Elvis Andrus has no steals this season but it’s not from a lack of trying. The Rangers shortstop has been caught three times, the most in baseball.

Jose Bautista is a pull hitter. Pretty easy to see that when you look at his homer spray chart since 2008.

Starlin Castro is the third Yankee to have eight RBI in the clubs first three games (in the live ball era, since 1920). Castro has been under 70 RBI the last three seasons and has a career best mark of 78 RBI. By the way, eight RBI is a Yankees record for a player’s first three games in pinstripes. Then there is this. Castro recorded his 1,000th hit at the age of 26 years and 16 days. That just so happens be nearly three months quicker than Derek Jeter (26 years, 94 days).

Khris Davis has been brutal to this point for his new team in Oakland. Davis has no RBI through seven games but worst yet he’s struck out 13 times in 23 at-bats. That’s horrific, downright scary actually. Can’t be starting him right now unless you’re in an AL-only setup.

Through six games Dexter Fowler has a .640 OBP. Since the start of the 2013 season he has a .365 OBP which is 12th in the outfield. You know who is 13th? I bet if I gave you 128 guesses you wouldn’t come to the name of Daniel Nava who has a mark of .360. Fowler also leads baseball with a .643 BABIP. At the bottom of that list is Curtis Granderson at .071.

The Giants have scored 12 runs in two of their first four games. The last time they did that was… 1884 when they were the New York Gothams.

Brock Holt leads all players with a 53.8 percent line drive rate. That’s only more than double his already superb 24.6 percent mark. Holt is off to a great start, and he qualifies at every spot which is a great bonus, but remember a few things. First, he’s hit eight homers in 289 games. Second, he’s hit a mere .279 for his career. Third, he’s stolen a total of 21 bases in his career. Fourth, the guy has a .378 SLG for his career. Extremely limited is Holt despite the nice start.

Gregory Polanco walked just 55 times last season in 153 games. He’s done an excellent job with the free pass early in the 2016 season though with nine free passes, the most in baseball, in six games. Through seven games he’s batting .381 with a .548 OBP. Tons of talent with Polanco, and a breakout is possible (Player Profile).

Yasiel Puig has been as good as Bryce Harper. Just look at the numbers.

Wilson Ramos has an 83.3 percent pull rate. Yikes. Gotta spread the ball a bit better than that Wilson. He will do just that. He owns a 37.3 percent pull rate for his career.

Jean Segura hit three homers in four games after going deep twice last Thursday (well once since he hit an insider the park homer on the ball that Kyle Schwarber was hurt that technically didn’t’ go “deep”). Segura hit five homers in 2014 and six in 2015. He’s never hit more than 12 homers in a season. He will be lucky to get to that total this season, even with this start (Player Profile).

Trevor Story is on pace to hit 189 home runs. It’s all anyone is talking about. No one is talking about how through six games that he’s drawn just one walk or that he’s on pace for 216 strikeouts which would be the third highest single season mark in baseball history. Seems like someone should be talking about this, doesn’t it?

Folks are still all in on Giancarlo Stanton. Do you know that his career batting average is lower than Josh Reddick or that he has just one season of 90 RBI? For more on Stanton check out this report on his fantasy value.

The Twins must be drinking Draino or something. Look at what some of their hitters have done through six games: Miguel Sano has 11 strikeouts, Byron Buxton has 11 strikeouts and Byun Ho Park has 11 whiffs. That’s 33 strikeouts as a trio with a total of just five walks. That’s a scary bad start for the group who also has a total of three RBI and three runs scored.

Tyler White leads baseball with a .689 wOBA. Great start, but who is he? Check out his Player Profile.

The first 38 games of the big league season this year resulted in 660 strikeouts. That’s 17.3 batters per game.

 

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