1999 Anaheim Angels

[gurn67]

If I remember correctly even before the season started things went south rather quickly. Edmonds was hurt and out till August. Disar wasn't paying attention to where he was walking when someone was swinging a bat and hit him right in the arm and broke it. Then the Mo injury. Again that's my recollection but I was only 14 and definitely a season to forget. I might have gotten some details wrong.

Yes, that was part of the perennial Angels' curse which I suffered through from 1977 until a certain at bat by Scott Spiezio.

[stormngt]

Last year's team over achieved

Richards Shoe were better.

Weave could pitch

Ianetta had a career year, and bench players played way above their heads the first two months thus injuries didn't hurt us.

Take that into consideration and subtract Kebdrick. Hamilton and add Joyce.

Kill

This is such BS, I can't let it slide.

This years roster is 90% the same as last year, despite what you and pujols think. That team won 98 games.

So what happened this year? The players quit on scioscia?

[Guest]

Last year's team over achieved

Richards Shoe were better.

Weave could pitch

Ianetta had a career year, and bench players played way above their heads the first two months thus injuries didn't hurt us.

Take that into consideration and subtract Kebdrick. Hamilton and add Joyce.

 

 

To be fair, Scioscia's Salas-crush earlier this year has not been as destrutive as his reluctance to move Frieri out of the closer spot was last year. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

In some ways I feel like we have gross problems, and we're addressing them with minor tweeks.

 

True, but you're not going to fix a club with this many holes at the trade deadline. IMO the front office added individual pieces that gave Scioscia more options to choose from as the game unfolds, but unless we surrendered our future by trading all of our young arms, we weren't going to get impact players by the end of July. If we had done this, the incoming players would likely have been short-term rentals, and our young arms would be in the hands of other teams. I believe that it was smart of the front office to look toward the future in the moves that were made, because one or two big name acquisitions would not have made this team a juggernaut.

[Blarg]

Kill

This is such BS, I can't let it slide.

This years roster is 90% the same as last year, despite what you and pujols think. That team won 98 games.

So what happened this year? The players quit on scioscia?

If they had quit on Scioscia then Jerry would still be the GM.

[Stradling]

Kill

This is such BS, I can't let it slide.

This years roster is 90% the same as last year, despite what you and pujols think. That team won 98 games.

So what happened this year? The players quit on scioscia?

Looking at last nights available roster and there are 11 new players on the 25 man roster, so that is about 44% of the roster that has been turned over. Granted some of those additions are recent, but the amount of players added is significant. I guess losing Freese (for an extended period of time), Howie for the whole season and Hamilton have hurt a ton, while also having Iannetta turn into a pumpkin, that is half of your every day at bats.

[stormngt]

Kill

This is such BS, I can't let it slide.

This years roster is 90% the same as last year, despite what you and pujols think. That team won 98 games.

So what happened this year? The players quit on scioscia?

Hamilton (use he was average and over paid) and Kendrick are sorely missed.

Jepson is sorely missed in the 7th inning role

Rasmus is deeply missed

 

Add that to:

 

Ianetta over achieved last year with his career year.  This maybe his worst season.

Joyce, the intended platoon at DH had to be a regular playing LF and he sucked

 

Plus the team over achieved last year.

 

1.  Richard had his best year to date and regressed (this was predicted by many on this board).

2.  Weaver regressed started throwing wiffle balls (also predicted)

3.  Shoemaker isn't as good as he pitched last year (also predicted)

4.  Morin (regression), Rasmus (injury), and Jepson (traded for Joyce) are deeply missed from the bull pen.