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Tyler Tolbert

Kansas City Royals · through 2026-08-31

On the league boards

Why he matters right now

Tyler Tolbert is 4th of 10 on MLB's qualified batting-average board at .307

A board position, not a verdict on a hitter: it rests on 132 plate appearances, short of the 200 this site wants before it reads a batting average as a season figure. The number is real and the board is 10 deep; what it cannot yet tell you is who is better.

The case in 30 seconds

  • .307 4th of 10 on MLB's qualified batting-average board at .307, on 132 plate appearances MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  • .307 .805 OPS, 3 home runs, 8 RBI and 20 stolen bases over 65 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)
  1. 4th of 10 on MLB's qualified batting-average board at .307, on 132 plate appearances MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  2. .805 OPS, 3 home runs, 8 RBI and 20 stolen bases over 65 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

65G
114AB
35H
.307AVG
3HR
8RBI
20SB
52B
03B
.805OPS

Chasing .400

.307Current AVG
18Consecutive hits needed to reach .400
51-for-100Needed over next 100 AB
.950Rest-of-season AVG to finish .400 (19-for-20)

Status: EXTREME

Milestone tracker

ChaseTargetCurrentPaceNeeded from hereStatus
.350 AVG .350 .307 .307 .600 ROS EXTREME
.380 AVG .380 .307 .307 .800 ROS EXTREME
.400 AVG .400 .307 .307 .950 ROS EXTREME
.406 AVG .406 .307 .307 1.000 ROS EXTREME
.466 AVG .466 .307 .307 1.400 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
50 HR 50 3 4 47 in 24 g · 1 per 0.4 AB EXTREME
60 HR 60 3 4 57 in 24 g · 1 per 0.3 AB EXTREME
62 HR 62 3 4 59 in 24 g · 1 per 0.3 AB EXTREME
70 HR 70 3 4 67 in 24 g · 1 per 0.3 AB EXTREME
73 HR 73 3 4 70 in 24 g · 1 per 0.3 AB EXTREME
200 Hits 200 35 41 165 in 24 g EXTREME
225 Hits 225 35 41 190 in 24 g EXTREME
250 Hits 250 35 41 215 in 24 g EXTREME
262 Hits 262 35 41 227 in 24 g EXTREME
50 SB 50 20 23 30 in 24 g EXTREME
80 SB 80 20 23 60 in 24 g EXTREME
100 SB 100 20 23 80 in 24 g EXTREME
130 SB 130 20 23 110 in 24 g EXTREME
50 2B 50 5 6 45 in 24 g EXTREME
60 2B 60 5 6 55 in 24 g EXTREME
67 2B 67 5 6 62 in 24 g EXTREME
20 3B 20 0 0 20 in 24 g EXTREME
25 3B 25 0 0 25 in 24 g EXTREME
36 3B 36 0 0 36 in 24 g EXTREME
125 RBI 125 8 9 117 in 24 g EXTREME
150 RBI 150 8 9 142 in 24 g EXTREME
175 RBI 175 8 9 167 in 24 g EXTREME
191 RBI 191 8 9 183 in 24 g EXTREME

Recent game log

Derived nightly from the snapshot ledger — each row is the difference between consecutive days; multi-day rows are labeled.

DateOppResultABHHRRBIRSBBBKAVG
2026-08-30 Cleveland Guardians L 1-11 31 0 00 00 1 .307
2026-08-29 Cleveland Guardians W 8-3 11 0 01 01 0 .306
2026-08-27 Toronto Blue Jays W 13-2 11 0 01 00 0 .300

Lahman + Retrosheet context

How this season fits history

Historical twinEric Young · 2012

74% season-shape match

Chase history

.294.300.30708-2608-31
Batting average, day by day
44408-2608-31
Projected HR, day by day