One question:

1. Does anyone think Hatcher would be offended by this?

I kinda wish we had Jaramillo.

If Morales comes back, Wells can be the most overpaid 6 or 7 hitter in the league. If he feels no pressure and just hits .250 with 20 bombs, that would be huge.

how much longer Jerry Dipoto will allow Mickey Hatcher to keep his job. Earlier in the offseason, I read another article which mentioned someone working with a non-Hatcher hitting coach. It could have been another article mentioning Wells; at this point I just don’t remember who it was.

I’m still really worried about Hatcher working with Mike Trout.

Everyone’s so anxious to see what it is that Pujols does and how he prepares himself. It also helps that Hatcher said he’s not going to get close to Pujols (not in those same words unfortunately). So I’ll be damned if the team doesn’t get better…

I feel like Wells’ biggest problem is his eye. Dude swings at terrible, terrible pitches. I read that his last year with the Jays, their hitting coach encouraged Wells to sniff out the fastballs and hold off on anything else. Seemed to work but he definitely regressed in 2011.

I also vaguely remember someone on here mentioning how his pop-up rate was high, even for him. Even a incremental betterment of Wells would do a world of good. Let’s hope this works!

Also, glad to see he’s actually putting forth the effort to be a stud. I’ll take that over some assclown sitting back collecting a check not giving a rats ass what he bats.

I can’t see Vernon being worse than last year. He has a lot of things working in his favor. The addition of Pujols in the lineup will probably have a positive affect of the types of pitches he sees. It also takes away some of the pressure he had last year. Also the adjustment period should be over

and claiming that he was in the best shape of his life….

Eerily similar to Wells’ situation IMO.

A return to form would transform our lineup almost as much as Albert will

The next step, after working with a top-hitting coach, is to track down every Angels fan you’ve hurt with your weak-ass pop-ups and personally apologizing for your primitive plate discipline.

Or so he thinks he should!

I really wanted the Angels to sign him before last year. So damn lucky that didn’t happen.

Part of me wants Vernon to regress back to the mean and put up at least a tolerable season because he seems like a genuinely nice guy.

The other part of me wants him to tank right out of the gate and get his ass traded so that Trout can start as soon as possible.

I wonder if Wells might be more relaxed in 2012 knowing he doesn’t have the largest contract on the team? It might have been perceived pressure to arrive on the Angels making $23M and feel the need to carry the team. With Pujols now the center of the Angel universe, Wells might blossom into a role player offensively, a 2009 Raul Ibanez to Pujols’ Ryan Howard.