Prospectus Hit List for September 20
Hit List for September 19
Hit List for September 23
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 | 89 | 64 | 94.0 | 101.1 | 100.1 | .628 | .646 | 99.9% | 0.1% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |
Prince Fielder had one RBI, two runs scored, three hits, four at-bats, five total bases, and, presumably, six of someone else's nachos during the game. | |||||||||||||
2 | 93 | 61 | 95.3 | 95.4 | 94.4 | .614 | .633 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Things as likely as John Lackey pitching the Red Sox into the playoffs: Crystal Pepsi II!, anything involving Steve Guttenberg, curried beef blowpops (“These really do blow!”) and you getting to this part of the comment. | |||||||||||||
3 | 90 | 63 | 88.0 | 87.9 | 85.8 | .575 | .594 | 99.7% | 0.3% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |
Coco Crisp is having the best season ever for a center fielder with a terrible arm and an OPS in the mid-7s. And for that he should be saluted. | |||||||||||||
4 | 83 | 69 | 79.8 | 88.4 | 88.9 | .559 | .579 | 0.0% | 70.0% | 70.0% | -8.7% | 3.3% | |
A stupid argument for leaving the starter in no matter what: The Rays are 6-2 when their starter throws a complete game and less than that when he doesn’t. | |||||||||||||
5 | 90 | 62 | 91.1 | 89.9 | 86.4 | .588 | .568 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
When told about the Dodgers playoff-clinching celebration in Arizona, the Braves clutched their pearls and well-I-never’d off to the parlor room to recuperate. | |||||||||||||
6 | 83 | 69 | 84.0 | 83.3 | 83.1 | .548 | .568 | 0.3% | 66.8% | 67.1% | 9.8% | -18.9% | |
Yu Darvish decided to challenge the Rangers. "If I pitch badly," he thought, "they'll feel guilty and they'll have to score some runs!" Tune in tomorrow for a very special episode to see if it worked and to learn some life lessons you'll immediately forget. | |||||||||||||
7 | 87 | 66 | 89.4 | 89.9 | 89.9 | .582 | .562 | 16.7% | 82.4% | 99.1% | -0.2% | 1.1% | |
Joey Votto's 10 year, $225 million contract starts next season so you can probably take a year off from sending him a gift come holiday time. | |||||||||||||
8 | 89 | 64 | 93.8 | 86.5 | 86.4 | .581 | .561 | 64.9% | 35.1% | 100.0% | -0.0% | 0.0% | |
The starter didn’t get out of the fourth and the game went 15 innings so they had to use 10 pitchers! Stupid Rockies! | |||||||||||||
9 | 83 | 70 | 82.0 | 79.8 | 80.4 | .531 | .551 | 0.1% | 48.9% | 49.0% | 6.6% | 26.5% | |
“Oh, come on, please?” “No.” “With sugar on it?” Well…” “Look, it’s the eleventh inning and here’s sugar, now please, let us score.” “Weeeell, okay.” “YAY!” | |||||||||||||
10 | 81 | 71 | 80.9 | 78.0 | 79.1 | .525 | .545 | 0.0% | 9.0% | 9.0% | -4.8% | 5.2% | |
Adam Jones' homer was it for the O's offense. There's an argument that it went so far it should've counted twice, but Baltimore lost by 3-1 so | |||||||||||||
11 | 88 | 65 | 83.1 | 88.0 | 85.8 | .564 | .544 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
What's next, Dodgers? Jaywalking? Creating a public nuisance? LOITERING? | |||||||||||||
12 | 88 | 65 | 82.3 | 85.0 | 85.9 | .558 | .538 | 18.4% | 81.3% | 99.7% | 0.0% | -0.2% | |
The Pirates lead baseball in hitting opposing batters and in getting hit by the pitch. The baseball gods have spoken. | |||||||||||||
13 | 80 | 72 | 81.2 | 74.7 | 75.9 | .513 | .533 | 0.0% | 4.0% | 4.0% | -0.4% | -0.6% | |
James Shields leads baseball in quality starts with 25, which is 25 more than Wil Myers has. | |||||||||||||
14 | 74 | 78 | 76.5 | 77.8 | 76.6 | .501 | .521 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Looks like it's not going to happen for the Angels this season. If only they'd grown comical facial hair... | |||||||||||||
