The superlatives and champagne showered upon Jose Ramirez this season have been numerous and deserved. But where Trevor Bauer and Mike Clevinger had seemingly endless streams of liquid to pour over the goat, we’ve nearly run out of adjectives for how good he’s been.
As of this writing, among all MLB players, the diminutive slugger sits third in home runs, fifth in runs scored, fifth in RBI, fourth in stolen bases, eighth in walk percentage, eighth in lowest strikeout percentage, third in ISO, ninth in on-base percentage, fourth in slugging, fifth in wOBA, and fifth in wRC+ — that’s basically the entire FanGraphs dashboard, and the angry hamster is top-ten everywhere.