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Friday, September 02, 2005

Erstad: "I'm just a tinkerer..."

Darin Erstad on his spasmodic fortunes at the plate:
"I'm just a tinkerer, always have been," Erstad said before Thursday's 3-0 handcuffing of Oakland, which brought the Angels back into a first-place tie with 29 games left.

"I'm tinkering now. But in 2000 I was tinkering, too. I just found something that year, and it clicked. It all comes down to whether I feel comfortable in the box. Whether my hands are in a good position, whether I'm feeling good, whether I'm seeing everything at good angles. I can't explain it what happens to make me feel comfortable or not."
Darin Erstad: comfortable as a hemorrhoid-sufferer sleeping on a bed of nails.

UPDATE: A couple of funny comments over at the Primer.

Comments:


That's hilarious. There's been speculation that his play-it-til-you-break-it style of play has actually hurt him at the plate. He used to be a guy who could hit 20 dingers or so; not anymore, and who's to say but that his balky hamstrings aren't part of the reason? A lot was made about Jim Edmonds not getting surgery in the offseason before he was traded, not to mention being less than a "hustle" gus all the time, but it seems to me that maybe he was a better player. (That's called ironic sarcasm.)

posted by Blogger Rob @ 1:22 PM