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March 27, 2006
Curious About Nomar

Nomar Garciaparra is having a disappointing spring. He's hitting .244 with 11 hits and 1 double. If you've seen Nomar play, can you comment on how he looks at the plate? Is he swinging well and just not getting hits, or does he look like someone who's missed a ton of games the last two seasons and needs time to get his stroke back?

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Posted by David Pinto at 11:17 AM | Spring Training | TrackBack (0)
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does he look like someone who's missed a ton of games the last two seasons and needs time to get his stroke back?

That wouldn't make much sense. He was hitting the ball very well at the end of last season. Then again, he started off last season in a manner that could only be characterized as pathetic. I mean, we are talking about numbers worse than Neifi.

Posted by: dave at March 27, 2006 11:48 AM

I think he always starts slow. I don't know if I'm saying this from anything but a gut feeling, but it seems to me that he's a slow starter.

Posted by: Benjamin Kabak at March 27, 2006 01:51 PM

I saw 2 at-bats on TV, so it's not much to go from, but it looks like his bat speed has slowed a bit - he swings more like a power hitter now. Maybe he bulked up during his down-time with a groin injury or something, but he looks a bit slower and more awkward. Didn't really see him do anything in the field.

Posted by: david at March 27, 2006 02:44 PM

nomar's lost a significant amount of bat speed since his wrist injuries that began around 2001. he no longer sprays line drives all around the field as he did earlier in his career

Posted by: Scott at March 27, 2006 02:56 PM

Well, there's always been the lingering cloud of steriods over Nomar, given his various ailments and his sudden gain in muscle in the late 1990s. Given recent information about the effect of such substances on bat speed, it would make sense that Nomar can no longer generate the same kind of speed that served him so well. Then again, since he was a creature of Fenway in many ways, we could just be seeing the "real" Nomar.

Posted by: Tom Delerio at March 27, 2006 06:07 PM

Let none of us ever forget that RAY MILLER, manager of the Orioles, ordered Al Reyes to hit Nomar, which started his downward spiral.

Posted by: pvm at March 27, 2006 10:48 PM
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