Yasiel Puig: I Can't Even Think of a Word That Rhymes!

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roped a hr, dayum

is there not a 2k14 dodgers thread?

y did i not know dee gordon was tom gordons son

Still can't hit the damn cutoff.

http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/video/v33076229/ladnym-puig-makes-an-amazing-diving-catch/?partnerId=as_lad_20140522_24504786

thank god he didn't break his wrist

yeah involuntarily winced in anticipation of injury

plus a 403-foot double and a baserunning gaffe. A splendid first time to see him, with a Mets win.

3-3 with two walks tonight: .343/.438/.614.

Puig vs. Tulowitzki, neutral parks (Puig hasn't had any games in Colorado yet):

Puig -- .350/.458/.590, 5 HR (Puig is actually slugging 70 points better in Dodger Stadium)
Tulo -- .247/.370/.506, 5 HR

Tulowitzki has had 13 PA in Dodger Stadium this year: .083/.154/.333. (Small enough sample to be meaningless, I know.)

Tulowitzki leads Puig in oWAR, 3.3-2.6. Some of that would be positional, I assume, but I'd again ask if there are limitations to how accurately you can adjust for a home park where someone's hitting .521/.600/.959?

yeah, see the article i posted the other day in the general chatter thread

best hitter in baseball over the past calendar year

jesus christ. he was nlpotw last week, followed up with this

Puig was among those in consideration for this week as well, hitting .522/.607/.870 with five extra-base hits.

FIFTH in all star voting. what the fuck is wrong with everyone?

Yasiel Puig has been the Dodgers' best player, hitting .346/.445/.615 with 10 home runs and 38 RBI. He's fifth among NL outfielders with 383,384 votes, 63,396 votes out of a starting spot. The outfielders ahead of Puig on the ballot are the Rockies' Charlie Blackmon (549,394), reigning MVP Andrew McCutchen (467,378), the Brewers' Ryan Braun (446,780) and NL home run leader Giancarlo Stanton (426,228).

Coming up on his first 162 games. When he gets there, I want to compare him to Williams, Trout, Pujols, Lynn, and a few others.

'If you want to really learn how to flip the bat, here's the maestro' - Vin Scully on Yasiel Puig

365 Days of Yasiel Puig

OPS+ wRC+ wOBA BA OBP Slg% OPS G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO
169 171 .415 .326 .405 .559 .964 157 669 585 98 191 36 5 30 82 16 12 62 141

The only thing that surprises me is the runs column--I would normally expect 110-120 for such a high level of play. He's had Ramirez and who else coming up behind him...? Probably mostly beyond his control, with a few baserunning gaffes mixed in.

He's either hit anywhere between 1st and 6th so its hard to tell.. He had Hanley but Hanley only played like 55 games last year. Behind him mostly last year was Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Ethier Juan Uribe and AJ Ellis. Kemp was hurt more than Hanley was.

national league player of the month for may

Pitching to Puig, Abreu, Springer

"...The statistics of Cuban baseball are beset by issues ranging from inaccurate records to inconsistently maintained fields.

Even with that difficulty, scouts noticed a flaw in Puig’s game. Athletically superb, Puig could catch up to any in-zone fastball and drive it a long way. His perceived weakness was in recognizing and chasing breaking balls. The thought went that by placing lots of breaking balls at the edges of the plate, Puig could be induced to hack wildly at them as they faded away. If this report was to be believed, then the best way to defeat Puig was to challenge his patience by forcing him to watch as outside, breaking pitches laced the edges.

Accordingly, early efforts against Puig consisted of a steady diet of pitches well away from the center of the zone (a metric I measure and call “zone distance”). Zone distance varies by the quality of the hitter: An average hitter sees his median pitch 1.04 feet from the center of his zone, but the top 10 hitters (by TAv) of 2013 saw pitches 1.1 feet from the center of their zones. In the initial 500 pitches that Puig saw, his zone distance was 1.2 feet from the center of the zone, indicating both a healthy fear of Puig’s bat and a lack of confidence in Puig’s plate discipline. Examine the trend in Puig’s zone distance, however, and a downward progression emerges."

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23846

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puig uribe and ryu's friendship is the best thing about this current dodgers team

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goodtime #goribe #goodday #iseeyou i like this picture haha

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v33676413/puigs-great-catch-tracked-by-mlbams-tracking-tech

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this might be lol huge but it was funny as hell. chone was being interviewed about how much he loves dee gordon's play and puig rolls up 'hey papi eat this..'

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thank you sir for giving me the opportunity to learn the history of this great baseball player this will be another inspiration to keep fighting hard in my career #baseball #clemente #21 #3000 #mlb #mlbfancave #thanks #goodday #goodtime #goodbless

Yasiel Puig hit three triples tonight, that was impressive.

that is an oddly yasiel puig thing to do

His slash stats are almost identical to last year's:

2013 -- .319/.391/.534
2014 -- .315/.402/.543

Walks, doubles, and, um, triples up, homers down. His drop in WAR is attributable to defense.

4-for-4, needs a homer for the cycle

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At least he didn't throw it at the pitcher, right?

You have scouts, right San Francisco? And televisions and eyeballs?

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/9/23/6833061/yasiel-puig-dont-run-on-him-whats-wrong-with-you

Puig also got a very similar out in SF in the last series...

Giants should complain to the league office.

going to Japan with the touring "all-star" team

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/11/7/7174537/mlb-announces-japan-all-star-series-roster

Dodgers' Yasiel Puig wants to cut down on bat flips

noooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1uZKuCyPm4&index=25&list=PLL-lmlkrmJanIT2TIr5S3KNM8sYBIqRYp

but how will he make madison bumgarner irrationally angry now?

oh wait, nvm, there are like 93,872,691 other ways he can do that

DL'd

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/yasiel-puig-placed-on-dl-after-latest-hamstring-setback-181603309.html

@McCulloughTimes
The Dodgers have told Yasiel Puig he can not, theoretically, fly a helicopter to Dodger Stadium. Federal law prohibits it, the FAA says.

"theoretically"

MLB concludes dom violence investigation, finds no grounds for discipline

OMG this slide http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/04/12/video-dodgers-yasiel-puig-slide-avoids-tag

<3

incredible

https://twitter.com/YasielPuig/status/726110591769665536

#PuigYourFriend #PuigNotLate

seems to have burned his bridges in Dodgerland

http://www.espn.com/blog/los-angeles/dodger-report/post/_/id/20883/yasiel-puig-so-what-happens-next

an 'unknown team' has claimed Puig off waivers

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/198549100/dodgers-yasiel-puig-claimed-off-waivers/