Prospectus Hit List for May 13
Hit List for May 10
Hit List for May 14
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 | 14 | 23 | 15.0 | 16.2 | 15.8 | .481 | .501 | 6.4% | 14.3% | 20.6% | -1.3% | 1.3% | |
With just one hit on Sunday, the pink bats didn't work out for them, which means it's time to grind them into splinters and re-sell it as cotton candy. | |||||||||||||
2 | 21 | 17 | 21.6 | 20.3 | 20.9 | .535 | .515 | 24.7% | 23.0% | 47.7% | -9.2% | 4.0% | |
It might be time to consider Heath Bell may not be a viable candidate to close baseball games. | |||||||||||||
3 | 21 | 16 | 20.9 | 20.9 | 20.5 | .540 | .520 | 47.9% | 18.0% | 65.9% | -1.9% | -0.3% | |
April showers bring May Upton slumps. (The brothers are both homerless and hitting under .200 each.) (That's the joke.) | |||||||||||||
4 | 23 | 15 | 22.2 | 21.6 | 21.4 | .525 | .545 | 7.5% | 20.6% | 28.1% | 2.9% | 5.2% | |
Advertising for starting pitching help on Craigslist started out as a joke, but... | |||||||||||||
5 | 22 | 16 | 21.1 | 22.6 | 22.0 | .553 | .573 | 19.0% | 35.4% | 54.3% | -6.6% | -16.6% | |
"What about energy drinks? Do you use those?" Dan Shaughnessy asks David Ortiz in a fit of desperation. | |||||||||||||
6 | 15 | 20 | 16.0 | 15.3 | 15.2 | .456 | .475 | 1.4% | 4.0% | 5.5% | 1.4% | -1.2% | |
Both of Chris Sale's career complete games have come against the AL West, which can only stir up realignment rumors. | |||||||||||||
7 | 15 | 22 | 17.0 | 19.0 | 19.1 | .480 | .460 | 1.4% | 5.0% | 6.4% | 1.2% | 1.3% | |
Scott Feldman doesn't look like a pitcher who can shut down the Nationals' bats, or someone that was born in Hawaii, but what do any of us know. | |||||||||||||
8 | 22 | 16 | 22.4 | 21.8 | 21.1 | .564 | .544 | 42.4% | 30.3% | 72.7% | -0.1% | -2.0% | |
Between Shin-Soo Choo (.451) and Joey Votto (.444), the Reds lineup is a veritable on-baserers' row. | |||||||||||||
9 | 20 | 15 | 20.4 | 21.0 | 20.6 | .542 | .562 | 16.3% | 26.1% | 42.4% | 0.4% | 17.9% | |
They're 6-1 against Cy Young Award winners this year, so be sure to throw all the No. 5 starters you can grab at them. | |||||||||||||
10 | 20 | 17 | 21.2 | 22.6 | 22.1 | .522 | .502 | 9.1% | 9.5% | 18.6% | 1.7% | -6.1% | |
What's more interesting: Jorge De La Rosa no-hitting the Cardinals into the seventh, or that his name literally means George of the Pink? | |||||||||||||
11 | 20 | 15 | 22.8 | 24.9 | 24.2 | .618 | .636 | 76.6% | 12.4% | 89.0% | -1.3% | -2.2% | |
For Mother's Day, Jose Valverde got his mother a fastball and another fastball and actually nothing but fastballs. | |||||||||||||
12 | 10 | 28 | 11.6 | 10.2 | 11.5 | .336 | .354 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Real men are allowed to cry only when watching "Braveheart" or looking at Phil Humber's season numbers. | |||||||||||||
13 | 18 | 16 | 18.1 | 16.3 | 16.8 | .494 | .514 | 5.3% | 11.6% | 16.9% | -3.3% | -14.9% | |
Swept in Yankee Stadium, just like that fortune teller said. They gotta start bringing in more positive influences to speak to the team. | |||||||||||||
14 | 15 | 21 | 14.6 | 17.7 | 17.6 | .513 | .493 | 23.6% | 16.1% | 39.7% | 7.5% | -8.2% | |
We are a happier country when a Van Slyke is in the major leagues hitting home runs. | |||||||||||||
15 | 11 | 27 | 12.3 | 11.0 | 10.7 | .351 | .333 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | -0.1% | |
Their RBI leader over the past week: Derek Dietrich. You just learn a new name with this team all the time. | |||||||||||||
