PT TOMORROW: AL East — Absent glove, Bradley Jr. might get no love in BOS
May 11 2019
Jackie Bradley Jr. (OF, BOS) added another breathtaking catch to his catalog to rob Trey Mancini (OF, BAL) of a walk-off home run and extend an extra-inning game that the Red Sox would ultimately win May 8.
Bradley’s Gold-Glove-winning defense explains why the team has endured Bradley’s streaky, uneven performance at the plate throughout his career, though Bradley may be testing the limits of that tolerance with his work at the plate this season, which has seen his contact rate hit its nadir (64%) and his ground ball rate spike.
So much for all of those positive stories in the spring about having worked with the “hitting guru” of teammate J.D. Martinez (OF, BOS), efforts that in the preseason seemed like they were...
Almost!
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