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Schwarber Surges, Soriano Slides, May Cools Off

JUNE 26, 2026

Who climbed and who cooled over the past week.

The week's needle moved in both directions. Kyle Schwarber turned a four-homer run into the loudest bat in baseball, while a handful of arms quietly gave back ground they'd worked hard to earn.

Turning it around

Pitchers whose form — our 0–100 score from ERA & WHIP — climbed most this week.

Schwarber was unstoppable, a 1.714 OPS on a 7-for-16 week with four homers and nine driven in. Right behind him, his teammate Bryce Harper went 12-for-25 with three of his own, and Dansby Swanson somehow packed three homers, three steals and 16 RBI into six Cubs games.

Cooling on the mound

Of the strongest arms, the ones who shed the most form this week.

José Soriano took the hardest fall, his form down 11 to 57. Bryce Elder slipped nine to 58, and even Jacob deGrom gave back six, landing at 68 — still good, just less untouchable than the week before.

Hot at the plate

The week's hottest hitters — top OPS over the last 7 days (min at-bats), with their game line.

Schwarber and Harper turned Philadelphia into a one-week wrecking crew, but don't overlook Luis García Jr., who quietly stacked four homers in six games for the Nationals at a 1.484 clip.

Cooling off

Hitters whose bat cooled most this week — shown with their 7-day line.

Drake Baldwin had a week to forget, 0-for-22 over six games and an .086 season OPS dip to show for it. James Wood (3-for-30) and Hunter Goodman (2-for-21) cooled off too, though nothing a good homestand won't fix.

Changing colors

Players who moved up or down a tier on our scale this week.

A quartet of arms eased from above-average to average this week — Nolan McLean, Bryan Woo, Dustin May and Kevin Gausman. No alarms, just a tier slide worth noting.

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