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Prospectus Hit List for April 7
Hit List for April 4
Hit List for April 8
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 |  | 4 | 3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 5.2 | .628 | .647 | 44.8% | 22.8% | 67.7% | -4.2% | 0.2% |
| The re-signing of Yunel Escobar was met with anger and scorn by the Rays� gay fan. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 4 | 1 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 | .620 | .638 | 59.2% | 10.0% | 69.2% | -2.3% | 10.4% |
| Rather than sign Stephen Drew, the Tigers are content to play Andrew Romine, a 28-year-old with a .269 career major-league slugging percentage. Wins? Who needs those? A draft pick though, those are forever! | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 4 | 2 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | .606 | .625 | 21.2% | 16.7% | 37.9% | -2.9% | 7.6% |
| Justin Smoak is hitting and they�re baseballs! | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 4 | 2 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | .613 | .594 | 23.0% | 20.5% | 43.5% | 0.1% | 6.9% |
| B.J. Upton has 11 strikeouts and four total bases in 25 plate appearances. I get why he�s playing, but does he really have to bat second? | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 3 | 3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.2 | .568 | .588 | 26.6% | 18.2% | 44.8% | 3.9% | -0.2% |
| Not sure which has been worse, the sewage/plumbing in O.co coliseum or new closer Jim Johnson. How many pounds of raw sewage is equivalent to a 15.00 ERA? | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 4 | 2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.8 | .597 | .578 | 62.2% | 12.6% | 74.8% | 0.5% | 3.5% |
| Baseball is too easy for Bryce Harper, who seems convinced it will only be challenge enough if he increases the difficulty setting by breaking some part of his body. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 4 | 2 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.3 | .590 | .571 | 19.9% | 13.8% | 33.7% | 2.4% | 5.8% |
| Mark Reynolds made a great diving defensive play and a heads-up baserunning play. These are either signs that things are looking up, or signs of the apocalypse, depending on your point of view. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 5 | 3 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.6 | .588 | .568 | 63.5% | 23.9% | 87.4% | 1.6% | -6.6% |
| Two homers for Matt Kemp. If he�s hitting like that, PECOTA�s 99 win projection is going to be low. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 5 | 2 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.9 | .578 | .558 | 2.5% | 4.0% | 6.5% | -0.1% | 2.3% |
| The highest-scoring team in baseball is the Miami Marlins. To quote a great American, early is as early does. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 5 | 2 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.6 | .570 | .550 | 26.7% | 35.7% | 62.4% | -4.2% | 12.9% |
| No team has homered more than the Giants who are all enjoying the upside of Barry Bonds cooties. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 3 | 3 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | .516 | .536 | 8.3% | 6.8% | 15.1% | 2.4% | -0.5% |
| The White Sox lead baseball in getting hit by pitches which makes me think word that A.J. Pierzynski signed with Boston hasn�t made its way around the league yet. | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 4 | 2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.3 | .550 | .531 | 14.3% | 10.6% | 24.9% | 2.4% | 3.2% |
| Pedro Alvarez has three hits in 22 at-bats. Two of them are home runs. Yup. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 3 | 3 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.0 | .510 | .530 | 16.4% | 19.1% | 35.5% | 3.0% | 2.9% |
| The Yankees leading hitters are Ichiro and Yangervis Solarte, which is Dutch for sustainable slash line. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.7 | .477 | .497 | 25.6% | 24.7% | 50.2% | -1.0% | -4.0% |
| In 16 at-bats, A.J. Pierzynski has taken four balls. Total. | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 3 | 3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.4 | .514 | .494 | 8.1% | 9.8% | 17.8% | -1.9% | -1.0% |
| Looking at the Phillies stats, I thought I saw a home run in Ben Revere�s line. Revere had homered and nobody had bothered to tell me! I was inconsequential! Utterly irrelevant! Then I looked again and turned out it was just a Jayson Nix caught stealing, so crisis averted! | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 3 | 3 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | .474 | .494 | 14.8% | 9.8% | 24.6% | -0.2% | -1.2% |
