Career highlights (through 2019)

• While at LSU in 2015, was one of four finalists for the Golden Spikes Award, honoring the beast amateur baseball layer in the U.S.
• Drafted #2 overall by the Houston Astros in the 2015 MLB draft
• In 2016, was named USA Today Minor League Player of the Year
• Barely a year after being drafted, made Major League debut with the Astros (July 25, 2016)
• Was named MVP of the 2018 MLB All-Star Game after hitting a go-ahead home run in the 10th inning (see video). He is the first Jewish player — and the first Astros — to win the award
• Won the Astros’ 2018 Heart and Hustle Award (see video)
• Finished 2nd in A.L. MVP voting (2019)

On being Jewish

• A 2019 bio on Bregman — and his bar mitzvah d’var torah
• In a 2018 interview, Bregman said he probably should have played for Team Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic — he only got four at-bats with Team USA. His mother said she hopes he is included one day in a collection of Jewish baseball cards

For more information

• Baseball-Reference page
• Jewish Baseball Museum bio
• Bleacher Report profile (2019)