a crowd of 30,000 or more. But, they’re just 3-3 when the game lasts less than 2:45! Achilles heel! Achilles heel! | |||||||||||||
4 | 12 | 11 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 13.5 | .528 | .508 | 4.0% | 13.3% | 17.3% | 0.2% | 3.7% | |
Charlie Blackmon’s OPS on the road is .746 which is pretty good considering traffic. | |||||||||||||
5 | 10 | 12 | 11.1 | 12.6 | 12.9 | .537 | .557 | 25.7% | 18.2% | 43.9% | -4.0% | -1.0% | |
Heath Bell’s night: hit-by-pitch, single, double, homer, who cares | |||||||||||||
6 | 11 | 11 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 12.7 | .535 | .515 | 16.4% | 14.9% | 31.3% | 3.4% | 7.4% | |
Of qualified players, the worst hitter in baseball is Reds shortstop Zack Cozart who is hitting .139/.162/.236. | |||||||||||||
7 | 10 | 12 | 12.1 | 11.9 | 12.4 | .481 | .461 | 1.7% | 2.5% | 4.2% | 0.3% | 2.4% | |
Adeiny Hechavarria has stolen one base and been thrown out stealing a league-leading three times. (They set off the giant smoking fish in left field for caught-stealings too.) | |||||||||||||
8 | 12 | 11 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 12.4 | .532 | .513 | 45.6% | 18.5% | 64.1% | -4.2% | -3.4% | |
The Nationals left 14 runners on base last night. Lucky tonight’s game is in Washington too. | |||||||||||||
9 | 12 | 11 | 12.5 | 12.0 | 11.9 | .531 | .512 | 34.1% | 18.2% | 52.3% | -4.4% | -14.7% | |
Kolten Wong is having a rough start to the season with just a .275 on-base percentage. On the plus side though, harder to get picked off if you’re not on base, right? | |||||||||||||
10 | 11 | 12 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 11.6 | .480 | .500 | 8.3% | 6.8% | 15.0% | -2.2% | -4.9% | |
Gordon Beckham returned to go 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, making it almost as if he never arrived. | |||||||||||||
11 | 10 | 11 | 12.4 | 12.0 | 11.5 | .541 | .561 | 25.8% | 26.4% | 52.2% | -3.7% | -0.3% | |
Who are these guys? What a bunch of no-names. I suppose it's like this with any team's accounting department staff email directory, but still. | |||||||||||||
12 | 14 | 8 | 10.9 | 11.8 | 11.5 | .525 | .545 | 27.3% | 21.9% | 49.2% | 2.0% | 17.3% | |
Hector Noesi has the worst ERA on the Rangers… and the Mariners. | |||||||||||||
13 | 9 | 14 | 10.9 | 10.3 | 11.2 | .474 | .454 | 4.5% | 6.2% | 10.7% | -2.1% | -8.3% | |
The Pirates… [must not make fun of Brandon Cumpton's name...] played a… [must not make fun of Brandon Cumpton's name...] baseball… game… IT’S TOO HARD | |||||||||||||
14 | 11 | 10 | 11.1 | 10.8 | 11.0 | .485 | .505 | 6.3% | 4.5% | 10.9% | 2.0% | 1.7% | |
Twins pitchers have 126 strikeouts combined. Give Jose Fernandez the same number of innings as the Twins and he’d have 282 strikeouts. | |||||||||||||
15 | 13 | 9 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 10.9 | .528 | .547 | 33.5% | 19.6% | 53.2% | 3.7% | 4.2% | |
Brett Gardner ended last night’s game with more runs scored than at-bats, and he had three at-bats. | |||||||||||||
16 | 13 | 10 | 12.2 | 12.0 | 10.9 | .560 | .540 | 70.7% | 18.5% | 89.2% | 0.2% | -1.6% | |
When Yasiel Puig eats a bite of soup, he flips his spoon. | |||||||||||||
17 | 11 | 12 | 10.2 | 9.9 | 10.6 | .470 | .450 | 3.4% | 10.2% | 13.6% | 0.7% | -4.5% | |
The Padres have been hit by one pitch this season. It was a big pitch. | |||||||||||||
18 | 11 | 11 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.5 | .482 | .502 | 12.8% | 9.4% | 22.2% | 1.3% | -0.8% | |