| Four good games in a row for Lonnie Chisenhall. Time to sign that six-year extension with three club options! | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 3 | 4 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.9 | .503 | .483 | 2.9% | 11.4% | 14.3% | -2.6% | 0.6% |
| Your leader in hitting is Charlie Blackmon who has a .542 batting average. Follow Blackmon�s quest to hit .500 right here for at least another two days! | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.3 | .460 | .479 | 33.9% | 22.1% | 56.0% | -1.7% | -6.5% |
| The Angels bullpen has a league-leading 7.27 ERA. Wrong kind of league-leading! | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 2 | 3 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.3 | .457 | .477 | 13.3% | 9.2% | 22.5% | -0.9% | -2.3% |
| James Shields has given up four runs in 13 innings over two starts and the Royals have lost both. See Royals fans? You�ll be just fine after he leaves next season. | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 3.4 | .491 | .471 | 15.6% | 11.8% | 27.4% | 2.9% | -5.4% |
| Billy Hamilton has six strikeouts and no hits in 12 plate appearances. He leads the league in times caught stealing. Wrong kind of league-leading! | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 3 | 3 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | .446 | .466 | 4.5% | 3.5% | 8.0% | 2.2% | 0.7% |
| In his first start, Ricky Nolasco gave up five runs in six innings. In his second start he gave up five runs in four innings. He�s not getting enough innings! | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 3 | 3 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | .442 | .462 | 17.7% | 14.0% | 31.7% | 3.2% | -0.4% |
| Yu Darvish is the fastest to 500 strikeouts in major-league history. I was going to turn this into an Astros joke, but turns out he has the most against Anaheim. Whatever, ha ha Astros! | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 3 | 4 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.5 | .435 | .455 | 9.3% | 13.6% | 23.0% | -4.0% | -3.2% |
| Three homers for Melky Cabrera, who had 10 last year. His slash line is .323/.323/.613 which is a Jeff Francoeur wet dream. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 3 | 3 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 | .455 | .435 | 47.3% | 13.2% | 60.6% | -3.7% | -0.3% |
| In 23 plate appearances Jhonny Peralta has two walks and two homers, leading to the hilarious slash line, .095/.174/.381. OK, maybe �hilarious� was a bit of an oversell. | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.2 | .452 | .432 | 2.9% | 3.9% | 6.7% | 1.5% | -1.3% |
| The Cubs have announced shares in this team comment are for sale. �We feel strongly the comment needs major renovation,� said Cubs President Theo Epstein. �So we�re appealing to Cubs fans to give generously because, clearly, if you�ve been reading Mr. Kory�s work, fixing this is going to be expensive.� | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 3 | 3 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.0 | .398 | .417 | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% |
| The Astros are 3-3 to start the season, so everything from here on in is gravy. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | .379 | .398 | 3.8% | 8.4% | 12.2% | 1.9% | -3.7% |
| I was going to say, sure, Chris Davis has no homers, but last year he didn�t homer until some date, and you�d all feel better, but it turns out Davis homered in his first four games last season. So nevermind. | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 2 | 4 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | .395 | .376 | 5.3% | 16.0% | 21.2% | 1.5% | -8.1% |
| The Padres are 2-0 when Huston Street saves the game and 0-4 when he doesn�t. Tell me closers aren�t valuable! | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 2 | 7 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.8 | .378 | .360 | 1.6% | 7.7% | 9.3% | 2.5% | -8.0% |
| Mark Trumbo has more total bases than any player. He keeps them in a pen behind his house. �I feed �em in the morning before I go to the park,� he says. �One time a fox got in there and he ate a few of �em but, otherwise, no problems.� | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.5 | .378 | .359 | 4.3% | 5.1% | 9.5% | -2.8% | -4.6% |
| In their most recent loss, 2-1 to Cincinnati, the Mets were credited with no errors, which is probably an error. | |||||||||||||
This Hit List leads the league, but is it the wrong kind of league-leading!?