1: Alex Bregman: Astros: 156: 690: 41: 122: 112: 5: 17.2%: 12.0%.296.281.296.423.592.418: 168: 89.3-2.1: 58.2: 4.8: 8.5: 2: Anthony Rendon: Nationals: 146: … (All stats below are as of Tuesday. Eventually, he started hitting for power, too.Urshela had another good day in Saturday’s loss, going 1-for-3 with a game-tying, two-run homer in the sixth inning, his fifth bomb in four days. When he joined Scranton Wilkes-Barre, he was talked into make some changes to his approach by RailRiders’ hitting coach Phil Plantier, who then helped made it possible by tweaking Urshela’s stance and swing.Urshela wound up finishing the season hitting .307 in 27 games with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, then he kept it in 2019 spring training batting .321 for the Yankees in 11 Grapefruit League games.Urshela didn’t make the Yankees’ Opening Day roster, but he was with them by April 6.“Yeah, it was a good trade,” Urshela said.
I want to be like that one day," Yankees third baseman and homegrown talent Miguel Andujar said … In fact, he appears to be getting better than he was a year ago.But before we get to that, here’s a quick refresher on what Urshela did to improve so dramatically in 2019. August 13, 2020 Despite a particular free agent still out there that plays the hot corner, Miguel Andujar should be the everyday third baseman in 2019 … The 2019 Yankees seem to. Urshela no longer a surprise -- he's a star The amount of money the Yanks gave up never has come out, but it probably was no more than $25,000.The way Urshela has played this season after being an all-field, no-hit player for a decade, most of it as a minor leaguer, this was a steal.“I’ve been hearing that a lot,” Urshela said with another smile. “I like hearing it.”Nobody could have imagined what Urshela would develop into this season as a 27-year-old who is in his 11th pro season.Not even Urshela, who finished out the 2018 season with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre with very unimpressive career big-league numbers, a .225 average with eight homers over 466 career at-bats.Urshela’s opportunity to play a lot of third base this year materialized when 2018 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Miguel Andujar tore his right shoulder labrum in opening week and had season-ending surgery by May.Right away, Urshela was playing great defense, which always has been his calling card, but he also was hitting for average. Urshela was never a highly ranked prospect, and he had a .225/.274/.315 slash line with eight homers over 499 plate appearances with the Indians and Blue Jays before arriving in NewAfter the 2019 season, it was easy to peg Yankees third baseman Urshela was never a highly ranked prospect, and he had a .225/.274/.315 slash line with eight homers over 499 plate appearances with the Indians and Blue Jays before arriving in New York in a trade that sent nothing but cash back to Toronto.Then, suddenly, at age 27, he started mashing, becoming a key cog on an injury-riddled Yankees club and finishing 2019 with a .314 average, 21 homers and an .889 OPS (133 Urshela didn’t close out the year on the best of notes, however, recording a .655 OPS after returning from an injured-list stint due to a groin strain in September, then going just 8-for-33 (.242) in the postseason, which added to the list of reasons to doubt him entering 2020.Well, early on in this season, Urshela is proving the doubters wrong. His work yielded positive results last season, as he hit the ball with more authority, especially on balls in the air, while continuing to make as much contact as he had previously.Urshela also started pulling the ball more, doing so on 37.6% of his batted balls -- up from 29.6% from 2015-18. The 2019 New York Yankees season was the 117th season in New York City for the Yankees, and the 119th season overall for the franchise.The Yankees play in Yankee Stadium in the city's northern borough of The Bronx, and are led by Aaron Boone on his second season as team manager. Urshela ranks among the elite in average exit velocity, hard-hit rate, From a visual standpoint, it means he has a whole lot of dark red on his 2020 chart.Gio Urshela out here proving 2019 was no fluke. The current Yankees third baseman and should have been Rookie of the Year, Miguel Andujar is number eight on my list for the Top 10 Third Basemen Right Now. If healthy Donaldson will have a big 2019 campaign in Atlanta for the revamped Braves. He has remained aggressive on balls in the zone, meanwhile, swinging at 72.6% of them, while his contact rate on in-zone offerings has jumped to 89% (82.2% in 2019).The result? (Fred Thornhill | The Canadian Press via AP)“You were just traded to the other side,” Urshela was told.The Toronto Blue Jays had just acquired him in a trade from the Cleveland Indians a month earlier, so Urshela was sure that his leg was being pulled.Whoever heard of anyone being traded about an hour before the start of a doubleheader to the opposing club?“I didn’t believe it until they showed me an email,” Urshela recalled.