Mike Trout

Trout is a buy — elite contact, xwOBA surging.

His expected wOBA is .422 — .107 above league average — and he has 271 plate appearances, well past the point where that number becomes reliable. His contact quality is elite and improving: 91.1 mph exit velocity, 49.3% hard-hit rate, and 20.9% barrel rate, all well above league and on stable samples. His actual wOBA is .393, slightly below his xwOBA, so there is no luck inflating the line. His walk rate is elite at 21%; the strikeout rate is near league average. The only downside is nothing — this is a Hall-of-Fame bat producing at a Hall-of-Fame level with no luck story to fade. Buy.