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Prospectus Hit List for August 17



by Matthew Kory

Hit List for August 14 Hit List for August 19
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.

I wanna make us a killer Hit List. I wanna make us a killer Hit List. I WANNA MAKE US A KILLER HIT LIST.

Rk TmWLW1W2W3HLFAHLFWin Div%Win WC%Playoff%1-Day7-Day
1

60

57

61.5

58.9

59.6

.513

.533

15.6%

22.3%

37.9%

-5.9%

-30.6%

In their spare time in the bullpen, Huston Street and Joe Smith spend their time writing a magazine about football.
2

57

59

61.1

59.9

59.1

.511

.491

0.2%

0.1%

0.4%

-0.4%

-1.0%

Nick Ahmed broke up Shelby Miller’s no-hitter in the eighth inning. If you add Ahmed’s OPS+ from both his seasons in the bigs (which you can’t do) you get 103. Baseball! It’s strange!
3

53

64

50.0

48.5

48.2

.427

.407

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

-0.0%

-0.1%

Sunday’s Braves lineup went Michael Bourn, Cameron Maybin, Nick Markakis. It’s the Island of Other Team’s Outfielders! Coming this fall to ABC!
4

60

56

65.5

60.5

60.2

.531

.551

4.3%

28.6%

33.0%

6.3%

13.1%

Last week, the Orioles got no-hit. Sunday, they got 26-hit.
5

52

65

53.4

54.3

53.8

.456

.476

0.0%

0.1%

0.1%

-0.3%

-0.3%

The Red Sox scored 82 runs in May. In two games against Seattle they scored 37.
6

55

60

50.2

50.4

51.5

.450

.470

0.0%

2.9%

2.9%

1.0%

1.7%

Chris Sale struck out 15 Cubs in seven innings, which is the baseball equivalent of reenacting the scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where the parking lot attendants jump over the camera in a ’63 Ferrari.
7

67

49

61.7

64.4

64.0

.554

.534

5.7%

80.6%

86.3%

-5.5%

3.9%

When it comes to allowing homers, Dan Haren is like that guy during Halloween who comes to the door with a bucket of candy and says, “Take as much as you want!”
8

51

65

52.7

56.5

56.3

.467

.447

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

In his last 30 games Joey Votto’s OBP is .563. In their last 30 games the Reds are 12-18.
9

54

62

55.5

64.8

65.6

.517

.537

0.1%

4.1%

4.1%

-2.8%

-0.7%

They’re 16.5 games back but next year with Jake Taylor, Roger Dorn, Willie Mays Hayes, Eddie Harris, and Pedro Cerrano, it says here the Indians are gonna win the Pennant.
10

48

68

49.4

48.0

47.0

.415

.395

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

When you plot the Rockies playoff odds they look like the Great Plains.
11

56

61

53.2

55.1

55.8

.470

.490

0.1%

4.0%

4.0%

-1.3%

-1.2%

The Tigers lead baseball in triples and in getting caught stealing. Make of that what you will!
12

64

54

68.1

69.7

69.8

.576

.595

76.1%

12.0%

88.1%

3.2%

4.3%

Two homers for Colby Rasmus yesterday. Okay, he has silly hair, but you gotta admit that’s at least one more homer than you hit this weekend, right?
13

71

46

67.1

63.3

63.8

.567

.586

99.8%

0.2%

100.0%

0.1%

0.4%

The Royals have signed Joba Chamberlain. It sounds bad but Chamberlain likely won’t throw a pitch for the team unless all the 2015 Division Champion champaign bottles are infected with salmonella.
14

67

51

66.0

73.5

71.7

.589

.570

81.5%

5.4%

86.9%

0.5%

-2.4%

Rumor has it Yasiel Puig will be flipped this winter.
15

47

70

52.4

55.1

55.0

.448

.428

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

The Blue Jays have 123 more extra-base hits than the Marlins. That’s terrible!
16

51

68

53.1

50.2

50.6

.430

.411

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

[deleted for lack of interest]
17

59

58

55.9

49.0

49.1

.455

.475

0.0%

7.0%

7.1%

2.1%

3.2%

Trevor Plouffe leads baseball with 23 GIDPs on the season, three more than Billy Butler and the exact amount Plouffe hit into in 2013 and 2014 combined. That’s not funny but it is weird!
18

64

52

64.6

66.4

66.0

.562

.582

47.9%

43.3%

91.2%

-2.7%

2.3%

The last time C.C. Sabathia faced the Twins he gave up two homers. That’s bad, but not as bad as it sounds, which is not coincidentally the title of a made-for-TV movie on C.C. Sabathia’s 2015 season.
19

63

55

61.7

61.7

61.8

.526

.506

80.7%

0.2%

80.8%

-0.7%

14.5%

Are Mets fans allowed to experience happiness? “Signs point to are you freak'n kidding me?”
20

51

68

60.1

62.4

63.6

.498

.518

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

-0.1%

-1.2%

Sonny Gray has been cleared to be trade bait uh I mean to pitch.
21

46

72

42.9

41.7

41.5

.364

.346

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

The Phillies haven’t traded Chase Utley yet. Once they thought they did but they forgot to press “send.”
22

69

46

65.5

63.5

62.5

.566

.546

13.9%

79.1%

93.0%

1.2%

2.5%

An in-depth investigation by Hit List has determined that not only do none of the Pirates have pet parrots, but none have peg legs either.
23

56

62

52.7

50.6

51.0

.446

.426

0.0%

0.0%

0.1%

0.0%

-0.2%

To have an all presidents rotation, the Padres need to re-sign Ian Kennedy, trade for Madison Bumgarner and Brad Lincoln, move Kevin Quackenbush to the rotation, and get Tyson Ross to change his name to Rutherford B. Hayes.
24

55

63

50.3

55.0

56.6

.460

.480

0.6%

1.6%

2.2%

0.5%

-0.4%

Felix Hernandez on the mound and the offense scores 10 runs, so of course the Mariners lose by 12. Thanks, 2015! Hope you get one of those nasty colds you can’t shake for months!
25

64

53

66.0

65.3

64.4

.555

.535

18.2%

14.6%

32.9%

5.0%

4.5%

The Giants have a 28 percent chance to make the playoffs, but if Madison Bumgarner pitches every day, it goes up to 112 percent.
26

75

42

73.8

67.6

67.3

.606

.587

80.4%

19.3%

99.7%

-0.1%

-0.0%

Two homers on Sunday for Jason Heyward who is clearly just trying to pad his stats for free agency by playing better.
27

58

59

56.6

60.2

60.5

.503

.523

1.5%

14.5%

16.1%

-5.1%

-4.2%

It’s one thing to have Grady Sizemore on your roster. It’s another thing to play him regularly. But it’s a whole other thing to continually bat him second. Like, a whole other bad thing.
28

59

57

54.9

52.7

53.5

.475

.495

7.6%

14.2%

21.8%

2.4%

7.3%

Since trading for Cole Hamels the Rangers are 11-5, and they’re 11-3 if you exclude the games Hamels actually pitched.
29

65

54

73.4

69.0

68.8

.580

.600

46.2%

45.2%

91.4%

2.5%

6.4%

The Blue Jays have 123 more extra-base hits than the Marlins. That’s great!
30

58

59

59.4

61.3

60.3

.511

.491

19.3%

0.5%

19.8%

0.2%

-21.8%

How many Nats losses in a row in August does it take to get to the center of a Matt Williams manager controversy? Let’s see! [lick] [lick] [CHOMP]