Tatis and Church

Tatis and Church each have 205 at bats right now. Their stats are frighteningly similar. They each have 42 singles, a triple and 10 homers. Church has one more double (for a total of 10) and one more RBI (36). They both have far too many strikeouts (Church has 50; Tatis 47) and far too few walks (19 for Church, 13 for Tatis). Sadly, those strikeout and walk totals increase the feeling that this is all an illusion, a statistical anomaly. Though Church did have 43 doubles last year, so maybe he really is still developing, and if he’s ever allowed to play again, maybe he will return to his early season form.