artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

ZIPS updated projection for Pujols is 28/85/.267.  That is pretty low and still I think it will be hard for him to reach it.

Presuming he plays 161 games? I say he chokes on DeeDee's fist sometime around mid-July.

148

http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1177&position=1B

2 for 5 with 2 RBI. Back up to .198.

Any idea what happened to Wilson?

Never mind. Rain delay.

Last edited by JV (5/11/2012 10:58 pm)

Alittle off topic but the Angles are bad and not getting better.  Any chance the roster becomes trade parts? 

Ervan Santana and Dan Haren are both good pitchers off to slow starts.  They are owed 13 and 15.5 million respectively next year.

APIAD wrote:

Alittle off topic but the Angles are bad and not getting better.  Any chance the roster becomes trade parts? 

Ervan Santana and Dan Haren are both good pitchers off to slow starts.  They are owed 13 and 15.5 million respectively next year.

With the second wild card in play, there are going to be fewer sellers at the trade deadline. The Angels are probably going to hold off as long as possible under the rationale all that talent will kick in sooner or later.
Based on what I've seen the first six weeks, Texas is just in another realm. The playoffs may be a crap shoot, but unless they have a batch of injuries between now and then, I just can't see them losing a 5 or 7-game series.

Slappy got an infield hit to hurdle the Mendoza line. .203 and climbing.

So Slappy managed to get his hitting coach fired and lifted his average to .212 after 3 infield singles.

Angels fan has to be loving this mess.

don.rob11 wrote:

joestrauss RT @ScottMCBS: #Angels fire hitting coach Mickey Hatcher. First major move of the Pujols Administration.

A player with 11 years of major league experience ought not to need a hitting coach. And with all the video that's available these days, a hitting coach is practically obsolete by any measure. This is one of those moves that indicates to idiots who go to a ball park to bang inflatable toys together and hoot and holler whenever video of a monkey jumping up and down is displayed on the SumthinTron that the team is doing something substantial, when it's really doing nothing of consequence. It's like Uncle Fester firing his barber.

artie_fufkin wrote:

don.rob11 wrote:

joestrauss RT @ScottMCBS: #Angels fire hitting coach Mickey Hatcher. First major move of the Pujols Administration.

A player with 11 years of major league experience ought not to need a hitting coach. And with all the video that's available these days, a hitting coach is practically obsolete by any measure. This is one of those moves that indicates to idiots who go to a ball park to bang inflatable toys together and hoot and holler whenever video of a monkey jumping up and down is displayed on the SumthinTron that the team is doing something substantial, when it's really doing nothing of consequence. It's like Uncle Fester firing his barber.

I agree that Hatcher likely wasnt the problem and the older guys on that team should know how to hit.  The younger ones are doing fine.  However I think hitting coaches are important.  The Cardinals seem to be doing much better under McGwire.  It seemed like teams that Hal had were more all or nothing then McGwire's teams.  We are seeing guys like Carpenter, Craig, Jay and Freese hit at the big league level.  I dont know how much McGwire has help them but they are doing really well.  Molina is a totally different hitter then he was 3 years ago.

Oh, and if baseball has superfluous bodies, it's worse in football. Can someone please tell me what is the function of a "quality control coach?"

2/17/.213

APIAD wrote:

Pujols hits his 3rd HR

Must be the advice he got from the new hitting coach.