Three 2026 Baseball Stories – Trout Pages and Shohei

This is crazy. Speaks to war vs BA vs OBP vs Runs vs RBIs etc

hard to make sense of it all in some ways

dodgers are first in MLB in BA at .261 & OBP and 2nd in runs

angels are 23rd in BA and 14th in runs

pages/shohei/trout

war – 3.6 (6th.in league)/2.8/2.6

hits – 75/75/59

walks – 19/51/65

Walks + hits – 94/126/124

runs- 42/50/53 (2nd in league)

BA – .272/.298/.230

OBP – .315/.421 (2nd in league)/.393 (9th)

HR – 15/14/16

RBIs – 56/41/33

Love a high OBP guy but I want it with a good BA too. Like Shohei. Unlike Trout this year. A hit drives in runs.  A walk usually doesn’t. It’s a flaw in advanced baseball stats. A double is treated the same as a walk in OBP. It’s inaccurate.
Pages doesn’t walk at all but look at his hits leading to RBIs.

but having a high OBP and a low BA is like stagflation lol.

But runs win games. Trout has a bunch of them. Due to his high OBP. so can’t completely downplay it at all.

Shohei is clearly having best year even without his cy young campaign. But I would take pages 1st half over Trouts.

this is baseball talk. I am biggest Trout fan there is even tho I don’t look like it here. but the one critique about his game is he doesn’t swing the bat enough even tho he has a high strikeout number as well. 🤷‍♂️ I would rather he be a consistent 100 rbi guy and maybe a 75 run guy. Thats what Angels need IMO. It’s funny tho. Angels are considered a bad team but Trout is on pace for 120 runs. That’s a BIG number.

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