Alex Bregman Quotes

For me, the strike zone has always been, If it's something I can drive, it's most likely a strike. I feel like if it's a ball I really can't do much with, it's most likely a ball. So that's just always been my approach.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike - maybe it's a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike - and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they're yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.