Prospectus Hit List for May 28
Hit List for May 23
Hit List for May 30
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 |  | 31 | 21 | 36.6 | 36.5 | 36.3 | .596 | .615 | 47.6% | 35.0% | 82.6% | -4.1% | -4.0% |
| The A’s beat up on Max Scherzer but couldn’t solve Al Alburquerque or Joba Chamberlain. Relief pitching, I don’t know… | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 29 | 22 | 30.2 | 33.0 | 32.4 | .577 | .597 | 45.4% | 37.1% | 82.4% | 2.4% | 5.4% |
| Which is stranger: that a team with Mike Trout and Albert Pujols used David Freese as its cleanup hitter, or that they pinch-hit for him in the ninth inning? | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 29 | 23 | 29.4 | 30.3 | 29.6 | .556 | .536 | 62.0% | 14.1% | 76.1% | 2.5% | 12.2% |
| Matt Carpenter has lost 130 points of slugging from last year. My mom always said to check where you were last. I wonder if he’s looked in Busch Stadium. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 28 | 24 | 30.2 | 30.7 | 29.1 | .523 | .503 | 4.4% | 23.7% | 28.1% | 0.0% | -9.4% |
| It’s almost June and Troy Tulowitzki (.373/.476/.711) is hitting like it’s April 6th. | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 33 | 19 | 31.4 | 28.9 | 29.0 | .556 | .536 | 47.7% | 38.7% | 86.4% | -0.8% | 9.5% |
| Pablo Sandoval has streaked so hard that he has probably been the worst hitter in baseball or the best hitter in baseball every day of this season. His OPS+ is 99. | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 27 | 25 | 28.2 | 28.2 | 28.3 | .477 | .457 | 6.4% | 4.3% | 10.6% | 0.1% | 3.2% |
| Giancarlo Stanton has 49 RBI, which contradicts the belief that you need opportunities to collect RBIs. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 28 | 23 | 26.7 | 28.0 | 28.1 | .524 | .504 | 45.4% | 13.3% | 58.7% | -5.3% | -2.2% |
| The Braves have now lost two in a row to a team that was on a 10-game losing streak. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 31 | 22 | 29.6 | 28.6 | 28.0 | .533 | .553 | 46.2% | 16.6% | 62.8% | 3.6% | 29.6% |
| “Hey, who is responsible for all these parrot droppings? What? Encarnacion homered again? Well can’t he run around the bases with a gerbil or something? This is disgusting!” | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 31 | 22 | 27.9 | 28.5 | 28.0 | .515 | .495 | 30.8% | 23.6% | 54.4% | 4.4% | 5.2% |
| Yovanni Gallardo doubled in the winning run after being inserted as a pinch-hitter in the 10th inning after Buck Showalter intentionally walked the winning run to first base is a sentence I just wrote and you just read. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 29 | 24 | 27.7 | 27.9 | 27.0 | .569 | .549 | 46.0% | 41.2% | 87.1% | -0.3% | 2.2% |
| Between Andre Either’s triple and homer, and Chone Figgins’s single and double, they combined to hit for a wait Chone Figgins hit a double? | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 25 | 26 | 26.0 | 25.9 | 26.1 | .524 | .504 | 39.9% | 11.7% | 51.5% | -0.8% | -11.8% |
| In case you were wondering, Tanner Roark’s name is pronounced ‘Tan-er’. | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 29 | 19 | 26.1 | 26.5 | 25.7 | .553 | .572 | 83.5% | 5.7% | 89.2% | 3.3% | -4.2% |
| M. Cabrera hit his eighth homer which ties him with M. Cabrera for the lead among M. Cabreras. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 23 | 30 | 23.7 | 25.3 | 25.6 | .502 | .522 | 8.9% | 10.5% | 19.3% | -1.7% | 0.5% |
| “Shift! Shift again! Shifting! Let’s shift!” – Joe Maddon driving to last night’s game | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 25 | 25 | 26.6 | 24.7 | 25.6 | .500 | .520 | 4.0% | 16.3% | 20.3% | 1.2% | -7.3% |
| Robinson Cano has twice as many homers as Ben Revere oh come on it’s true what? | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 19 | 31 | 24.3 | 25.7 | 25.5 | .464 | .444 | 0.5% | 1.2% | 1.7% | -0.2% | -0.4% |
| Jeff Samardzija got his first win in his 11th start on Monday ending the burgeoning sabermetric campaign to have the Cy Young awarded to a pitcher with no wins before it could fully burgeon. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 24 | 29 | 24.0 | 24.7 | 25.4 | .474 | .494 | 4.0% | 7.3% | 11.3% | -2.5% | -2.1% |
