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[Sarah Langs’s Voice] Wheeeeee!
R/G AVG OBP SLG wRC+
7/30-8/4 9.3 .246 .313 .415 104
8/5-10 9.3 .254 .319 .421 108
8/11-16 9.3 .249 .318 .422 108
8/17-22 7.6 .233 .302 .375 91
That is an incredible anomaly. That’s first-week-of-April offense in August. I mention April because weather has been proposed a one reason for the downtick. It has been mild here in New York and in some parts of the country. Can we dispense with the idea, though, that “mild for August” is enough to lop 50 off points of slugging around the league? No one’s wearing balaclavas out there. You can’t see players’ breath. Vendors are still schlepping cold beer rather than hot coffee.
