Monday, October 29, 2018

Best Batter Today

At the end of the 2018 season, the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings show Christian Yelich, Alex Bregman, Anthony Rendon, Mike Trout, and Justin Turner occupying the top five. That is unlikely to change before opening day of next year. The scores will decay slowly over the winter, so that players who don’t start the following season drop quickly as others add to their scores. Since some players finished the season injured or released, decay rates will be different, so down the list some may fall a bit, but as the 2019 season begins, the top 20 should be intact.

The post-season may have hurt Manny Machado a bit. He finished the regular season in 13th place, a hair behind fellow young star Bryce Harper. The playoffs dropped him to 26th. He did not cover himself in glory on the big stage.



from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2qeFhMs

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