Moderator1 said:
Last year's start was very much the exception. He joked previously about Chipper Jones calling him around Mother's Day complaining about an error in the paper. "It says you're hitting .140!" Uh, no error, LaRoche said.
He'll be around .270 by end of season with 35 or so HRs. Nats will win a good many more than they lose, despite such "shirtty, no count" pitchers as some seem to think.
Will it be enough? We'll see. That's kind of what makes it fun.
Aside from the home run prediction, that is a point well made. LaRoche has never hit 35 home runs in a season and he has only been over 30 twice, but this is what LaRoche does. As you said, last April was the exception, which is probably why he had a career year. No shirtty April to drag his numbers down.
I'm trying to remember what Ruckus predicted. That letting Morse go and keeping LaRoche would turn out to be a mistake? It's possible, but Morse is already hurt (again) and writing off LaRoche after a slow start simply shows a lack of knowledge about the guy.
