Angels Nolan Schanuel is succeeding since he's stopped trying to hit homers

As it turns out, Nolan Schanuel began to answer the skeptics only after he stopped trying. The Angels rookie first baseman made a splash in the majors last season, even though he'd been drafted less than two months before his big league debut. Critics, however, often pointed out that Schanuel hadn't shown the power that a first baseman normally has. Although Schanuel said publicly that he wasn't worried about that, he now admits that he changed his approach at the start of the season.