MLB Hottest Bats, Michael Harris II Leads the Week

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

Michael Harris II has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The ATL 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.

It has not been one loud afternoon doing the work, either: the pace comes out to 2.2 hits per game across the run.

And he is not just slapping singles: two home runs and 5 RBI over the run.

The rest of the hot list

Right behind him is Randy Arozarena (SEA), who has gone 12-for-25 over the same stretch, a .480 pace with three homers and eight RBI.

Jackson Merrill (SD) has quietly gone 11-for-26 (.423) with one homer and six RBI.

Add Mauricio Dubon (ATL) to the watch list as well, 11-for-23 over the stretch with three RBI.

Also swinging it well: Cole Carrigg (COL) 10-for-27, Elly De La Cruz (CIN) 10-for-26, Riley Greene (DET) 10-for-27.

The board

The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:

One more thing

Qualification here is simple and strict: at least 8 at-bats and more than one game inside the window, so a single loud afternoon cannot crowd out a real heater.

Small samples run hot and cold by nature. Treat this as a snapshot of who is seeing it well right now, not a forecast of anyone's next at-bat.

One to circle: Atlanta Braves meet Houston Astros in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.