Given how long his career has been, but how poorly he’s hit over the years, Freddy Galvis is mostly a glove-first shortstop. Then again, through his first 22-games with his new team, the Blue Jays, he’s hit quite well: .310/.333/.536 (131 wRC+).
And even more impressively, his defense is clearly still at the top of his game.
Watch as he makes a running, bare-handed, over-the-shoulder grab for the final out of the second inning of Saturday’s contest against the A’s.
https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/1119948904173150209
Sure, the Blue Jays were up by nine runs at the time of the play, so it wasn’t exactly game-changing, but damn that’s one hell of a catch.
It reminds me of the famous Kevin Mitchell catch, and that’s one we’ve been talking about for years: