‘The best pure hitter I’ve managed here’: Mickey Gasper swinging a big bat for Worcester
The catcher/first baseman is the team's hottest hitter through the first couple weeks of the season.
WORCESTER -- Chad Tracy has seen a lot of very talented players come through Polar Park in his four-plus years of managing the WooSox. Roman Anthony. Jarren Duran.
Ceddanne Rafaela. The list goes on and on, but there’s one player on this year’s squad who Tracy considers to be the “best pure hitter” he’s had in his time in Worcester: Mickey Gasper. “I’ve said this before and I’ll reiterate it, and this is my fifth year here ...
as far as just pure hitter, he’s probably the best one I’ve managed here,” Tracy said of his first baseman/catcher who is showing everyone why his manager thinks so highly of him with a scorching start to the season. Gasper, a switch-hitter, is tearing the cover off the ball, hitting . 400 with a 1.
257 OPS over his first nine games of 2026. The 30-year-old teed off on St. Paul pitching last week, smacking three home runs, including a solo homer and grand slam in the same game.
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