Didi Gregorius Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 3" / 205 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 2/18/1990 (34)
- Experience
- 8
- College
- None
Didi Gregorius Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Didi Gregorius News
The Seattle Mariners and free-agent shortstop Didi Gregorius agreed to a minor-league contract on Thursday. The 33-year-old affords the Mariners a contingency reserve and perhaps a power complement to the light-hitting J.P. Crawford at shortstop. Gregorius fizzled out with the Philadelphia Phillies when we last saw him in the major leagues, hitting .210 with a .613 OPS over 582 at-bats from 2021 to 2022. The righty masher remains off the fantasy radar for now, but he could give Seattle a lift in pop (.375 SLG as a team) if Gregorius eventually gets elevated to the bigs.
The Philadelphia Phillies reinstated second baseman Jean Segura (finger) from the 60-day injured list. In corresponding moves, the team activated right-hander Kyle Gibson from the bereavement list and released shortstop Didi Gregorius. Segura is back at the keystone and is hitting seventh on Thursday against Washington Nationals right-hander Paolo Espino, so fantasy managers need to get him back into their starting lineups in single-year formats. Segura has been out for two months after having surgery to fix a fractured right index finger. The 32-year-old should return to regular starting duties at second base. Gregorius got the axe after hitting only .210 with one homer in 214 at-bats. Rookie Bryson Stott should take over as the everyday shortstop now that Segura is back.
Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Didi Gregorius will be on the bench for the team's series opener on Monday against the Atlanta Braves and left-hander Max Fried. Gregorius is batting .225 with a .284 on-base percentage, a home run, and a stolen base in 204 plate appearances this season. Instead, Bryson Stott will move over from second base and start at shortstop with Yairo Munoz entering the lineup and getting the nod at second. The 27-year-old is batting seventh against Atlanta on Monday. For the season, Munoz is hitting .209 with a .261 on-base percentage, three home runs, and a stolen base in 46 plate appearances. Fantasy managers in search of streaming help are probably better off looking elsewhere.
Didi Gregorius Stats
Last 10 Games
Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Didi Gregorius rebounded nicely in 2020 after a rough 2019 campaign in which he returned from Tommy John surgery. In 2020, his first season with the Phillies, Gregorius posted a .284/.339/.488 slash line to go with 10 home runs and 40 RBI in 237 plate appearances. Extrapolated over the course of a full season, Gregorius' 2020 campaign amounted to a 20 HR, 80 RBI performance. Examining his 2020 metrics, his average overall exit velocity of 83.8 mph (in the bottom 2% of all of MLB) was a sharp decline from his overall EV posted in 2019. In addition, Gregorius was near the bottom of the league in overall hard contact rate (bottom 8%) and overall barrel rate (bottom 19%) in 2020. While these MLB Statcast percentages are frightening, they are nothing new for Gregorius. Despite underwhelming power metrics throughout his career, Gregorius has consistently been successful. This is best exemplified by his 2017 and 2018 campaigns in New York, where he had similar poor power metrics (including an overall EV of 84.5 mph in 2017) but still drove in over 80 RBI and crushed 25 and 27 HR, respectively. Gregorius' strength has been in his elite strikeout rate (which was in the top-7% of MLB in 2020) and contact rates that have exceeded league averages. Looking ahead to 2021, nothing would suggest the upcoming campaign for Gregorius will be any different, especially with his return to a potent Phillies lineup and Citizens Bank Park. If healthy, managers can pencil in Gregorius for another .270-.280 campaign with 20 HR and 80-90 RBI. At his ADP of 167, Gregorius can serve as a capable starting shortstop in deep leagues or a decent backup/starting middle infielder in more shallow formats.