In Sunday’s game against the Red Sox, Ben McDonald threw out a stat that I was unprepared for. The Orioles’ top color commentator said that right behind Aaron Judge on the American League OPS charts was Orioles 1B/DH Ryan O’Hearn.
I knew O’Hearn was having a great start to his season, but didn’t think it was entering “best hitters in the AL” territory. But when you pull MLB.com, Baseball Reference, Fangraphs or any of your favorite stat sites, there’s Turn and Burn O’Hearn and his .968 OPS, right behind the Yankees’ superstar.
ROH also currently sits fourth in the AL in average at .