April is a time for all junk stats, and I’ve got a fun one. Ronald Acuña Jr. is probably going to hold a lot of idiosyncratic records when all is said and done, and probably some not-so-meaningless ones too. But so far in 2019, there’s one thing he’s done that no one else has... yet.
xwOBA, meanwhile, describes what “should have happened” based on exit velocity and launch angle (and nothing else, no distance, or which part of the park it was hit to, or what the result actually was). If you hit a ball to the point where it’s a no-doubter homer, the xwOBA on it is going also be around 2.