If you sort the wRC+ leaders among all outfielders since 2018, you’ll pull up a list headed by the exact names you would expect to see: Trout, Yelich, Betts, Judge, and Soto. Those are some of the biggest names in the entire sport. But coming in at number seven on the leaderboard is a name most people would not have guessed if they had a dozen chances: Brandon Nimmo. The 27-year-old has a 139 wRC+ since 2018, which comes in ahead of even more household names like Bellinger, Acuña Jr., Harper, and even Conforto.
Nimmo finally got regular playing time for the first time in 2018 and burst on to the scene, posting a .