Remember Christian Guzman?

[dieselboy]

I don't know if I can say, "he is back," because he was never really that good. But man, he is playing really good baseball right now.

Anyone else noticing this?

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

He was good that one year for the Twins...but I haven't heard anything about him since.

[BunnyHardaway]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

I still can't believe the Nats signed him at 4 years/16 million.

[SlimKibbles]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

He was good that one year for the Twins...but I haven't heard anything about him since.

I think he led the league in triples that year, didn't he? He had a couple of good seasons up there.

[NYJets]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

He had a good year in 2001 I think it was, but since then he hasn't been good at all.

He's playing good right now but he's only played 30 games so we'll see.

[skitch]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

He had a good year in 2001 I think it was, but since then he hasn't been good at all.

He's playing good right now but he's only played 30 games so we'll see.

Yep, '01 was a very solid year for Guzman. He batted .302, hit 14 triples (after hitting 20 the year before, and finished 16th in the MVP voting.

[SPTO]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

Christian Guzman just had one of those weird years in Minnesota where he got it going with the bat but he was always a "all glove/no bat" type of guy in my books. I liked his style in the field tho.

[rsox]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

Christian Guzman just had one of those weird years in Minnesota where he got it going with the bat but he was always a "all glove/no bat" type of guy in my books. I liked his style in the field tho.

I agree for the most part that Guzman is not much of a hitter. He is a .262 lifetime hitter, his career high in RBI's is only 59 but one thing he does do is he gets a lot of Triples. Guzman has 72 career Triples. More than Alfonso Soriano or Juan Pierre even more than Craig Biggio and Biggio has a full decade of playing time over Guzman.
So it seems the Triple is Guzman's contribution to his teams offense.

[DGetz]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

A big reason he's been playing so much better is he approach at the plate - so far this year he's walked 14 times and struck out 19 (through 36 games) - compate that 2005 when he walked only 25 times in 145 games

[BGarrett7]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

... so far this year he's walked 14 times and struck out 19 (through 36 games) - compate that 2005 when he walked only 25 times in 145 games

That's only nine walks off his pace from '05 then, which only makes his isoOBP a mere .016 points higher.

[DGetz]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

That's only nine walks off his pace from '05 then, which only makes his isoOBP a mere .016 points higher.

He has nine fewers walks so far this year than he had in all of 2005.

2005- walk every 18.24 at-bats; every 5.68 games
2007- every 10.36 AB; every 2.57 games

If he walked every 10.36 AB in 2005 he would have had 44 walks, not 25; if he walked every 2.57 games insted of ever 5.68 he would have walked 55 times, so actually he is on pace to (roughly) double the number of walks he had in 2005.

Not to mention this year he is striking out every 7.6 AB instead of every 6.

[BGarrett7]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

My bad, I completely overlooked that he missed all of April.

[dust247]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

I didn't realize how good Guzman was doing this year, until he came back to the Metrodome and hit everything the Twins threw at him. He's a great defensive player and if he can continue to get on base, his speed makes him a constant threat to steal.

[Psyblast]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

He's done.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2916373

[Blzer]

Re: Remember Christian Guzman?

I saw his Web Gem, that's all.