It’s September first. There are about 20 games left in the MLB season. Tim Anderson is hitting .393 for a surprisingly competitive White Sox club, and DJ LeMahieu paces the division-leading Yankees at .390. For the first time in almost 30 years, baseball has a real race to .400...in fact it has two.
The catch of course, is that both players, two of the five or so best contact hitters in the game, have only played about 40 games at this point in the hypothetical. It’s 2020, an abbreviated season.