Prospectus Hit List for May 30
Hit List for May 28
Hit List for June 2
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 |  | 32 | 22 | 37.8 | 37.9 | 37.8 | .595 | .614 | 46.8% | 35.0% | 81.8% | -3.8% | -6.7% |
| Brandon Moss has suited up for four teams: in order, Boston (.804 OPS), Pittsburgh (.667 OPS), Philadelphia (.000 OPS), and Oakland (.901 OPS). Kinda instructive in an odd way, isn’t it? | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 30 | 23 | 31.2 | 34.6 | 34.0 | .577 | .597 | 45.2% | 36.8% | 82.0% | 4.3% | 0.6% |
| There might not be any hitter in baseball hotter than Mike Trout since Thursday at about 6:55 p.m. pacific time. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 30 | 20 | 27.0 | 27.3 | 26.7 | .551 | .571 | 85.8% | 4.7% | 90.4% | 2.5% | 0.2% |
| Victor Martinez is hitting .344, proving you don’t need speed or knees to hit for a high batting average. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 32 | 23 | 30.5 | 29.4 | 28.8 | .530 | .550 | 43.7% | 16.9% | 60.7% | -4.8% | 16.0% |
| Edwin Encarnacion homered twice more, his 15th and 16th homers this month which, I mean, whatever. Two more homers. Boring. A home run that cures cancer is interesting. Did the homers cure cancer? Cure cancer with your homers, Edwin, otherwise keep it to yourself. | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 29 | 26 | 28.3 | 28.2 | 27.4 | .563 | .543 | 34.5% | 48.6% | 83.2% | -3.6% | 1.7% |
| Down by three in the ninth, Vin Scully led off with a story about Jason Grilli making his major league debut exactly 30 years after his dad, a story about Grilli starting a grilled cheese-making business was second, and a story about Joe DiMaggio telling a third base coach to shove it hit third. The Dodgers lost anyway. | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 35 | 19 | 33.1 | 30.2 | 30.2 | .560 | .540 | 60.4% | 31.4% | 91.9% | 3.9% | 8.4% |
| The Giants have the best interleague record in baseball as they are 6-0 versus the AL. Not coincidentally the have a six-game lead in the NL West. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 29 | 25 | 29.9 | 31.7 | 30.9 | .553 | .533 | 52.5% | 17.3% | 69.9% | -1.6% | 0.4% |
| The Cardinals have grounded into 49 double plays while inducing 40 of their own. Doesn’t sound like the best organization in baseball is what I’m saying. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 28 | 24 | 25.3 | 23.9 | 23.9 | .503 | .523 | 28.1% | 18.0% | 46.1% | 1.6% | 3.3% |
| Yesterday was an off-day for the Yankees but Derek Jeter doesn’t stop. In fact, he was just as productive yesterday as he’s been for each game all year. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 23 | 31 | 24.1 | 25.6 | 25.9 | .499 | .519 | 8.3% | 8.3% | 16.6% | 1.8% | -3.2% |
| Getting swept in Boston this weekend could be the beginning of the end of David Price’s career in Tampa. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 24 | 29 | 24.7 | 23.9 | 23.8 | .495 | .515 | 8.5% | 10.8% | 19.3% | 3.3% | -2.0% |
| “Knock, knock, orange you glad I didn’t say banana!” --A.J. Pierzynski: stand-up comedian. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 26 | 27 | 27.7 | 25.5 | 26.7 | .494 | .514 | 3.0% | 14.1% | 17.1% | -3.1% | -7.0% |
| The Mariners have the most wins against left-handed pitching in baseball, 14. It’s all those other games that are messing them up. | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 26 | 26 | 24.6 | 24.0 | 23.5 | .491 | .511 | 11.3% | 14.5% | 25.8% | -3.0% | 5.4% |
| Nelson Cruz has 19 homers. We’re getting to the point where his rest-of-the-season PECOTA projections are going to be negative. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 25 | 27 | 26.1 | 26.7 | 26.9 | .524 | .504 | 39.8% | 9.9% | 49.7% | 0.9% | -10.5% |
| Stephen Strasburg: The Kids Board Game. Okay, roll the dice! If it’s a one you struck out. If it’s a two you struck out. If it’s a three, you struck out. If it’s a four you struck… | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 28 | 25 | 30.4 | 31.5 | 29.8 | .522 | .502 | 3.3% | 23.1% | 26.3% | -0.8% | -10.4% |
| Secret of the Rockies success revealed: the Rockies are first in the NL in Holds! | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 28 | 26 | 25.9 | 23.9 | 24.8 | .481 | .501 | 4.9% | 15.3% | 20.2% | 1.4% | 15.1% |
