Alex Bergman
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Bregman with the Astros in 2016
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| Third baseman / Shortstop | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born: March 30, 1994 Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| Batting average | .279 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 211 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 27 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 105 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander David Bregman (born March 30, 1994) is an American professional baseball infielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).
As a 16-year-old high school sophomore in 2010, Bregman became the first high school player to win the USA Baseball Player of the Year Award. As a junior the following year he batted .678, while setting a New Mexico season record with 19 home runs.
In three years of college baseball for Louisiana State University (LSU), Bregman was voted the 2013 National Freshman of the Year by Baseball America, won the 2013 Brooks Wallace Award (as the country's best college shortstop), and was a two-time All-American.
Toward the end of his junior year of college, he was selected by the Houston Astros with the second pick in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft. He was named a 2016 AA mid-season All Star, and the 2016 USA Today Minor League Player of the Year, MLB Pipeline Hitter of the Year, and ESPN Prospect of the Year. Bregman started 2017 as the youngest member of Team USA, which won the gold medal in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, and ended the season winning the 2017 World Series with the Astros.
Bregman is Jewish and was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a member of Albuquerque's Congregation Albert growing up and lived in the Northeast Heights section of Albuquerque. His father, Sam Bregman, and his mother, Jackie Bregman, are both lawyers, and he has two younger siblings, Jessica and Anthony. His father played baseball as a freshman for the University of New Mexico Lobos in 1982, a team for which his uncle Ben Bregman also played; they both originally moved to Albuquerque to play baseball for the college on baseball scholarships. His father was also a part owner, starting in 2006, of the NBA Development League’s New Mexico Thunderbirds.
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