Pujols has been terrible

[jsnpritchett]

Ha ha.  And of course he hits a 2-run HR just as this thread was taking off again.   

[Blarg]

Albert validates Fletcher! 

[m0nkey]

Makes up for this past week! Way to put it behind you Albert!

[fan_since79]

12 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Ha ha.  And of course he hits a 2-run HR just as this thread was taking off again.   

Projects to 500 HR and 1000 RBI over a full season.

Haters be silent!

 

[m0nkey]

4 minutes ago, heRo said:

Albert had 21 hits including 3 HR's in June.

Trout had zero because he made a silly mistake.

Cherry picking stats is fun eh?

You should ban yourself for being an idiot

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

He sure isn't "Bad Albert", that much is for sure.    

I agree.

[Stradling]

43 minutes ago, Vladdylonglegs said:

So part of a reporter's job description is to troll message boards?

No.  Have you read his posts?  He offered ONE differing opinion.  You come on here with conspiracy theories on the daily and we don't think you're trolling.

[Stradling]

43 minutes ago, heRo said:

Albert had 21 hits including 3 HR's in June.

Trout had zero because he made a silly mistake.

Cherry picking stats is fun eh?

Idiot

[Lou]

Pujols is now 3-28 (.107) 

[Lou]

7 hours ago, hangin n wangin said:

Trying to provide a different perspective just to do it is pretty lame, especially when it's flat out untrue. 

Everyone does that here.

and what did he say that was untrue? 

[Angels#1Fan]

5 hours ago, Stradling said:

Idiot

Well we can all agree on that.

[Blarg]

5 hours ago, Stradling said:

No.  Have you read his posts?  He offered ONE differing opinion.  You come on here with conspiracy theories on the daily and we don't think you're trolling.

Hey hold your horses on that last Flat Earth statement.

[Jeff Fletcher]

On 7/29/2017 at 0:02 AM, Jeff Fletcher said:

Pujols was hot just before the ASB. I looked it up today and he hit about .300 over about 55 ABs prior to this 0-21. It's a bad 5 games. He's had a lot of bad ABs and a few good ones where they've caught the balls.

hes slumping but it's not anything out of the range of a normal MLB player slump. 

Yet. 

All I was referring to was this particular 5-game oh-fer, saying that it's not any sort of indication that he's suddenly worse than he was a month ago. If a few of those fell and he was 3-24 no one would be talking about it. 

It would be just the same "Albert is slowly declining" conversation that's been going on for 5 years. 

There will be good stretches and bad stretches and in the end he's going to be a little worse every year. Period. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

19 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

All I was referring to was this particular 5-game oh-fer, saying that it's not any sort of indication that he's suddenly worse than he was a month ago. If a few of those fell and he was 3-24 no one would be talking about it. 

It would be just the same "Albert is slowly declining" conversation that's been going on for 5 years. 

There will be good stretches and bad stretches and in the end he's going to be a little worse every year. Period. 

The last half of Albert's career has been defined by consistent and occasionally steep declines.

His last year in St. Louis was a pretty big drop for him, almost 3 WAR off his previous, albeit incredible level of performance. We expected something of a bounce back but what we got was three years of more or less traditional 0.5 or so WAR declines from there each season for the first three years. 2015 and 2016 saw the pace of decline pick up, he was now declining by about 1 win per year. Now here we are just about the start of August and he is currently more than 2 wins off of last year and at his current pace he is a likely to finish 3 wins off of last years pace.

As much as we don't want to believe it, I think there is a very good chance that Albert is once again establishing a new level of expected performance. (We are over 400 consistent PAs into the season).

[tdawg87]

Pujols is gonna carry the team on his back for the next 1 games.

[Lou]

55 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Pujols is gonna carry the team on his back for the next 1 games.

 

This is the only thing Pujols will be carrying 

 

[tdawg87]

That's some kinda weird ethnic food

[Troll Daddy]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

 

This is the only thing Pujols will be carrying 

 

Damn that looks delicious 

[Blarg]

8 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

That's some kinda weird ethnic food

For you uncultered North Eastern rubes, that is what a taco platter looks like. 

[Amazing Larry]

That looks like bloody toilet paper waiting to happen. 

[yk9001]

I still can't stand Pujols, even after the two home runs.

He stands at the plate and stares at those home runs, like he's someone important.

[red321]

1 minute ago, yk9001 said:

I still can't stand Pujols, even after the two home runs.

He stands at the plate and stares at those home runs, like he's someone important.

Are you sure he's standing and watching...could be he's just that old and slow and it takes him a few moments to get going...kind of like when I get out of bed in the morning

[nate]

The way he pimps home runs was a surprise to me when he joined the Angels.  You hear all about how humble he is and a good person, yet he stares down every single home run.

Only five more years of this crap... hooray

[Homebrewer]

11 hours ago, Lou said:

 

This is the only thing Pujols will be carrying 

 

Arroz con Pollo?

[Stradling]

9 minutes ago, nate said:

The way he pimps home runs was a surprise to me when he joined the Angels.  You hear all about how humble he is and a good person, yet he stares down every single home run.

Only five more years of this crap... hooray

Four years, but yes he stares down his home runs.  I think it is a cultural thing, it really does seem like every Dominican does it.  Not that there is anything wrong with it.