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Prospectus Hit List for August 25
Hit List for August 22
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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 |  | 76 | 53 | 81.8 | 80.4 | 80.1 | .617 | .636 | 36.2% | 62.9% | 99.1% | -0.4% | -0.1% |
| Scott Kazmir gave up seven runs in three innings, a fact that would have been less surprising six months ago, far less surprising six years ago, and then far more surprising six years before that. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 77 | 52 | 75.1 | 79.3 | 78.6 | .601 | .620 | 62.8% | 37.0% | 99.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| Mike Trout�s on-base percentage has fallen 59 points compared to last season, lending credence to a 92-foot-bases conspiracy theory. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 71 | 58 | 77.3 | 74.7 | 74.2 | .576 | .595 | 1.1% | 55.6% | 56.7% | 3.3% | 2.5% |
| How bad are Seattle�s hitters? The Mariners lead baseball in Defensive Efficiency and are seventh in pitcher VORP, yet they�re in third place, six games out. Answer: Not good! | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 73 | 55 | 70.3 | 69.1 | 69.3 | .550 | .570 | 93.3% | 1.2% | 94.5% | -1.0% | 1.6% |
| Do best-in-the-AL teams lose three in a row to the Cubs? Not after those three losses, no. | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 75 | 54 | 76.8 | 76.3 | 75.4 | .588 | .569 | 98.1% | 1.6% | 99.7% | 0.3% | 2.0% |
| Stephen Strasburg didn�t pitch well yesterday but he also didn�t hit a little girl in the head with a warmup pitch so call it a successful night. | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 70 | 59 | 67.6 | 69.6 | 68.7 | .535 | .555 | 39.6% | 18.7% | 58.3% | 6.0% | -1.3% |
| If the Tigers can score 13 runs each night, they can move Max Scherzer to the bullpen and solve all their problems at once! | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 64 | 66 | 67.8 | 72.8 | 72.5 | .533 | .553 | 0.9% | 0.7% | 1.5% | 0.5% | -1.8% |
| James Loney�s .715 OPS, while three percent above average today, is six percent below average for people who have been pretending to be asleep since 2004. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 74 | 58 | 71.6 | 74.9 | 73.3 | .557 | .537 | 85.2% | 13.1% | 98.3% | -0.1% | 0.7% |
| When people complain about Yasiel Puig they cite stuff like running into the third out of a triple play and ignore stuff like leading the Dodgers in WARP. I�ll let you decide which is more important. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 72 | 57 | 68.5 | 62.1 | 63.2 | .515 | .535 | 57.2% | 15.6% | 72.8% | -8.7% | 5.0% |
| Should Alex Gordon be MVP over Mike Trout? Yes, according to the alphabet! | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 66 | 63 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 65.2 | .511 | .531 | 3.2% | 3.7% | 6.8% | 1.0% | -0.1% |
| �Nine strikeouts, three walks, no runs for Trevor Bauer last night,� said the sign pulled by the airplane flying over Chase Field in Phoenix. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 66 | 64 | 65.0 | 65.1 | 64.7 | .502 | .522 | 1.4% | 1.3% | 2.7% | -1.3% | -4.3% |
| I looked it up and it�s true, reliever Aaron Loup throws a curveball, and guess what kind it is! | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 72 | 58 | 68.6 | 68.2 | 68.0 | .533 | .513 | 53.2% | 34.4% | 87.6% | 7.1% | -4.4% |
| An open letter to Alex Gordon and the MVP voters: Dear dudes, �sup? Check FRAA because I�m mic dropping on you dopes. �Jean Segura | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 68 | 61 | 68.6 | 69.3 | 68.8 | .529 | .509 | 14.8% | 50.0% | 64.8% | -0.6% | 2.1% |
| Jeremy Affeldt allowed four runs without retiring a batter, yet he got the loss even though his team lost by eight runs, so he could have not existed and nothing would have been different. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 67 | 61 | 60.2 | 60.0 | 60.4 | .484 | .504 | 4.4% | 3.3% | 7.8% | 0.5% | -2.0% |
| If Brian McCann hadn�t hit a game-winning three-run homer and instead grounded out, do you think Jon Sterling would have belted out "McCann can�t!� | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 70 | 59 | 63.6 | 67.8 | 67.5 | .521 | .501 | 41.7% | 33.4% | 75.1% | -2.5% | 10.1% |
