Bobby Witt Jr. is on an incredible tear. Through 15 games this July he is slashing .508/.523/.932 for an absurd 296 wRC+. He has 30 hits, that’s two per game, and 12 of them are for extra bases. Also, he has passed Aaron Judge on the Fangraphs WAR leaderboard. I am not sure that I have ever looked at the WAR leaderboard and seen a Royals hitter number one in the second half of a season.
For a lot of teams it might be hard to define what is the best season of all-time. For the Royals, George Brett’s 1980 chase for .