MLB Hot Bats
Who's Seeing It Best: Walker Jenkins Tops the MLB Hot-Bat Board
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Brooks Lee 
Jose Altuve
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
Walker Jenkins (MIN) is seeing beach balls. He has collected twelve hits in his last 27 trips to the plate over seven games, good for a .444 clip, and the at-bats keep getting louder.
Averaged out, he is banging 1.7 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.
Add three home runs and 5 RBI, and you have a hitter carrying his corner of the lineup.
Right behind him
Then comes Brooks Lee (MIN): 12 hits in 29 at-bats, a .414 clip with one homer and four RBI.
Jose Altuve (HOU) has quietly gone 11-for-26 (.423) with one homer and two RBI.
Add Hao-Yu Lee (DET) to the watch list as well, 11-for-27 over the stretch with one homer and four RBI.
Also swinging it well: Yordan Alvarez (HOU) 10-for-22, Kevin McGonigle (DET) 10-for-27, Bobby Witt Jr. (KC) 10-for-28.
By the numbers
The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Jenkins | MIN | 12-for-27 | .444 | 3 | 5 |
| Brooks Lee | MIN | 12-for-29 | .414 | 1 | 4 |
| Jose Altuve | HOU | 11-for-26 | .423 | 1 | 2 |
| Hao-Yu Lee | DET | 11-for-27 | .407 | 1 | 4 |
| Yordan Alvarez | HOU | 10-for-22 | .455 | 2 | 4 |
One more thing
The bar to appear is 8 at-bats across more than one game, no exceptions, so everyone named above has been doing this repeatedly, not once.
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.
Next up on the slate: Minnesota Twins against Texas Rangers. Check back after that one goes final.