As most of the invitations to the home run derby were given, it was left to see when Bautista would get his phone call. He was ready to take part and would've accepted if the call came. However it did not. hmmm.
Since September 2009, Jose has hit 34 Homers. The nearest to him is Prince Fielder with 29!!
Bautista was questioned if he was surprised about not receiving the call:
"A little bit," Bautista said with a shrug. "But it's nothing I can control."
It has been joked that when Wells is called up to hit in the derby, he should walk over to Bautista and hand him the bat. that would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!
David Ortiz (taking part) had this to say on the matter:
"The guy that I'm really worried about is not even in the Derby -- Bautista, man. Come on, man. How is he not in the Derby? You need to start a campaign about him being in the Derby. He's the home run leader. It's a joke. He has to be there -- he's the leader. I don't care, have two Blue Jays in there. If he wants to be in, he has to be in -- I don't care what anybody says."
AMEN Big Papi!!!!
It sucks, but what are we to do? MLB would rather have those brand names with more compelling storylines in the HR Derby as opposed to the actual leader in home runs.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if Bautista participates, he fares even worse than Vernon does. But I guess we'll never know.
I hope just to rub it in, Bautista socks a Bautista Bomb just to show them what they're missing out on.
very true. In the end, would Bautista have got 32 homers and beaten big papi? questionable. and this may have been at a cost. I'd much prefer him to save those long balls for the regular games.
ReplyDeletep.s thanks for reading :)