Jose Bautista - Exception to rule or Breaker of rule?

[Tryptamine]

From the above article:

 

Bautista had 569 at bats last year in Toronto and ended at 54-124-.260. If you took his rates of production during his first four full seasons and gave him 569 at bats each year, he’d have averaged 20-73-.238 – so the power was there

 

The power was there? 54 vs 20 they're not even in the same realm.

[Jake]

Read the whole article. Don't take a sentence out of context.

[StarlinOnYou]

This guy is incredible.

 

50 BB / 31 K's

 

OBP of .500 w/ an OPS 1.253

 

And hey, 5/7 on stolen base attempts..

[questionmarkgrace]

As much as it nauseates me to say it, I think I side with Hawk. In a blowout, players should dial back the intensity to the point that they are capable of confining their frustrations within lesser theatrics. If personal stats are supposed to be less important than team victory, then there should be nothing to get so worked up over. The frustration should have more resemblance to an unproductive BP session rather than popping up with a runner on 3rd and 1 out in the 7th inning of a tie game.

 

Granted, in this case, it was the 4th inning, so there was way too much baseball remaining for a 7-run-lead to be considered a surefire blowout. (I guess that means I only partially agree with Hawk, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it.)

 

The score has nothing to do with it, it was his natural reaction to missing on a hittable pitch. I don't care if it was the 9th and they were up 14, it comes back to this unwritten [expletive], "stop trying when I think you should" If Bautista grounds out to the 2B and doesn't run it out, who's going to be the first piece of [expletive] calling him out on it? Somebody needs to light the White Sox booth on fire.

 

ETA: Do you honestly think the 2 buffoons in their booth were defending Danks based on how they believe baseball players should act? You think if Konerko spiked his bat after Jo-Jo Reyes threw a meatball that they'd be chiding Konerko? No they'd tell Reyes how Luis Tiant used to act when that happened to him. I tell you what partner, Tiant was such a pitbull he was pissed at himself for not striking him out, and I guarantee. He'd strike out Paulie the next 5 times he came up to bat, just because that's the type of competitor he was!

 

 

just saw this. Danks is just sour that he cant get a win and that Bautista could very well have had 2 dingers off of him that day.

 

At any rate, Bautista is having one of the more impressive seasons that I can remember for a guy who I have no reason to doubt his performance. He has to be getting tested pretty consistently these days. love that OPS, its a thing of beauty. The jays are looking real smart for signing him up last year because he would be making alot more on the open market as a FA this year. Its too bad because he would like nice at the hot corner for us.

[Clem Fandango]

Bob Mitchell of the Toronto Star reports Jose Bautista has been "randomly" drug tested an extraordinary number of times by Major League Baseball.

Bautista claims that he was drug tested 16 times over the past two seasons, compared to three times in 2008 and 2009. Per MLB rules, players face two mandatory tests (one in spring training and one during the season), and can be tested an additional two times. Random drug tests are also distributed throughout the year, indicating a computer "randomly" chose Bautista at least eight times.

 

16 times? That almost seems like hyperbole, but if they've tested him even half as amny times as that and he's come up clean every time, more power to him (no pun intended).

[mul21]

Bob Mitchell of the Toronto Star reports Jose Bautista has been "randomly" drug tested an extraordinary number of times by Major League Baseball.

Bautista claims that he was drug tested 16 times over the past two seasons, compared to three times in 2008 and 2009. Per MLB rules, players face two mandatory tests (one in spring training and one during the season), and can be tested an additional two times. Random drug tests are also distributed throughout the year, indicating a computer "randomly" chose Bautista at least eight times.

 

16 times? That almost seems like hyperbole, but if they've tested him even half as many times as that and he's come up clean every time, more power to him (no pun intended).

 

I work for a company that is required to test a certain % of our truck drivers per DOT regulations. It's really very strange how some guys get popped more than others. And even more strange how one guy might get hit 3 months in a row and then not get tested for 2 years or something. That does seem a bit excessive in the total number of times, but getting randomly picked 4 times each year isn't really that strange based on personal experience. Getting picked 4 times randomly in 2 separate 6 month periods does seem like a lot though.

[Clem Fandango]

Bob Mitchell of the Toronto Star reports Jose Bautista has been "randomly" drug tested an extraordinary number of times by Major League Baseball.

Bautista claims that he was drug tested 16 times over the past two seasons, compared to three times in 2008 and 2009. Per MLB rules, players face two mandatory tests (one in spring training and one during the season), and can be tested an additional two times. Random drug tests are also distributed throughout the year, indicating a computer "randomly" chose Bautista at least eight times.

 

16 times? That almost seems like hyperbole, but if they've tested him even half as many times as that and he's come up clean every time, more power to him (no pun intended).

 

I work for a company that is required to test a certain % of our truck drivers per DOT regulations. It's really very strange how some guys get popped more than others. And even more strange how one guy might get hit 3 months in a row and then not get tested for 2 years or something. That does seem a bit excessive in the total number of times, but getting randomly picked 4 times each year isn't really that strange based on personal experience. Getting picked 4 times randomly in 2 separate 6 month periods does seem like a lot though.

 

It's even more random when you consider the sheer volume of players that are in the system to get tested in the first place. Even if they only tested guys on the 25-man, that's still 750 players on all 30 teams in the selection process. Getting your number pulled that many times is pretty crazy. It has to somehow be weighted towards players with bigger power numbers for that to occur.

[Clem Fandango]

Welp, a non-story becomes an even more non-story

 

Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports was told by a source that Jose Bautista has not been drug tested 16 times in the past two seasons.

Dominican newspaper Hoy reported last week that Bautista recently said at a banquet that MLB tested him 16 times for PEDs between 2010-2011, but a source told Passan that the number is "not even in the ballpark." It's not clear whether the number wasn't accurately stated by Bautista or there was some confusion on the part of the newspaper, but Passan's source claims that the slugger was tested the normal amount by MLB.

[Clem Fandango]

Welp, an even more non-story becomes even more non-storier

 

Jose Bautista insisted to MLB.com's Jesse Sanchez on Tuesday that he has been tested 16 times over the past two years for performance-enhancing drugs.

Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports was told by a source that Bautista was "not even in the ballpark" with his claim that he was tested 16 times, but the slugger stands by recent comments that were printed in Hoy, a newspaper in the Dominican Republic. "Whoever is saying that I wasn't tested might have their reasons," said Bautista. "I don't know why somebody would feel they have to defend themselves. I'm part of the program, and the program says you have to be tested once during the season and once mandatory during Spring Training. Since it's random, you can be tested multiple times, and if that's what happened to me, I'm fine with it. I don't see why somebody needs to be so defensive about it and make it sound like I wasn't. I know what happened. I know how many times I was tested, and I don't really care if anybody says I wasn't." Bautista, 31, has led the majors in home runs in each of the past two seasons.

[SouthSideRyan]

Bautista should've went with a more realistic number, like a bajillion.