David Ortiz is 40 years old and he’s taking the term “going out on top” way too literally. For recent retirees Peyton Manning and Abby Wambach that meant their sports after a Super Bowl victory and a World Cup Championship respectively, but as great as both players career neither player proved to be the reason that their team came out on top in their final games. With only half a season left between him and retirement, David Ortiz is a serious MVP contender leading the best lineup in baseball.

The Simpsons can predict anything.

With the second half of the MLB season ready to start later tonight we really should stop and acknowledge the season David Ortiz is having because it’s unlike anything we’ve seen in sports. The man is 40 years old, but he is Major Leauge Baseball’s leader in doubles. In fact, Ortiz is on pace to hit 63 doubles this season which would be the most since Joe Medwick in 1936, that’s 80 years.

Ortiz also leads MLB in Slugging Percentage by .70 points and OPS with 1.107, if you don’t know what that number means rest assured, it’s a lot! He’s swinging the bat so well that he has a .90 point lead over the second best hitter in OPS and that second place hitter just happens to be the 2015 AL MVP, Josh Donaldson. Then, to fill out Ortiz’s first half resume, he is second in baseball in RBI and fourth in batting average. He’s 40 years old.

Drew Pomeranz after he got traded to the Red Sox, probably.

And those of you waiting for the clock to strike midnight on Ortiz’s final season and his fantastic statistics to turn back into a mediocre pumpkin, you’ll want to stop reading here because Ortiz has been crushing opposing pitchers since he came back from a severe Achilles injury in 2013. Since then, Ortiz’s age 37 season, the prehistoric slugger has averaged 34 home runs and 105 RBI per season. Those are power numbers that any hitter in their prime would be content with and numbers that Ortiz is on pace to surpass with ease by September.

If Ortiz is able to continue swinging the bat like he has, it could be his best offensive season in the last decade, and it doesn’t have to stop there. For the first time since Ortiz’s last World Series victory, the Boston Red Sox are within striking distance in the AL East. There could be another Postseason in store for Ortiz, and if the Red Sox are playing in October we’ve seen that anything can happen, but we should all agree to start praying for those baseballs now.

It’s still early, and come this time next year there’s going to be a luxury retirement home in the Dominican Republic that’s running dangerously low on ice, but right now you should pay attention. Father Time is undefeated, but David Ortiz is putting up the best fight I’ve ever seen.