Top 100 Hitters, Week 20: I Take My Own Revenge on Acuna

I’m playing the guy who has Ronald Acuna this week so I went by his house and slashed his tires. That oughta show him! His last arbitrary 18 games: 18 runs, 10 HRs, 19 RBI, 4 SBs, .377 AVG. That’s a good SEASON for Chris Davis!

Rising:

Kole Calhoun: Calhoun is making Mike Trout look like Mike Guppy! Fish jokes! Calhoun has been one of the hottest hitters in the two months since his re-debut. 41 runs/16 HRs/39 RBI/2 SBs and a .306 average in 180 ABs? What round are you taking Calhoun in next year?

Falling:

Max Muncy: It’s almost like someone sent the entire league a How-To-Pitch-To-Max-Muncy book over the All-Star Break. He’s hitting .208 since the mid-summer classic with a 33:6 K/BB ratio. It looks like he was who we thought he was and we let him off the hook. Hope you sold high while you could!

Odubel Herrera: Odubel has been cooler than being cool his last 14 games: ICE COLD! 1 run! 0 HRs, 0 SBs. And this after I mentioned him in this column last week? The nerve!

Newcomer:

Miguel Andujar: Andujar is making Manny Machado’s friends come out and say how much he wants to be a Yankee next year just to convince the Yankees a bit more to pay up for him. I don’t see it happening unless the Yankees hang it up on Greg Bird and see how well Andujar can handle first base. Andujar should win AL rookie of the year and cause a few more non-Yankee fans to hiss and curse at the Yankees good fortune. I thought Andujar was going to be a solid, not spectacular player in the league — but what the hell do I know? I thought Rob Refsnyder was the Yankees second baseman of the future! Those are the only despicable tweets they’ll dig up on me. And my anti-Carmelo Twitter rants.

Newleaver:

Brian Anderson: Here’s something I haven’t done yet in this column — explaining why I dropped someone off the Top 100 list. Brian Anderson was hovering in the bottom 10% of this last for most of the year because he had a great average despite his lack of power and speed. A guy who can hit .285 with 80 run/80 RBI pace is valuable to me. He’s like a reminder of what Baltimore Oriole Nick Markakis was like before this season. But Anderson has stunk it up in August. He still has the typical 0 HR/0 SB that we’re accustomed to, but now he’s hitting .212 in August over 52 ABs? Sorry Anderson. I was fighting for you, but you’re just not fighting back.

Top 100 Hitters

GREEN: Rising | BLUE: New Additions | RED: Falling

RANK	NAME	TEAM	POSITION	LAST WEEK
1	Mookie Betts	BOS	OF	1
2	Jose Ramirez	CLE	2B/3B	2
3	Francisco Lindor	CLE	SS	3
4	J.D. Martinez	BOS	OF	4
5	Mike Trout	LAA	OF	5
6	Andrew Benintendi	BOS	OF	6
7	Manny Machado	LAD	3B	7
8	Javier Baez	CHC	SS/2B	8
9	Nolan Arenado	COL	3B	9
10	Paul Goldschmidt	ARI	1B	10
11	Trea Turner	WAS	SS	11
12	Matt Carpenter	STL	1B/2B/3B	13
13	Trevor Story	COL	SS	17
14	Freddie Freeman	ATL	1B	14
15	Giancarlo Stanton	NYY	OF	15
16	Eugenio Suarez	CIN	3B	16
17	Bryce Harper	WAS	OF	18
18	Khris Davis	OAK	OF	19
19	Christian Yelich	MIL	OF	20
20	Starling Marte	PIT	OF	21
21	Alex Bregman	HOU	SS/3B	12
22	Charlie Blackmon	COL	OF	22
23	Justin Upton	LAA	OF	23
24	Shin-Soo Choo	TEX	OF	24
25	Juan Soto	WAS	OF	25
26	Jesus Aguilar	MIL	1B	27
27	Jose Altuve	HOU	2B	29
28	George Springer	HOU	OF	30
29	Nelson Cruz	SEA	DH	32
30	Ozzie Albies	ATL	2B	33
31	Jean Segura	SEA	SS	34
32	Edwin Encarnacion	CLE	1B	35
33	Lorenzo Cain	MIL	OF	36
34	Aaron Judge	NYY	OF	37
35	Ronald Acuna	ATL	OF	49
36	Eddie Rosario	MIN	OF	26
37	Nick Markakis	ATL	OF	38
38	Cody Bellinger	LAD	1B/OF	39
39	Mitch Haniger	SEA	OF	40
40	Xander Bogaerts	BOS	SS	41
41	Anthony Rizzo	CHC	1B	42
42	Aaron Hicks	NYY	OF	43
43	Didi Gregorius	NYY	SS	44
44	Scooter Gennett	CIN	2B	28
45	Brian Dozier	LAD	2B	46
46	Rhys Hoskins	PHI	1B/OF	47
47	Max Muncy	LAD	1B/2B/3B	31
48	Jose Abreu	CWS	1B	50
49	Travis Shaw	MIL	3B	54
50	Mike Moustakas	KC	3B	55
51	Anthony Rendon	WAS	3B	56
52	Michael Brantley	CLE	OF	57
53	David Peralta	ARI	OF	63
54	Whit Merrifield	KC	2B	58
55	Elvis Andrus	TEX	SS	60
56	Cesar Hernandez	PHI	2B	61
57	Tim Anderson	CWS	SS	48
58	AJ Pollock	ARI	OF	45
59	Wil Myers	SD	1B/OF	65
60	Eduardo Escobar	ARZ	3B/SS	66
61	Carlos Correa	HOU	SS	53
62	Nicholas Castellanos	DET	3B/OF	67
63	Ian Desmond	COL	1B/OF	51
64	Asdrubal Cabrera	PHI	2B/SS/3B	68
65	Rougned Odor	TEX	2B	69
66	Matt Kemp	LAD	OF	52
67	Joey Votto	CIN	1B	59
68	Gleyber Torres	NYY	2B/SS	62
69	Kole Calhoun	LAA	OF	86
70	Tommy Pham	TBR	OF	NR
71	Odubel Herrera	PHI	OF	64
72	Brandon Belt	SF	OF	72
73	Nomar Mazara	TEX	OF	73
74	Chris Taylor	LAD	2B/OF/SS	70
75	Matt Chapman	OAK	3B	84
76	Dee Gordon	SEA	2B/OF	74
77	Miguel Andujar	NYY	3B	NR
78	Daniel Murphy	WAS	2B	75
79	Robinson Cano	SEA	2B	NR
80	Ender Inciarte	ATL	OF	77
81	D.J. LeMahieu	COL	2B	78
82	Mallex Smith	TBR	OF	88
83	Andrew McCutchen	SF	OF	80
84	Maikel Franco	PHI	3B	81
85	Joey Gallo	TEX	3B/1B	82
86	Jurickson Profar	TEX	SS/3B/OF	83
87	Yonder Alonso	CLE	1B	89
88	Jose Peraza	CIN	2B/SS	90
89	Carlos Santana	PHI	1B	92
90	Andrelton Simmons	LAA	SS	76
91	Marcus Semien	OAK	SS	NR
92	JT Realmuto	MIA	C	94
93	Yadier Molina	STL	C	NR
94	Gregory Polanco	PIT	OF	71
95	Brett Gardner	NYY	OF	96
96	Brandon Nimmo	NYM	OF	98
97	Adam Jones	BAL	OF	99
98	Adam Eaton	WAS	OF	79
99	Matt Olson	OAK	1B	91
100	Wilson Ramos	WAS	C	NR