It’s shameful that just 10,440 came to Progressive Field to see Bruce Chen nope actually that’s about right, never mind. | |||||||||||||
19 | 11 | 8 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.2 | .543 | .562 | 62.0% | 9.2% | 71.2% | 4.4% | 6.9% | |
Danny went 1-for-3 which is one hit more than Stephen Drew got, notes Danny Worth’s mom. | |||||||||||||
20 | 11 | 11 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 10.1 | .496 | .516 | 11.1% | 12.2% | 23.3% | -3.1% | -1.0% | |
The Blue Jays bullpen is so bad it’s not even the best at being the worst. | |||||||||||||
21 | 11 | 11 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 10.0 | .466 | .446 | 9.8% | 10.4% | 20.2% | 4.0% | 6.3% | |
Prepare to understand the depths to which you do not understand baseball: Ryan Howard is hitting .250/.321/.542 against left-handers. | |||||||||||||
22 | 12 | 10 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 10.0 | .519 | .499 | 21.6% | 33.2% | 54.8% | -1.5% | -8.0% | |
The Giants OPS is 18th in baseball in games the Giants win, and 18th in baseball in games the Giants lost. Overall the Giants OPS is 17th in baseball. | |||||||||||||
23 | 10 | 13 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 9.9 | .487 | .507 | 21.2% | 18.9% | 40.1% | -3.0% | -10.7% | |
How bad are the Red Sox right now? Outfielder Mike Carp’s ERA is less than two runs higher than two of their most prominent relievers. | |||||||||||||
24 | 10 | 11 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 9.6 | .476 | .496 | 10.6% | 8.2% | 18.8% | -3.9% | -4.5% | |
The Royals have hit fewer homers than words in this sentence. | |||||||||||||
25 | 8 | 13 | 9.7 | 9.0 | 9.4 | .464 | .484 | 6.1% | 8.4% | 14.5% | 0.0% | -12.6% | |
Robinson Cano has a .687 OPS. Put a Mariner uniform on him and he turned into a $240 million Dustin Ackley. Maybe consider adding pinstripes? | |||||||||||||
26 | 7 | 14 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 9.2 | .435 | .415 | 0.9% | 1.4% | 2.3% | -0.6% | -0.7% | |
Last night the Cubs went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. On the season they have a .594 OPS in such situations, effectively making them, at the most important moments of the game, Zack Greinke. | |||||||||||||
27 | 11 | 10 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 8.9 | .479 | .499 | 8.4% | 12.2% | 20.7% | 3.6% | 4.0% | |
Chris Davis enjoyed beating the shift with two singles. Then he enjoyed the beat at The Shift with two singles. Life is good. | |||||||||||||
28 | 12 | 10 | 10.5 | 8.3 | 8.7 | .453 | .433 | 5.8% | 7.4% | 13.2% | 2.0% | -0.8% | |
“Daisuke Matsuzaka got the save so sure the Mets season is going great.” “Are you being sarcastic?” “I have no idea.” | |||||||||||||
29 | 7 | 18 | 7.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | .392 | .373 | 0.3% | 2.7% | 2.9% | 0.0% | -0.7% | |
Roger Kieschnick struck out three times, grounded weakly to the pitcher, and made an error allowing two runs to score. That’s a tough night. I’m just glad nobody writes about me when I do a bad Hit List. | |||||||||||||
30 | 7 | 16 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 7.5 | .362 | .381 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.5% | -0.0% | -0.1% | |
Let’s play Find The DH. Here’s the Astros lineup by batting average: .269, .222, .217, .171, .190, .149, .247, .167, .211. Now guess! Did you guess? It’s the lowest one! |
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