The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.Today: League statistical leaders, Howie Rose finally meets a Beatle and a Baseball Card of the Week. I’m Tyler Kepner, pinch-hitting for Levi Weaver (back next week) — welcome to The Windup!Leaders: A high-level look across the ranksIn last Tuesday’s newsletter, we looked at some standout teams in each division. Now let’s explore the individual leaderboards, where a lot of intriguing names take the top spots. (Figures are from right before last night’s games.)WAR position players: Andy Pages, Dodgers, 3.1 bWARWhatever else he does in his career, Pages will always be remembered for his season-saving catch in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. He had just come off the bench as a defensive replacement, and look at the 25-year-old now.Fabian Ardaya has all the details on Pages’ breakthrough as an elite defender in center whose plate discipline and work habits have made him indispensable.OPS: Ben Rice, Yankees, 1.077Like Pages, Rice also couldn’t make his team’s lineup in its final postseason game in 2025. In Game 4 of the Yankees’ division series last fall, Rice sat behind Paul Goldschmidt, eventually walking as a pinch hitter as the Blue Jays celebrated in the Bronx.Now, like Pages, Rice has become a star. He homered twice against the Mets over the weekend before the Yankees’ big divisional homestand this week.Batting average: Otto Lopez, Marlins, .344Lopez is bidding to become the fourth Marlin to win a batting title, after Hanley Ramirez, Dee Strange-Gordon and Luis Arraez. Now 27, he took a circuitous route to Miami: The Blue Jays sold him to the Giants in February 2024, and the Giants lost him on waivers to the Marlins seven weeks later.He’s not up there to walk (just seven walks this season), and if you’re a “sinker/slider guy,” good luck — Lopez is hitting .371 off sinkers, and .363 off sliders.Stolen bases: José Ramirez, Guardians, 20He’s topped 40 steals in each of the last two seasons, so perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising. But Ramirez turns 34 in September and has never led the league in stolen bases. If he does it this year, he’ll be the oldest player to lead his league in that category since teammate Rajai Davis in 2016.Ramirez has gone past 300 steals for his career (he’s at 307 now), and with eight more homers, he’ll have 300 of those, too. Ramirez would become the ninth player in that 300/300 club, joining Carlos Beltrán, Bobby and Barry Bonds, Andre Dawson, Steve Finley, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez and Reggie Sanders.Wins: Aaron Ashby, Brewers, 8All in relief, too! With one more victory, Ashby — who has a nifty 2.17 ERA — would be halfway to the single-season record for wins by a reliever, set by Roy Face of the Pirates, who went 18-1 in 1959.