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Prospectus Hit List for April 25
Hit List for April 22
Hit List for April 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 |
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1 | 14 | 5 | 15.8 | 16.5 | 16.4 | .703 | .698 | 82.7% | 10.7% | 93.4% | 0.6% | 5.2% | |
Could Jake Arrieta break up a Jake Arrieta no-hitter? Only borderline illegal science can prove us wrong. | |||||||||||||
2 | 14 | 4 | 13.1 | 13.9 | 12.9 | .645 | .641 | 51.6% | 33.7% | 85.3% | 1.1% | 5.4% | |
Between Bryce Harper and Oliver Perez, maybe the entire Nationals team should just enter the game as pinch hitters. | |||||||||||||
3 | 12 | 7 | 11.9 | 13.3 | 12.7 | .618 | .613 | 80.2% | 9.1% | 89.3% | 1.8% | 2.5% | |
Sometime today, please keep in your thoughts the outfield wall that Yasiel Puig crashed into making a catch yesterday, currently on life support. The wall is so young, and has three tiny walls of its own. | |||||||||||||
4 | 13 | 6 | 11.5 | 13.0 | 12.2 | .591 | .596 | 32.5% | 32.1% | 64.5% | 3.0% | 10.6% | |
Mat Latos has now pitching as many innings for the White Sox in 2016 than he did for the Dodgers last year (24 1/3) and gave up 16 fewer earned runs. | |||||||||||||
5 | 10 | 7 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 10.4 | .600 | .595 | 47.4% | 33.8% | 81.2% | 2.3% | 10.9% | |
The Asdrubal Cabrera signing has worked out so far for the Mets, mostly because they finally realized to stop shelling out 6-year deal for former All-Stars. | |||||||||||||
6 | 10 | 8 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 12.6 | .589 | .585 | 8.2% | 27.8% | 36.0% | 1.0% | -1.4% | |
Yadier Molina is hitting .338 this season, but only because batting is now calculated by [base hits + anecdotes fans tell about how they made their team better outside the box score] � at bats. | |||||||||||||
7 | 9 | 7 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 9.3 | .565 | .570 | 54.1% | 24.4% | 78.5% | 1.2% | 5.3% | |
I'm not saying it's been a long time since Cleveland won a sweep in Detroit, but for once the other fans didn't drive home sad in their Chevrolet Berettas. | |||||||||||||
8 | 11 | 6 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.4 | .544 | .549 | 8.8% | 10.2% | 18.9% | -4.5% | -1.6% | |
The newest Pac-Man has four difficulty levels: easy, medium, difficult, and Mark Trumbo Instead Of Pac-Man. | |||||||||||||
9 | 12 | 6 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 10.3 | .537 | .542 | 7.7% | 14.2% | 21.9% | 2.5% | 6.8% | |
Paulo Orlando, not Jarrod Dyson, will be on the All-Star ballot. You know what to do. | |||||||||||||
10 | 10 | 10 | 11.0 | 11.2 | 11.2 | .536 | .541 | 21.2% | 19.6% | 40.8% | 2.7% | 1.7% | |
Nobody expected Chris Colabello to repeat last season's numbers, and in some ways we were all right. | |||||||||||||
11 | 9 | 9 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 9.7 | .534 | .539 | 40.8% | 9.4% | 50.3% | 5.8% | 9.0% | |
It's early, but Chris Iannetta is well on his way to finally giving the Mariners a catcher that can hit .180. | |||||||||||||
12 | 8 | 10 | 8.8 | 9.8 | 10.0 | .530 | .535 | 29.2% | 20.5% | 49.8% | 6.2% | 3.3% | |
If you could have on superpower, but what it b� [Rays front office interrupts] "Control young starting pitching!" Okay, I was thinking more traditional and cool ones, but whatever. | |||||||||||||
13 | 9 | 9 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 9.0 | .518 | .523 | 29.7% | 19.3% | 49.1% | 3.6% | 1.2% | |
What proof do we have that Henry Owens isn't simply Bronson Arroyo molting out of its outer layer? | |||||||||||||
14 | 10 | 9 | 9.6 | 10.6 | 10.0 | .520 | .515 | 7.4% | 25.1% | 32.4% | 1.5% | -2.5% | |
Jon Niese had both a pitching victory and an extra-inning RBI single this weekend and you are going to stand there and tell me that baseball is a drug-free sport? | |||||||||||||
15 | 9 | 11 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 10.1 | .513 | .508 | 11.0% | 21.4% | 32.4% | -5.8% | -16.1% | |
Some might wonder what's wrong with the Giants, and to them I say relax, it's not August and they haven't picked up Cody Ross yet. | |||||||||||||
16 | 10 | 10 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 10.9 | .495 | .490 | 5.3% | 10.1% | 15.5% | -1.6% | 5.5% | |
