If Astros make the playoffs and win the World Series, will it be worth it to wait to find out about White until next season?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alex Bregman has four doubles in his last five games.</p>— Jake Kaplan (@jakemkaplan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/763791219726094337">August 11, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
if you take his 0 for whatever start, he is one of our best hitters. (just using the gamethread logic) Nice to see him hitting bc he's stellar at 3b.
Not including this game's 0-1, he hit .269 over the prior 7 games. Given the team-wide hitting woes during that stretch that was basically all-star level for the team.
That would be really sad. Taking out the 0-for-whatever start, Bregman has a 0.206 BA and sub-0.600 OPS. Lower than Carlos Gomez in both cases, as a reference point.
i was thinking more of the multi hit game he had against the rangers should be his christening. so the seven game run xcrunner referenced makes most sense. he is still getting some nice contact that magically finds its way to the defender's glove.
Bregman has only struck out 24% of the time; he's walked ~10%, so he's not swinging at too many bad pitches. His BABIP is .208, so he could very well just be running into bad luck. The only thing that might be a bad sign is that he doesn't appear to be making consistent hard contact, which would sap his power and lower his average. But even if that is the case he would still be a viable player (just not a star), and there's still probably muc more reason to believe he will improve and get closer to the player he was in the minors than what he's been so far in the majors. I still think he'll end up as a .280/.360/.470 25 HR 15 SB guy in the majors, which when combined with excellent defense at 3B or LF would make him a really, really good player.
Anybody have his LD% numbers? Seems like he has been making some consistent hard contact as of late, but still hitting it right at guys. He'll be fine... while he struggled a little more than I expected to start, he's certainly adjusting and handling the #2 spot quite well. His ability to tough out the bad stretch and maintain enough confidence to induce a turn-around (rather than let it just all go to his head, sorta like Reed did) is a huge plus. Reed should be fine too... both will be impactful down the stretch.
Line drive percent is 25.5% with an RC+ of 225 on line drives. Typical RC+ on line drives would be 300+ even for bad hitters.
It was doubly tough on Bregman that his tough start almost entirely coincided with a team wide offensive crater. His results have clearly been better over the last week. Looking at his rates, his LD% is very high at 25.5, but his soft contact rate is very high as well at 25%. With such a small sample, the rates can be unusual. Nothing is for sure, good or bad. You really can't make any judgements on a player in his first month. I feel pretty good about him, and his defense has been exceptional. Just let him breathe.
He's getting harder contact than he did at the beginning but he's definitely not squaring up a ton of balls yet. His last seven games slash line looks decent (.276/.353/.414) on the strength of a 6 game hitting streak. I'd take those numbers for the rest of the year even if he doesn't start tapping into the power yet. Reed I don't have any answer. He was lauded in the minors for always having a good plan for every at bat but he's looked lost so many times at the plate.
While his soft contact is high at 25%, his hard contact rate is 29.2%, which is higher than Altuve has ever had prior to this year. I think he will work out just fine.
Bregman starting to look promising. At this point, if he can just be average I think the AB's will do wonders for him next year and down the line. Hopefully his power will show in the majors at some point but he just needs to worry about getting on base and making hard contact right now and live with the results. White went 3-5 last night. Is he looking up? His swing seems like too much going on to be consistent. I figured he would have an easy swing but it seems too complex but hopefully he can adjust and be a productive contributor/asset.
Bregman has been putting on quite the showing since the O-fer beginning to his MLB career .052 (2 for 38). He's percentage points away from the Mendoza line. And he's been looking like a legit corner stone for the position players and the future of the Astros. Even had an 8 game hitting streak along the way. He's hitting .313 (15 of 48) in his last 11 games. And it seems he is still extremely confident in his approach. It sucks that this all correlated to going from chasing the division title, to going for a wild card spot, to practically hoping to stay at .500 ball. A roller coaster season! Playoffs are in the hunt, but Altuve, Bregman, Gurriel, Reed, Correa, and Springer need to catch fire and hope the Pitching keeps them in the game. But Bregman is looking legit!!!
There's definitely some logic to moving a SS to another position. Breggy's been handling the hot corner like a seasoned pro. I wouldn't be surprised if he got some GG loving at 3B later in his career.
What a stroke of luck him being here, we could have been sitting here with a pair of dud #1 picks, one in Appel was enough. Imagine if Aikens had accepted the 5 million.... Bregman, Altuve, Correa, Springer should grow into a formidable nucleus. Man this is looking real good.
Back to back 3 hit games. 4 multi-hit games in his last 5. 3 home runs in those 5 games, after 0 in his first 19. OPS for the month of August in north of .800. He look OK.
1st 10 games: 2-38, .197 OPS Last 14: 22-63, .349/.382/.603/.986 Needs to cut down the Ks but that will come.
