Predictions - Biggest surprises this year (Good and bad)

[Blarg]

Tot is thinking way too hard.

[tdawg87]

Good: Pujols, Heaney, Smith, Albuquerque, Nava

Bad: Weaver, Soto, Gentry.

I base this on nothing.

Edited March 23, 2016 by tdawg87

[totdprods]

Tot is thinking way too hard.

No, just hoping to get one right haha. 

[California Cajun]

Good: Angels rediscover the running game and run support improves. Make the postseason. Substantial improvement at C and LF.

Bad: CJ Wilson and Jared Weaver struggle.

[happybat4]

Good:

 

Pujols find his old form and hits .300 with 45 bombs and a .400+ OBP

 

Trout has his best season and has a 50-40 year while winning the gold glove in center field

 

Richards and Weaver return to prior form and fight it out as the staff aces

 

The bullpen is the best and baseball and colby rasmus becomes the closer halfway through the year and records 25 straight saves

 

Choi and Cron both have OPS over .800

 

Gio turns a 180 and becomes the best fielding second basemen in baseball while hitting a solid .280 with 10 home runs

 

Simmons goes back to his rookie form and provides 15 homers and a .260 average while winning another gold glove

 

Escobar has his best season and and has .417 OBP and scores 134 runs

 

Calhoun posts his first 4+ season

 

 

BAD 

I start taking so many drugs that I lose grip on reality and fantasy.

[Second Base]

Good: Pujols, Heaney, Smith, Albuquerque, Nava

Bad: Weaver, Soto, Gentry.

I base this on nothing.

My type of post.

[ScottT]

Won't surprise me, but probably will surprise some...  I'm expecting good things from Morin and Rasmus. 

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Good:

 

1. AO self bans himself 4 days after opening day and pops up again at the Trade Deadline only to get frustrated and self bans himself yet again for the entire remaining 2016 and 2017 seasons only to return on December 23rd after the Halos sign Josh Reddick.

2. Most of the good guys have good years.

 

Meh:

 

1. CJ Wilson comes back in July and runs off 6 straight quality starts. He still ends up with a losing record and an ERA over 4.8 strikes out 100 and walks 100 in 85 innings

2. Gio hits .280 with 60 rbi's and wins Team MVP! Only to have a chopper hit him in the sack and we lose in Walk Off fashion on the last day of the 2016 Season. The Astros win the AL West by 1 game.

3. Simmons hits .320!!! But, forgets how to play defense ends the season as our DH.

4. Most of the meh guys have meh years.

 

Bad:

 

1. Weaver throws a 82mph fastball and his arm rolls out of its socket like a slinky. 

2. Sven eats a bad meatball and is out with food poisoning for 6 weeks starting in July. Bud Black leads the Halos back to within 2 games of 1st only to collapse when the Chief returns. Who later sends Bud back to the FO for showing him up.

3. Most of the bad guys have bad years.       

Edited March 24, 2016 by SlappyUtilityGuy

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Good: Richards, Heaney, Pujols, Wilson (against the consensus), Cron, Calhoun, Skaggs, Johnny G, Simmons, Escobar, Nava and Trout (higher average less SO.)

 

Bad: Weaver, Shoemaker

Edited March 24, 2016 by Ace_Richards

[itsTroutahere]

The Good:  Offense proves the critics wrong

 

The Bad: I spill my beer during game 5 of the world series.

[ScottT]

Good: Richards, Heaney, Pujols, Wilson (against the consensus), Cron, Calhoun, Skaggs, Johnny G, Simmons, Escobar, Nava and Trout (higher average less SO.)

 

Bad: Weaver, Shoemaker

 

Sounds like 2002.  Hardly anything went wrong.  

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Good: Richards, Heaney, Pujols, Wilson (against the consensus), Cron, Calhoun, Skaggs, Johnny G, Simmons, Escobar, Nava and Trout (higher average less SO.)

 

Bad: Weaver, Shoemaker

 

 

Sounds like 2002.  Hardly anything went wrong.

 

 

That's the plan.

Edited March 25, 2016 by Ace_Richards

[Lou]

Ha

This is why don't take anything posted here as coming from someone with a great baseball mind. something about your day job..... 

Some of you had such high opinions of Gia and Nava 

[ten ocho recon scout]

To be fair, a lot of the "bads" were pretty accurate.

 

[Lou]

2 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

To be fair, a lot of the "bads" were pretty accurate.

 

but how hard was it to say CJ and Weaver would be bad?

you could have said everyone except Trout would be bad and have a good shot at being correct

[Blarg]

I didn't think CJ would be bad, he usually bounced back from bone chip removal and pitched well enough. This time however his shoulder finally gave out so it's not that he was bad, he was disabled the entire season.

Weaver unfortunately continued his slide, the hopes of some that he would rededicate himself to a fitness routine in the off season were ignoring his history of taking the entire winter off and coming into Spring training out of shape.

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 10/6/2016 at 9:59 PM, Lou said:

but how hard was it to say CJ and Weaver would be bad?

you could have said everyone except Trout would be bad and have a good shot at being correct

That was the dumb joke i was making. That pretty much everything went wrong this year, so if you said anyone but trout would be "bad" you won the contest.

[Adam]

On 3/22/2016 at 10:20 AM, Adam said:

Good - Ticket prices and availability will be very fan friendly by mid-summer

 

Bad - The baseball team

Nailed it!

[Angel Oracle]

Do I get Most Disapointing Venter for 2016?