What could be wrong with Pujols? We now have something of an idea of what has been wrong with Teixiera: inflamed airways which have created a terrible bronchial infection that even prednisone hasn’t been able to knock it out (snd believe me, I had that same #### several years ago and prednisone saved my life).
Both Pujols and Teixiera are 32, and battling miserable slumps; has anybody checked Pujols for some kind of illness? I haven’t heard even a rumor of this, but then we didn’t know anything was wrong with Teixiera until two days ago. Pujols is certainly not the kind of guy to talk about illnesses, as that might be taken as a kind of excuse.
Meanwhile, I’d like to point out that Teixiera, though not in Pujols’ class, was flirting with Hall of Fame credentials before the season began. Think about it: in 9 seasons, he’d he hit 30 or more home runs, and in 8 seasons had at least 100 RBIs. And the season when he didn’t hit at least 30 home runs, his first, he hit 26.
As of today he has 319 career home runs; if he finished the season with, say, 350, wouldn’t you say he had a pretty good shot at piling up HOF-type numbers before he was through?
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1. bobm Posted: May 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM (#4133816)So a bronchial infection is preventing him from hitting the ball to the opposite field? Man, germs are weird.
i know offense is down but watching rickie weeks flail at the plate got me thinking
Walter Johnson though, I'll give you that one!
.239 isn't that much worse. Heck, you include his age 33 season and his average jumps to .247. The Big Train was a pretty good hitter, in fact. His first four seasons are awful but from 1911 until retirement he hit .250 with an 82 OPS+.
The thought of having to live in New York City would make me sick too.
My ####### fantasy team hitting .1875 this week has got me thinking. Unfortunately, I don't think there are 16 free agents worth dumping the bums for.
(Also, Justin Morneau was reactivated? Why was I not told? Am I actually expected to, like, pay attention to stuff? I've been busy!)
The thought of having to live in New York City would make me sick too.
There's no reason a player on the Yankees can't live in the NY suburbs (or NJ or CT).
Almost all of them do live in the suburbs, right? At least the guys with families.
why on earth isn't he being treated by a lung doctor and why on earth can't they deal with an infection that has lasted 2 years and appears only to affect his hitting for average?
A brief selection of players with better than 100 OPS+ in their careers and yet fewer oWAR in way more PAs than Walter Johnson:
Pete Incaviglia
Al Martin
JT Snow
Dante Bichette
Eric Karros
Dmitri Young would have made it if he'd retired a season earlier, but that .2 oWAR put him just barely ahead.
No, but my refrigerator is running!
Hey Gef - no one cares about your fantasy team.
I found 6 Hall of Fame players who hit below .260 during their age 30-32 seasons:
1. Ray Schalk, 240/336/297
2. Brooks Robinson, 252/310/415
3. Bill Mazeroski, 252/297/330
4. Eddie Matthews, 254/376/455
5. Luis Aparicio, 257/307/356
6. Ernie Banks, 259/315/476
Eddie Matthews and Ernie Banks are the only real relevant comps--the others are mistakes or made it to the HOF on the strength of their gloves. But even Banks and Matthews aren't great because, hey, it was the 60s. No one could hit.
But it is used to treat inflammation. I can see how really bad asthma could make it difficult to stay on the field. I'm a lot less clear on how it could just turn you into a lousy hitter.
Anyway, that whole bunting against the shift thing doesn't seem to have materialized.
That's not "the thought"
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