As time went on there came more and more word that the LA Angels were going to do even more with Valbuena as they planned on making him their primary first baseman unseating C.J. Cron who has the starter for the past two seasons. To me this seemed very strange as Cron has improved each year defensively and has shown much better plate discipline and put up some good numbers despite playing less than 120 games in both seasons.
In each of the last two seasons Cron has 16 homers and driven in 51 and 69 runs while hitting .