The Teams with the Worst DH Production
Atlanta Braves: The DH position has been a massive weak spot for Atlanta, producing a meager .652 OPS over recent months, which ranks 26th across Major League Baseball and has heavily prompted their front office to search for trade deadline upgrades. [1]
Pittsburgh Pirates: Pittsburgh has continuously bottomed out the league in DH metrics, largely due to cycling underperforming bats like Jack Sinsky—who carried a brutal .147 batting average and visual sub-.540 OPS in regular DH stretches. [1]
Seattle Mariners: Seattle has consistently struggled to find continuity at DH, historically sliding into the bottom tier of MLB with a combined positional average under .200 as they frequently rotate bench players and resting catchers rather than deploying a true, middle-of-the-order threat. [1, 2]
Kansas City Royals: Ranking near the bottom of positional power rankings, the Royals have failed to generate standard league-average power from the spot, dragged down by fill-ins like Jonathan India managing a subpar sub-.670 OPS.