“A generational talent”: Immerging as the new best hitter, Yordan Alvarez

“A generational talent”: Immerging as the new best hitter, Yordan Alvarez

Yordan Alvarez

There are certain names that must pop up in your head when one talks about MLB superstars or young hitters, Yordan Alvarez been there lately? There are plenty.

Juan Soto, Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and so on are a few names that come to one’s mind but sooner or later Houston Astros’ Yordan Alvarez could be looking to gradually move up that list. Yordan is only 24-years-old but he’s hitting the ball better and with great passion from the time he’s stepped into Major League Baseball.

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Alvarez has 17 home runs, a 1.025 OPS and a 195 wRC+, which is right at the top of the league next to Aaron Judge and means he’s been just about twice as good as a usual big-league hitter with the league average being 100.

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Stat cast data shows Yordan Alvarez is climbing towards the top spot

Yordan Alvarez
Yordan Alvarez

Why don’t we sit back and look at the data, A player is judged on his quality of contact, how hard they’re hitting the ball and how well they’re driving it in the air. This concludes there are three major details noted about every batter that takes the field – His batting average, his slugging percentage and his wOBA – for overall offensive performance.

Alvarez leads the Major Leagues in all three.

  • Highest xBA in 2022
  • Min. 150 PA
  • 1. Yordan Alvarez: .360
  • 2. Joc Pederson: .335
  • 3. Tim Anderson: .332
  • 4. J.D. Martinez: .329
  • 5. Bryce Harper: .328
  • Majors’ xBA: .254

  • Highest xSLG in 2022
  • Min. 150 PA
  • 1. Yordan Alvarez: .777
  • 2. Aaron Judge: .766
  • 3. Joc Pederson: .716
  • 4. Bryce Harper: .670
  • 5. Mike Trout: .648_
  • Majors’ xSLG: .437_

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  • Highest xwOBA in 2022
  • Min. 150 PA
  • 1. Yordan Alvarez: .498
  • 2. Aaron Judge: .468
  • 3. Joc Pederson: .465
  • 4. Bryce Harper: .438
  • 5. (tie) Mike Trout: .427
  • 5. (tie) Taylor Ward: .427
  • 5. (tie) Willson Contreras: .427
  • Majors’ xwOBA: .329

With these stats, Yordan Alvarez is competing at his own level. If the season ended today itself, he would hold the most single-season xwOBA in the history of the Stat cast track. If we take a look at the number one as of now since 2015, Freddie Freeman in 2020 had .466 (Min. 200 PA in the season) on the other hand Yordan Alvarez sits with .498 in 2022

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