Prospectus Hit List for June 14
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.
| Rk | Tm | W | L | W1 | W2 | W3 | HLF | AHLF | Win Div% | Win WC% | Playoff% | 1-Day | 7-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. | |||||||||||||
Featuring 29 comments this site can be proud of.