Posted by: josh () on Wed May 24 13:42:56 2006

> > BHL and all of you who believe in his ridiculous Pull Hit Theory on this site, in case you haven't already read it, go get last week's SI with Pujols on the cover. Read the article on Pujols "Swing of Beauty" and then explain to the rest of us why the greatest hitter today in baseball actually trains to avoid "pulling the ball?"
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> > Here are some quotes from the article for the linguistic genius (BHL)to chew on.
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> > Cardinals first base coach Dave McKay, Pujols's personal BP pitcher during the season, often pitches him exclusively away.
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> > "From the very first day we saw him in camp, he wasn't whaling," McKay says. "He'll ask me to pitch him away, away, so he can concentrate on seeing the ball.
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> > Pujols asks, "What are we doing?" Mihlfeld replies, "Some hit-and-run," and pinpoints 20 minutes' worth of fastballs on the outside corner. Pujols hits almost every one to rightfield, exhaling in short, sharp bursts -- Whew! Whew! -- that ripple his upper lip as
> he makes contact. "He'll go four or five weeks before he pulls the ball," Mihlfeld says.
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> > So BHL and your small contingency of supporters, please come back on and instead of telling ME (us) how wrong we are about your Pull Hitting Theory or sharing with us some ridiculous statistics and BIG words...come back on and tell us all what Albert Pujols is doing wrong by trying NOT to be a pull hitter? Would think the greatest hitter today in baseball would not want to avoid pulling the ball if in fact HE thought it would help him?
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> > P.S.- The P.S. as BHL always does assuming we hadn't heard enough of him already...uh...your expert thoughts on this???
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> Whats up everybody,
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> Well since everybody is shooting harpoons at BHL, let's take a look at Albert Pujols's spray chart. As of right now, the great hitter has 22 home runs. I decided to look up his home runs by where he hit them in the field. Here is the link at which i got this information from.
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> http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/individual_player_hitting_chart.jsp?
> c_id=mlb&playerID=405395&statType=1
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> At home, he hit 11 of his 12 Home Runs to left field! I also looked at his away home runs.
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> 3 home runs at Phili. All pulled
> 2 at pitt. 1 pulled 1 to center
> 1 at minute maid pulled
> 1 at pro player stadium to right
> 3 at KC 2 to center and 1 to right
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> You could look it up. 16 of his 22 Home Runs were pulled and 3 were hit to both center and right.

instead of where he hit them to why dont u look at the location of the pitch i bet those 16 were middle in and the other 6 were way