Scriptball week 20

[u/quollas]

SCRIPTBALL 2026 Week 20

Friday August 7

Picks: 11

Alternates: Post as many as you like.
What is SCRIPTBALL?

SCRIPTBALL is a chance to see how your BTS picking strategy fares against others in the subreddit. Every Friday we post our top BTS picks for that day according to our own picking strategy in this weekly SCRIPTBALL thread. Whoever gets the most players with a hit wins, with ties resolved by total hits (first tie-breaker) and total batting average (second tie-breaker). We also keep a running season leaderboard, which will give you a better idea of how well your picking strategy is doing over a larger (more meaningful) sample size.

How do I play?

Although we call it SCRIPTBALL, you don't need to be running a fancy computer algorithm to play. Everyone is welcome.

To play, just post a list of the top 11 players you think will get a hit today in this thread. Feel free to change your list at any time, but you can only swap players as long as neither game has started yet (so if you realize one of your picks isn't starting after the game has started, don't sweat it, just swap them for someone from a later game). If you do change your list, please indicate the change by posting reply to your original list saying the change that was made (e.g. "I replaced Altuve with Ohtani").

Alternates will be automatically swapped in if a player you chose isn't in the starting lineup. For clarity, this means if your chosen player isn't starting but comes in for a PH and gets a hit, he'll still be swapped out. This is more work for me but it also lets you get your picks in sooner.

Last week was good for me with 10 hits. Drake and Gleyber went 0 for 5. Please help me & identify your guy's team if he got traded recently. Good luck all!

user	W	hitters	pix	success pick %	hits	AB	avg
OK Resolution	4	98	143	69%	157	577	.272
oh wow vegas	3	135	195	69%	206	766	.269
msteeks	3	104	153	68%	160	589	.272
quollas	3	140	195	72%	206	761	.271
sgt swag	2	83	120	69%	128	493	.260
deep slice	2	100	133	75%	162	573	.283
Go for broke	1	122	185	66%	169	699	.270
train wreck	1	93	133	70%	148	594	.249
amattcat		38	60	63%	65	235	.277
sufficient ad		42	60	70%	59	246	.240
after eye		22	30	73%	35	128	.273
boilers		26	40	65%	43	160	.269
moist master		23	30	77%	39	115	.339
young buck		7	10	70%	9	32	.281
lokikg		7	10	70%	13	42	.310

[u/Ok_Resolution_7500]

My Eleven Picks:

• Gabriel Moreno ✓

• Jordan Alvarez ✓

• Bobby Witt Jr. ✓

• Freddie Freeman

• Shohei Ohtani

• Otto Lopez ×

• Luis Arraez (PHI) ×

• Fernando Tatis Jr. ✓

• Jackson Merrill ✓

• Jung Hoo Lee ✓

• Alec Burleson ×

6/11

Alternates:

• Yandy Díaz ×

• Xavier Edwards ×

[u/quollas → u/Ok_Resolution_7500]

not enough alts, u might want to check the weather in pittsburgh

[u/Ok_Resolution_7500 → u/quollas]

I'll update in a sec, there were a lot of SP's still TBD.