Teoscar Hernández hasn’t just heated up. He’s on fire this June (the last two games notwithstanding). His wRC+ has gone from a cool 85 at the end of May to a blazing 175 in June. Meanwhile, his strikeout rate has taken a nosedive from 33.3% to a more respectable 25.8%, and his walk rate has climbed from a League-worst 3.5% to a remarkable 11.3%. It’s as if he waved a magic wand and said, “May, who?”
My favorite way to see his improvement is visual. On the left, we have the pitches he swung and missed at in April and May—let’s call it the “whiff zone.