All players have streaks, stretches where the hits fall in as well as periods where they simply can't buy a hit. But even knowing that, we still find players whose final numbers are propped up by a stretch that was completely out of whack with what they did previously or subsequently.
Bader has been healthy this year and has a somewhat respectable 91 OPS+. But that underwhelming number is being propped up by a six-week hot stretch.
From 6/4-7/12, a stretch of 29 games and 99 PA, Bader had an .893 OPS. In his first 197 PA this season, Bader had a .678 OPS.
Bader's performance in those 99 PA in the middle of the year does not have anything remotely in common with what he's done lately, or what he did at the beginning of the season or what he did the previous two years.
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