WEEI Afternoons: Sean Pendergast on what the Red Sox are getting in Alex Bregman

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00:00Obviously, his free agency journey was a topic all season long here in Houston.

00:05Are you going to extend him?

00:06Is he going to stay?

00:07We were talking about it as backdrop to the actual baseball season all year.

00:12My feeling on Bregman is,

00:14he's one of those guys that he is well worth the money,

00:21even more than your average player on a good team.

00:24The things that he does really well are

00:27the things that tend to show up more come October,

00:30just like the little things.

00:32Because when he first came into the league,

00:34Ted, when you and I were doing radio together,

00:35he was putting up monster numbers.

00:37He looked like he was going to be one of those 40 home run, 120 RBI guys.

00:42Somewhere along the way, that went out the window.

00:45He's a good offensive player in terms of the sheer counting numbers, but not great.

00:50But he's a great defensive player,

00:52and I know it sounds like he's going to play second base up there.

00:54I'm sure he'll be excellent at that because he's an excellent third baseman.

00:58But in the postseason,

01:00the little things that win all those close games like working counts,

01:04getting walks, just keeping the lineup moving, not striking out.

01:10All the things that you tend to notice more in October than you

01:13do in a series with the Angels in the middle of June, that kind of thing.

01:16He's just masterclass at that stuff.

01:19I think the biggest thing,

01:20and I actually was listening to you guys and I heard you guys talking about this,

01:23the leadership aspect is through the roof with Bregman.

01:25I'll just give you a quick anecdote about that.

01:28I'll make it quick.

01:29Hunter Brown, he's slowly,

01:33actually rapidly becoming the ace of the Astros staff.

01:37Through the first month and a half last year, he was terrible.

01:40He had the worst ERA in baseball.

01:42He had an ERA of nine.

01:43Bregman pulled him aside on a road trip on

01:46the plane and sat with him on the plane for about two hours,

01:48just talking, pitching, giving him some observations that he saw,

01:52giving him recommendations on things to tweak.

01:54I don't know how close you guys followed Hunter Brown last year,

01:58but he became one of the best pitchers in baseball over the last four months of the season.

02:02He attributes a lot of that to the advice that Bregman gave him.

02:06That's just one anecdote.

02:08There are anecdotes all over the clubhouse in Houston of Bregman.

02:12Whether you're a pitcher or a hitter,

02:14this guy is a baseball savant and the Red Sox are going to benefit greatly.

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