15 | 82 | 71 | 79.2 | 80.6 | 78.9 | .524 | .504 | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.2% | -0.9% | |
The Nationals finally are using Winning Magic! which is a steroid. | |||||||||||||
16 | 80 | 73 | 74.3 | 66.4 | 68.2 | .472 | .492 | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | -2.4% | -15.7% | |
Joba Chamberlain’s night: walk, single, homer, exeunt! | |||||||||||||
17 | 70 | 82 | 71.7 | 69.2 | 70.8 | .463 | .483 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Oh, NOW you win. | |||||||||||||
18 | 77 | 75 | 76.4 | 73.9 | 74.1 | .496 | .476 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.0% | |
The Diamondbacks are the guy giving mean glances to the guy at the 7-Eleven who just fist pumped after winning a scratch-off ticket with his scratch-off ticket. | |||||||||||||
19 | 71 | 82 | 70.5 | 75.0 | 75.7 | .477 | .458 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
The Giants are a game and a half from going first to worst, and 163 and a half games from just staying the same. | |||||||||||||
20 | 67 | 86 | 63.0 | 67.6 | 67.4 | .433 | .453 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Justin Smoak is having a turn-around season. Justin Smoak has two months with an OPS over .800. | |||||||||||||
21 | 68 | 84 | 69.8 | 72.2 | 74.1 | .467 | .447 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
There are eight breweries in Milwaukee including Horny Goat Brewing so maybe change the name to the Home Brewers. | |||||||||||||
22 | 70 | 84 | 73.2 | 72.7 | 69.6 | .463 | .444 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
The starter didn’t get out of the fourth and the game went 15 innings so they had to use 10 pitchers! Stupid Cardinals! | |||||||||||||
23 | 65 | 87 | 61.7 | 65.1 | 65.3 | .423 | .443 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Twins pitchers are last in strikeouts while Twins hitters are second to last in strikeouts. “Oh, wait… you guys… didn’t? Ha! You know what? I just realized something!” | |||||||||||||
24 | 64 | 89 | 69.5 | 72.6 | 72.9 | .456 | .436 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Every time I see Anthony Rizzo he's doing something good which must mean that six out of seven days he's utterly terrible. | |||||||||||||
25 | 60 | 92 | 64.0 | 63.0 | 62.8 | .411 | .430 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
'The Cubs have more wins than the White Sox' is probably not a thing that either will put in this season's Christmas letter.. | |||||||||||||
26 | 71 | 81 | 65.7 | 66.5 | 67.1 | .445 | .425 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Padres choose your own adventure: 16 ½ games out of first and down 7-1 in the seventh inning the manager should: A) leave the pitcher in and go out for a beer; B) A, or C) A. | |||||||||||||
27 | 68 | 84 | 68.6 | 66.3 | 65.7 | .442 | .422 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
You could ask the Mets why Eric Young was leading off, but then you could ask the Mets many many things and really who cares. | |||||||||||||
28 | 71 | 81 | 63.2 | 63.9 | 65.6 | .434 | .414 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Has anyone thought of moving Roy Halladay to closer? | |||||||||||||
29 | 51 | 102 | 55.8 | 50.7 | 53.4 | .345 | .363 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Astros pitchers have walked 592 hitters this season, the most in baseball and yet Houston is one of the most overweight cities in the country. Conspiracy? You betcha! | |||||||||||||
30 | 56 | 97 | 60.5 | 57.0 | 57.7 | .378 | .359 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Tired of not playing, the Marlins home run sculpture has asked to be traded. |
Seven a.m., waking up to the Hit List, Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs