Over the San Diego Padres’ first seventeen games, they likely figured they’d hit the offseason-jackpot by trading for shortstop Freddy Galvis.
Besides making very tough plays at shortstop look fairly pedestrian on a somewhat regular-basis, Galvis, 28, was tearing the cover off of the ball at the plate.
A lifetime .244 hitter with a .658 OPS didn’t exactly give any of us any kind of inkling as to what type of potential the Venezuelan native has with a bat in his hands.
Padres liked what they saw out of Galvis, for sure
Over the Friars’ first few weeks of regular-season play, we saw just how valuable of a player Galvis could be to a team.