The 2019 season may prove to be the most important of Trey Mancini’s career. He’s taken over both Adam Jones’s locker and his Popeye’s-buying obligation in the Orioles clubhouse. Not to mention, the 27-year-old Mancini is finally healthy following an up-and-down 2018, and it shows. He’s never looked more locked in at the plate.
Mancini leads the Orioles in just about everything: batting average (.339), on base percentage (.400), slugging percentage (.710), home runs (six), doubles (six) and RBI (12). That doesn’t even include any advanced metrics, but he leads the team there as well, including fWAR (0.