Pujols last 30 games

[tdawg87]

Well it's his job to, technically.

[yk9001]

Who did St. Louis take with the supplemental first round pick in compensation of us signing this loser?

[jh82]

16 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Who did St. Louis take with the supplemental first round pick in compensation of us signing this loser?

Michael Wacha with the Angels pick

Stephen Piscotty with the supplemental pick

Both are on the major league club.  A starting pitcher and their everyday right fielder.  

 

[yk9001]

1 minute ago, jh82 said:

Michael Wacha with the Angels pick

Stephen Piscotty with the supplemental pick

Both are on the major league club.  A starting pitcher and their everyday right fielder.  

 

Thanks.

 

 

[Jeff Fletcher]

5 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

Pujols has more opportunities with men on base because he hits behind Trout.  Seems like an obvious point.  Am I missing something here?  Coming into last night's game, Pujols had 147 plate appearances with men on, and 79 with RISP.  Trout had 120 and 66.

That's also why he hits into so many DPs.

He hits into a DP in 18 pct of his opportunities. The MLB avg is 11 pct.

Over his 67 opportunities, that's about 5.5 DPs. 

I'm not saying Pujols is great or is worth his salary by any means. Just that he's not as bad as you think. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

6 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Harper has only walked 5% more this year and the bulk of that came in the first month of the season.

Trout 43

Harper 54

I was doing the math that way.

[DMVol]

30 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

 I'm not saying Pujols is great or is worth his salary by any means. Just that he's not as bad as you think. 

He's ok....power is still there but not the all around hitting skills from his prime....But the contract outweighs everything else....So much this team could have done with 375 million spent on Pujols and Hamilton....and we already had an "ok" 1bman when we signed Pujols....he's having a pretty good year in Baltimore....

[AngelsLakersFan]

7 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

One thing about Pujols you shouldn't forget...

Look how often Bryce Harper gets walked and how often Trout gets walked. (20 percent more for Harper.)

As great as Trout is, pitchers still fear Pujols enough that they won't just totally pitch around Trout the way they do Harper.

Also, Pujols has 42 RBI. Trout has 44.

Trout's ever increasing walk rate tracks pretty nicely with Albert's level of decline.

[DMVol]

1 minute ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Trout's ever increasing walk rate tracks pretty nicely with Albert's level of decline.

^^^This^^^

[totdprods]

I'm just happy that we're halfway through the contract now and he hasn't precipitously declined any of the five years. 
There's been a gradual decline year to year, and he's been underwhelming as a whole and had some brutal cold streaks, and we've relied on him to be a better hitter than he's been, but he's been at worst a capable DH for half of his contract, and looks like he can at least maintain this another year or two. 

After the first and second year, I was worried by year 5 he'd be pretty much done.

[kevinb]

1 hour ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

That's also why he hits into so many DPs.

He hits into a DP in 18 pct of his opportunities. The MLB avg is 11 pct.

Over his 67 opportunities, that's about 5.5 DPs. 

I'm not saying Pujols is great or is worth his salary by any means. Just that he's not as bad as you think. 

I mean I guess he's not the worst baseball player in baseball. But he is as bad as we think. He's hitting for the season 229 with a 309 obp and slugging 400. Our power hitting second baseman has a 396 slg percentage 

[arch stanton]

It's so much fun opening this forum everyday to find a new and fresh Pujols bitching thread. Even the ones that don't start out that way always end up as one.

[yk9001]

7 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

It's so much fun opening this forum everyday to find a new and fresh Pujols bitching thread. Even the ones that don't start out that way always end up as one.

You've got five more years of it.  Mang.

[arch stanton]

So for the next 5 years you have a reason to come to the main board

[Make Angels Great Again]

It's just crazy.

Pujols was the surest thing in baseball for over a decade, then he comes here and immediately shits the bed.

[Angel Oracle]

4 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

It's just crazy.

Pujols was the surest thing in baseball for over a decade, then he comes here and immediately shits the bed.

Almost immediately, I'd gladly take the 2012 season right now.

