In his last two full seasons of baseball, Jose Altuve has hit 31 home runs each season. Given his physical stature, I don’t have to convince anyone of how unlikely this is. I count only nine other players in MLB who hit 31 or more homers in both the 2019 and 2021 seasons.
Safe to say, none of them weighed anywhere near Jose’s 166 pounds. They would all probably be classified as heavyweights if they were boxers.
But just in case you forgot, Jose Altuve didn’t always hit like this:
In his first three seasons, encompassing over 1500 PAs, Altuve hit only 14 home runs, slugging only .