Alex Bregman was hurting and struggling so badly that he was afraid to play baseball. Now, he’s healthy, confident and back to scaring opposing pitchers. stephapstein on Bregman’s revival
outfielder Christian Yelich, and he did it by just deciding not to fly open. But now that wasn’t working.and I never had to actually work on different ways of doing that,” he says. “So for two years, I’m thinking,I know what I’m doing wrong and I do not know how to fix it.
Bregman says, “I literally just said, ‘If I’m gonna blow out, I’m gonna blow out right now.’ I just had to get over the mental block. Physically, my soft tissue is in the best shape it’s been in since probably ’20. I just had to believe that.” Instead he just continued to break his own heart. Snitker began to worry about how worn-down his normally bubbly third baseman looked. Finally, shortly before the All-Star Break, during a pregame session in the Minute Maid Park batting cage, Snitker gave Bregman the hard sell:
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