Adrian Beltre Is the WORST 3rd baseman EVER

[illfuuptn]

This guy is pathetic! He has 7 errors this year but that doesn't begin to demonstrate how awful he is. He plays ever ball to the side no matter what and a hard hit ball at him is a sure error or hit. He avoids being charged with errors because he plays balls to the side and often whiffs them completely or gets a piece of it and does some dumbass dive/fall down move that makes it look difficult. In the game today he has 1 error but it should be 3 because he straight up whiffed 2 balls. The guy is such a tool and if he wasn't hitting so well I'd be livid.

[treece]

They should put Lowell back at 3rd.

[Rush]

Overrated

[starfire]

he is? 99% of the time, he shouldve made that throw to 2nd. Oh I have Yankees! LoL

[Cappinpicks]

Isn't he a gold glove god 3rd basemen defensively?

[vitalogist]

This guy is pathetic! He has 7 errors this year but that doesn't begin to demonstrate how awful he is. He plays ever ball to the side no matter what and a hard hit ball at him is a sure error or hit. He avoids being charged with errors because he plays balls to the side and often whiffs them completely or gets a piece of it and does some dumbass dive/fall down move that makes it look difficult. In the game today he has 1 error but it should be 3 because he straight up whiffed 2 balls. The guy is such a tool and if he wasn't hitting so well I'd be livid.

You clearly know nothing about baseball.

[illfuuptn]

You clearly know nothing about baseball.

lol really? I know way more than you bucko. BTW I know he's won a few gold gloves. I'm not saying he has always been bad, I'm only saying that this year he is awful. Something changed. Perhaps he dedicates more time to his offense in practice now.

[Kemalettin]

douche

[stealthyburrito]

guy had one good year at the right time and got paid for it, typical baseball BS.

[mebaran]

This guy is pathetic! He has 7 errors this year but that doesn't begin to demonstrate how awful he is. He plays ever ball to the side no matter what and a hard hit ball at him is a sure error or hit. He avoids being charged with errors because he plays balls to the side and often whiffs them completely or gets a piece of it and does some dumbass dive/fall down move that makes it look difficult. In the game today he has 1 error but it should be 3 because he straight up whiffed 2 balls. The guy is such a tool and if he wasn't hitting so well I'd be livid.

No, sir. Gary Gaetti was worse haha...

[soxwin]

he had 7 errors on May 9th last year too.

[vitalogist]

any educated baseball fan knows about UZR. The only defensive metric that matters. Beltre is among the league leaders defensively. Clearly, he is challenged at the plate, with his lack of plate discipline, but he is worth every penny the Redsox and Mariners have paid him since he left LA. The worst thing AB ever did was hit 49 HRs for the Dodgers.

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=3b&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=y&type=1&season=2009&month=0

[stevek173]

So bad, can't believe the Sox invested. Good post.

[ThaTopMoron]

all that comes to mind whenever i hear his name is i remember when he had his huge year and the next season i kept telling everybody that he would be a bust so don't draft him high in Fantasy baseball

[Slim]

Beltre does it again.

[keyboarding]

There is a reason they call this guy E5 as a nickname:

[Slim]

Beltre misplays another ball.

[Marginalis]

Gary Gaetti, lol

[keyboarding]

Beltre misplays another ball.

To be fair, that thing had some crazy spin on it.

[5teamparlay]

BUT HIS LONG BALLS MAKE UP FOR IT:

Beltre put the Rangers up 1-0 in the fourth with his eighth homer in 15 games. The 33 homers are one more than he had in his debut with the Rangers last season. The only time he hit more in his career was in 2004 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, when he led the majors with 48.


343 on the career....

[ZetaPsi808]

Beltre misplays another ball.

i bet you had rangers -1.5