Benjamin Hochman | Post-Dispatch

Sports columnist

Did the best fans in baseball watch the worst outfielder in baseball?

Jordan Walker is at least in the conversation.

Now that the season is over, the offensive numbers are stunning. Startling. Of all Major League Baseball outfielders who had at least 350 plate appearances, Washington’s Jacob Young had the lowest on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) at .583 — and Walker was second-worst with .584. In fact, Walker was third-worst of all MLB players (Atlanta infielder Nick Allen was worst at .535).

And Nolan Gorman, bedeviled by strikeouts, had a .666 OPS and a 33.8 strikeout percentage — which was worst in the National League.

“I think everybody — you guys (in the media), our fans, us to some degree — kind of circled them as these are

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