AL Wild Card Watch

[Docwaukee]

KCR 55-50

TBR 55-53  1.5 gb

SEA 55-53  1.5 gb

BAL 52-54  3.5 gb

LAA 52-55  4.0 gb

MIN 50-54  4.5 gb

TEX 50-56 5.5 gb

TOR 50-57 6.0 gb

 

[disarcina]

well - let's see if we can sweep the .360 level of play Phillies this week and then take the A's series 2-1 (at home here) to go 5-1 this week.

I see us going 14-13 in August which pretty much leaves us pretty much right where we are heading into the final month (we would be 66-68)

August Series: Philly 3-0; A's 2-1; O's 1-2;

Sea 2-2; Nats 0-2; O's 1-2

Rangers 3-1; Astros 1-2; A;s 1-1.

[Second Base]

If the Angels were to win the wild card this year, a few things would happen...

1. The collective baseball writers throughout America would be left speechless because the Angels are supposed to be terrible except for Trout and they're totally wasting his presence.

2. We'd be a freakin' dangerous playoff team if Richards, Heaney, Skaggs, Shoe and Meyer are healthy and pitching up to their ability. 

3. Many AW members would have to answer to a very angry and vengeful God for their worship of Eppler, a mere man.

4. It would probably cause a shift in how we approach the offseason. I think it would make rate and Eppler a little more aggressive in free agency.

5. I'd become too full of myself because I predicted they'd make the playoffs and I'm already insufferable enough.

To be honest, KC's and TB are solid teams. But SEA and Baltimore....we're better than both. Baltimore is well coached but Machado, Davis and Trumbo aren't healthy and contributing and their pitching staff is atrocious. You get around Schoop and Mancini, and you'll win. Seattle is your typical Dipoto team. Looks great in paper, sacrificed budget and farm to build this team. Then they underperform and miss the playoffs, which causes them to go out and spend more money, just to lose more.

[Docwaukee]

1 minute ago, Scotty@AW said:

If the Angels were to win the wild card this year, a few things would happen...

1. The collective baseball writers throughout America would be left speechless because the Angels are supposed to be terrible except for Trout and they're totally wasting his presence.

2. We'd be a freakin' dangerous playoff team if Richards, Heaney, Skaggs, Shoe and Meyer are healthy and pitching up to their ability. 

3. Many AW members would have to answer to a very angry and vengeful God for their worship of Eppler, a mere man.

4. It would probably cause a shift in how we approach the offseason. I think it would make rate and Eppler a little more aggressive in free agency.

5. I'd become too full of myself because I predicted they'd make the playoffs and I'm already insufferable enough.

To be honest, KC's and TB are solid teams. But SEA and Baltimore....we're better than both. Baltimore is well coached but Machado, Davis and Trumbo aren't healthy and contributing and their pitching staff is atrocious. You get around Schoop and Mancini, and you'll win. Seattle is your typical Dipoto team. Looks great in paper, sacrificed budget and farm to build this team. Then they underperform and miss the playoffs, which causes them to go out and spend more money, just to lose more.

I like your post.  Of all the things I took away from it however, it's that the auto correct for arte is rate.  

[maximus p]

That loss Sunday though.  We'd be 3 back, leap frogging Bal.

[arch stanton]

Plenty of time for regretting the past while rocking away your days at Shady Acres. Let's win tonight

[Lou]

1 hour ago, maximus p said:

That loss Sunday though.  We'd be 3 back, leap frogging Bal.

But then we'd be right back behind Baltimore when we turn our come-from-behind win over Seattle when we were down by 6 runs going into the bottom of the 9th into a loss.

 

[Angel Oracle]

KC is going to be real tough to catch.    TB has better starting pitching, otherwise seems to be a similar team to the Halos.

[Jason]

The Halos need to go on a 7 or 8 game win streak to make up some ground. This team isn't capable of that,

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

The Halos need to go on a 7 or 8 game win streak to make up some ground. This team isn't capable of that,

If not for the unfortunate loss Sunday in Toronto we would have a 4 game streak now.

[floplag]

11 hours ago, maximus p said:

That loss Sunday though.  We'd be 3 back, leap frogging Bal.

the 2 walk off GS last week hurt, bad.   probably a large reason they took the trade deadline off IMO. 

[fan_since79]

I hope this thread will still be relevant a month from now.

 

[Jason]

2 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

If not for the unfortunate loss Sunday in Toronto we would have a 4 game streak now.

Like I said, not capable of that type of streak. Often times it seems like there are games they are going out of their way and showing some real creativity in how they lose. The Toronto game was evidence of that. 

[Blarg]

Funny thing is that the Angels don't need to go on any extended winning streak, they just need to win most of their series from here on out.

[tdawg87]

3 gb now.

That Sunday game.....

[Docwaukee]

4 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

3 gb now.

That Sunday game.....

soooo ugh.  so very ugh.  

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

43 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

soooo ugh.  so very ugh.  

 

Just incredibly ugh.

[AussieHalo]

I'm feeling optimistic, so, take game 3 tomorrow and the A's series sets up a VERY interesting series against Baltimore. 

[CaliAngel]

I will tattoo "I <3 Troll Daddy" on my butt if the Angels make the playoffs.

[budice0]

Mike Trout's best years being spent on mediocre teams.  Hardly any movement at trade deadlines in the last few years.  Pujols retirement imminent.  Not trending in a good direction for the team.

[Angel Oracle]

The end of Hackilton's contract in two months, along with Street's, Nolasco's, Espinohitsa's, Always Hurt Maybin's, and Crapvez' contracts, will continue the uptick trending via the freeing up of $60+ million AAV payroll.

[California Cajun]

On 8/2/2017 at 1:08 AM, Scotty@AW said:

If the Angels were to win the wild card this year, a few things would happen...

1. The collective baseball writers throughout America would be left speechless because the Angels are supposed to be terrible except for Trout and they're totally wasting his presence.

2. We'd be a freakin' dangerous playoff team if Richards, Heaney, Skaggs, Shoe and Meyer are healthy and pitching up to their ability. 

3. Many AW members would have to answer to a very angry and vengeful God for their worship of Eppler, a mere man.

4. It would probably cause a shift in how we approach the offseason. I think it would make rate and Eppler a little more aggressive in free agency.

5. I'd become too full of myself because I predicted they'd make the playoffs and I'm already insufferable enough.

To be honest, KC's and TB are solid teams. But SEA and Baltimore....we're better than both. Baltimore is well coached but Machado, Davis and Trumbo aren't healthy and contributing and their pitching staff is atrocious. You get around Schoop and Mancini, and you'll win. Seattle is your typical Dipoto team. Looks great in paper, sacrificed budget and farm to build this team. Then they underperform and miss the playoffs, which causes them to go out and spend more money, just to lose more.

I'm all for them winning the wild card, but I don't see them going far enough in the playoffs to make sacrifices to advance this year.

[fan_since79]

3 hours ago, budice0 said:

Mike Trout's best years being spent on mediocre teams.  Hardly any movement at trade deadlines in the last few years.  Pujols retirement imminent.  Not trending in a good direction for the team.

Haha, don't count on that.

Three more years, then maybe...

 

[Second Base]

25 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Haha, don't count on that.

Three more years, then maybe...

 

If Pujols retires, somewhere would consider that trending in a good direction.

[Taylor]

5 hours ago, CaliAngel said:

I will tattoo "I <3 Troll Daddy" on my butt if the Angels make the playoffs.

Again?