The All-Star break is in the rear-view mirror, the non-waiver trade deadline is just ahead, and every team in baseball will have played more than 100 games when this week ends. The beginning of MLB’s home stretch is starting to come into sight.
A handful of contenders will look different next week than they do right now, which makes the big series of the week all the more important. The first Table Setter of the unofficial second half is here.
José Ramírez, 2B/3B, Indians
For the first time all season, we have someone atop the WAR leaderboards, both Fangraphs’s and Baseball-Reference’s, who isn’t Mike Trout.