re: Josh Hamilton agrees to terms with Angels 5 yrs/125 Mill

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It's hard to maintain a high BA with a ton of strikeouts.

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Right. And if you look at his company for contact rates last year... it's all the same type of player... high HR, low average sluggers.

I'm just looking at all facets of the transition:

-He's aging.
-He's moving into an extremely favorable pitcher's park.
-He's already battled injuries as a young man and we all know that gets worse with age.
-His contact rate (which could just be an aberration) is awful.
-His career numbers in Angels Stadium are pedestrian.
-He's got a bad track record against elite pitching.

Just doing a quick and dirty comparison to Pujols, who he's always been inferior too, Pujols still posted a higher OPS+ than him last year in the worst year of his career.

I just think there's a lot of factors working against him being a rousing success.