Peter Bourjos says he can steal 40 bases

[Chuck]

Peter Bourjos believes he can steal 40 bases this season if he gets "regular, starter at-bats."

 

https://twitter.com/dgoold/status/425333115226423296

 

[tdawg87]

lol

[HaloCory22]

I could steal 40 bases too...

[Stradling]

Somewhere MHD is being summons to his computer.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Lol…no he can't.

[tdawg87]

Watch him hit .290 with 20 HR and an .840 OPS, steal 50 bases, and put up an 8+ WAR season.

 

I would give up on the game of baseball at that point.

[mtangelsfan]

So this is where the line is drawn.  Those who preferred to see Burjous traded are going to rip on him when they get the chance.  Or, if he starts to succeed, then many of the ones who liked petey will be here to tell the others how stupid the Angels were to trade him.

 

Petey is on the Cards now.  I wish him well, but he's not an Angel anymore. 

[Mark68]

He can steal 40 bases...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...If he gets 75 attempts.

[Guest]

I think he can.

[Brent Maguire]

He's had 31 stolen bases combined the last 3 years. 

 

I'm not seeing any way he'll possibly steal 40 in one year all of the sudden. 

[bloodbrother]

he's always had the speed for it but he really does have issues with getting good reads/jumps on the basepaths

 

I also am not sure he'll get the AB's needed. Looks like he'll be platooning with Jay in CF. They also have one of the top prospect in MLB in Oscar Taveras who will be in AAA and is pretty much major league ready

[Docwaukee]

So this is where the line is drawn.  Those who preferred to see Burjous traded are going to rip on him when they get the chance.  Or, if he starts to succeed, then many of the ones who liked petey will be here to tell the others how stupid the Angels were to trade him.

 

Petey is on the Cards now.  I wish him well, but he's not an Angel anymore. 

we don't draw lines at AW, we build bridges. 

 

and then we hide out on our side of the bridge ready to ambush. 

[Stradling]

I want Peter to have a great year, only to be outdone by the year Freese has.

[Second Base]

Peter Bourjos has the speed to steal 40 bases easily.  He's one of the top 5 fastest players in the game, but Scioscia never gave him the green light.  This is partly Scioscia's fault for holding him back and partly Bourjos' fault for not reading pitchers better.  

 

I would not be surprised in the least if he swiped 40 in 2014.  I think 30 is considerably more likely. 

[Mark68]

we don't draw lines at AW, we build bridges. 

 

and then we hide out on our side of the bridge ready to ambush. 

Or we block most of the lanes with "construction".

[HaloFan85]

If he stays healthy and plays regularly and gets an 'automatic' green light (something he's on record as stating he didn't have here), I don't think it's too far a stretch.

[Punk]

[Sciosciapath]

Can't steal 1st.

[jshep]

We have our 2014 equivalent of the Napoli Wars of 2011!

Edited January 20, 2014 by jshep

[Hollyw00d]

in one season?  or three?

[Hollyw00d]

Can't steal 1st.

 

 

-Rickey Henderson

[monkeywithahalo]

I love Petey's speed, but I don't think the Cardinals are going to allow him to steal 40 bases. The Cards aren't a team blessed with much speed, but they only attempted 67 steals as a team in all of 2013. That just isn't part of their gameplan so I have a hard time imagining him being given the green light enough to even attempt 40 steals.

[Dave Saltzer]

I want Peter to have a great year, only to be outdone by the year Freese has.

Or at least equally great years.

 

Peter is a GREAT person. He was the first current Major League Angels player that I interviewed when I went into the clubhouse for the first time and he has ALWAYS been great to the fans on this website. We should only want to see him succeed now and in the future.

[Chuck]

 

 

LMAO!!

 

Dude you got skillz

[nate]

He was probably the worst baserunner I have ever seen with the speed he had.