The Red Sox now have Roy Hobbs; only he is in the body of Bobby Dalbec. Dalbec is on a torrid hot streak that is dramatically opposite of the Dalbec of the season’s first four months. Gone is the flaying away at mystical offspeed curves and sliders. Dalbec is focused, selective, and simply killing baseballs.
There is nothing in his minor league or major league history that one could extrapolate into such a resounding turnaround. Is it real or an illusion? Will Dalbec suddenly revert to the almost automatic out status?
Clyde Vollmer was a right-handed hitter like Dalbec but had significant service time before he had a streak of all streaks in 1951.