re: Bregman or Correa...who has the better career?

Dude Bregman is slashing .288/.389/.539 with 20 HRs and 64 RBI at the ASB (after a very slow start to the year) and plays a much more important role defensively for his team in this era. Pedroia racked up hits and has a tremendous BA but he's not some untouchable player. Also did you switch your comment to "peak"?

My b, I thought you were saying for his career. I wouldn't say "comfortably" then.


Edit: right and I mean "career," not peak. Bregs has more power and doesn't play 2nd.

Bregman is better than Pedroia was on average for his career. He's also better (albeit not comfortably) than him on wrc+, and likely WAR,than Pedroia's MVP year by the end of this season.

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Bregs has more power and doesn't play 2nd.

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Obviously he doesn't play second... but we didn't know Bregman had this kind of power until recently.

He had 13 homeruns after 82 games when I made that comment in this thread. And what prompted the thread is the fact that he hit a homerun in 3 games in a row. So 3 days before this thread he had 10 homeruns after half the season.

Nobody predicted that he would go on to be leading the Astros in homeruns through the next 16 games into the all-star break.

But it's still really early in Bregman's career, so we really don't know. He may just be having a great year with his power like Altuve randomly did last season. We just don't know yet.

He reminded me of a player like Pedroia because they seem to have the same mentality about the game, farily small, can hit the ball, didn't have a ton of power I thought, scrappy, and comes through in the clutch. It's not a perfect comparison, but that's the player Bregman most reminded me of.

To me it just means somebody who has a lot of fight and is a mentally tough person. They never shy away from the moment and they live to make great plays in tough spots because they love the game.

It's an attitude and approach. It's like the equivalent of a basketball player who is all up in everyone's shite on defense, dives for loose balls, is tough on the glass, and is doing anything and everything to win the game. People dislike Draymond Green, but he is a scrappy player.

judging by some of your posts last night you don't even watch baseball

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Correa has had plenty of his own clutch moments

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Sure...when he's not on the DL

You didn’t know who josh Hader was

he’s like the best reliever in the league

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Is scrappy a synonym for small

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Basically.

Bregman has a high motor too.