Isn’t it great to have a top prospect in your farm system just mashing the ball so hard and so often that you may be forced to just call him up? That’s what the Houston Astros have in Alex Bregman.
Manager A.J. Hinch’s ballclub currently stands at 44-39 after a brutal April. The terrible start of the season was due to a combination of poor hitting and pitching, a recipe doomed to fail. Much of the poor hitting came from spots in the lineup that have clearly improved over the last two months. Luis Valbuena and Marwin Gonzalez have done a good job at the corners, while Jason Castro, Evan Gattis and now A.