No. 6: Kyle Tucker and Logan Gilbert

With free agency looming after the 2025 season, Tucker sure looks to be in salary drive mode. He already has nine multi-hit games, and he had a home run in five of those.

Everything under the hood for Tucker is more or less standard, which is to say excellent. The one noticeable change concerns his approach, as he's walked 16 times while striking out only 13 times.

The only surefire way to gain an edge on Tucker right now is to throw a lefty at him, as he has only a .321 OBP against fellow southpaws. Otherwise, the honest truth is that walking him might be a pitcher's best play.

It should have been a bigger deal that Gilbert led all starters in both innings and WHIP last year. To wit, he certainly deserved better than a sixth-place finish in the AL Cy Young Award voting.

His WHIP is down again so far in 2025, from 0.887 to 0.878. He's continuing to pound the strike zone, except now he's going to his splitter more often. It is a devastating pitch against which hitters are 2-for-32 with 21 strikeouts.