A possibly surprising fact: Greg Bird has already set a career high in plate appearances this season, and by quite a bit too. He’s batted 228 times this year. Last year it was 170 plate appearances — if you want to include the postseason, it was 224 total plate appearances — and back in 2015 he had 178 plate appearances. It feels like Bird just got back into the lineup, but, in reality, he’s been in the lineup more than ever this season.
In those 228 plate appearances this year Bird is hitting a decidedly below-average .218/.307/.416 (95 wRC+).