With LSU sitting at 23-2 and ranked in the top five, you’d think one of the team’s veterans would be its leading hitter. Someone like Mason Katz, or – I don’t know – Raph Rhymes, that guy who almost hit .500 last spring.
Katz and Rhymes are certainly doing well, but nobody’s been better than freshman shortstop Alex Bregman, who is on the Harwich roster for this summer.
Bregman is hitting .443, best on the team and good for 21st in the nation. He’s also hit two homers, two triples and eight doubles, while driving in 23 runs. His on-base percentage is a team-best .496 and he’s slugging .613.
He’s doing all of this, of course, while starting at shortstop and anchoring the middle of the order for perhaps the most storied program in college baseball. And he’s replacing Austin Nola, a four-year starter who was beloved by the Tiger Faithful.
Bregman has thrived all the same. He was a 29th-round pick of the Red Sox out of high school in New Mexico last year, and he’s living up to every bit of the hype.
It’s also worth noting, from a Cape League perspective, that Bregman is slated to join North Carolina star freshman Skye Bolt in Harwich. Bolt is hitting above .400 as well. A third Harwich freshman, Texas infielder C.J. Hinojosa was a 26th-round pick out of high school and is rated as one of the top freshmen in the nation. Quite a trio.