Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Rangers - 5/24/2016

[Ray McKigney]

 

Rangers:

1. Rougned Odor (L) 2B

2. Ian Desmond (R) CF

3. Prince Fielder (L) DH

4. Adrian Beltre (R) 3B

5. Nomar Mazara (L) RF

6. Elvis Andrus (R) SS

7. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B

8. Jared Hoying (L) LF

9. Bryan Holaday (R) C

    Martin Perez (L) SP

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by Ray McKigney

[fan_since79]

interesting...Trout DH'ing and Cron sitting, against the left-hander no less. He's 3-9 career vs Perez with 4 RBI. Head scratcher. Is he hurt?

 

 

[Ray McKigney]

I doubt he's hurt. Scioscia doesn't worry about meaningless stats when writing out his lineup for the games.

[tdawg87]

Pujols is going to have a huge game.

[fan_since79]

2 minutes ago, Ray McKigney said:

I doubt he's hurt. Scioscia doesn't worry about meaningless stats when writing out his lineup for the games.

Okay, taking a closer look at it, maybe it's Trout's ankle and he doesn't want him out in the field yet. If that's the case, I can see sitting Cron and keeping Albert at first for his defense.

 

[totdprods]

Yeah, was expecting to see Trout at DH today. 

[Ray McKigney]

1 minute ago, fan_since79 said:

Okay, taking a closer look at it, maybe it's Trout's ankle and he doesn't want him out in the field yet. If that's the case, I can see sitting Cron and keeping Albert at first for his defense.

 

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of actually. It probably has something to do with Trout's ankle. Although, it didn't look like it was bothering him last night.

[fan_since79]

6 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Pujols is going to have a huge game.

He's .250 lifetime vs Perez with a HR. Small sample size though.

[totdprods]

I think since Calhoun was off yesterday too Scioscia saw this series as one for him to cycle guys through the DH spot, so he might have already been planning on giving him a day at DH. 

Texas is a great place to do it actually, it's usually hot so good to give your guys a breather, and even crappy offensive players like Robinson can have a good game at hitter-friendly Arlington.

[nando714]

Interested to see Calhoun after a day off

he has been out of sync it seems like lately 

[eligrba4ever]

Calhoun against Monday's starter is lifetime .167/.231/.397.

Calhoun against tonight's starter Perez is .125/.222/.347, slugging .125. 3 Ks in 9 PAs.

The secret to keeping Calhoun from hurting you is to start LH pitchers he can't hit.

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!! Go Jhoulys Chacin!!!

Jhoulys, the team needs you to keep it together and repeat your first start, not the second.

Go Trout!!! Keep on keeping on. Go Albert!!! Move ahead of Raffy with No. 569 in Texas.

[fan_since79]

18 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Calhoun against Monday's starter is lifetime .167/.231/.397.

Calhoun against tonight's starter Perez is .125/.222/.347, slugging .125. 3 Ks in 9 PAs.

The secret to keeping Calhoun from hurting you is to start LH pitchers he can't hit.

Scioscia is playing percentages...Kole is bound to have a good game against Perez sometime in the next ten years, so why not tonight?

 

[Chuck]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

interesting...Trout DH'ing and Cron sitting, against the left-hander no less. He's 3-9 career vs Perez with 4 RBI. Head scratcher. Is he hurt?

 

 

No, he sucks. 

[Angel Oracle]

Get er done!

[KevinJ14]

In Shaikin's latest piece, Scioscia says that Trout will be DH'ing once this series.

[Angel Oracle]

Turns out that Pujols has a 1.004 OPS (4 HRs) in 13 games at 1B so far, and only a .603 OPS (5 HRs) in 32 games as DH (from one of the blog entries).

[Jason]

Hopefully the offense wakes up after last nights effort

[Troll Daddy]

7 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Turns out that Pujols has a 1.004 OPS (4 HRs) in 13 games at 1B so far, and only a .603 OPS (5 HRs) in 32 games as DH (from one of the blog entries).

It's easier to keep your head in the game when you're playing. Big Papi already has a big head so he doesn't need to play.

[Angel Oracle]

Question is, can Pujols play at least say 100 of the remaining 117 games at 1B?

[Docwaukee]

scheduled DH day for Trout.  

[Jason]

Ugly AB by Calhoun

[Jason]

Chacin works really slow

[daygloman]

Go Halos!!!

[fighterpilot562]

Good hit.