The 29-year-old, once a top Dodgers prospect before being traded to Texas, believes he’s more successful now that he’s stopped chasing homers
The Angels’ Willie Calhoun is congratulated after scoring against the Texas Rangers on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. ARLINGTON, Texas — This weekend Willie Calhoun is enjoying his career revival in the place where his big-league career started … and then got derailed.
Calhoun was a top prospect coming up in the Dodgers’ system and became the key piece in the 2017 trade that sent Yu Darvish from the Texas Rangers to the Dodgers. Calhoun hit 11 homers in the Dodgers’ system in 2015, but that jumped to 27 in 2016. His slugging percentage actually was lower in 2016 than 2015, though, the result of a much lower batting average.
“He knew my swing from when I was coming up, so I sat down with him right away in spring training and told him I wanted to get back to that guy I was coming up in the minor leagues,” Calhoun said. “I viewed myself a doubles guy. I never viewed myself as a power guy, but I kind of got suckered into trying to chase it.
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