Pro tip for sports teams: don't order your road uniforms in the same factory where they produce squid ink pasta. They may not clean the rollers between batches. | |||||||||||||
17 | 10 | 9 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 8.7 | .476 | .481 | 13.7% | 5.8% | 19.5% | -1.8% | 6.6% | |
Josh Reddick is so popular in Oakland that many fans have taken to starting their own discussions about him in various subreddicks. | |||||||||||||
18 | 7 | 10 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.5 | .476 | .481 | 11.0% | 11.0% | 22.0% | -6.4% | -9.8% | |
Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller still haven't allowed a run yet, but you think that's impressive? Aroldis Chapman hasn't even allowed a baserunner. | |||||||||||||
19 | 8 | 9 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 7.6 | .475 | .480 | 4.4% | 12.2% | 16.6% | -4.4% | -13.7% | |
Well, of course Jarrod Saltamacchia and Ian Kinsler have more than half of the team�s home runs. What did you think would happen when Miguel Cabrera retired to become an Alaskan fisherman and Justin Upton is lost somewhere in downtown Ann Arbor? | |||||||||||||
20 | 10 | 9 | 9.6 | 8.0 | 8.2 | .473 | .478 | 13.4% | 5.8% | 19.3% | -3.4% | 0.3% | |
I know it's not in the Rangers' color scheme, but they should have let Prince Fielder wear all purple this weekend. It's what the nation would have wanted. | |||||||||||||
21 | 6 | 13 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.3 | .460 | .465 | 26.2% | 9.2% | 35.4% | -1.3% | -15.0% | |
A long, unbearable slog of a Sunday Night Baseball game against the Red Sox in your dorky dimension home park. Congratulations, Houston! You're the new Yankees! | |||||||||||||
22 | 9 | 9 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.7 | .470 | .465 | 2.4% | 6.4% | 8.8% | -2.0% | -3.8% | |
Trevor Story is 6 for his last 36, so this must be the part of the Story where the author spends several pages on long paragraphs describing sunsets. | |||||||||||||
23 | 6 | 11 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 7.9 | .443 | .438 | 0.7% | 5.8% | 6.4% | 0.8% | -2.0% | |
You might think the Marlins only have three stolen bases, but in actuality they were simply paid for by taxpayer dollars. | |||||||||||||
24 | 5 | 14 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | .430 | .435 | 1.4% | 3.7% | 5.1% | -1.1% | -3.4% | |
Lesson learned, Twins. Why bother losing something in 16 innings that you are perfectly capable of doing in nine? | |||||||||||||
25 | 8 | 11 | 7.3 | 5.9 | 6.4 | .416 | .421 | 5.8% | 2.5% | 8.4% | -2.1% | -1.2% | |
A team .265 on-base percentage isn't great, but the Angels can be glad they don't have that! And that's how to feel happy about a .287 team OBP. | |||||||||||||
26 | 7 | 12 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 6.2 | .408 | .403 | 1.1% | 3.2% | 4.3% | -0.7% | -0.6% | |
Johnny Manziel being indicted by a grand jury for misdemeanor assault is yet another embarrassing story for a high-profile Padres draft pick. | |||||||||||||
27 | 9 | 10 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 6.9 | .405 | .400 | 0.3% | 2.0% | 2.2% | -0.2% | 0.2% | |
Charlie Morton went on the disabled list this weekend. Talk about salt in the wounds. | |||||||||||||
28 | 9 | 10 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 5.8 | .397 | .392 | 0.8% | 5.7% | 6.4% | -0.1% | -0.5% | |
The Reds only have one recorded save on the season, and it was when Joey Votto convinced a teammate not to binge watch the later seasons of "The West Wing." | |||||||||||||
29 | 8 | 11 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | .390 | .385 | 1.0% | 5.0% | 6.0% | 1.2% | -2.3% | |
Team unity is so important in baseball, and the Brewers pitchers have banded together so well by all agreeing to allow so many earned runs in solidarity of each other. | |||||||||||||
30 | 4 | 14 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 6.1 | .353 | .349 | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.3% | -0.1% | -0.5% | |
The Braves have only hit three home runs as a team so far, and it's safe to assume that at least two of them were struck by Ryan Klesko. |
If you're gonna Suss with somebody, you're not gonna Suss with me, you little Suss!