Players with most hits

     The last time I wrote about my strategy of looking at the top lead-off hitter with the most hits from that lead-off position.

     Today I have expanded on that strategy by looking at the top overall hitter with the most hits. When I look at these hitter I noticed that they hit consistently every game, with one maybe two game without a hit. As an example, I will look at Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins. He has played in 29 games and has had at least one hit in 26 of those games. He is also on a 13 game hit streak as of Sunday May, 10.

     The one issue that does bother me is that unless a hitter goes on a 56 game hit streak, sooner or later he will go hitless. If I could just figure out when that will be getting to 57 games would be easy. However not knowing this information without a crystal ball is impossible.

     The next thing I am looking at is when a top hitting player does go hitless I wait for them to get a hit and then pick them in the game after that. Let me show you. Jacoby Ellsbury went hitless on Saturday. On Sunday he got a hit giving him a one game hit streak. There is a good chance Ellsbury will go a couple of games with a hit, so this is a good pick.

     Here is a list of the top 10 players in hits. The results are after Sundays games. It also includes the hit streak they are on as of Sunday.

Column1	Name	Team	Hits	Streak
1	Gordon	MIA	54	13
2	Altuve	HOU	45	0
3	Ellsbury	NYY	43	1
4	Gonzalez	LAD	43	5
5	Cruz	SEA	42	4
6	Fielder	TEX	41	0
7	Donaldson	TOR	40	4
8	Jones	BAL	40	3
9	Freeman	ATL	39	7
10	Goldschmidt	ARI	39	0
	Myers	SD	39	0
	Pagon	SF	39	0
	Semien	OAK	39	3

     On Sunday, May 10, four of the top ten hitter went hitless. These could be good picks for Tuesday if any of they get hit on Monday. 

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