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Five Reasons to Love Aki

Sat, Jun 4, 2005Ballhype: hype it up!
by Geoff Young
  1. his delivery
  2. his approach at the plate
  3. his theme song
  4. suraida
  5. yossha!

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5 Responses to “Five Reasons to Love Aki”

  1. LynchMob Says:
    June 4, 2005 at 12:44 pm Reply to this comment

    Farm Report: Kottaras with 4th HR last night … Jared Wells now 6-2 … http://www.minorleaguebaseball.....x_lesafx_1

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  2. hank Says:
    June 4, 2005 at 1:18 pm Reply to this comment

    lets not forget JJ Furmaniak

    J.J. Furmaniak was 3-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored, while Adam Hyzdu was 3-for-4 for the Beavers.

    Furmaniak batted .545 (12-for-22) with three home runs, seven RBIs and eight runs scored in the five-game series with the Stingers.(from beavers website)

    eventually they need to give him a shot at the utility job with the Padres.

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  3. Richard B. Wade Says:
    June 4, 2005 at 3:07 pm Reply to this comment

    Excellent call on Aki’s approach at the plate. It may be the single funniest thing I’ve ever seen happen at a baseball game (aside from that groundscrew guy getting bit by the cat… that was damn hilarious).

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  4. Richard B. Wade Says:
    June 4, 2005 at 3:09 pm Reply to this comment

    Furmaniak has only managed 15 walks in 204 at-bats. He doesn’t strike out much, which is nice, and he also has decent pop (33% of hits are for extra bases). Still, hasn’t shown near the ability to hit that Bobby Scales has. If the Padres manage so many injuries as to need to call up another utility type player, it has to be Scales.

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  5. hank Says:
    June 4, 2005 at 3:53 pm Reply to this comment

    http://www.thebaseballcube.com.....ales.shtml

    http://www.thebaseballcube.com.....niak.shtml

    You are welcome to compare the careers of the two players as hitters, but I would say that JJ certainly has shown the ability to hit just on last season’s performance with Portland.. .294/.348/.489/.837 with 17 hrs

    dont get me wrong, I like bobby Scales but Furmaniak is the better player but has spent the last month in a slump. He is now back hitting like he can.

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