Angels Fire Batting Coach Mickey Hatcher

[splitterpfj]

Hatcher has been there for years....I hope Albert will at least buy him something nice.

 

What a turn of events, he gets the best hitter of this generation, and six weeks in...he's gone.

[RockCoCougars]

Looks like we have the first Pujols scapegoat.

[dlk9s]

Always a great idea to fire a long-time coach who the players love and who happens to be best buddies with the manager because your star sucks.

[Invader3K]

Good to see Pujols is bringing his brand of classiness to the Angels' organization.

[homer]

Dumb. I really hope Pujols had nothing to do with this.

[Hitman_Hart]

Dumb. I really hope Pujols had nothing to do with this.

 

He absolutely did. Someone had to be the scapegoat for his poor start. [sarcasm]I suppose now it's a waiting game to see when McGwire resigns from St. Louis only to resurface in Anaheim.[/sarcasm]

[jerichoholicninja]

Last night on MLB Tonight they brought up some comments Mickey made about the team "coming together" after a team meeting. Albert's response was, "Mickey shouldn't have said that. I'll have to talk to him." This has Albert all over it.

[patrickgpe]

really don't make much sense. the brewers team batting average is 13 points lower than the angels and i don't think its even close to time for a change. he was there for 11 seasons and had great success. definitely would appear that albert had something to do with this. i doubt the manager wanted to make this change.

[dlk9s]

i doubt the manager wanted to make this change.

 

Considering Scioscia and Hatcher are close friends, there's about a zero percent chance the manager had anything to do with it.

[RockCoCougars]

The fact that Scioscia allowed this to happen under his watch shows that he's on tenuous footing as well. Maybe St. Albert is angling for a player-manager gig.

[Schlitz001]

Pujols has put up MVP type numbers for 11 straight years and now it's the hitting coach's fault that he's off to a slow start. How can Mickey Hatcher be a scapegoat when there is no one that believes that he has anything to do with Pujols' struggles.

[Funketown]

Pujols has put up MVP type numbers for 11 straight years and now it's the hitting coach's fault that he's off to a slow start. How can Mickey Hatcher be a scapegoat when there is no one that believes that he has anything to do with Pujols' struggles.

 

Just because Hatcher has nothing to do with Pujols' slow start doesn't mean people won't accept him as the scapegoat. I'm sure most news outlets will only perpetuate those feelings...

 

As of today, Pujols' updated Zips projection (for the whole season) is just .269/.341/.462/.803. Not what you expect for $250 million.

[3and2Fastball]

Countdown to Tony LaRussa coming out of retirement to manage the Angels?

 

Countdown to the revelation that Albert Pujols is actually 35 years old?

[RockCoCougars]

Countdown to the revelation that Albert Pujols is actually 35 years old?

 

If this continues, the Angels will probably be dispatching a team of private investigators to the D.R. in an attempt to void the contract. That would be awesome.