Pujols and Hamilton are a Joke

[Angelsjunky]

A really bad one at that. What a complete waste. Look at their batting averages - as of the 7th inning on July 4th, Pujols is hitting .242 and Hamilton .224...and its not like we're a few weeks or a month into the season - its game #85!!!!

 

The worst part about these two is that they came AFTER the Wells trade, meaning the Angels should have learned their lesson. The Angels front office is clueless.

 

Yeah, I hope they turn it around but I'm not optimistic. At least with Wells we "only" ever had four years to deal with, but we have four and a half more of Hamilton and eight and a half of Pujols. What a nightmare.

[Docwaukee]

It's essentially equivalent to us signing Greinke and Verlander and then watching them perform like Hanson and Blanton. 

 

It's moderately impressive that the team is actually moving toward being .500

 

BTW, Hamilton is hitting .224 because of a recent hot streak. 

[full circle]

Well said AJ.  I can't stand to watch these guys hit anymore, its embarrassing.  

[OregonLAA]

Yep. These are literally the two worst hitters in the lineup every night and we get to see them hit 3rd and 4th. It's awful

[Angelsjunky]

Doc, I hear what you're saying but the problem with that comparison is age and signs of decline. Pujols and Hamilton were both entering their age 32 seasons and both with red flags - Pujols with two straight years of decline and Hamilton with a collapse after two months in the previous year. Something is amiss with this team if they're completely incapable of scouting this sort of thing.

[Docwaukee]

they are just getting really really really unlucky. 

[Angelsjunky]

I rarely feel this way about an Angels player, but I honestly wish they'd both go away. Actually, there's almost always a "team goat" - Vernon Wells, Jeff Mathis, Gary Matthews Jr, Steve Finley. But with Wells the Angels started tradition of the team goat being the highest paid player on the team; now its the two highest paid players.

 

It just really worries me - does the front office have any clue what they're doing? Isn't it their job to have a pretty good sense of how a player is going to perform before signing him, especially to a five (or ten!) year contract through his mid to late 30s?

[The God of Runs]

They fall in the same category as fart jokes

[Docwaukee]

Doc, I hear what you're saying but the problem with that comparison is age and signs of decline. Pujols and Hamilton were both entering their age 32 seasons and both with red flags - Pujols with two straight years of decline and Hamilton with a collapse after two months in the previous year. Something is amiss with this team if they're completely incapable of scouting this sort of thing.

 

I don't think there was any question that these two were going to decline.  If the FO didn't think so, then they should all be fired now. 

 

Did anyone here or would any GM think it was going to happen so soon and so drastically?  Really? 

 

No scout in the world could predict this type of situation. 

 

3 years of Hamilton giving us .280/30/100 and four years of pujols doing about the same would make this team a playoff contender each of those years.  Those numbers are well below each's career level so no unreasonable to expect.  Get the team to 2017 and let a revamped farm system come into the mix.   

[bloodbrother]

I don't like watching their AB's

[Docwaukee]

I don't like watching their AB's

if you did, we have  you committed. 

[OregonLAA]

I would sit them. I don't give 2 shits about their feelings. If they want to play then they can play better. Sit them until the All Star break and see what happens

[moccasin]

Like clockwork.

[Corona]

Lol.

[tdawg87]

Right on cue.

[OregonLAA]

Lol

[Spirit]

yeah ... those guys never do anything right

 

(other than providing game tying hits & home runs in the bottom of the 9th)

[xboom28x]

what a d!ck that Hamilton is.

[Mile High Dreams]

Cool thread bro

[markb]

Angelsjunky for mvp of this game.

[Spirit]

Gonna let this thread go a little longer before moving it to the HOF.

[RallyMo]

Holy cow. If I had seen this thread I wouldn't have been caught off guard by the comeback.

[Corona]

We need more threads like this.

[tomahawksu]

That crow has to be tasty right now right?

 

Great to see Hamilton FINALLY get that hit that we've all been waiting for.

[Tyler]

I swear this shit happens every time... lmao