The MOST FEARED HITTER in baseball (D. Lee?, A-Rod, Ortiz/Ramirez, Vlad?, 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.

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:16:27 -0500, "A" <aaac@att.net> wrote:

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>ESPN
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>by Jayson Stark
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>April 24, 2008
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>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

I wouldn't want Pujols to pitch either. He's too valuable as a hitter.


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