Love Starting With Seattle Pitching

[LAAMike]

Wish the opening series was longer.  After Felix,  their pitching staff is very thin.  Releasing Scott Baker makes Randy Wolf their #4 starter with a 5.65 ERA in 26 games started in 2012.  James Paxton has 4 games started in 2013 with a 3.18 ERA this spring.  Erasmo Ramirez with a 0.96 Spring ERA has only 21 MLB starts.  Roenis Elias at 2.04 ERA this spring has no MLB starts and pitched in AA last year.  At least their arms beyond Felix and Wolf are young but this seems to be a lot of pressure on some very unproven and in Wolf's case suspect arms.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

It hope this three isn't bumped (for the wrong reason) during or after the M's series. The Anfgles usually do well against Felix, but sometimes they struggle against "no name" pitchers or pitchers that are way past their prime.

Edited March 25, 2014 by AngelsAndRamsFan

[OregonLAA]

Baker was released???!?!? Why the hell didn't you grab him Dipoto????

[Bobster7587]

We'll probably beat King Felix and then get shut down by the unknowns, as usual. 

[Inside Pitch]

Yeah, good times for everybody when Blake Beaven is in a starting rotation.  

 

Have fun, halos and everybody else!

 

As awful as Beavan is vs. everyone else, the Angels are his bitch.   He goes Brad Radke on them pretty routinely.

[Ender]

Baker was released???!?!? Why the hell didn't you grab him Dipoto????

 

Probably because in 12 IP he walked 7 batters, hit 3 with pitches and K'ed 1 person while running a 12 H/9.

 

Spring stats don't matter and all ... but man did he look like hot garbage on the mound.

[OregonLAA]

Everyone wanted him and people threw a fit when we didn't sign him. I was being an ass

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Probably because in 12 IP he walked 7 batters, hit 3 with pitches and K'ed 1 person while running a 12 H/9.

 

Spring stats don't matter and all ... but man did he look like hot garbage on the mound.

I assume he was being sarcastic. I seem to recall more than a few Angel fans wanting Dipoto to sign him 2-3 months ago.

[Ender]

Everyone wanted him and people threw a fit when we didn't sign him. I was being an ass

 

Gotcha. I'm an M's fan so I don't often follow every thread.

 

Anyway ... was worth a shot going for Baker ... but he just looked flat awful.

[Brent Maguire]

I think he's worth picking up if you can stash him in AAA for a few months. Nothing wrong with taking a chance as long as he's not on the major league roster for now.

[fan_since79]

Any soft-tossing lefties on their staff?

 

They usually give us fits.

[OregonLAA]

People wanted Joe Saunders too. He looked really good the other day against the Padres. Dipoto is an idiot

[Angel Oracle]

Wow, you're right.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/31018/teamId/3/blake-beavan

That's hilarious.

He's no Cy Norris.

[HaloCory22]

Felix and Iwakuma in 2 of the 3 games doesn't scream "easy pickings" for the Angel hitters.

[LAAMike]

I guess I should have been clearer - the Seattle rotation looks like it will be Felix, Paxton, Ramirez, Wolf and Elias until some of the other pitchers recover. 

[HaloCory22]

Iwakuma won't be pitching until May at the earliest.  

 

He just started playing catch.  

Ahh really? Didn't know that. Good news for us.

[CaliAngel]

Thanks for the topic LAAMike.

 

We can now expect the Angels bats to be dominated by sub-par Seattle pitching the entire opening series.

[LAAMike]

I have been encouraged this ST with the Angels offense against 4 and 5 starters from our competition.  Clearly we seemed to play down to our opposition pitchers in years past. 

[John Smith]

MLB Trade Rumors ‏@mlbtraderumors 

Mariners Release Randy Wolf http://bit.ly/1nYBgGR  #mlb

[LAAMike]

This is truly a bizarre turn of events.  Randy Wolf makes the team as their #4 starter due to injuries to their better pitchers and is offered a contract if he will sign a 45 day release that lets the Mariners release him within 45 days and only pay for time served.  Randy Wolf declines to sign this 45 day release and is cut by the Mariners.   All of this BS over a million dollar contract.  I hope that whomever is brought up from the minors works out and Seattle gets hit with having this pitcher's service clock started earlier and it costs them a bundle.  This seems like a lousy way to run a MLB franchise. 

[Homebrewer]

Maybe we just found Blanton a new home.

[Ender]

Not going to be much of a difference between Blake Beaven and Randy Wolf honestly. Both suck.

 

Sounds like Seattle asked Wolf to sign a consent to accept outright assignment form. Multiple execs tell me it’s common for vets w/5+ years.

— keithlaw (@keithlaw) March 25, 2014

 

Apparently it is common what the M's asked him to do? Oh well. He got butthurt and left. 

Edited March 26, 2014 by Ender

[Jason]

Seattle loves starting the season facing Angel baseball

[nando714]

Nice bump

[jsnpritchett]

Thanks for the topic LAAMike.

 

We can now expect the Angels bats to be dominated by sub-par Seattle pitching the entire opening series.

 

Excellent call.