Analytics have killed the cool quotient of batting titles. Batting average has gone the way of CDs, coins, letter writing, newspapers on your doorstep, rock and roll bands, and proper grammar: not exactly gone, but underappreciated.
A least one person is taking special note of what Trea Turner is doing this year for the Washington Nationals. In a season in which the National League batting average has never been worse since the mound was lowered in 1969, Turner could be the league’s first batting champion in 85 years to hit better than .350 while playing shortstop.
“It only matters to my mother,” Turner told SI.