PUIG has gone MIA on word he will be sent to AAA

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Andy McCullough ‏@McCulloughTimes 16m16 minutes ago
Neither Farhan Zaidi nor Andrew Friedman nor Yasiel Puig's agent have any comment on Yasiel Puig's whereabouts.
Yasiel Puig did not travel with the Dodgers on Monday when they flew to Denver for a three-game series against the Rockies.
Puig, 25, stormed off after arriving at Dodger Stadium and being informed that he would either be traded or sent to the minors, according to major-league sources.
He was not traded before the non-waiver deadline at 4 p.m. ET, but the team’s immediate plan for him is unclear.

Club officials declined comment.

The Dodgers acquired outfielder Josh Reddick from the Athletics earlier Monday, jeopardizing Puig’s place with the club. Team officials had maintained that they would trade Puig only if they added another outfielder, but they did not find a taker.
Puig recently missed a week with a hamstring issue, but appeared as a pinch-hitter on Friday and played the entire game Sunday against Arizona, going 3-for-5 with two RBIs.
A strained left hamstring sidelined him from June 3-21, but since coming off the disabled list Puig has batted .308 with an .830 OPS.
Overall, however, he has not fulfilled the promise he displayed during his spectacular debut with the Dodgers in 2013.

For the season, Puig is batting .260 with seven homers and a .706 OPS. His OPS has declined in each season since his rookie year.
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http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/dodgers-leave-yasiel-puig-behind-as-they-head-to-colorado-080116
 
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InsideTheParker said:
How the mighty have fallen. What accounts for his fall from grace? Is it all performance or does temperament play a role?
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Definitely some of the latter but it's really surprising how quickly he's gone from stud to what he is now.
 
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InsideTheParker said:
How the mighty have fallen. What accounts for his fall from grace? Is it all performance or does temperament play a role?
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That's Puig's OPS+ over the last 4 years. You endure some undisciplined defense and baserunning for a guy hitting at a rate that produces an OPS+ of 159. When it continues on a somewhat reduced scale and the guy still can't play well with others but is putting up an OPS+ of 93, oh and increasingly missing time with injuries. Well . . .
 
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InsideTheParker said:
How the mighty have fallen. What accounts for his fall from grace? Is it all performance or does temperament play a role?
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If you work your ass off and hone your craft manaically for your entire life, that can carry you into having a great thousand PAs in the majors, which makes you forever a bona fide major leaguer. But then the only way to keep it up over the next thousand PAs, against a league that knows everything about you, is to work twice as hard as you were previously, and do it while sitting on what feels like a small fortune. Puig seemed to have trouble with that - I'm only stunned it doesn't happen a lot more.
 
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JimBoSox9 said:
If you work your ass off and hone your craft manaically for your entire life, that can carry you into having a great thousand PAs in the majors, which makes you forever a bona fide major leaguer. But then the only way to keep it up over the next thousand PAs, against a league that knows everything about you, is to work twice as hard as you were previously, and do it while sitting on what feels like a small fortune. Puig seemed to have trouble with that - I'm only stunned it doesn't happen a lot more.
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I'm sure it does but those kind of guys just fall off the radar. Puig is a very high profile player with a well documented crazy life story. His work ethic has been called into question many, many times. He has a ton of talent but you are so right, you have to work hard constantly to get even better. There is always someone else ready to take your job and/or make a name off of beating you. Puig lacks maturity and self discipline. The Dodgers have no problem cutting you regardless of your salary. Carl Crawford says hello.
 
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E5 Yaz said:
Would anyone claim him on waivers
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According to baseball reference, his contract is for $8,214,000 in 2017 and $9,214,000 in 2018. That's not prohibitive.
I think you'd have to be a team that had some kind of inkling that your staff would have some sort of special edge in getting through to him. Maybe you've got a cuban coach or two that he respects or will respect. I don't know. But the money's not an absolute deal breaker.
 
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Rough Carrigan said:
Maybe they think Abreu will be able to keep him in line? He's also Cuban and three years older than Puig.
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Makes sense. They knew each other in Cuba but were not close. Would have been easiest to knock out a deal earlier today for both teams. But yeah, he's done in LA. He's gonna miss that party life of LA.
 
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Rough Carrigan said:
According to baseball reference, his contract is for $8,214,000 in 2017 and $9,214,000 in 2018. That's not prohibitive.
I think you'd have to be a team that had some kind of inkling that your staff would have some sort of special edge in getting through to him. Maybe you've got a cuban coach or two that he respects or will respect. I don't know. But the money's not an absolute deal breaker.
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I think a LOT of teams are capable of talking themselves into thinking they're the ones who have that edge, especially with the added "now he's had a wake-up call!!" logic to toss in.
 
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Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1h1 hour ago
To those upset with first version of Puig story: I’m with you. I take great pride in accuracy. It infuriates me that a key detail was wrong.

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1h1 hour ago
The information came from sources, but that’s not an excuse. It’s my job to check everything thoroughly.

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1h1 hour ago
The only solution in a situation like this is to apologize, correct the mistake and learn from it. And that’s what I’m doing.
 
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