The MOST FEARED HITTER in baseball (Vlad?, A-Rod, D. Ortiz / M. Ramirez?, nah!)

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by Jayson Stark

April 24, 2008

Among the 30 current big league managers, the following players received
votes as to the guy to whom they'd least want to pitch:

Albert Pujols: 11 1/3
St. Louis Cardinals

Vladimir Guerrero: 4
Alex Rodriguez: 4
Manny Ramirez: 3 1/3
David Ortiz: 3
Ichiro Suzuki: 1
Chipper Jones: 1
Chase Utley: 1
Derrek Lee: 1
Miguel Cabrera: 1/3


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Albert Pujols .377/.525 * /.610 1.135 OPS

* leads all of MLB in OBP with 1/7th of the season [23 G] now over.

23 G 77 AB 29 H 6 D 4 HR 17 RBI 22 W (incl. 6 IW), 2 HBP
7 SO 1 GIDP[*] 2 SB

[*] he had 27 GIDP in 2007, leading the NL in that bad category.