You’ll Never Believe This Top Hitter!

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA - MARCH 12: LuJames Groover #91 of the Arizona Diamondbacks walks across the field during a Spring Training game against the Colorado Rockies at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on March 12, 2026 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) | Getty Images Sometimes you need a clickbaity title for fun, and sometimes the extreme title is actually justified.

This might be one of those times. In the early going, there aren’t a tremendous amount of statistics that mean much of anything, or at least that mean enough to re-evaluate what we think about a player. As an example, here are the statistical leaders by various metrics: wRC+: Danny Serretti (200) BA: José Mejía (.

406) OBP: Kayson Cunningham (. 533) SLG: Manuel Pena (. 778) Line Drive Percentage: Jose Alpuria (58.

3%) With the exception of Alpuria (who has 30 plate appearances) none of these players have reached 50 plate appearances yet, and it takes at least 60 plate appearances for any of the available stats at lower levels to mean anything. So hats off to Cunningham, getting on base more than half of the time, but it’s probably unsustainable. Only four hitters (all at Reno, of course) have reached the requisite 60 plate appearances for their stats to mean anything, and it isn’t all of their stats.