MLB Hot Bats
MLB Hottest Bats, Carson Benge Leads the Week
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Carson Benge 
Nolan Arenado 
Yainer Diaz 
Jac Caglianone
Forget the season-long averages for a minute; hot is a right-now thing. Every line below comes straight from the last seven days of box scores, with a 8 at-bat minimum so nobody sneaks on with one good afternoon.
The hottest hand
Carson Benge has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The NYM hitter has rapped out eleven hits in 25 at-bats across six games, a .440 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.
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 one home run and 4 RBI, and you have a hitter carrying his corner of the lineup.
The rest of the hot list
Then comes Nolan Arenado (ARI): 10 hits in 23 at-bats, a .435 clip with three homers and eight RBI.
Yainer Diaz (HOU) has quietly gone 10-for-28 (.357) with one homer and five RBI.
Add Jac Caglianone (KC) to the watch list as well, 10-for-22 over the stretch with four RBI.
The rest of the hot list reads Wade Meckler (LAA) 10-for-23, Lawrence Butler (ATH) 10-for-25, Cole Carrigg (COL) 9-for-23.
The board
The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Benge | NYM | 11-for-25 | .440 | 1 | 4 |
| Nolan Arenado | ARI | 10-for-23 | .435 | 3 | 8 |
| Yainer Diaz | HOU | 10-for-28 | .357 | 1 | 5 |
| Jac Caglianone | KC | 10-for-22 | .455 | 0 | 4 |
| Wade Meckler | LAA | 10-for-23 | .435 | 0 | 0 |
The fine print
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.
A hot week is a fact about the past, not a promise about tonight. Hitters drift in and out of these stretches all summer, the fun is catching one mid-heater.