W said:
kb2001 said:
Aggie8587 said:
Take his horrible 2021 postseason out of the discussion. Here's Bregman's OPS by year:
2016: .791 (rookie season)
2017: .827
2018: .926 (all star)
2019: 1.015 (2nd in AL MVP voting)
2020: .801
2021: .777
Bregman was bad in the WS in 2019 also. Tampa's pitching staff put the brakes on our offense in the ALCS. We managed to pull it out, with help from Glasnow tipping pitches, but Bregman hasn't been the same hitter since that series.
I keep waiting for him to break out of it, but he's just not the same hitter. He has no confidence at all, he gives away strike one every AB now because he almost never swings at the first pitch, and teams have noticed.
it's kind of something nobody wants to talk about...
Bregman is a charter member of the 1819 club (that we'll break down in the offseason).
guys that were superstars in 2018 and/or 2019...and now 2 years later are shells of their former selves.
the likes of Bellinger, Yelich, Lindor, Rendon, Jose Ramirez, et al
go figure
As a Rangers fan, I find this interesting, having to endure 100 loss seasons and not going hard after free agents with a new park. Meanwhile, Houston loses Morton, McCullers, Cole, Verlander, and Springer, and I forgot who else, and keeps it going with 2nd tier Latin American starting pitchers. I think at some point you always gut the farm system to keep the window open a little longer, but the fact that Houston has kept winning even after Verlander went down is pretty impressive, and a credit to the scouting and farm system.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough