Welcome to Baseball Prospectus! Click Here to Subscribe Today! Already a member? Login | Forgot Password
Prospectus Hit List for September 26
Hit List for September 24
Hit List for September 29
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 |  | 98 | 61 | 95.1 | 97.8 | 96.7 | .610 | .628 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| The Angels have proven this season that if you can hit well enough, you can leave off the zero and make pitching nine percent of baseball. | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  | 86 | 73 | 96.3 | 95.7 | 95.7 | .588 | .607 | 0.0% | 98.8% | 98.8% | -0.8% | 10.6% |
| The A's lost again. Take your hat off to them. Losing this much while being this good is really hard to do. | |||||||||||||
| 3 |  | 95 | 64 | 92.4 | 90.0 | 89.8 | .577 | .597 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Two homers in the ninth inning tied the game and set up Derek Jeter's walk-off single. That was nice, though I suppose flowers would have worked too. | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  | 93 | 65 | 94.1 | 94.7 | 93.4 | .594 | .574 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| This season the Nationals have thrown 36 wild pitches and 22,263 staid pitches. | |||||||||||||
| 5 |  | 89 | 70 | 86.3 | 87.9 | 86.7 | .550 | .570 | 96.5% | 3.5% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 4.3% |
| The Tigers used 15 players in last night's game. Eleven of them started their career with different organizations. | |||||||||||||
| 6 |  | 84 | 75 | 88.5 | 84.7 | 85.0 | .538 | .558 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.1% | -33.1% |
| If the season would just go three more weeks, the Mariners would be under .500 and pass the A's for the second Wild Card spot. | |||||||||||||
| 7 |  | 91 | 68 | 89.8 | 93.9 | 92.1 | .577 | .557 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Adrian Gonzalez is your MLB RBI leader so you can enjoy the next 30 seconds of trying to wipe that worthless tidbit out of your brain. | |||||||||||||
| 8 |  | 81 | 78 | 83.1 | 82.1 | 81.7 | .516 | .536 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.1% |
| The Blue Jays final pitcher in last night's game had the appropriate surname of Graveman. | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  | 87 | 72 | 85.8 | 89.0 | 89.2 | .552 | .532 | 11.3% | 88.7% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 9.7% |
| Starling Marte anagram: Let Ring! Am Star! Horrible anagrammar, but it works. | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  | 76 | 83 | 78.5 | 85.4 | 85.4 | .511 | .531 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| In an interview Wil Myers said he can't wait for the season to be over. We feel ya, Wil. | |||||||||||||
| 11 |  | 83 | 76 | 80.8 | 81.2 | 79.7 | .511 | .531 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | -0.2% | -7.8% |
| Cleveland's season can be summed up in two words: Corey Kluber. Also wow! Also missed the playoffs again. Okay, fine, seven words. | |||||||||||||
| 12 |  | 87 | 72 | 82.3 | 77.0 | 77.2 | .508 | .528 | 3.5% | 96.5% | 100.0% | 0.9% | 26.3% |
| You were told to trust the process. I hope you have process trusted. | |||||||||||||
| 13 |  | 86 | 73 | 84.8 | 87.0 | 86.0 | .541 | .521 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| The pitcher with the worst ERA on the Giants isn't Tim Lincecum, it's Mike Kickham who is clearly a made-up person so yeah it's actually Tim Lincecum. | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  | 88 | 71 | 81.5 | 83.8 | 83.2 | .529 | .509 | 88.7% | 11.3% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| In retrospect I'm not sure why the Cardinals traded for John Lackey and Justin Masterson given the above-league-average pitcher tree that grows behind the team offices. | |||||||||||||
| 15 |  | 82 | 77 | 76.1 | 74.9 | 75.9 | .486 | .506 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.3% |
| Derek Jeter singled to right field in his last Yankee Stadium at-bat and with that, all clutch died. | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  | 81 | 78 | 79.2 | 79.5 | 79.0 | .501 | .481 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.3% | -9.2% |
| The Brewers are eliminated. They are who we thought they were. They just did a weird job of showing it. | |||||||||||||
| 17 |  | 70 | 89 | 70.4 | 71.8 | 73.0 | .448 | .468 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Christian Vazquez went 4-for-4 with a homer. If he can keep that up, the Red Sox will probably take a great defensive catcher who hits 1.000/1.000/2.000. | |||||||||||||
| 18 |  | 69 | 90 | 69.7 | 71.4 | 73.3 | .446 | .465 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Next season the Astros will be much better. I know because they'll have a new manager! | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  | 77 | 82 | 80.3 | 75.1 | 75.0 | .483 | .463 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Next season Matt Harvey comes back! 151 days until Spring Training starts! | |||||||||||||
| 20 |  | 68 | 91 | 71.8 | 70.7 | 70.7 | .442 | .462 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Twins pitchers are last in the AL in strikeouts but their hitters are third in strikeouts so baby steps! | |||||||||||||
| 21 |  | 72 | 87 | 69.4 | 69.5 | 69.5 | .441 | .461 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jose Abreu has 35 homers and 35 doubles. He'd have 35 triples too but he has two out of re2pect for Derek Jeter. | |||||||||||||
| 22 |  | 76 | 82 | 75.9 | 75.7 | 74.9 | .479 | .459 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| The Marlins aren't deterred by Giancarlo Stanton's injury. They're going to try to extend his contract anyway. Probably be more successful if they just do it without telling him. | |||||||||||||
| 23 |  | 77 | 82 | 76.3 | 75.1 | 75.1 | .477 | .457 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -0.9% |
| The Braves new front office is like getting in a cab, telling the driver where to go, stopping halfway there, getting out, getting in a new cab and continuing to the same destination. | |||||||||||||
| 24 |  | 74 | 85 | 76.9 | 72.0 | 72.9 | .465 | .445 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jay Bruce had three hits and Brandon Phillips homered. Nice of you guys to show up! | |||||||||||||
| 25 |  | 76 | 83 | 74.8 | 70.5 | 71.5 | .460 | .441 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| The Padres are hitting .226 as a team, 51 points behind the league-leading Tigers. Sure, part of that is a park effect but part of that is also eww. | |||||||||||||
| 26 |  | 71 | 88 | 68.7 | 75.6 | 76.3 | .458 | .439 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| This is it, Cubs fans. The last season ever where you'll be an afterthought. Savor it. Your innocence is dying. | |||||||||||||
| 27 |  | 66 | 93 | 74.1 | 75.7 | 71.1 | .451 | .431 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| If you Google songs with the word hopeless in them there are 12,100,000 results, so that should be of some help, Rockies fans. | |||||||||||||
| 28 |  | 72 | 87 | 72.1 | 70.1 | 71.5 | .449 | .429 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Ruben Amaro has been scouting Japanese pitcher Kenta Maeda and Cuban slugger Yosmani Tomas though it's possible this is just a ploy to avoid seeing Phillies games. | |||||||||||||
| 29 |  | 66 | 93 | 65.8 | 62.5 | 65.2 | .408 | .428 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| The Rangers have been caught stealing 57 times, but as any bad baserunner will tell you, you'll never reach second base if you don't try to steal. | |||||||||||||
| 30 |  | 63 | 96 | 65.6 | 65.4 | 65.5 | .408 | .389 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Dave Stewart's first acts as Diamondbacks GM are to hire Terry Steinbach as assistant GM, Carney Lansford as Scouting Director, and Jose Canseco as mascot. | |||||||||||||
Today, we honor the final appearance of a legend, a leader, an amazing ambassador to the game. Stand and cheer for the last Hit List of the year.