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‘Tis the season for reflections on the year that was. So here’s a question: Who was MLB’s most representative hitter in 2022?
This is the same exercise we ran after last season. As a refresher: We’re not looking for the most average player. (Too easy! It takes all of 10 seconds to sort a leaderboard and see how many guys finished the year with an OPS+ of exactly 100.) Instead, we’re looking for the most representative, the one who best captures what the sport actually looked like in 2022—in terms of power and contact and related metrics. There are lots of ways to be an average hitter. This is about the quest to find the one who best shows the type of baseball we saw this year.
