If we’re being honest, we all knew that 2018 Ryan O’Hearn wasn’t the real Ryan O’Hearn. And while 44 games is a small sample size, what he did in those games was historically great compared to other similar rookie hot streaks.
No matter how high you were on O’Hearn, 2018 was clearly an aberration. Using that same logic, one could also argue that 2019 was an aberration as well. O’Hearn followed up a wildly successful and delicious first cup of coffee with an overflowing cup of old, cold, DMV coffee.
Among batters with at least 350 plate appearances, only nine had a worse wRC+ than O’Hearn’s 69 mark.