MLB Hot Bats
Who's Seeing It Best: Rafael Devers Tops the MLB Hot-Bat Board
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Rafael Devers 
Drake Baldwin 
Steven Kwan 
Daylen Lile
Reputations do not get a vote here. Over the last seven days the box scores have been keeping their own list of who is actually seeing the ball in MLB, and the name at the top is not up for debate.
Top of the list
Rafael Devers (SF) is seeing beach balls. He has collected twelve hits in his last 28 trips to the plate over seven games, good for a .429 clip, and the at-bats keep getting louder.
Spread it out and that is 1.7 hits a game, every game, for the whole stretch, not one big night propping up a quiet week.
Add three home runs and 8 RBI, and you have a hitter carrying his corner of the lineup.
The rest of the hot list
Right behind him is Drake Baldwin (ATL), who has gone 12-for-30 over the same stretch, a .400 pace with one homer and four RBI.
Steven Kwan (CLE) has quietly gone 12-for-26 (.462) with two RBI.
And Daylen Lile (WSH) has strung together 11 hits in 24 at-bats (.458) with three homers and ten RBI.
Filling out the board: Luis Garcia Jr. (NYY) 11-for-23, George Springer (TOR) 10-for-19, Christian Encarnacion-Strand (BAL) 10-for-21.
The board
For the scan-and-go crowd, the leaders in one place:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rafael Devers | SF | 12-for-28 | .429 | 3 | 8 |
| Drake Baldwin | ATL | 12-for-30 | .400 | 1 | 4 |
| Steven Kwan | CLE | 12-for-26 | .462 | 0 | 2 |
| Daylen Lile | WSH | 11-for-24 | .458 | 3 | 10 |
| Luis Garcia Jr. | NYY | 11-for-23 | .478 | 2 | 6 |
Worth remembering
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.
The schedule cooperates, too, San Francisco Giants face Atlanta Braves next, so this story gets its next chapter almost immediately.