MLB Hot Bats
MLB Hottest Bats, Nolan Arenado Leads the Week
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Nolan Arenado 
Geraldo Perdomo 
Wade Meckler 
Angel Martinez
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 man of the moment
Nolan Arenado (ARI) is seeing beach balls. He has collected eleven hits in his last 25 trips to the plate over six games, good for a .440 clip, and the at-bats keep getting louder.
Averaged out, he is banging 1.8 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.
Add four home runs and 11 RBI, and you have a hitter carrying his corner of the lineup.
The chase pack
Right behind him is Geraldo Perdomo (ARI), who has gone 11-for-25 over the same stretch, a .440 pace with eight RBI.
Wade Meckler (LAA) belongs in the conversation too at 11-for-26 (.423).
And Angel Martinez (CLE) has strung together 10 hits in 22 at-bats (.455) with three homers and nine RBI.
Also swinging it well: Fernando Tatis Jr. (SD) 10-for-23, Seiya Suzuki (CHC) 10-for-28, Gabriel Moreno (ARI) 10-for-23.
By the numbers
Here is the top of the board, straight from the box scores:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Arenado | ARI | 11-for-25 | .440 | 4 | 11 |
| Geraldo Perdomo | ARI | 11-for-25 | .440 | 0 | 8 |
| Wade Meckler | LAA | 11-for-26 | .423 | 0 | 0 |
| Angel Martinez | CLE | 10-for-22 | .455 | 3 | 9 |
| Fernando Tatis Jr. | SD | 10-for-23 | .435 | 2 | 3 |
One more thing
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.
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: Arizona Diamondbacks against San Diego Padres. Check back after that one goes final.