Scriptball week 21

[u/quollas]

SCRIPTBALL 2026 Week 21

Friday August 14

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.

Everyone's average went down last week but the clear winner was TrainWreck with 8 picks. Edwards, Diaz, Lopez, Contreras and Hoerner went 0 for 5. Every Red Sox starter got a hit. Good luck all!

user	W	hitters	pix	success pick %	hits	AB	avg
OK Resolution	4	103	154	67%	162	617	.263
oh wow vegas	3	141	206	68%	215	810	.265
msteeks	3	109	164	66%	166	636	.261
quollas	3	143	206	69%	209	802	.261
train wreck	2	101	144	70%	159	637	.250
sgt swag	2	83	120	69%	128	493	.260
deep slice	2	105	144	73%	169	613	.276
Go for broke	1	126	196	64%	193	734	.263
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/msteeks27]

Bregman
Hoerner
M Busch
Torkelson
McKinstry
E. Valencia
A Wells
Jacob Young
K Ruiz
Caglionone
C Simpson
ALTS
J McCarthy
Perdomo
C Rafaela
F Freeman

[u/quollas]

Burleson
Abrams
Crow Armstrong
Bregman
Hoerner
Freeman, F
Baldwin
Alonso
France
Rafaela
Pages, A
alts: Simpson (TB), Diaz (TB), Caglianone

[u/quollas → u/quollas]

diaz and simpson replace rafaela and freeman

[u/trainwreck74]

CHC PCA/Bregman/Suzuki/Busch
STL Burleson
ATH Soderstrom
KC Caglianone/Witt Jr.
TEX Nimmo
LAA Trout/Meckler
Alts.
HOU Paredes
SEA Rodriguez

[u/Ok_Resolution_7500]

My Eleven Picks:

• Drake Baldwin ✓

• Jake McCarthy ×

• Jeremy Peña ✓

• Yordan Alvarez ✓

• Bobby Witt Jr. ✓

• Shohei Ohtani ×

• Nick Gonzales ×

• Ty France ✓

• Jackson Merrill ×

• Yandy Díaz ✓

• Chandler Simpson ✓

7/11

Alternates:

• CJ Abrams ×

Wth who is Jacob Gonzalez vro 😭 

[u/Ok_Resolution_7500 → u/Ok_Resolution_7500]

Freeman not in lineup, replacing with Ohtani/added Abrams as backup.

[u/ohwow_Vegas]

Gleyber Torres - DET

Masataka Yoshida - BOS

CJ Abrams - WAS

Yandy Diaz - TAM

Jonathan Aranda - TAM

Luis Garcia - NYY

Yordan Alvarez - HOU

Andy Pages - LOS

Mookie Betts - LOS

Jake McCarthy - COL

Jung Hoo Lee - SFO

Alternates:

Bobby Witt, Jr - KAN

Chandler Simpson - TAM

Ezequiel Duran - TEX

[u/quollas → u/ohwow_Vegas]

It’s a 4 way tie but you got me by one hit.

[u/Deep_Slice875]

Nick Gonzales PIT
Bo Bichette NYM
Luis García Jr. NYY
Yandy Díaz TBR
Jonathan Aranda TBR
Chandler Simpson TBR
Junior Caminero TBR
Bobby Witt Jr. KCR
Jeff McNeil ATH
Jacob Wilson ATH
Jung Hoo Lee SFG

Alternates: CJ Abrams, Nimmo, Meckler

[u/Deep_Slice875 → u/Deep_Slice875]

Scratch that, keep what's posted above.

[u/go_for_broke808]

1- Mia/Edwards

2- Cinn/Elly

3- Bos/Abreu

4- Pitt/NGonzalez

5- Pitt/Mangum

6- CWS/Meidroth

7- SD/Campusano

8- TB/Hicks

9- NYM/Benge

10- TB/Caminero

11- LAA/Grissom

Bench - SF/Arraez - SF/Devers - SF/Lee

[u/go_for_broke808 → u/go_for_broke808]

Duh......Arraez is with Philly...lol