http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/11/16/roster-recap-xander-bogaerts-has-another-rough-second-half/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/11/16/roster-recap-xander-bogaerts-has-another-rough-second-half/#comment-14968 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:12:16 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=29994#comment-14968 You hit the nail on the head with this: “Regardless, watching him get into bad counts after watching hittable pitches go by early in his plate appearances and then flailing at breaking balls off the plate was frustrating for fans, and I am sure it was for Bogaerts too.” The optics were just awful as he appeared to have forgotten how to bat–how does that even happen? Is it really just injury? It’s hard to want to see him again in 2018–thus, the get-out-of-town trade proposals.

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