[thebloob]

On the bright side, he will definitely set one career mark with the Angels:

 

Rank	Player (yrs, age)	Double Plays Grounded Into	Bats
1.	Cal Ripken+ (21)	350	R
2.	Ivan Rodriguez (21)	337	R
3.	Hank Aaron+ (23)	328	R
4.	Albert Pujols (16, 36)	324	R
5.	Carl Yastrzemski+ (23)	323	L
6.	Dave Winfield+ (22)	319	R
7.	Eddie Murray+ (21)	315	B
	Jim Rice+ (16)	315	R
9.	Julio Franco (23)	312	R
10.	Harold Baines (22)	298	L
11.	Brooks Robinson+ (23)	297	R

[WeatherWonk]

Just looked into this thread.

I've never been on a board where a moderator passes so much judgement on members opinions;  whether they be positive or negative.

Aren't moderators supposed to MODERATE, instead of being an arbiter of members opinions?

It's a discussion board, fer chrissakes! Don't limit the discussion, unless it specifically violates one of the tenets of the board. 

 

[Stradling]

Moderators on this website are fans and members first and moderators second. 

[yk9001]

47 minutes ago, WeatherWonk said:

Just looked into this thread.

I've never been on a board where a moderator passes so much judgement on members opinions;  whether they be positive or negative.

Aren't moderators supposed to MODERATE, instead of being an arbiter of members opinions?

It's a discussion board, fer chrissakes! Don't limit the discussion, unless it specifically violates one of the tenets of the board. 

 

Sorry, weather wonk.  They have opinions, so be it.  I disagree with the mods about 90% of the time, but who cares?

[Stradling]

16 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Sorry, weather wonk.  They have opinions, so be it.  I disagree with the mods about 90% of the time, but who cares?

Yes but you're a jerk so I can see why you would disagree with perfect humans.  

[WeatherWonk]

24 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yes but you're a jerk so I can see why you would disagree with perfect humans.  

What a perfect example of how poor a choice you are as a board moderator, even if delivering this tongue-in-cheek. There are other examples, beyond this one. The board is more important than a mods opinion, on most boards. It reflects badly on the site.

You shouldn't be allowed to "straddle" the line between mod and member, IMO. Complete conflict of interest. Especially since there is nothing MODERATE about your style.

Facilitate the information instead of becoming part of the story. This is supposed to be a sight with some type of journalistic privilege with the Angels. Act like it.

For instance, refute a poster's claims about Pujols, instead of resorting to childish name-calling. Show some maturity beyond a pre-teener on a social media site. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

If Strad is allowed to have the keys to the In-N-Out kingdom, he can have the keys to this board as well.

[Make Angels Great Again]

7 minutes ago, WeatherWonk said:

What a perfect example of how poor a choice you are as a board moderator, even if delivering this tongue-in-cheek. There are other examples, beyond this one. The board is more important than a mods opinion, on most boards. It reflects badly on the site.

You shouldn't be allowed to "straddle" the line between mod and member, IMO. Complete conflict of interest. Especially since there is nothing MODERATE about your style.

Facilitate the information instead of becoming part of the story. This is supposed to be a sight with some type of journalistic privilege with the Angels. Act like it.

For instance, refute a poster's claims about Pujols, instead of resorting to childish name-calling. Show some maturity beyond a pre-teener on a social media site. 

 

Can't wait to see the response to this.

I don't like how some of the mlb board immigrants come here and start judging people off the bat. People that have posted on this site for years.

WE NEED TO BUILD A WALL.

[Stradling]

4 minutes ago, WeatherWonk said:

What a perfect example of how poor a choice you are as a board moderator, even if delivering this tongue-in-cheek. There are other examples, beyond this one. The board is more important than a mods opinion, on most boards. It reflects badly on the site.

You shouldn't be allowed to "straddle" the line between mod and member, IMO. Complete conflict of interest. Especially since there is nothing MODERATE about your style.

Facilitate the information instead of becoming part of the story. This is supposed to be a sight with some type of journalistic privilege with the Angels. Act like it.

For instance, refute a poster's claims about Pujols, instead of resorting to childish name-calling. Show some maturity beyond a pre-teener on a social media site. 

Ask yk if he's offended.  We've been on this board together for at least 10 years probably longer.  @Chuckster70 has made it perfectly clear that he wants his mods to be fans and members.  We've also had a history of positive threads turning into shit shows when we have plenty of negative threads that that person could share the same opinion.  Sorry if you disagree with this and you are obviously welcome to share your opinions with Chuck.  As I have said many times if I couldn't participate as a fan I wouldn't even consider being a mod.