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Aaron Guiel?
I've always been a huge Guiel fan. Is he still playing? I haven't seen his name in the box score for some time.

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Re: Aaron Guiel?
[ Author: Guest | Posted: Jun 20, 2008 9:35 PM ]

Guiel has been playing with pain in his elbow. So he was sent down (ni-gun) a couple weeks ago. But yes, he is still playing with the Yakult Swallows.

He had a very good start this season too; too bad he got hurt.
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[ Author: Guest: frank | Posted: Jun 21, 2008 2:35 AM ]

I didn't know that Japan had minor leagues. That is interesting. What team is he with now?

Thanks for your reply.
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Re: Aaron Guiel?
[ Author: number9 | Posted: Jun 21, 2008 3:04 AM ]

Yeah, injury severely limited his production after his hot start. And now he's rehabbing in the minors. Hasn't made an apperance yet on the farm team, so I reckon he's still in the middle of rehab. Hopefully they won't rush him back. He's very valuable (even though Swallows fans fixated on the batting average, instead of the more important OBP and SLG and so don't realise his value to the team).

A healthy Guiel and Aoki, along with Hatakeyama, would be a force to be reckoned with in the middle of the order.
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Re: Aaron Guiel?
[ Author: Guest: frank | Posted: Jun 21, 2008 4:17 PM ]

Thanks for the info.
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[ Author: Guest: Garrett | Posted: Jun 24, 2008 10:29 AM ]

With a .298 OBP and .425 SLG, Swallows fans were more enamored of Guiel than they should have been as far into the season as they were. Those numbers combined with his .212 batting average made him unimpressive. Among Swallows with more than a few dozen at bats, he was near the bottom in productivity. (Better than Riggs, also dealing with injury, and Fukukawa, but very few others who made regular appearances.) Hopefully, he'll be back to form once he heals up.
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Re: Aaron Guiel?
[ Author: Guest: guest | Posted: Jun 26, 2008 4:30 PM ]

I think Guiel raised his batting average a bit, but he's still kind of average. Sometimes foreign players' batting averages are overlooked as long as they hit for power. But Guiel doesn't hit for very good average and he is not that great a fielder, so I'd say he's a bit over-rated.
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