Mickey Gasper just threw down one of the craziest seven-game stretches in MLB history, racking up a mind-blowing 2.208 OPS before finally cooling off a bit yesterday. Yeah, you read that right: 2.208 OPS. For a guy who was literally viewed as a classic Quadruple-A player just two months ago, this surge is just wild.
The Guy Nobody Saw Coming
Seriously, think about this for a second. This 30-year-old catcher/DH had a career .513 OPS when he got called up ten days ago. He had zero home runs in a Red Sox uniform. NINE extra-base hits in his first 92 career MLB games. Then, BAM! He drops five home runs and EIGHT extra-base hits in just eight games. It is truly bonkers. You gotta see the home run he launched on August 25 against the Marlins at LoanDepot Park. The dude is just crushing the ball, playing consistently in the deepest parts of the yard. On Monday, he even slammed a near 400-foot double against a good pitcher in a tight game that you could practically count as another homer. This ain’t luck; he’s clearly unlocked something in his swing. Statistically, what he’s doing is off the charts, like a multi-sigma event. You just don’t see this kind of power pop suddenly emerge out of nowhere like this.
Turns Out, The WooSox Saw This Coming
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t *totally* out of nowhere if you were really paying attention. Gasper was sent down at the end of June and then got recalled in mid-August. And what did he do down in Worcester for the WooSox during that stretch? He went absolutely nuclear. In 26 games, the man hit .386 with an insane 1.102 OPS. Get this: 17 walks against only 12 strikeouts. And he piled up 15 extra-base hits in those 26 games! So yeah, he’d been scalding hot all summer, not just the last two weeks. He’s always been a solid hitter in the upper minors, boasting an .856 OPS in 176 Double-A games and a .918 OPS in 145 Triple-A games before this summer. Still, that 1.102 OPS in Worcester is almost 200 points higher than even his already great Triple-A numbers. I mean, back in June, I wrote, “Mickey Gasper can’t hit high leverage arms! He’s not good.” Man, I gotta eat crow on that one!
It’s almost impossible to believe this is the same guy. He cooled off a little yesterday, going 0-3 with a walk in the series finale. But the question now is, can he keep this up? Is this the start of a whole new career for Gasper, or was it just one of those incredible, almost impossible hot streaks? Either way, you gotta love baseball when a guy nobody expected flips the script completely. You absolutely have to watch his next at-bats and see what happens.
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Originally reported by Over the Monster.
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