Mang...

[Glen]

Game-winning RBI in the 8th inning after Trout choked.

[tomsred]

That was a smart swing and resulting hit.  I would like to see him do that more often rather than trying to power everything out to left.  He picked up Trout big time tonight.

[NrM]

His 2nd half fWAR of -.4 ranks 150 of 157....... 

 

This is our cleanup hitter and highest paid player ladies and gentlemen.... 

Edited September 18, 2015 by Poozy

[Hollyw00d]

Either dude juiced or he is at least 39 years old

[Angel Oracle]

Bench him!!!!!!!

At least for a couple of ganes

Let Navarro start.

[Stradling]

Either dude juiced or he is at least 39 years old

Or he's hurt or he's declined

[Angel Oracle]

Makes you wonder if he juiced in St.L.

[Stradling]

No it doesn't.

So he decided to juice in July?

He's a streaky, declining, once great superstar.

Father Time is undefeated. He just happened to beat Albert earlier than we and the Angels had hoped.

[katrinab]

he has been playing hurt, something about his foot bothering him

i give him all of the props in the world for wanting to play through it but he isnt helping the team right now and maybe should take a couple of games off to rest it a little bit

[Stradling]

he has been playing hurt, something about his foot bothering him

i give him all of the props in the world for wanting to play through it but he isnt helping the team right now and maybe should take a couple of games off to rest it a little bit

I agree with this.

[Blarg]

His 2nd half fWAR of -.4 ranks 150 of 157.......

This is our cleanup hitter and highest paid player ladies and gentlemen....

The Angels highest paid player is on the Rangers disabled list.

[Angel Oracle]

Regarding plantar fasciitis, isn't it something that can come and go once someone develops it?

That even if someone is healthy, as he was in 2014, that it can still return? 

[mtangelsfan]

Makes you wonder if he juiced in St.L.

 

This is one of the reasons the interwebs suck.  You can say anything you want about someone.  Accuse them of whatever you want, without any facts to back them up and have zero consequences.

[Angel Oracle]

That's why I said "Makes you wonder", instead of saying it as fact.

Can you blame someone for thinking about it, after what MLB went through in the mid 1990s through 2000s?

Edited September 18, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[bloodbrother]

The issue with Albert's stunning and rapid decline is that his body, specifically his lower body, has given out on him. Ortiz has been able to stay a top notch performer into his late 30's thanks to being a DH his entire career. Sadly, Pujols' lower body is gone. He can rehab it/heal it up with rest in the offseason but every single year at some point in the season something crops up that just torpedo's him. One thing's for sure, this team cannot go into next season with him as the cleanup hitter or even having him hit next to Trout. He's just not good enough anymore to be that guy. They need to find Trout another player to pair him with in the lineup and then Pujols can bat 5th or 6th, ideally. Albert should really retire within the next 2 seasons, honestly. Dude looks straight up beat

Edited September 18, 2015 by bloodbrother

[yk9001]

This is one of the reasons the interwebs suck.  You can say anything you want about someone.  Accuse them of whatever you want, without any facts to back them up and have zero consequences.

 

You have your head in the sand if you don't think it can even be brought up on a message board.

 

its a helluva lot easier to name the home run hitters of his era connected to PEDs than not connected to PEDs.

[Angel Oracle]

Time for Cron to really work on his fielding in the off-season?

Then Pujols can focus on DH with maybe 50 starts at 1B mixed in?

 

So far in 2015, 2/3 of his at bats are as a 1B.   That needs to decrease in 2016 to 1/3 of his at bats, if he is going to even last 4 more seasons.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[yk9001]

Has Pujols had a healthy season since he's been here?

[mtangelsfan]

You have your head in the sand if you don't think it can even be brought up on a message board.

 

its a helluva lot easier to name the home run hitters of his era connected to PEDs than not connected to PEDs.

 

Never made that statement, just giving my point of view on making accusations without any evidence of it.  If your evidence is something like 'he was really successful, so he probably cheated' it really isn't evidence.

[ABC]

This is one of the reasons the interwebs suck.  You can say anything you want about someone.  Accuse them of whatever you want, without any facts to back them up and have zero consequences.

 

Jeezus....He cannot "wonder" on an Angels message board? Sports and MLB and infamous for PEDs. I don't see the stretch. 

[Glen]

Has Pujols had a healthy season since he's been here?

No, but he's been 100% for every spring training.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

In the best shape of his life!

[ABC]

No, but he's been 100% for every spring training.

 

A body breaking down to this extent at this age might make someone wonder if he was a PEDs user. 

[Angel Oracle]

He allegedly was healthy in 2012 (although coming off of the wrist issue during the 2011 season) and 2014.

 

2012 was a struggle in April (.569 OPS), although maybe partly due to facing new pitching in a new league, and then he hit well from May on (over .900 OPS but power disappearing in September although still hitting close to .300 that month). 

 

2014 started off guns a blazing in April (.934 OPS), and then deteriorated after that (OPS of around .750 from May on, although without any huge differences from month to month unlike 2015).  

[ABC]

He allegedly was healthy in 2012 (although coming off of the wrist issue during the 2011 season) and 2014.

 

2012 was a struggle in April (.569 OPS), although maybe partly due to facing new pitching in a new league, and then he hit well from May on (over .900 OPS but power disappearing in September although still hitting close to .300 that month). 

 

2014 started off guns a blazing in April (.934 OPS), and then deteriorated after that (OPS of around .750 from May on, although without any huge differences from month to month unlike 2015).  

 

Pull-jols made remarkable recovery when he broke his wrist. I wonder if PEDs helped him come back so quickly:

 

"Amazing.

Brian Stull of 101-ESPN in St. Louis reports that doctors have cleared Albert Pujols to return just two weeks after a fractured wrist...

...If true, that means Pujols will have missed just 13 games. With a fractured wrist."

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/05/doctors-clear-albert-pujols-to-return-from-fractured-wrist/