Matt Kemp your NL Batting Average Leader

Phil Gurnee ♦ June 1, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment

Even if you don’t subscribe to batting average being part of the cool club, it is still something to marvel at when Matt Kemp leads the National League in batting average after two months of the season are in the books.

Notice I did not say he leads the NL in hitting as that is a completely different thing but hey his wRC+ is also quite lofty. For now let us put this stat to paper so it will remain forever logged.

As I was writing this Matt Kemp just slugged a home run and is now completely in front of Scooter Gennett.

Name	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	wRC+	WAR
Matt Kemp	181	0.343	0.37	0.55	152	1.4
Scooter Gennett	222	0.343	0.377	0.551	152	1.9
Freddie Freeman	253	0.335	0.435	0.538	162	2.5
Nick Markakis	252	0.333	0.401	0.505	147	2
Nolan Arenado	221	0.319	0.416	0.58	152	2.3
Odubel Herrera	220	0.313	0.377	0.485	137	1.7
Albert Almora Jr.	165	0.313	0.366	0.44	121	1.6
Corey Dickerson	214	0.31	0.346	0.49	124	1.4
Brandon Belt	225	0.309	0.404	0.55	162	2.4
Brandon Crawford	209	0.307	0.349	0.469	122	1.4
Christian Yelich	199	0.307	0.372	0.492	133	1.4
Starling Marte	196	0.306	0.357	0.506	135	1.7
Asdrubal Cabrera	224	0.303	0.344	0.529	140	1.9