Fundamentals

[nate]

I don't know if that was Cron or Disar but you never make the third out at third base.  Especially not with Mike ****ing Trout on deck.  This stuff is so frustrating!

[CanadianHalo]

Fundawhat?

[CaliAngel]

Fundamentals and Angels Baseball have not belonged in the same sentence for the past 3+ years.

[Taylor]

I don't know if that was Cron or Disar but you never make the third out at third base.  Especially not with Mike ****ing Trout on deck.  This stuff is so frustrating!

 

Josh "I'd slide headfirst into 1B again" Hamilton disagrees.

[Taylor]

With all the advanced metrics in baseball nowadays, they need to make a stat that captures objectively moronic baserunning decisions. They could call it BRIQ (base running IQ).

 

"Aybar's brick is similar to a 5-year-old's."

[Revad]

Trying to make sure the insurance run scores?

[Blarg]

^{Angels won}

[jshep]

Yeah, there's absolutely no excuse for that.

[jshep]

Trying to make sure the insurance run scores?

 

That play jeopardized that run scoring more than anything.

[Butcher'd]

I've been to spring training, and this team practices far less than other teams. Wonder if Scioscia's laid back attitude is to blame for the piss poor fundamentals.

[CaliAngel]

Trying to make sure the insurance run scores?

 

The fact that this even has to be brought up as an excuse for the teams piss poor fundamentals says a lot about what Angels fans have come to expect from a Professional Ball Team.

[EDinTUSTIN]

Trying to make sure the insurance run scores?

Trout was batting. Cron was already in scoring position. Trout has sufficient power and skill to drive him in from second. We won, which is all that is important right now, but that was an absolutely foolish play!

[EDinTUSTIN]

The fact that this even has to be brought up as an excuse for the teams piss poor fundamentals says a lot about what Angels fans have come to expect from a Professional Ball Team.

This!

[tomsred]

I've been to spring training, and this team practices far less than other teams. Wonder if Scioscia's laid back attitude is to blame for the piss poor fundamentals.

 

 

Care to share your statistical analysis on that one?  And it never ceases to amaze me that people think that Scioscia has a laid back attitude.  A more accurate description would be that he is sometimes too controlling, and over manages, or doesn't delegate as much as he should.  I think it's easy to confuse laid back with trying to maintain an even keel.  Managers make far more mistakes when they get too high (over confident) or too low (too negative) in managing their teams.  It's nice to see players get emotionally invested, but managers need to be calm and clear headed in their decision making to be effective, not Terry Collins like which is usually ineffective.

 

A good example is Bob Melvin of the A's, he is no more emotional than Scioscia.  To a casual observer he looks like he delegates more  than Scioscia, and is less into every pitch.  I don't hear anyone criticizing him as being too "laid back."

Edited June 25, 2014 by tomsred

[tennischmp]

Trying to make sure the insurance run scores?

Cron was trying to score from 2nd on a sacrifice fly?

[robblin17]

I think some of you are missing the point. Cron jeopardized the insurance run scoring because if he would have been thrown out prior to the run scoring it would not have counted. Not sure how close it was though. 

[nando714]

One of my favorite lines in AITO re-do

"Fundamentals?!? ...In the middle of the season? "

[Hollyw00d]

this team has to lead the league in giving away outs.  whether its through horrible baserunning or dumb walks allowed by the pitching staff.

[Lou]

this team has to lead the league in giving away outs.  whether its through horrible baserunning or dumb walks allowed by the pitching staff.

Link?

[Jay]

Josh "I'd slide headfirst into 1B again" Hamilton disagrees.

 

Hamilton puts the "mental" in fundamental.