Phillies' Alec Bohm is hitting worse than Don Drysdale

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You know it's bad news when the only hitting comparisons you can find for Alec Bohm are pitchers.

That's how bad Bohm has been so far this season at the plate for the Philadelphia Phillies. And while it's only one part of the Phillies' rough start to the year, it's certainly a substantial one.

The stat that sums it all up is Bohm's OPS+ of 23.

OPS+ is a stat that measures how a player's OPS relates to the league average in a given era, and it sets the league average mark as 100 with each step away from it worth a percentage point.

So for Bohm to have an OPS+ of 23 means that he has been 77% worse than league average in OPS so far in the 2026 season.

In other words, really not good.

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And so yeah, he's among the ranks of pitchers back when they still hit.

Don Drysdale had a career OPS+ of 25 in his days as a great pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who wasn't exactly good at the plate himself.