| Justin Masterson was pulled after three innings of a long rain delay to avoid injury, yet Cleveland was perfectly content to leave eight other players in the game not to mention 14,237 fans? We demand answers! | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 22 | 28 | 23.1 | 24.8 | 24.8 | .478 | .458 | 3.5% | 5.4% | 9.0% | -2.5% | -8.7% |
| Billy Hamilton leads baseball in ‘stealings, getting caught.’ | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 21 | 32 | 21.5 | 23.4 | 24.7 | .425 | .445 | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| George Springer has five homers in the last five games so I guess you could say Springer has sprung /ducks | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 27 | 27 | 25.9 | 25.1 | 24.5 | .467 | .487 | 4.8% | 7.2% | 12.0% | 1.9% | 2.0% |
| Adam Dunn played first base so Paul Konerko could make lots of outs. The plan worked perfectly. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 23 | 28 | 22.9 | 22.8 | 23.6 | .472 | .452 | 3.2% | 5.4% | 8.6% | -2.8% | 2.5% |
| The Pirates have been hit by more pitches than any other team, and Neil Walker is tied for the league lead with eight. Asked about his pre-game prep, Walker said, “I eat a sandwich and watch that clip from Happy Gilmore where he stands in the batting cages without a bat.” | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 25 | 26 | 23.9 | 22.6 | 23.5 | .475 | .495 | 3.1% | 9.9% | 13.0% | -4.3% | -1.7% |
| The Rangers have been thrown out a league-leading 22 times trying to steal. Eh, but don’t worry, stealing is easy. Tell ‘em, Wash. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 27 | 24 | 24.4 | 23.5 | 23.4 | .501 | .521 | 22.6% | 18.6% | 41.2% | -5.8% | -1.9% |
| The Yankees were shut out 6-0, the first time in Yankees history the Yankees have ever been shut out ever in Yankees history say their fans. | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 26 | 24 | 24.4 | 23.5 | 22.9 | .497 | .517 | 16.4% | 15.3% | 31.7% | 7.1% | 6.8% |
| “It was a horrible, horrible mistake to walk Reynolds with nobody on and a pitcher coming up and I’ve learned from my mistakes and I’ll never make that one again.” – Buck Showalter, presumably | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 24 | 25 | 21.9 | 22.7 | 22.6 | .460 | .480 | 3.9% | 6.2% | 10.1% | 1.1% | -2.7% |
| Look, Twins, we’re happy for you, we really are, it’s just that Eduardo Nunez doesn’t seem like a sustainable strategy. | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 24 | 29 | 23.7 | 21.8 | 22.4 | .484 | .464 | 1.8% | 11.0% | 12.8% | 7.8% | 5.1% |
| The Padres slugging percentage is still not worse than any other team’s on-base percentage goes a bad team slogan. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 22 | 29 | 23.1 | 22.4 | 22.4 | .487 | .507 | 5.9% | 8.4% | 14.3% | 0.4% | -14.7% |
| The Red Sox won their second game in a row after losing 10 straight. “The monkey is finally off our back,” said Jonny Gomes, which explains a lot. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 21 | 33 | 20.0 | 21.9 | 22.3 | .435 | .415 | 0.1% | 1.3% | 1.4% | -1.3% | -1.1% |
| Wade Miley had 11 strikeouts but ultimately failed in his attempt to strikeout to the score. | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 24 | 27 | 24.3 | 22.5 | 22.2 | .468 | .488 | 3.8% | 5.5% | 9.3% | -2.5% | -5.8% |
| Good news and bad news! The good news is, according to the Royals, Yordano Ventura isn’t hurt now. The bad news is Yordano Ventura can now get hurt later. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 23 | 28 | 24.0 | 22.2 | 22.2 | .455 | .435 | 3.4% | 2.2% | 5.7% | 0.8% | 0.1% |
| The Mets couldn’t have a bad pitching performance yesterday so I could compare them negatively to 50 Cent’s first pitch that was closer to a first throw over to first base? Nope. Thanks for nothing, Mets. | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 22 | 27 | 21.2 | 20.7 | 21.5 | .454 | .434 | 4.9% | 3.0% | 7.9% | -1.6% | -6.3% |
| If Ben Revere’s home run proves anything it proves that anything is possible once every 1,565 times. | |||||||||||||
We've got one last punnin' without Yu :(