| Someone should tell Justin Masterson that, while the National League is backward and ridiculous, pitchers still want to keep runs off the board there. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 67 | 63 | 65.8 | 67.3 | 68.3 | .516 | .496 | 4.9% | 23.8% | 28.7% | -1.5% | -8.1% |
| Vance Worley's strikeout rates, by season: 8.3, 8.1, 7.3, 4.6, 6.3. Guess which year he spent with the Twins. | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 68 | 63 | 68.0 | 66.5 | 66.7 | .514 | .494 | 1.9% | 39.4% | 41.3% | -3.1% | 7.6% |
| Tommy La Stella�s OPS is 110 points higher than Dan Uggla�s was. And also you can yell� La Stellaaaaaaaaaaa!!� when he comes to the plate. | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 58 | 72 | 61.3 | 60.9 | 60.7 | .463 | .483 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.0% |
| Twins pitchers walked eight Tiger hitters. Revolution is in the air! | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 63 | 68 | 66.2 | 62.1 | 62.9 | .485 | .465 | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 0.9% | -5.9% |
| It doesn�t make sense that the Reds are behind Miami in the playoff standings but nobody is saying they should trade Giancarlo Stanton. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 59 | 71 | 57.5 | 57.5 | 57.1 | .444 | .464 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.2% |
| The Good News: Chris Sale went six innings Sunday, allowing no earned runs to lower his league-leading ERA. The Bad News: The rest of the game. | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 64 | 65 | 62.1 | 62.0 | 61.3 | .483 | .463 | 0.0% | 2.8% | 2.8% | -0.7% | -3.0% |
| Jeff Mathis is hitting .205/.270/.288, which keeps Mike Scioscia up nights covered in sweat on the other side of the country. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 56 | 74 | 56.8 | 58.0 | 58.8 | .441 | .461 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.0% |
| David Ortiz is just four homers, one RBI, and about 100 points of batting average away from winning the Triple Crown! | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 58 | 72 | 59.8 | 64.9 | 64.9 | .476 | .456 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Javier Baez is on pace to hit 57 homers and strike out 292 times. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 61 | 70 | 64.7 | 60.4 | 60.7 | .471 | .451 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | -0.4% |
| The Mets turned a triple play yesterday and there�s the first highlight for the 2014 Mets Highlights DVD! | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 55 | 76 | 56.2 | 55.3 | 57.0 | .427 | .446 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| I�m telling you Astros reliever Michael Foltynewicz has given up two homers in 10 innings so I can tell you he will never have a career working for 24-hour cable news. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 60 | 69 | 62.7 | 58.1 | 58.5 | .464 | .444 | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | -0.7% |
| The Padres are 28-25 since firing Josh Byrnes, proving once again that firing the GM can kickstart a team from last place to who-cares-they�re-still-not-making-the-playoffs. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 58 | 72 | 57.2 | 56.7 | 57.7 | .442 | .422 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| For Halloween you�re not going to want to go to Ruben Amaro�s house unless you have $26 million (and even then you probably won�t want to). | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 52 | 77 | 57.9 | 60.5 | 57.8 | .440 | .420 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Is there a less likely event than the Rockies winning all their remaining 33 games and making the playoffs? [/looks out window /sees flying elephant] Nope. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 55 | 76 | 55.1 | 56.0 | 55.6 | .423 | .404 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Being on the losing end of an MLB.com headine that uses the words �Padres� and �Power� not just in the same sentence but following one another is so 2014 Diamondbacks. | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 50 | 79 | 50.2 | 48.1 | 50.0 | .384 | .403 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Playing J.P. Aencibia at first base is the �We need Yuniesky Betancourt�s bat in the lineup so we�re putting him at first� of 2014. | |||||||||||||
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