As the best pure hitter in the sport, he obviously belongs here.ġ. It's still very unlikely that he can sustain this for the rest of the season (though there's a path for him to get there), but Arraez is proving that you don't need power to succeed in baseball in 2023. His defense is holding him back a bit on the WAR leaderboard - although when you're hitting. Arraez is the toughest hitter in baseball to strike out, sporting a jaw-dropping 4.6% K rate.
500 slugging percentage despite lacking power (just one homer in 239 plate appearances).
He also leads the NL in hits and wRC+ (162), and he's closing in on a. Arraez's NL-leading OBP is some 30 points ahead of the next-closest hitter, and his. It's an eye-popping and historic number that's the obvious key to his MVP candidacy, but let's dig a bit deeper. 400 watch in 2023, yet here we are on June 9, watching Luis Arraez hit. Sean Murphy, Braves Icon Sportswire / Icon Sportswire / Gettyįew could have imagined we'd be on. Carroll might not be a favorite to make history in what's shaping up to be a very deep crop of NL MVP candidates, but he's hardly out of place in this conversation.Ĥ. Only two rookies have ever been named MVP, and both were in the American League. On the "valuable" side of the coin, he's now one of the key components of his team's rise to the top of the NL West, providing certainty atop the lineup and a steady hand at all three outfield spots. Carroll also ranks tied for third in the Senior Circuit in WAR, and top-10 in runs scored, OBP, slugging, OPS (.928), and OPS+ (153). Speed is the 22-year-old's calling card, and true to form, he's tied for second in the NL in steals while being caught just twice in 20 attempts. Carroll has hit the ground running - literally - in his rookie season, becoming a difference-maker for the surprising D-Backs.
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