Two years into a five-year, $64 million contract, Adrian Beltre has produced a .262 average, 44 home runs, and 176 RBIs. However, after the All Star break in 2006, Beltre slugged .552 with a whopping 18 home runs. Does this strong second half bode well for a turn-around in 2007, or will Mariners fans have to deal with 'A-Drain' once again? This blog intends to follow the 2007 season for Adrian Beltre, and the Seattle Mariners, and promises to hold no punches.
Hola, muchachos. Welcome to the first (real) posting on Bad Bad Beltre. Ignore the post of the jersey, or feel free to comment on it. Either or, it won't make much difference to me.
Now that this blog is up on running, I feel it would be best to make the initial post regarding Beltre's 2006 season. While it's tempting to start at the beginning and marvel at the amazing depths of Beltre's suckitude, let's just make matters easy and begin with the Mariners' latest game, which would be yesterday's 5-1 triumph over the defending World Champs the Chicago White Sox.
Well, let's start with the positives: the Mariners won. Yayyy! Even Beltre's 0-for-3 performance couldn't put a damper on that outcome. As a matter of fact, Beltre's third inning RBI started off the scoring. That's right, Beltin' Beltre put the Mariners on board first with a clutch ground-out to short with the bases loaded and no outs! Although this may mean that Adrian has yet to get a hit with bases loaded so far this year (0-for-2 on the season) he did manage to pick up his second RBI in that scenario! Way to go AB!
All I could find in the rest of the box scores is that Beltre flied out to the outfield his next two times up. Now, as I live in Portland, OR and don't get FSN, I failed to see any of the at-bats. (In fact, I have yet to actually watch a Mariners game all year.) So I don't know if he battled the pitcher before flying out, and Yahoo! doesn't tell me how 'deep' his fly-out to right was in the fourth.
But Beltre got a ribbie, and that's always cause for celebration! That makes it five, now, on the year in 80 at-bats.
Homerless drought update: A recap on power-outage so far in the 2006 season, Beltre ranks fifith in the majors in most at-bats without a home-run. His peers in futility (who will be dropped from the list as soon as they hit their first):
Willy Taveras (88)
Rafael Furcal (84)
Orlando Hudson (83)
Placido Polanco (83)
Brian Roberts (83)
Jason Michaels (82)
Juan Pierre (82)
Adrian Beltre (80)
Carl Crawford (79)
Scott Podsednik (78)- will Adrian hit his first before Pods?
Rondell White (75)
Beltre is off for three games against Baltimore, who he has a lifetime slugging % of .328 against, including a .182 at Camden. So my guess is his first home run won't happen this weekend!
Now that this blog is up on running, I feel it would be best to make the initial post regarding Beltre's 2006 season. While it's tempting to start at the beginning and marvel at the amazing depths of Beltre's suckitude, let's just make matters easy and begin with the Mariners' latest game, which would be yesterday's 5-1 triumph over the defending World Champs the Chicago White Sox.
Well, let's start with the positives: the Mariners won. Yayyy! Even Beltre's 0-for-3 performance couldn't put a damper on that outcome. As a matter of fact, Beltre's third inning RBI started off the scoring. That's right, Beltin' Beltre put the Mariners on board first with a clutch ground-out to short with the bases loaded and no outs! Although this may mean that Adrian has yet to get a hit with bases loaded so far this year (0-for-2 on the season) he did manage to pick up his second RBI in that scenario! Way to go AB!
All I could find in the rest of the box scores is that Beltre flied out to the outfield his next two times up. Now, as I live in Portland, OR and don't get FSN, I failed to see any of the at-bats. (In fact, I have yet to actually watch a Mariners game all year.) So I don't know if he battled the pitcher before flying out, and Yahoo! doesn't tell me how 'deep' his fly-out to right was in the fourth.
But Beltre got a ribbie, and that's always cause for celebration! That makes it five, now, on the year in 80 at-bats.
Homerless drought update: A recap on power-outage so far in the 2006 season, Beltre ranks fifith in the majors in most at-bats without a home-run. His peers in futility (who will be dropped from the list as soon as they hit their first):
Willy Taveras (88)
Rafael Furcal (84)
Orlando Hudson (83)
Placido Polanco (83)
Brian Roberts (83)
Jason Michaels (82)
Juan Pierre (82)
Adrian Beltre (80)
Carl Crawford (79)
Scott Podsednik (78)- will Adrian hit his first before Pods?
Rondell White (75)
Beltre is off for three games against Baltimore, who he has a lifetime slugging % of .328 against, including a .182 at Camden. So my guess is his first home run won't happen this weekend!
0 Responses to “”
Leave a Reply