16 | 15 | 20 | 15.1 | 16.3 | 17.1 | .466 | .446 | 1.8% | 4.6% | 6.4% | 0.4% | -4.7% | |
Carlos Gomez and Jean Segura are first and second in National League batting average. They must be calculating batting average differently this year. | |||||||||||||
17 | 17 | 17 | 17.1 | 16.0 | 17.1 | .449 | .469 | 0.4% | 1.1% | 1.5% | -0.6% | 0.3% | |
Those are some rather sexy .463/.551/.707 numbers for Joe Mauer in May. (No home runs this month, though.) | |||||||||||||
18 | 23 | 13 | 20.1 | 19.5 | 19.2 | .567 | .587 | 61.3% | 22.6% | 83.9% | 3.8% | 11.7% | |
Sir, I don't see Vernon Wells on this All-Star ballot. Or this one. Sigh, just re-print them all and I'll be back in 30 minutes. | |||||||||||||
19 | 14 | 20 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 14.2 | .459 | .439 | 4.4% | 3.4% | 7.8% | -1.3% | -4.7% | |
If Matt Harvey starts losing games, the Mets can always just turn themselves into a cupcake shop. | |||||||||||||
20 | 19 | 20 | 19.6 | 19.3 | 18.6 | .501 | .521 | 8.7% | 13.3% | 22.1% | -2.4% | -14.8% | |
Their starting rotation kept them in games last year, but this year a 5.17 ERA is fifth worst in the majors. | |||||||||||||
21 | 18 | 21 | 16.6 | 16.7 | 16.6 | .457 | .437 | 5.5% | 5.1% | 10.6% | 2.8% | -1.4% | |
May has not been kind to Ryan Howard, but he did have the game-winning hit yesterday. So that evens out, right? | |||||||||||||
22 | 21 | 16 | 20.1 | 19.5 | 19.9 | .522 | .502 | 14.8% | 22.1% | 36.8% | 1.5% | 9.6% | |
Imagine a chef coming into your house, taking your leftovers, cooking a new meal out of it, and having it taste decent. That's what the Pirates are, basically. | |||||||||||||
23 | 16 | 21 | 16.1 | 15.2 | 15.7 | .447 | .427 | 1.8% | 2.0% | 3.8% | -0.5% | -0.2% | |
Their home run leader is Will Venable with five, which means they're going to try and win with something else besides home runs. | |||||||||||||
24 | 18 | 20 | 16.7 | 18.4 | 18.5 | .473 | .493 | 2.7% | 6.1% | 8.8% | 0.8% | 1.1% | |
They haven't lost a series since April 22-24 against ... Houston, for some reason. | |||||||||||||
25 | 23 | 15 | 21.0 | 20.9 | 21.2 | .542 | .522 | 40.8% | 17.0% | 57.8% | 5.4% | 1.8% | |
Marco Scutaro owns the longest active hitting streak at 13, and now we'll see if one can jinx a 13-game hitting streak. | |||||||||||||
26 | 23 | 13 | 22.7 | 20.8 | 20.9 | .562 | .542 | 39.6% | 28.1% | 67.8% | -4.7% | 9.4% | |
Wainwright, Miller ... their best starting pitchers are all old-timey professions. (A Westbrook was someone who mined small rivers for laudanum, probably.) | |||||||||||||
27 | 19 | 18 | 19.6 | 19.7 | 20.6 | .532 | .552 | 11.9% | 24.0% | 35.9% | 4.1% | 9.4% | |
The last time they swept the Padres was in 2004, when they were called the Devil Rays, making the mascot allegory a bit more enticing. | |||||||||||||
28 | 24 | 13 | 22.9 | 24.0 | 23.0 | .593 | .612 | 82.2% | 6.1% | 88.3% | 2.4% | 3.8% | |
Nelson Cruz in the last week: .174/.200/.565. Now that's a week. | |||||||||||||
29 | 15 | 24 | 14.7 | 13.2 | 14.7 | .436 | .456 | 0.4% | 2.4% | 2.7% | -0.2% | -1.0% | |
They scored a season-high 12 runs and clobbered five home runs for the second time this year, which means they're back on track to win the World Series. | |||||||||||||
30 | 20 | 17 | 17.1 | 17.0 | 17.2 | .508 | .488 | 42.1% | 15.9% | 58.1% | -3.0% | 1.6% | |
Gio Gonzalez had a perfect game into just the sixth, which given the recent pitching performance this year is downright embarrassing. |
Zero Chris Sale puns, guaranteed.