re: What’s wrong with Bregman?

For whatever reason, his timing appears way off. Could be anything - picking up the ball, injury we don’t know about or declining skills. Obviously his power numbers, including percentage of hard hit balls, are way down.

He’s trying to drive a lot of pitches on the outer third pull side and simply can’t. He’s popping out a lot or making weak contact. He can’t barrel up those pitches. Needs to go oppo more and worry less about pull side HR power - at least until he figures things out with his swing.

He is a notorious slow starter, and that might have something to do with it. However, he also has a history of injuries and has played a lot more baseball than most major leaguers the last seven years. Maybe it’s all finally catching up. Regardless, it comes at a bad time for him, because there’s no way any team is going to give him the contract Scott Boras was looking for, given his performance so far this year.