It’s not that Hunter Pence is having a good year, it’s that he’s having a great year. He already has 15 home runs, which puts him two away from equaling his output from 2017 and 2018 combined. His 141 wRC+ is a career high, and ties him for 21st in baseball along with Rhys Hoskins and the Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte, who makes his first All-Star Game this year:
Marte’s emergence as a bona fide superstar is as surprising as Hunter Pence having a great year at the age of 36.