With Miguel Cabrera headed to Detroit, the Angels are supposedly interested in Miguel Tejada. While Tejada might help to improve the Angels lineup, he is definitely not a "Big Bat".
Tejada has been rumored to be a player who has benefited from steroids and his numbers might support that rumor. In the past four years, Tejada's home runs have decreased each season - 34, 26, 24, 18. Granted, with the 18 home runs, he would have been second on the Halos home run list in a tie with Gary Matthews Jr.
In those same four seasons, his batting average has remained steady - .311, .304, .330, .296 - but the Angels don't need another hitter with "gap-power".
The most staggering reason not to acquire Miguel Tejada is .228. That is Tejada's career batting average at Angel Stadium. There is no park in the American League where he has a lower average.
His career ops at Angel Stadium is .663 which is more than 140 points lower than the Angels' team ops at home last year which was .812. Reggie Willits had the lowest ops of any Angels regular last year and his ops was .735.
Angels fans, don't fall for the media hype. We do need a big bat, but Tejada is not that bat.
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