MLB Hot Bats
Who's Seeing It Best: Zach Neto Tops the MLB Hot-Bat Board
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Zach Neto 
Fernando Tatis Jr. 
Nick Sogard 
Pete Alonso
Hitting is contagious, streaky, and gloriously unfair, and the only honest way to track it is the box score. From the last seven days of captured games, minimum 8 at-bats to qualify, here is who is genuinely hot.
The hottest hand
Zach Neto has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The LAA hitter has rapped out 13 hits in 27 at-bats across six games, a .481 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.
Averaged out, he is banging 2.2 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.
And he is not just slapping singles: two home runs and 9 RBI over the run.
The rest of the hot list
Then comes Fernando Tatis Jr. (SD): 12 hits in 25 at-bats, a .480 clip with four homers and eleven RBI.
Nick Sogard (BOS) belongs in the conversation too at 11-for-22 (.500) with two homers and four RBI.
And Pete Alonso (BAL) has strung together 10 hits in 29 at-bats (.345) with three homers and five RBI.
The rest of the hot list reads Vinnie Pasquantino (KC) 10-for-26, Yandy Diaz (TB) 10-for-27, Luis Arraez (PHI) 10-for-21.
At a glance
The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Neto | LAA | 13-for-27 | .481 | 2 | 9 |
| Fernando Tatis Jr. | SD | 12-for-25 | .480 | 4 | 11 |
| Nick Sogard | BOS | 11-for-22 | .500 | 2 | 4 |
| Pete Alonso | BAL | 10-for-29 | .345 | 3 | 5 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | KC | 10-for-26 | .385 | 2 | 5 |
The fine print
A word on the cutoff: hitters need 8 at-bats and multiple games in the window to make this list, which keeps one-night wonders off the board.
Nobody stays this hot forever, and the box scores will tell us the moment it cools. Until then, enjoy the show.
Next up on the slate: Los Angeles Angels against Cleveland Guardians. Check back after that one goes final.