Dan Uggla: Well Paid to Well, Go Away:

[clydepepper]

I used BaseballRefeence.Com 's leader board / yearly top-ten / strikeouts

- could not really find a comparable decent in both average and production.

- thinking of his incredibly awkward looking follow-through, I am going to lean more heavily toward his being too muscle-bound. I think you have to be more flexible than he appears to be. I cannot recall what his swing looked like before he came to Atlanta, nor can I remember if his swing was the same during his long hitting streak a few years ago.

I will amend my Rob Deer comment to say that he was a good to very good defensive outfielder...which does not especially show up in his stats.

[CMIZ5290]

Please see my previous post. This guy has been like this for close to 3 years!! B.J. Upton is right behind him.

[KCRfan1]

I think Uggla is too bulked up and cannot get the bat around and follow through his swing. The same thing happened with David Duval, the golfer. He bulked up, and the guy could not hit a golf ball to save his life. He was very good prior to packing on the muscle. The mental stuff came next.

[D. Bergin]

Uggla is 35 years old. Guys who strike out 170 times a year from the time they enter the league, don't usually have long, productive careers.

We're seeing Curtis Granderson really struggling right now, at 33 years old. If you already have that giant hole in your swing, once you lose the slightest bit of bat speed on top of that, you are done.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

I will amend my Rob Deer comment to say that he was a good to very good defensive outfielder...which does not especially show up in his stats.

I would say Rob Deer was a fairly good outfielder. I saw him more than a few times at County Stadium. He was sort of a Gorman Thomas v 2.0, though Deer was a right fielder and Thomas played center (he used to go crashing into the center field wall. Baseball Reference lists him as 6'2" 210 lbs. I think it was being a little kind as far as his playing weight was concerned). And when he left Milwaukee, he immediately had a very Uggla-esque season at age 30, hitting 25 home runs while setting a Major League record with the lowest batting average ever for a qualifying player. He hit .179 in 539 plate appearances. He bounced back the next season to hit 32 home runs and a robust .247.

Here's an odd fact. Rob Deer never had 500 at bats in a season, though he had 3,381 at bats in his career.

[clydepepper]

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