Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – April 12, 2013

I recorded today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s. Don’t ask.

I hate bean ball wars and brawls in baseball. And I let me feelings known to all the shoppers today.

Meanwhile Manny Machado, A. J. Griffin, Bryce Harper and Sergio Romo owned baseball on April 11, 2013.

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Players who owned baseball for a Day

Bryce Harper – 2
Clayton Kershaw – 2
Cliff Lee – 2

Clay Buchholz – 1

Madison Bumgarner – 1 
Miguel Cabrera – 1
Robinson Cano – 1
Shin-Soo Choo – 1
Alex Cobb – 1 
Zack Cozart – 1 
Yu Darvish – 1 
Chris Davis – 1 
Jacoby Ellsbury – 1 
Prince Fielder – 1 
Adrian Gonzalez – 1
Carlos Gonzalez – 1 
Gio Gonzalez – 1 
A. J. Griffin – 1
Matt Harvey – 1
Felix Hernandez – 1
Derek Holland – 1
 Adam Jones – 1 
Jed Lowrie – 1 
Manny Machado – 1
Justin Maxwell – 1 
Will Middlebrooks – 1
Brandon Moss – 1
Bud Norris – 1
Gerardo Parra – 1 
Andy Pettitte – 1 
Brandon Phillips – 1
Buster Posey – 1
Albert Pujols – 1
Sergio Romo – 1
CC Sabathia – 1
Ervin Santana – 1
Drew Smyly – 1 
Nick Tepesch – 1
Justin Upton – 1
Will Venable – 1
Adam Wainwright – 1
Jake Westbrook – 1
Barry Zito – 1

Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – April 12, 2013

Maybe the Angels DID need a new hitting coach

Look, I’m not going to bad mouth former Angels hitting coach Mickey Hatcher. The guy was a major leaguer. He hit 2 homers in the 1988 World Series including one that had one of the most hyper home run trots ever.

And he was a hitting coach for the Angels forever.
He was fired and who knows why?

I mean I know it had nothing to do with Albert Pujols becoming a low batting average hitter with no power and 9 years left on the deal. That’s a coincidence.

Since then the Angels bats have gone nuts.
Albert Pujols has hit as many homers under Eppard’s eye as wtih Hatcher’s tutelage.

Not sure what advice Eppard gave him, other than “Christsake, you are embarrassing yourself Pujols.”

If Eppard’s arrival means trading Lousy Pujols for Awesome Pujols, then it was the right move.

Vernon Wells homered as well.
Turning HIM around? That’s a damn miracle worker to make Vernon Wells worth at least some of his dough.

Pujols and Wells will be teammates until the end of the 2014 season. They need to squeeze something out of them.

And Eppard should get a percentage of Wells and Pujols’ paycheck.