This Bullpen SUCKS

[wpghalo]

Wow everytime they get in the game it's a nightmare. What a joke. Poor Trout has to play on such a crap team. 

 

Pissed off. 

[greginpsca]

Blow pen at it again!

 

[TooCool]

They should be ashamed of themselves, but they're probably not.

[Chuck]

The Angels have scored 7 runs today. Mike Trout is 0-4. 

But yeah, I'm back on the hate Salas train again.

[Angel Oracle]

Tossed Salad needs to go.

Mahle needs to return to SLC for another year.

Eppler has been fine in his short time so far.   He needs to find some relievers now!  And please don't re-sign Smith.   His decline has begun.

[tomsred]

Bullpens are not meant to be overexposed like this.  The problem starts with starters who don't go deep enough.  Yes we could stand an infusion of bullpen talent, but the ultimate fix comes when we have better starters.

[kingsosha]

weird, you should be used to poor execution being an oiler fan, 

[wpghalo]

11 minutes ago, kingsosha said:

weird, you should be used to poor execution being an oiler fan, 

Yea i guess you'd know too eh

 

Sucks to suck

[Vegas Halo Fan]

1 hour ago, Chuckster70 said:

The Angels have scored 7 runs today. Mike Trout is 0-4. 

But yeah, I'm back on the hate Salas train again.

At least he isn't under contract after this season.

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

Tossed Salad needs to go.

Mahle needs to return to SLC for another year.

Eppler has been fine in his short time so far.   He needs to find some relievers now!  And please don't re-sign Smith.   His decline has begun.

just a couple of weeks ago this board was demanding Salas be our new closer.

[Oz27]

1 hour ago, tomsred said:

Bullpens are not meant to be overexposed like this.  The problem starts with starters who don't go deep enough.  Yes we could stand an infusion of bullpen talent, but the ultimate fix comes when we have better starters.

That isn't helping but the biggest problem with the bullpen is that all but maybe two of them really suck.

[tdawg87]

44 minutes ago, stormngt said:

just a couple of weeks ago this board was demanding Salas be our new closer.

Yes, the entire board was DEMANDING it.

Or like 1 person suggested it. Same thing.

[Oz27]

3 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Yes, the entire board was DEMANDING it.

Or like 1 person suggested it. Same thing.

I remember us all standing outside the stadium, holding hands and screaming "WE WANT SALAS" as part of a 24 hour protest vigil.

Or something like that anyway.

[stormngt]

10 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Yes, the entire board was DEMANDING it.

Or like 1 person suggested it. Same thing.

there were several supporting the idea.  may not be you but yhere were several.  not one.

[nikkachez]

Can't blame the performance on injury either, bullpen's basically entirely healthy. And who would've thought, Bedrosian is the most reliable guy right now alongside Street when he's healthy. Morin's been a disappointment, Alvarez and Mahle are "meh", Smith and Salas are upcoming free agents and should be left to walk, and the rest of the pen are basically the Salt Lake City Bees' bullpen. The entire pitching staff, along with a chunk of the lineup, will need help in the offseason. 

[JoJo26]

3 hours ago, wpghalo said:

Wow everytime they get in the game it's a nightmare. What a joke. Poor Trout has to play on such a crap team. 

 

Pissed off. 

  Where have you been?

[tdawg87]

2 hours ago, stormngt said:

there were several supporting the idea.  may not be you but yhere were several.  not one.

That's possible. 

But I'm sure you know "supporting the idea" doesn't equal "demanding it to happen".

[arch stanton]

I'm still wondering why Al Al and Cotts never got the call.

[Docwaukee]

7 hours ago, tomsred said:

Bullpens are not meant to be overexposed like this.  The problem starts with starters who don't go deep enough.  Yes we could stand an infusion of bullpen talent, but the ultimate fix comes when we have better starters.

Our pen has the 13th most IP so far this season.  The astros and royals have the 3rd and 9th most, and the orioles are 14th and are among the 3 better pens in baseball.  

The overexposure effect hasn't even begun yet.  Fatigue will happen later in the season and it's only gonna get worse.  They have the 3rd lowest K rate,  and the 7th lowest BABIP.  Which probably means the are actually performing better than they should be.  

Talent is talent and our bullpen doesn't have much.  

If we were relying on our starters to minimize our bullpen exposure then they are thinking about how to construct the pen all wrong.  We had  one legit 200 inning guy on the roster (Richards).  Our #2 had 140 ip for his career (Heaney).  Our #3 hadn't ever pitched more than 180 innings (Santiago).  The 4th a 5th spot candidates were two guys coming off seasons of 159 and 134ip, a guy who had elbow surgery, and a rookie.  

The pen should have been constructed to take the pressure off our starters.  Not the other way around.  

[Glen]

11 hours ago, stormngt said:

there were several supporting the idea.  may not be you but yhere were several.  not one.

So several = more than one = the board.  Got it.

[stormngt]

14 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Yes, the entire board was DEMANDING it.

Or like 1 person suggested it. Same thing.

there were several supporting the idea.  may not be you but yhere were several.  not one.

 

sarcasm........

[mtangelsfan]

I'm stunned that someone would use hyperbole on AW.

 

Unheard of!

[John Stellman]

You can't ask the starters to get the Angels to the sixth inning anymore.  If they can't get the ball to Houston Street, you'll rack up another L.

[Billy_Ball]

bump

[AngelsLakersFan]

bump