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Baseball Musings
March 31, 2005
LA Hot Corner

While the Angels appear to have options at third to replace their departed hot corner slugger, Jon Weisman isn't happy with the other LA team's choices to replace the north bound Beltre. He's also not happy with the changes to Choi.

Henson also passed along a third item, which is that the Dodgers have convinced Hee Seop Choi to try to hit home runs. In this Spring Training, I've read about two things that go directly against baseball lessons I've been taught for years: a player (Eric Gagne) purposely altering his mechanics as he comes back from an injury and a player trying to hit home runs instead of line drives (that will become home runs).

I don't think there's anything wrong with Choi that a full season in one place won't cure. He'll hit home runs. Just play him every day.


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Posted by David Pinto at 01:44 PM | Spring Training | TrackBack (0)
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Maybe the Dodgers are just telling the old-school scout-worshippers that so they can have a face-saving explanation when Choi has a big year that doesn't involve giving credit to DePodesta ;)

Posted by: Crank at March 31, 2005 03:20 PM

As a true-Blue Dodger fan, I gotta say that the Dodger offense looks very worrisome this year. Our pitching staff looks pretty good, but they're gonna have to hold the opposition to one or two runs a game to win.

Posted by: Adam Villani at March 31, 2005 07:22 PM

It is exactly because the offense looks worrisome that we need someone like Choi to focus on his power.

The guy started out like gangbusters last year. When he arrived to the Dodgers, he was a different guy.

Moneyball, solely, doesn't seem to work for Choi.

He certainly has looked good the last few days since he has changed attitudes.

Posted by: rob at April 1, 2005 03:02 AM
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