it's time

[mram197]

...to fire baylor.

As much as I liked the hiring, and thought it was a good decision to let Hatcher go, this team's offense has been stagnant last season and this year with Baylor.

In fact the team performed more consistently those 3 months Baylor was out under those other 2 guys

[Stradling]

The Angels scored the most runs in baseball last year, I wish this years team was that "stagnant".

[mram197]

The team had huge stretches under baylor when it didn't perform well. The total runs scored skews the reality of inconsistency

[Stradling]

All offenses are inconsistent. I highly doubt Baylor coaches better during the good stretches.

[SoWhat]

Lol @ "other 2 guys". Terrible post

[stevestevens]

I think the fact that pujols is hitting third and freese is hitting fourth is a bigger issue than baylor.

[tdawg87]

Baylor was out from opening day until June 24, in which the offense averaged 4.73 runs per game. After his return, the Angels averaged 4.81 runs per game. They were also batting .258 before his return, and hit .260 after.

 

Consistency!

[Erstad Grit]

Disar deserves more blame for low scoring than Baylor.

[stevestevens]

Baylor was out from opening day until June 24, in which the offense averaged 4.73 runs per game. After his return, the Angels averaged 4.81 runs per game. They were also batting .258 before his return, and hit .260 after.

Consistency!

That makes it official, bring back those other two guys

[Brandon]

For ****s sake.

As stupid as this thread idea is, at least come up with solutions or ideas than the knee jerk of "fire x" because of a slump.

[DowningRules]

Obligatory "this is racist" accusation.  

[Lou]

it is

[Revad]

Where's Hatcher?

[Jason]

They are winning some games (even though they they are boring) so I guess it doesn't really matter until the pitching fails. Baylor is having to do what the other guys did which is polish turds. Firing him will not do a thing

[Mark68]

We should hire a clean peanut coach.

[Glen]

I still don't understand why many people were gung-ho to fire Hatcher but are lenient with Baylor.

[Stradling]

I still don't understand why many people were gung-ho to fire Hatcher but are lenient with Baylor.

Easy, perception of talent. Also Baylor's only season as hitting coach they scored the most runs in baseball.

[shellback]

under hatcher, the team at one point had 8 starters hitting .300 or better.

rehire hatcher.

[Reveille1984]

It's been almost 25% of the season, is it really fair to still call this offense a "slump"?

 

Pujols is another year older, another year worse.  Aybar is having another one of his off seasons and isn't getting any younger.  Cron is continuing his run of mediocrity in the bigs, and Iannetta looks to be pretty much washed up (at least Perez seems to be ready).  Rinse and repeat with Freese, Joyce, etc.  I don't expect Pujols to hit .240, Freese to hit .210 and Joyce to hit .140 for the rest of the year but they sure haven't shown much progress either.

 

I guess it wasn't fair to expect Joyce and Iannetta to be THIS bad, but basically every position player on the team is doing worse (most MUCH worse) than last year barring the usual standouts of Calhoun and Trout.  This on top of the fact that we don't steal bags and also have the lowest SLG and OBP in the AL by a pretty wide margin, and you can see why we are one of the most boring teams in the league to watch.  Given our offensive performance thus far, I can't believe we are actually a .500 team.

[nando714]

Easy, perception of talent. Also Baylor's only season as hitting coach they scored the most runs in baseball.

Stop Confusing him with some facts

[19HALO71]

Best record in baseball last season. Yeah, let's fire Baylor, Really?

[ELEVEN]

Obligatory "this is racist" accusation.

Hey, that's a rascist accusation.

[Angel Oracle]

What truly causes a 34 game team hitting slump?

Most of the players gripping the bat too hard, and trying to make too much happen?

The AL West pitching ain't THAT good, and neither is the Rockies staff.

Edited May 14, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Stradling]

What truly causes a 34 game team hitting slump?

Most of the players gripping the bat too hard, and trying to make too much happen?

The AL West pitching ain't THAT good, and neither is the Rockies staff.

Lack of overall talent at LF and DH. So if we want to talk about slow starts we are talking about Freese, Aybar, Albert and Iannetta.

[tomsred]

Lack of overall talent at LF and DH. So if we want to talk about slow starts we are talking about Freese, Aybar, Albert and Iannetta.

At this rate we.will have a new DH and left fielder by the All Star break. The market just hasn't developed yet for someone worthwhile.