Did Walsh's first homer remind you of...

[Torridd 472]

...Garret Anderson's swing?

[Stradling 28,047]

No, but when I saw it, then saw it again in a replay, I thought, “those are some fast fucking hands” 

[totdprods 8,621]

5 minutes ago, Stradling said:

No, but when I saw it, then saw it again in a replay, I thought, “those are some fast fucking hands” 

The hands were Bonds-like, I thought.

I really want Walsh's 2020 to be legit, and last night was a great sign.

Edited April 5 by totdprods

[cals 14,638]

Even Albert thought his post swing swagger was a bit much, though.

[Stradling 28,047]

I was skeptical, I even said I had more confidence in Albert with the game on the line after opening day.  My point really was if you have a runner on third and less than two outs, I’d take Albert because he doesn’t strike out much and won’t let the pressure get to him. But yea Walsh has looked really good. His bat speed appears elite and the fact he didn’t try to pull that ball and just hit it where it was pitched, says a lot.  Plus the last year or two you’ve heard the importance of letting the ball travel in the strike zone.  Yea he did that too. 

[tdawg87 33,710]

Any lefty that goes left center like that has a great swing.

[PattyD22 1,930]

31 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Any lefty that goes left center like that has a great swing.

Totally agree tdawg.  Watching it again, it reminded me of Jim Thome and how Thome used to hit a ton of home runs just like that.

[Taylor 17,856]

Don't cut my balls off with a rusty butter knife for this, but his first HR reminded me of a peak-level Josh Hamilton. Hamilton would hit those laser shots to RF quite often.

[Angel Oracle 13,962]

2 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Any lefty that goes left center like that has a great swing.

Walsh and Ohtani both, great habit to have 

[Dtwncbad 3,647]

Walsh’s second homer reminded me of the guy that hit a homer earlier in the game.

[Lhalo 12,959]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Don't cut my balls off with a rusty butter knife for this, but his first HR reminded me of a peak-level Josh Hamilton. Hamilton would hit those laser shots to RF quite often.

And then rack a line on a stripper's ass.

[TheLordofOuts 25]

Jared Walsh = left-handed Trout. 
 

this line-up will clobber a lot of teams. 

[Don 1,286]

I know it's only a 32 game sample size from last year, but if Walsh comes anywhere close to replicating those numbers over a full season then we have a very special player on our hands. Dude rocked a .971 OPS with 9HR in 32 games last year. Project that out over 160 games and that's 45HR. Obviously he's not going to play that many games, but let's say he plays 130... a .900+ OPS and 30-35HR is not an unreasonable projection IMO. And that makes 1-6 in our lineup pretty freaking lethal.

[Chris 430]

Can Walsh start as pitcher and hit in the same game at #5 in the lineup?

 

sarcasm sign on

[Angels 1961 472]

First HR looked just like Lee Thomas. Both played 1B. Second HR reminded me of Don Mincher he also played 1B.

[Taylor 17,856]

1 hour ago, Angels 1961 said:

First HR looked just like Lee Thomas. Both played 1B. Second HR reminded me of Don Mincher he also played 1B.

I agree.

[Angels 1961 472]

Angels have found a diamond in Jared

[rageous 303]

This article from fangraphs really describes the adjustment that Walsh has made starting from second half of last year.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jared-walsh-has-simplified-things/

[Brandon 8,729]

Reminds me of Jeff Davanon

[sammyscioscia 109]

What's also great about having Walsh is if we go deep into an extra inning game he can pitch for us, dude is a solid reliever.

[Warfarin 2,559]

Fun fact:

Jared Walsh has produced the game-tying or winning RBI in all 3 of his starts this year.

[Rollinghard 32]

I thought his walk off stare /strut was a little much, specially when the ball only cleared the wall by 5 or 6 feet. You would have thought is was 40 rows deep. He would have looked pretty stupid if that ball didn't go out. Maybe it was the famous marine layer that fooled him. 

[Warfarin 2,559]

18 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

I thought his walk off stare /strut was a little much, specially when the ball only cleared the wall by 5 or 6 feet. You would have thought is was 40 rows deep. He would have looked pretty stupid if that ball didn't go out. Maybe it was the famous marine layer that fooled him. 

Maybe that, or the fact that they deadened the baseball this year too.  Maybe in past years, that ball goes 10-20 feet further

[Stradling 28,047]

42 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

I thought his walk off stare /strut was a little much, specially when the ball only cleared the wall by 5 or 6 feet. You would have thought is was 40 rows deep. He would have looked pretty stupid if that ball didn't go out. Maybe it was the famous marine layer that fooled him. 

This is such an awful take. 

[PattyD22 1,930]

1 hour ago, Rollinghard said:

I thought his walk off stare /strut was a little much, specially when the ball only cleared the wall by 5 or 6 feet. You would have thought is was 40 rows deep. He would have looked pretty stupid if that ball didn't go out. Maybe it was the famous marine layer that fooled him. 

If I’m not mistaken, in that game a sacrifice fly was going to win the game anyway.  His “stare/strut” was more about that, than the ball going over the fence.  That was just icing on the cake.  He knew as soon as he hit, the game was over and to Light That  Baby Up.

At least that’s my take on it

 

Edited Tuesday at 03:37 PM by PattyD22