Los Angeles Dodgers’ patience in Yasiel Puig finally paying off big
Los Angeles Dodgers’ patience in Yasiel Puig finally paying off big
he Los Angeles Dodgers are finally getting the superstar results from Yasiel Puig, and the timing couldn’t be better.
This time last year the Los Angeles Dodgers would have struggled to find a way to trade Yasiel Puig for anything of value. Heck, they might not have even been able to find an Indy Ball style trade of a fielder for two buckets of balls and a pack of sunflower seeds. Things had gotten that bad for the mercurial outfielder in LA.
What a difference a year makes.
Sure, Aaron Judge has gotten the lion’s share of the headlines by waking up and hitting two massive home runs in the ALCS, but there is no ignoring the fact that Puig has been, hands down, the best player in the playoffs this year. With two more hits in Game 3 of the NLCS, Puig has pushed his line this postseason up to a stratospheric .429/.538/.762 with two doubles, a triple, a homer, six RBI and more walks than strikeouts.
To call Puig’s 2015 and 2016 seasons an absolute disaster would be kind. Injuries limited him to 183 games and a .260/.323/.425 line with 22 home runs and 83 RBI. The antics off the field that could be ignored when he was posting All-Star numbers his first two years in the league were no longer cute and an interesting circus act. He bottomed out last season when the Dodgers sent him down to Triple-A, a demotion that was soon followed with an expletive-laced Snapchat post the night after a loss.
Puig eventually made it back to the big leagues last year but hit .211 in the playoffs
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he Los Angeles Dodgers are finally getting the superstar results from Yasiel Puig, and the timing couldn’t be better.
This time last year the Los Angeles Dodgers would have struggled to find a way to trade Yasiel Puig for anything of value. Heck, they might not have even been able to find an Indy Ball style trade of a fielder for two buckets of balls and a pack of sunflower seeds. Things had gotten that bad for the mercurial outfielder in LA.
What a difference a year makes.
Sure, Aaron Judge has gotten the lion’s share of the headlines by waking up and hitting two massive home runs in the ALCS, but there is no ignoring the fact that Puig has been, hands down, the best player in the playoffs this year. With two more hits in Game 3 of the NLCS, Puig has pushed his line this postseason up to a stratospheric .429/.538/.762 with two doubles, a triple, a homer, six RBI and more walks than strikeouts.
To call Puig’s 2015 and 2016 seasons an absolute disaster would be kind. Injuries limited him to 183 games and a .260/.323/.425 line with 22 home runs and 83 RBI. The antics off the field that could be ignored when he was posting All-Star numbers his first two years in the league were no longer cute and an interesting circus act. He bottomed out last season when the Dodgers sent him down to Triple-A, a demotion that was soon followed with an expletive-laced Snapchat post the night after a loss.
Puig eventually made it back to the big leagues last year but hit .211 in the playoffs
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