Think of the first statistic that comes to mind for Paul Goldschmidt.
Maybe it's home runs, or on-base percentage, or the surprising amount of steals swiped by the first baseman.
But it'll take you a while before anyone guesses what statistic Goldschmidt leads baseball in.
The answer: singles.
Goldschmidt singled three more times Friday night in the Yankees' win.
That gives him 22 singles on the season. It's one more than Miami's Xavier Edwards for the outright lead in MLB.
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Goldschmidt is a career .290 hitter, so the fact that he's off to a .373 start in the early small-sample size isn't totally crazy.
But he's doing it in a totally unprecedented way as far as his own career goes.
Goldschmidt's isolated power rating is currently at .107.
In recent years, Goldy has had that stat up around .180 (the number measures the difference between batting average and slugging percentage).
Goldschmidt has just one homer this season, that leadoff bomb off Nestor Cortes that started the Yankees' incredible home run streak in game two of the season.
Since then, Goldschmidt has kept on hitting, just in a lightweight manner.
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