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Mike Trout and the 8 WAR Season
By @Angelsjunky, AngelsWin.com Contributor I like to find new angles on the greatness of Mike Trout - not hard to do, but always satisfying. Here's something tasty for your enjoyment. I'm going to be focusing on 8 WAR seasons. Why 8 WAR? Well, it represents a level beyond just garden variety superstardom. Generally speaking, 8 WAR is either a career year for a superstar or a good peak year for an inner circle Hall of Famer. In other words, it is a good benchmark for a truly great season.
Angels outfielder Dexter Fowler out for the season with a torn ACL
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Dexter Fowler of Atlanta, GA is out for the remainder of the 2021 Major League Baseball regular season. The former National League All-Star tore his anterior cruciate ligament while running into second base against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday according to Alden Gonzalez of ESPN. Fowler initially was diagnosed with a sprained left knee. However, after further test results, which included magnetic resonance imaging, it was determined that Fowler’s injury was
A Week in Review: Inside the Numbers
By @Inside Pitch, AngelsWin.com Contributor Interesting numbers.. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=1&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31&sort=20,d Everyone who would have guessed Quintana had the best FIP among the SPs, raise your hand? The Babip numbers for some of these guys are what you'
Power of Shohei Ohtani shines for the Angels in primetime
The talk from Major League Baseball on the opening weekend of the 2021 regular season was centered around the greatness of their hitting and pitching superstar, Shohei Ohtani of Oshu, Japan. On Sunday night in the Angels’ 7-4 win over the Chicago White Sox, Ohtani became the first ever American League starting pitcher since the designated hitter rule was instituted in 1973, to hit a home run in a game. Ohtani’s one-out first-inning blast has been the talk of Major League Baseball. According
Three Bold Predictions for the Angels in 2021
By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer Baseball is back! While the stands may not be entirely full of fans, the players will be taking the field and we have games to watch. I’m excited! It’s been a long year, and springtime and baseball both bring hope and joy for a new and better year. In the past, I’ve never actually published predictions for the Angels at the start of the season. Call me superstitious, but it’s like talking about a no-hitter during a game. I’ve always be
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if Ohtani keeps this up
... is he better than Trout? I know Trout is GOAT. And Ohtani has YEARS ahead of him, needing to hit, to even be in the conversation. But if Ohtani starts once a week, and even at best is like he was yesterday, but continues to hit as he is right now.... is he the better all around player? And I say that knowing a once a week starter isnt "gold", and that Trout is the better hitter.
Rest in Peace Troll Daddy (Milton Nolasco)
Through some investigative reporting my worst fear was discovered. Troll Daddy (Milton Nolasco) passed away last May. That makes two members that we know of that we lost last year (RePlay being the other one). The cause of death is unknown, but because of his age we can only assume.
OC Register: Angels’ Chris Rodriguez could be a future starter, or a high-leverage reliever now
As Chris Rodriguez continues to evolve into a big-league pitcher, he is continuing to show Manager Joe Maddon that he could go in a couple of directions with his career. Maddon said in spring training that Rodriguez looked more like a reliever than a starter, not just in the short-term, but the long term. However, Maddon now says he’s changed his opinion. “I didn’t know enough,” Maddon said before the Angels played the Astros in Houston on Thursday night. “Now watching him pitch with the chang
This team...
Starter ERAs: 1.04, 4.50, 5.65, 5.68, 5.68, 9.00 Minasian's splashes except for Slegers--Fowler, Cobb, Quintana, the two Iglesiases, Cishek, Claudio--have sucked. Fletcher, Pujols, and Rojas have been terrible. Stassi and Rendon hurt. Angels Baseball at its finest.
AngelsWin.com Today: Mike Trout and the 8 WAR Season
By @Angelsjunky, AngelsWin.com Contributor I like to find new angles on the greatness of Mike Trout - not hard to do, but always satisfying. Here's something tasty for your enjoyment. I'm going to be focusing on 8 WAR seasons. Why 8 WAR? Well, it represents a level beyond just garden variety superstardom. Generally speaking, 8 WAR is either a career year for a superstar or a good peak year for an inner circle Hall of Famer. In other words, it is a good benchmark for a truly great season.
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Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Astros (4-22-2021)
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AngelsWin.com Today: Mike Trout and the 8 WAR Season
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By @Angelsjunky, AngelsWin.com Contributor
I like to find new angles on the greatness of Mike Trout - not hard to do, but always satisfying. Here's something tasty for your enjoyment. I'm going to be focusing on 8 WAR seasons. Why 8 WAR? Well, it represents a level beyond just garden variety superstardom. Generally speaking, 8 WAR is either a career year for a superstar or a good peak year for an inner circle Hall of Famer. In other words, it is a good benchmark for a truly great season.
What is 8 WAR?
As you can read here, below 2 WAR are bench players and scrubs; from 2-4 WAR is the range from solid to good regulars; and 4 and above are various shades of stardom, from borderline stars to MVP candidates. In any given year, the best player in the game is somewhere around 8 WAR or higher; only rarely is the leader below 8 WAR, with the last two both from Jeff Bagwell with 7.8 WAR, in 1999 and 1994.
In most years there are two or three players with an 8 WAR or higher; some years less (or none), and some more (the most 8 WAR players in a single year was six, which happened three times: in 1912, 1961, and 1997). The point being, with an average of two or three a year, an 8 WAR player is a candidate for the best player in the game and a possible MVP.
It is also worth pointing out that WAR is less volatile than it used to be, with fewer high outliers. If we ignore Barry Bonds for a moment, the last position player to reach 11 WAR was Joe Morgan in 1975, which also happened to be the only position player season over 10 WAR in the 1970s. Including Bonds, from 1970 to the present there have only been thirteen 10 WAR seasons: five by Bonds (including one pre-roids in 1993 when he had 10.5), two by Trout, one each by Joe Morgan, Cal Ripken, Rickey Henderson, Alex Rodriguez, Buster Posey, and Mookie Betts.
Meaning, super-high WAR seasons (above 10) are very rare, occurring--on average--only once every four years or so over the last half century.-
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Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Rangers (4-21-2021)
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Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Rangers (4-20-2021)
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Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Rangers (4-19-2021)
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