Who Was MLB’s Most Representative Hitter in 2021?

Emma Baccellieri here, taking over for our usual newsletter author Matt Martell, who has enjoyed a much-deserved week off. And speaking of weeks off: We’ve all made it through the first full week of the off-season! Congratulations. But before we dive into a winter full of labor discussions, free-agency updates and other various and sundry dramas, I wanted to take one last look back at the season that was. Specifically, I wanted to dig into one question. … Which hitter best reflected what we saw across baseball this year?

It’s easy to find the hitter who was the most average. Sort an OPS+ leader board, find the players who were at exactly 100, and bam, you have the most average hitters. (A…