How an ankle injury helped a young Adrian Beltre become a Hall of Famer
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"He was kind of a wild horse at that point, where he just wanted to run," Green said of Beltré, who was 25 and in his seventh big-league season in 2004. "That injury to his front foot kind of slowed him down..."
Adrián Beltré was a good-but-not-yet-great player during his first five big-league seasons in Los Angeles, where he hit .262 with a .748 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and averaged just 16 homers and 65 RBIs a season from 1999-2003.
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