Gameday: 9/20 Indians @ Angels

[Adam]

Guys if we hold them here all we need is a three run hahahhahahahahahAhaha

[Ohtaniland]

[Adam]

Closed captions just called valbuena the albino haha

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Waybackman said:

Cleveland's a really good team. I'll be rooting for them in the WS. 

If we don't make the playoffs (AL only):

1. Twins

2. Indians

3. Astros

4. World War III

5. YRaendkSeoexs

 

 

[GrittyVeterans]

Another playoffs where all we'll be doing is rooting against the Dodgers. Sigh

[Corona]

Just now, Lou said:

Platoon?

he's caught the most games in the league 

And yet he's 21st in WAR for catchers and 14 of those guys ahead of him have less plate appearances. Even more pathetic then that platoon players are out producing him. 

[disarcina]

Houston/ Cleveland ought to be a pretty good ALCS.

Who's in NL?  Two hottest teams ? Nats and D-Backs?

Dodgers 'best of all time" according to Sporting News -- is playing about .400 ball since that cover article. Probably out first round.

Cleveland is pretty good, good rotation, deep pen,  solid line up, strong with Lindor/ Kipnis  up the middle (Kipmis been on the DL a lot this season) -- lot of depth - very good team.

we knew this series was going to be tough...........really demonstrates the playoff teams and then, well, our Halos.

[fan_since79]

I don't really feel that bad, because with this team we should be more like 10-15 games out of the wild card.

 

[Angel97]

The Angels don't deserve to be in the playoffs as they are to nearly good enough to compete with the best teams. The good news is we all will be able to save our playoff money and put it towards next season.,

[Docwaukee]

lol at pennington pinch 'hitting'.  

[Jwhitt33]

Who fuck was that that just hit?

[disarcina]

Cleveland also has Francona in the dugout.....

here comes Joe Smith -- geez he's a pen guy who could have helped us........oh wait........

[Jwhitt33]

3 minutes ago, disarcina said:

Houston/ Cleveland ought to be a pretty good ALCS.

Who's in NL?  Two hottest teams ? Nats and D-Backs?

Dodgers 'best of all time" according to Sporting News -- is playing about .400 ball since that cover article. Probably out first round.

Cleveland is pretty good, good rotation, deep pen,  solid line up, strong with Lindor/ Kipnis  up the middle (Kipmis been on the DL a lot this season) -- lot of depth - very good team.

we knew this series was going to be tough...........really demonstrates the playoff teams and then, well, our Halos.

Don't count out da Cubs.

[fan_since79]

Haha, Joe Smith coming in for the Indians.

Of course.

 

[VariousCrap]

Wow...Pennington.  That was hilarious.

 

[VariousCrap]

1 minute ago, Dochalo said:

lol at pennington pinch 'hitting'.  

 

Anyone of us could have done that.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Why the hell would he PH him there anyways? That really made no sense.

[Ohtaniland]

2 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

I don't really feel that bad, because with this team we should be more like 10-15 games out of the wild card.

 

Trailing the division by 16.5 games kinda acknowledges that we are a long way from competing with solid teams. 

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

it's been a fun season guys.

How would you know? 

 

[Jwhitt33]

Texas will pass us before all said and done

[disarcina]

saw the posts re Maldonado at catcher for us --

he's actually been one of the real pleasant surprises for us this year. He's played well behind the plate and hit better than expected.

And, YES, I think he's caught more games than any other AL catcher this season and probably number 2 or 3 in MLB behind YADIER and perhaps one more, Normally, Sal Perez and YADIER would be 1-2 but Salvadore Perez has spent about a month plus on the DL this season.

Maldonado - being pinch hit for now -- has played well for the Halos all season and made a marginal rotation perform a little bit better IMO.

[milotiger]

Tito coaches circles around mike.

[VariousCrap]

The thing is, what can the Angels do to improve their offense over the line-up they are putting out there right now with Phillips at 2B and Upton at LF?  This should be a run scoring line-up.  They look pathetic out there.

[Lou]

11 minutes ago, Corona said:

And yet he's 21st in WAR for catchers and 14 of those guys ahead of him have less plate appearances. Even more pathetic then that platoon players are out producing him. 

Ok, so you agree that he's not a platoon player 

I noticed you didn't mention defense. That's kind of important for a catcher 

Edited September 21, 2017 by Lou

[GrittyVeterans]

I definitely wouldn't bring back Phillips next year