He’s one of the best at making chicken salad out of chicken hits.
He’ll pluck a pitch that sputters into the infield, and before you can spell Aledmys, Aledmys has an infield single.
They say a puny hit will look like a line drive in the box score. But let’s take a moment to appreciate the puniest of these sputters, because they encapsulate what makes Aledmys Diaz great — this hustle and hunger to just get on base, somehow, someway.
“You watch him run to first base on groundballs, how many did he beat out last year?