We dare you not to walk Alex Bregman

If Alex Bregman were homering as often as peak Barry Bonds, we wouldn't say the Red Sox were giving him the Barry Bonds treatment. We'd just say Bregman was hot, or had somehow become as good as Bonds, and that no amount of effort on the part of Red Sox pitchers has been able to stop it.

But Alex Bregman is walking as often as peak Bonds. His 10 postseason walks represent almost 42 percent of his 24 plate appearances. Peak Bonds drew walks in 38 percent of his plate appearances (in the 2004 season), and peak Bonds walked 44 percent of the time in his final three postseason series (in 2002 and 2003). They called that the Bonds treatment then, and -- on Twitter and on podcasts and maybe in…