Gameday Thread: Scioscia has lost his mind Vol 897 - Angels vs. Nats 8/15

[Chuck]

The team's hottest hitter, C.J. Cron is sitting in favor of the struggling Pujols and once again, Pennington in there over Cowart at 2B. 

[mtangelsfan]

Sosh loves trolling the fans.

Seriously though, this team has no business being anywhere close to .500 so I am not going to complain too much.

[red321]

ok...the Pujols thing...at this point he's probably better as a late inning defensive replacement for Cron

[Chuck]

After hitting .311/.383/.482 with 12 HR and 19 SB in AAA, Cowart has hit .300/.364/.480 with 1 HR, 4 2B, 1 3B and 3 SB in 18 games with the big league club, all the while playing solid defense at 2B and 3B.

What gives, Sosh?

The fat man has an erection for lite-hitting vets for some reason. 

[mulwin444]

Its a 2B platoon...Cowart faces righties, Pennington faces lefties....even though Cowart hit 352 .442 OBP 931 OPS against lefties this year in SLC.  Does it make sense?  No, but this is a guy that desperately tried to make Aybar a lead-off hitter for years...this is a guy who platooned Morales and Calhoun even though they hit better from the opposite side of their platoon.  

[Dick B Back]

6 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

The team's hottest hitter, C.J. Cron is sitting in favor of the struggling Pujols and once again, Pennington in there over Cowart at 2B. 

Halos with a for crap offensive roster have won 6 in a row and 10 outta 13 so Sosh knows what he's doin'.

[zenmaster]

Didn't we already go through this a few times in our 6 game win streak? 

[floplag]

Marte at cleanup is todays lol worthy moment.  I mean i know he likes to start guys he calls up but really? 
Edit:  Just realized we are in a NL park, Pujols not sitting is THE lol worthy moment, the rest are coincidental.   Perfect change to give him a couple days to clear his head and... no. 

[yk9001]

Pujols ain't playing the day game tomorrow.

[bloodbrother]

Lol this team is the 2nd WC right now and thats the kind of offense they are trotting out. IDK how they are in this position at all

[JustATroutFan]

No Cron today? No bueno for me!

[Chuck]

I would even go as far as saying Cowart and Cron are both defensive upgrades over Pujols and Cowart at their respective positions. 

[krAbs]

Its like...the longer you look at it, the stupider it gets.

[DMVol]

14 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

No Cron today? No bueno for me!

At least Cron isn't sitting for Valbuena...that's all I got....

[CanadianHalo]

Do I want the Angels to win tonight? Of course, will I be mad if they lose so I can shave this 7 day "beard"? F no.

Thanks Sosh

[Angelsfirst]

Assuming Sosh was never going to play CJ over Albert, I would've probably gone with

Maybin

Calhoun

Trout

Pujols

Simmons

Maldonado 

Pennington

Cowart

Skaggs

 

But oh well, let's just keep winning

 

 

[tdawg87]

9 runs, minimum.

[Angel Oracle]

Skaggs hitting 8th, how often has a Halos pitcher batted 8th?   Granted, MLB teams are increasingly having their pitcher bat 8th.  

Heck, Shohei Otani could likely bat cleanup for this team, and it'd be an improvement. 

[Docwaukee]

Albert has a career ops at nats park of 1.447 with 9 hrs and 16 rbi in 50 at bats.  He also hit is 500th hr there.  

These are not my reasons.  They are likely the reasons of MS.  

[Stradling]

This is not meant to defend Scioscia, but couldn't it easily be explained that Cowart is much more versatile and a better bench option based on the fact that he can be a defensive replacement, he can pinch hit from both sides of the plate and he can be a pinch runner?  Granted he is better than Pennington, but Pennington has played pretty well lately.  He is batting over 300 the last month.  

[tdawg87]

Pennington has hit surprisingly decently this year. He's also played surprisingly poor defense. I don't get it. He's supposed to be the opposite.

He seemingly makes a costly error every game he starts.

[Stradling]

Anyone who has read my stupid posts knows that I like Cowart so I would love to see him start.  I can't really bitch about how Pennington has performed of late.  

[AngelsLakersFan]

16 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Skaggs hitting 8th, how often has a Halos pitcher batted 8th?   Granted, MLB teams are increasingly having their pitcher bat 8th.  

Heck, Shohei Otani could likely bat cleanup for this team, and it'd be an improvement. 

Skaggs is hitting 8th because he's probably the 8th best hitter in your average Scioscia lineup.

[AngelsLakersFan]

11 minutes ago, Stradling said:

This is not meant to defend Scioscia, but couldn't it easily be explained that Cowart is much more versatile and a better bench option based on the fact that he can be a defensive replacement, he can pinch hit from both sides of the plate and he can be a pinch runner?  Granted he is better than Pennington, but Pennington has played pretty well lately.  He is batting over 300 the last month.  

Mike Trout is our best option off the bench.

[AngelsLakersFan]

15 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Albert has a career ops at nats park of 1.447 with 9 hrs and 16 rbi in 50 at bats.  He also hit is 500th hr there.  

These are not my reasons.  They are likely the reasons of MS.  

Maybe there is less gravity in DC and thus Albert isn't as fat and the ball goes a little further?