87% season-shape match
Why he matters right now
TJ Rumfield is top-10 in the majors in batting average
He is 7th in batting average at .300 — placements on MLB's own season boards, which rank every QUALIFIED hitter in the sport rather than the few dozen this site tracks. Qualified is MLB's own bar, and it is the reason a part-season player with a big number is not on these boards at all.
This has been his headline for 83 straight days.
The case in 30 seconds
- .300 7th in batting average at .300 on MLB's season leaderboards MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
- .300 .843 OPS, 16 home runs and 73 RBI over 155 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
The honest caveat
A top-ten finish is a position on a board, not a verdict on a player. The men just below him on it are not meaningfully worse, and one good week moves several places.
Every claim above, with its source (2)
- 7th in batting average at .300 on MLB's season leaderboards MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
- .843 OPS, 16 home runs and 73 RBI over 155 games snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
The evidence
Situational splits
| Split | AB | AVG | HR | RBI | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 376 | .311 | 12 | 51 | .875 |
| vs LHP | 171 | .275 | 4 | 22 | .775 |
| Home | 286 | .304 | 10 | 51 | .864 |
| Away | 261 | .295 | 6 | 22 | .820 |
| Day | 186 | .296 | 6 | 28 | .856 |
| Night | 361 | .302 | 10 | 45 | .836 |
2026 season, MLB Stats API. A split with no plate appearances is omitted rather than shown as zeroes.
155G
547AB
164H
.300AVG
16HR
73RBI
0SB
302B
33B
.843OPS
Chasing .400
.300Current AVG
92Consecutive hits needed to reach .400
95-for-100Needed over next 100 AB
—Rest-of-season AVG to finish .400 (55-for-0)
Status: IMPOSSIBLE
Milestone tracker
| Chase | Target | Current | Pace | Needed from here | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .350 AVG | .350 | .300 | .300 | — | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .380 AVG | .380 | .300 | .300 | — | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .400 AVG | .400 | .300 | .300 | — | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .406 AVG | .406 | .300 | .300 | — | IMPOSSIBLE |
| .466 AVG | .466 | .300 | .300 | — | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 50 HR | 50 | 16 | 16 | 34 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 60 HR | 60 | 16 | 16 | 44 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 62 HR | 62 | 16 | 16 | 46 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 70 HR | 70 | 16 | 16 | 54 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 73 HR | 73 | 16 | 16 | 57 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 200 Hits | 200 | 164 | 164 | 36 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 225 Hits | 225 | 164 | 164 | 61 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 250 Hits | 250 | 164 | 164 | 86 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 262 Hits | 262 | 164 | 164 | 98 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 50 SB | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 80 SB | 80 | 0 | 0 | 80 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 100 SB | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 130 SB | 130 | 0 | 0 | 130 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 50 2B | 50 | 30 | 30 | 20 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 60 2B | 60 | 30 | 30 | 30 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 67 2B | 67 | 30 | 30 | 37 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 20 3B | 20 | 3 | 3 | 17 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 25 3B | 25 | 3 | 3 | 22 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 36 3B | 36 | 3 | 3 | 33 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 125 RBI | 125 | 73 | 73 | 52 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 150 RBI | 150 | 73 | 73 | 77 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 175 RBI | 175 | 73 | 73 | 102 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
| 191 RBI | 191 | 73 | 73 | 118 in 0 g | IMPOSSIBLE |
Home run pace vs the benchmark seasons
0.0%of comparable chases reached 40 HR
0.0%of comparable chases reached 50 HR
0.0%of comparable chases reached 60 HR
Empirical: seasons within ±2 HR of his total at the same team-game checkpoint (n=2659); median finish 16. Retrosheet.
Recent game log
Derived nightly from the snapshot ledger — each row is the difference between consecutive days; multi-day rows are labeled.
| Date | Opp | Result | AB | H | HR | RBI | R | SB | BB | K | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 (6d) | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 |
| 2026-09-25 | Chicago White Sox | L 1-6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .299 |
| 2026-09-24 | Arizona Diamondbacks | L 8-12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .297 |
| 2026-09-23 | Arizona Diamondbacks | L 3-5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .296 |
| 2026-09-22 | Arizona Diamondbacks | L 2-7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .298 |
| 2026-09-20 | Seattle Mariners | L 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .300 |
| 2026-09-19 | Seattle Mariners | W 5-3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .302 |
| 2026-09-18 | Seattle Mariners | L 4-5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .300 |
| 2026-09-17 | San Diego Padres | L 2-9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .301 |
| 2026-09-15 | San Diego Padres | W 9-3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 |
Recent highlights
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