On Monday I asked the question “Can Rhys Hoskins wind up as the Phillies 2017 HR leader?” With some law-professor-quality math, I showed that it was possible for him to overtake Maikel Franco and Tommy Joseph, but that it would ultimately be difficult because he was, respectively, 6 and 7 home runs behind them with only 19 games to play.
Well, what on Monday seemed like a silly blogger experimenting with numbers on an off-day now seems like a foregone conclusion: Rhys Hoskins is going to lead the Phillies in home runs by the end of the year.