Every baseball season stretches the limits of one’s attention. There’s too much happening, in too many places, all at once. Especially once the outliers of April’s starting stretch fade into a pack of competing performers, it can be tough to keep track of all of MLB’s revelatory individual seasons.
So before August turns to September and the tight playoff races drown out everything else, let’s take a careful look at the leaderboards and highlight nine stars of 2023 whose big numbers might sneak up on you.
(All stats are current through Thursday, Aug. 17.