David Freese

[Docwaukee]

I keep telling myself to give him a chance, but he's not very good.  It's just a sweet bonus that he's been hitting 4th when at best he should be hitting 8th. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Yeah, I like him batting cleanup about as much as I like ibanez...batting anywhere

[tennischmp]

Remember when he was once refered to as the Power hitting 3B we haven't had since Troy Glaus? Good times

Edited May 31, 2014 by tennischmp

[rafibomb]

Wish he would get his act together. Looking at Josh Donaldson play against us makes me feel like crap.

[Docwaukee]

Remember when he was once refered to as the Power hitting 3B we haven't had since Troy Glaus? Good times

uh no. 

[martinpa25]

Remember how arte didn't want beltre??

[HaloNation]

bourjos=freese

[Butcher'd]

It's the ultimate nothing trade. Bourjos and Freese are both terrible hitters.

[2002_halos_II]

I thought we always gave players a break their first season after switching leagues...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe not

[YouthofToday]

Freese's OBP tonight was .500...

[Oz27]

Freese's Trumbo-esque work with the glove would be easier to take if he could hit. But he can't. Thank God we gave up Grichuk and Bourjos to get him :/

[stevestevens]

Freese's Trumbo-esque work with the glove would be easier to take if he could hit. But he can't. Thank God we gave up Grichuk and Bourjos to get him :/

I thought we were finally past people pretending that bourjos and grichuk are good.

[ItzTacosYerrp]

It's the ultimate nothing trade. Bourjos and Freese are both terrible hitters.

But we got salas so it was a steal!!!!!!!!!

[acro2008]

I thought we were finally past people pretending that bourjos and grichuk are good.

At least Bourjos was one of the best OF'ers in the game and  could be used to shore up the defense, could bunt and made one heck of a pinch runner.  

[Stradling]

Remember how arte didn't want beltre??

Remember when Beltre was an injury risk? Remember when Beltre had a five year deal with Seattle and played well in two of those years.

[bloodbrother]

Funny how baseball works. No way to tell at the time they made these deals, but this team would be better off if Green was at 3B and Cron was at DH rather than Freese/Ibanez

[Guest]

Funny how baseball works. No way to tell at the time they made these deals, but this team would be better off if Green was at 3B and Cron was at DH rather than Freese/Ibanez

Yep. Bourjos as fourth outfielder Grant green at third would be a lot more valuable than using green in the outfield. Either that or we could have traded Bourjos for a bullpen long man type player.

[Amazing Larry]

Funny how baseball works. No way to tell at the time they made these deals, but this team would be better off if Green was at 3B and Cron was at DH rather than Freese/Ibanez

I check this site every day to see if Ibañez has been released.

[Brandon]

At least Bourjos was one of the best OF'ers in the game

Is this real life?

[tennischmp]

Is this real life?

Pretty sure he meant defensive outfielder

[OregonLAA]

Cowgill is better than Bourjos at this point.

[Stradling]

So now can we say that since we have Greene, Cowgill and Navarro as depth then we traded from a position of depth to acquire an under performing third baseman and a relief pitcher?

[Butcher'd]

Bourjos 2014: .204/.274/.310/.584

 

He wouldn't be any kind of solution for this Angels ballclub. 

 

2011 is the outlier in his MLB career whether some want to acknowledge it or not

[Docwaukee]

We've been thru this several times.  It's not really even about Bourjos.  This is about depth and using that to your advantage. 

 

They had redundancy that provided no value to the team but had some value on the market.  They took that value and actually turned it into a net negative to the major league club. 

[ELEVEN]

At least Bourjos was one of the best OF'ers in the game and could be used to shore up the defense, could bunt and made one heck of a pinch runner.

When did Bourjos learn to bunt?