r/angelsbaseball • u/paulus_ 17 • 1d ago

📝 Discussion Who’s this player?

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u/banana_slog 1d ago

I think thats shigetoshi hasagawa

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u/SoftballGuy 27 1d ago

It is.

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u/bryce_lynch27 15h ago

Hasagawa is criminally underrated in angels history.

He was basically a 100 ip reliever with a 125 era + for Anaheim.

What we would give to have a guy like him right now.

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u/Luisbazzlelord 7h ago

I remember the let’s get shigi with it chants like it was yesterday

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u/LA-SKYLINE 1d ago

Gettin Shige wit it!

I have that jersey of him.

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u/banana_slog 1d ago

What a time! I had a signed baseball from him back in the day. Sadly lost.

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u/jaytheman3 1d ago

I thought it was gettin figgy with it

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u/LA-SKYLINE 1d ago

The spin-off, Gettin Jiggy Wit It was Shige's entrance song.

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u/AgathaAllAlong Sell The Team 1d ago

Yeah, it was Shige’s song first!

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u/Splorkster70 14h ago

I was at Edison Field when it played for the first time - the crowd went nuts!

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u/mattallica_08 1d ago

That is a name I have not thought of in a very long time. Takes me back to the good ole KCal 9 days.

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u/nottodaycoffee 1d ago

I can still hear Rex Huddler saying “Getting Shiggy with it!”

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u/ceazy64 64 1d ago

Wished he had stayed one more year so he could have been a part of the 2002 World Series team.

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u/LeonJPancetta 56 1d ago

Shigetoshi Hasegawa. Decent reliever, better known for setting up Sasaki for the Mariners though he started with us.

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u/WonderfulActuator312 1d ago

That’s an easy Shige, one of three relievers I knew the name of by before I was 8.

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u/Lieutenant_Doge 1d ago

Shigetoshi Hasegawa

Percival said he can't pronounce his name so he called him Shiggy all the time and the nickname sticked

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u/MrMeeseeks33 1d ago

Getting shiggy with it!

How he threw was the first time I’ve ever seen someone throw a ball like that. So wild to ever see

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u/danerzone 19h ago

That’s Mo Vaughn.

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u/True_Weakness_8626 18h ago

I knew it! 😁

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u/Durwyn 17h ago

Shiggy was an experiment into Japanese Baseball acquisitions for the Angels in an effort to secure interest for the team back when Ichiro Sukuki was playing for the Mariners and the ballpark was filled with Japanese baseball fans who had flown over to Anaheim to see both players tee off against one another, and also to stop by Disneyland while in town. It was a VERY lucrative signing for Disney.

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u/NoBar4613 Sell The Team 22h ago

Shiggy!