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To be fair, in a real game they would have just given him the Hook after 1 inning so any runs, walks given up in subsequent innings wouldn't have counted. He would run into the same problem in the minors as well. The issue right now is control not the quality of the opposition THE difference in the size texture weight of thr ball takes some time to get used to. As does the mound height difference .

THIS is all just a plan by ohtani And Eppler to lower expectations.

It's going to take some time to adjust to the slight differences in size and weight of the baseball in terms of control. but that will be true whether he is here or at AAA

Dat's Wacist!

I don't think it's surprising at all. He's a career 260 hitter. He's 6 foot five 240 lbs and has hit over 20 home runs only once in his career. That in itself says that there's something flawed about his hitting. In 8 years he's only hit over 14 homeruns twice. Those are huge red flags to me. Yeah defensively he's pretty good but offensively he's an easy out and you can't have that when you have lineups like the Dodgers, Astros and Nationals. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heywaja01.shtml

No one likes heyward. Had one big year in Atlanta and Theo made a huge mistake. hes unmovable. I wish he would leave but he won't. but he's nowhere as good as Pujols ever was so not a good comparison.

One of the articles said his walk have dropped off dramatically even comparing it to other aging superstars. Walk and pitch selection is supposed to go up with age but inexplicably has gone down with Pujols.

I guess what I was wondering is if change in leagues or divisions had something to do with it. Normally you would think going to the AL would be an advantage since you now have an extra bat upgrade behind you at DH instead of pitcher. OR perhaps cubs/reds/pirates/brewers are more hitter friendly teams and parks than rangers/mariners/astros/a's/ and what about angels park itself is that somehow detrimental to Pujols games compared to Busch stadium? On first glance it would seem the opposite. But then an extreme example of park advantage for a certain type of hitter would be Fenway.

You could just send me a link with the best/recommended thread. I googled some articles but they really don't do a good job of explaining why he dropped off, just that he did because of age.

Nope, it's just a matter of now or later. but with threads like Blowtani seems like some of you have already given up on him .

I guess his production would drop off if he saw someone like that. What is that thing anyway.

Can someone explain to me why his production dropped off dramatically as soon as he left the Cards for the Angels. Is it AL vs NL. Busch stadium vs Angel stadium? His BA/OBP/Slugging all dropped off significantly as soon as he landed in Anaheim. Why? https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pujolal01.shtml

They need to hire a better interpreter. I need an interpreter to interpret Ohtani's interpreter. Glad Ohtani is fitting in. Video games are a great bonding vehicle. Anybody see the Richard Linkletter college baseball spring training movie, "Everybody want's some'?

That's Ohtani's fastball right there.

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Cubs fan. Waiting on Ohtani. Love Disneyland and California Adventure. Boo to Farrell's for getting rid of the siren and drums.

Disney should get the naming rights. 2028 LA Disney Summer Olympics in Anaheim. 1. Disney Moana 100 meter freestyle 2. Disney Ariel Synchronized Swimming 3. Disney Black Panther 100 meter Dash 4. Disney Beauty & the Beast Shot Put sponsored by General Electric. 5. Disney Pixar Cars 1500 meters 6. Disney's Monsanto Lion King Decathalon

All he does is catch touchdowns.

IMDB did the same things for movies. A shame.

Coors Field is a home game for the Dodgers when they come up there. So much Dodger Blue.

Center field bleachers are the way to go. Can literally have a conversation with the outfielders. good times.

Debatable. They have both won one World Series. And Maddon was SOciaas number 2 when the Angels won in 2002 so gets credit their as well. And that was two decades ago when mike won.

I would think time difference would factor in as well. You would want to have his pitching starts during Japan friendly times its about a 13 hour difference so afternoon games are the worst since it would be about 3 am in the morning. the ideal would probably be a night game since a 7 or 8 pm start would be about 8-9 am in the morning over there. A Sunday night game however would be Monday am in Japan. So the ideal is probably a Friday/sat night game in the us which would be a sat/sun morning game watch in Japan.

The Japan League is considered Quad A. Was ichiro or matsui sent to the minors when they got here? tanaka, dice-k, darvish? actually I hope you do send him to the minors because then it will be easier for us to get him from you as he loses the trust and respect of the organization that he carefully picked.

Then you should trade him to us And he can hit every time he pitches. The only reason he choose the AL was to be able to hit everyday as a DH.