There’s a habit among team writers at the end of each baseball season to gather up all the stats, lay them out around us as if they were Rob’s record collection from High Fidelity, and ask ourselves: “What order can I put these in to craft an interesting narrative about the season?”
Now that we’re in the long dark of winter, let’s pick apart every aspect of the season that was in the hopes we might be able to better predict the 2020 that lays ahead.
In looking at the season’s stats, an interesting question arose: “Who was the Rays best hitter in 2019?