Beast Mode Never Sleeps

I hope I'm not jinxing the guy, but Matt Kemp looks unstoppable right now. He leads all of MLB in the major hitting categories except for average and on base percentage. He trails David Wright in both of these, but he's also played in 4 more games and has 17 more at bats.

If you haven't been following along, Kemp is hitting .481 with 8 home runs, 20 RBIs, and his slugging percentage is 1.000. Yes, you read that correctly, a 1.000 slugging percentage. The closest person to him right now is Chris Young who is sitting at .897. Kemp has as many or more home runs that 5 teams in the league right now. So yeah, he's on fire.

Not only is Kemp killing the ball right now, but he's hitting the ball exactly where the Dodgers want him to. All of his home runs have been to either center or right field. The Dodgers don't want Kemp over-swinging and trying to pull the ball. His approach at the plate is perfect. He doesn't look like he's trying to hit home runs, he looks like he's just trying to make contact. But with his size, when he puts the barrel of the bat on the ball, it's flies.

Most baseball fans are aware of Kemp's preseason prediction of 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases. While he's definitely on base for the home runs, he is going to have to pick it up on the base path. He's only swiped one bag and he's been caught twice. Although, in all fairness it is tough to steal bases when you only have to jog around them. 12 of Kemp's 26 hits have been for extra bases. So his chances of stealing second are already diminished. Not only that, but he has Andre Ethier hitting right behind him, who isn't a player anyone is going to figure for an easy out.

Kemp was rewarded for his MVP-candidate (sure wish I could delete the word candidate there) season last year with a huge contract. It's nice to see a player actually earning that money. Right now he's the offensive and emotional leader of the team, and I absolutely love it. Early this year Matt Kemp has said Beast Mode Never Sleeps, and right now, I don't think anyone would disagree with him.

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