This team would be in first with any other manager...

[Angel Oracle]

Beyond Trout, Pujols, Smith and Street, this team has very, very little true talent.

So then, who's fault is that?

[disarcina]

Halos are a .50 to sub .500 team -- what is amazing to me is that the starting rotation -- which was supposed to be a real question mark at the start of the season -- has done well and rotation's numbers for this year are among MLB's best.

 

And our set up guy and our closer have done fairly well (a few blown saves but that happens) pretty well, too.

 

so that leaves the position players  and the line up.  We have some weak spots to be sure -- but one would think this line up could be juggled a bit to have a better result.

 

and then there's the base-running -- sad to say but the Halos seem to lead the league in guys thrown out at home and at third ever since DiSar took over the third base coaching duties.

 

So, YES, it the management of the team that's doing something wrong here -- don't know what the fix would be.

 

I like Scoiscia but have never been a fan of his strict game plan approach that puts guys in certain roles and then that's it all season, all games, all opponents, all situations.

 

I would have Smith in for a two inning SAVE once in a while rather than bringing in Street EVERY TIME....I would mix things up.

 

I also would likely send Featherston back to Colorado and keep Grant Green on the roster.  Why do we spend a roster spot on Featherston to play in 75 games and get less than 150 ABs this season when it's likely he won't even be on the roster next year?

[disarcina]

Angels do not have that good of a team this year (although the starting pitching has done well) but I can point to about three games so far that have been LOST by the Angels and not WON by the other team -- that's on the manager.

 

It's said a manager's decisions affect the outcome (usually negatively) about  seven to ten games a year.........

[Jobu]

The Angels run into too many outs. Whether they'd do it significantly less under different leadership, or not find some completely new and novel ways to make outs I'm not convinced.

[Stradling]

The premise of this thread is exactly what I talk about when I talk about people being irrational. We have zero depth, so Mike even if he wanted to punish the players that make bad baserunning mistakes. Freese gets thrown out trying to take an extra base, up until yesterday we would have Featherston playing third. What about the other day, Trout makes an awful decision tagging up, who in the world would play CF? Actually right this second who is our back up centerfielder, Kole, Navarro? Albert runs into an out, so now we start Cron at first? This thread is silly.

[floplag]

the manager is not the one not hitting, period

[Ransom Ballard]

Halos are a .50 to sub .500 team -- what is amazing to me is that the starting rotation -- which was supposed to be a real question mark at the start of the season -- has done well and rotation's numbers for this year are among MLB's best.

And our set up guy and our closer have done fairly well (a few blown saves but that happens) pretty well, too.

so that leaves the position players and the line up. We have some weak spots to be sure -- but one would think this line up could be juggled a bit to have a better result.

and then there's the base-running -- sad to say but the Halos seem to lead the league in guys thrown out at home and at third ever since DiSar took over the third base coaching duties.

So, YES, it the management of the team that's doing something wrong here -- don't know what the fix would be.

I like Scoiscia but have never been a fan of his strict game plan approach that puts guys in certain roles and then that's it all season, all games, all opponents, all situations.

I would have Smith in for a two inning SAVE once in a while rather than bringing in Street EVERY TIME....I would mix things up.

I also would likely send Featherston back to Colorado and keep Grant Green on the roster. Why do we spend a roster spot on Featherston to play in 75 games and get less than 150 ABs this season when it's likely he won't even be on the roster next year?

because Featherston can defend and Green can't that's why.

[fan_since79]

And then immediately back out of the playoffs. Yay!

 

Kansas City is going to clean our clock if we meet them again in the postseason.

[AngelsLakersFan]

This guy won like 20 straight games.

 

 

The lighting is so good in that dugout...

[JAHV76]

Next manager

Is that Ron Jeremy?

[Angel Dog and Beer]

[quote name="QuinlansMinion" post="599171"

We have the talent to be in 1st. With a little more offensive production, we probably would be.

You answered your own question, or shall I say rant. Not sosh's fault team can't hit.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Good. Another "fire Scioscia and all of our problems would be over" thread.

[mtangelsfan]

I rank this as a top ten for dumbest threads of 2015.

[Jay]

troll thread

[zenmaster]

[TroutCron]

This guy won like 20 straight games.

Yes, but it killed him!

[ten ocho recon scout]

This guy won like 20 straight games.

you gotta wonder if being in that 02 oakland clubhouse, which was full of guys slamming drugs with needles, led to his heroin problems in later life

[QuinlansMinion]

You answered your own question, or shall I say rant. Not sosh's fault team can't hit.

You missed the point. The offensive production improves if we stop running into outs. The total number of runs scored on the season would be drastically higher if the manager isnt telling guys to run like idiots.

Edited June 11, 2015 by QuinlansMinion

[Blarg]

I still miss Brian, more after every time QuinlansMinion posts.

[Stradling]

You missed the point. The offensive production improves if we stop running into outs. The total number of runs scored on the season would be drastically higher if the manager isnt telling guys to run like idiots.

So they've run into what about 25 outs this season. If the team has about a .250 average then maybe we score 6 more runs in the season, which is hardly drastically. Also how many of those outs are a guy going to second to draw the throw away from home to guarantee a run being scored.

[19HALO71]

One question.

 

What is the name of the manager that led the majors in wins last season?

 

Let's go with his base running philosophy.

 

Go Halos!!

[Jay]

in before "meaningless"

[Guest]

I like Scioscia, but the team could use some fresh blood.

Let's be honest, though, any other team would kill to have Scioscia.

[laagamer]

For the Last 23 games it has been the Albert Pujols show.

 

Pujols  .315/.357/.717/1.075  11 home runs

 

Trout  .281/.343/.552/.895 7 home runs

 

Both Trout and Pujols are crushing the ball yet we're 10-13 in that stretch.

 

We just plain suck. 

[OregonLAA]

Scioscia is hardly the problem. Though pinch hitting for Kubitza last night was awful. I wish he would get over the lefty-lefty match up thing. Freese embarrassed himself in that at bat