| It’s easy to make fun of Rougned Odor’s name, but the kid has a lot going for him. Probably. I mean, his name is funny, I know that much. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 32 | 22 | 29.0 | 29.1 | 28.5 | .518 | .498 | 39.2% | 22.6% | 61.8% | 2.8% | 13.9% |
| The Brewers may have cooled off but they still lead baseball in sacrifice bunts or wait, do you think those two are… nah. | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 28 | 25 | 27.0 | 28.3 | 28.4 | .516 | .496 | 40.8% | 12.8% | 53.6% | -2.8% | -7.4% |
| When you click on the highlight videos on B.J. Upton’s MLB.com player page it says “videos taken down by user.” | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 24 | 30 | 24.4 | 25.0 | 25.6 | .472 | .492 | 3.5% | 6.5% | 10.1% | 0.7% | -9.4% |
| Jason Giambi hit his second homer of the season on Wednesday to pull back in front of Ben Revere for the lead in Most Unlikely Homers. | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 28 | 27 | 26.5 | 25.7 | 25.2 | .470 | .490 | 5.6% | 8.2% | 13.8% | -0.5% | 4.3% |
| White Sox batters have struck out an MLB-leading 487 times this season. If you laid each strikeout end to end they would reach from home plate at Comiskey Park all the way back to the Pacific ocean. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 25 | 28 | 24.9 | 23.4 | 23.1 | .466 | .486 | 3.1% | 5.6% | 8.7% | 1.9% | -8.1% |
| The Royals won after firing their hitting coach so GM Dayton Moore has prepared the necessary pink slips that will allow them to go 134-28. You’re next, Sluggerrr! | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 24 | 27 | 22.7 | 23.8 | 23.5 | .457 | .477 | 1.9% | 4.6% | 6.6% | -2.5% | -9.1% |
| Joe Mauer’s on-base percentage is .353. Joe Mauer’s slugging percentage is .352. Who ya got??? | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 24 | 30 | 23.5 | 21.6 | 22.3 | .478 | .458 | 1.5% | 9.6% | 11.1% | -0.3% | 6.5% |
| The Padres have been hit by 10 total pitches this season, two more than Shin-Soo Choo and 28 fewer than me playing backyard Wiffleball with my 5-year-old yesterday. | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 28 | 25 | 29.0 | 28.4 | 28.4 | .477 | .457 | 8.2% | 4.7% | 12.9% | -0.0% | 3.7% |
| The Marlins are 20-8 at home and 8-17 on the road. Variety is the spice of losing baseball, apparently. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 23 | 32 | 23.3 | 25.4 | 26.5 | .435 | .455 | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.6% |
| The Astros yesterday won without second baseman Jose Altuve, who George Springer mistakenly hit out of the park. | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 23 | 29 | 23.7 | 25.0 | 25.1 | .474 | .454 | 4.0% | 5.4% | 9.4% | -1.5% | -7.6% |
| Joey Votto could be really hurt or he could be just being patient. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 24 | 29 | 23.7 | 23.8 | 24.6 | .472 | .452 | 3.9% | 5.5% | 9.5% | 2.3% | 1.1% |
| Justin Morneau’s slugging percentage, 2012-2014: .440 (in Minnesota), .411 (Minnesota and Pittsburgh), .559 (Colorado). Nothing bumps up a slugging percentage like making it much, much easier to hit for power. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 25 | 28 | 25.9 | 24.1 | 24.0 | .465 | .445 | 6.2% | 3.3% | 9.5% | 1.8% | 2.6% |
| If Edvard Munch were to paint a picture of a Mets fan he might call it The $%#*&^#@ Scream. | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 19 | 32 | 24.2 | 25.9 | 25.6 | .459 | .440 | 0.3% | 0.8% | 1.1% | -0.1% | -0.8% |
| The Cubs are 3-10 in one-run games because 10 of those one-run games were losses. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 23 | 28 | 22.1 | 21.0 | 21.8 | .451 | .431 | 5.0% | 2.6% | 7.5% | -1.2% | -2.5% |
| Sure, the Phillies wish Ryan Howard could walk a little more, but mostly they wish they could walk… away from his contract! | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 23 | 33 | 22.1 | 24.3 | 24.6 | .449 | .429 | 0.2% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 0.2% | 0.9% |
| The Diamondbacks have given up more homers than the Rockies and giving up homers is the Rockies' thing! | |||||||||||||
Hittin' in the front seat, Listin' in the back seat.