The Official 2018 Major League Baseball Thread

[Lou]

Ender, does your house have a basement?

[Ender]

21 minutes ago, Lou said:

Ender, does your house have a basement?

It does not. I live in a flood plain.

[Docwaukee]

attic then?  

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Dochalo said:

attic then?  

he can dig 

[Troll Daddy]

 

[tdawg87]

Is he eligible for next year's draft

[Lou]

kid looks stoned 

[Lou]

godblesswomen?

[tdawg87]

4 minutes ago, Lou said:

kid looks stoned 

Contact high

[Taylor]

16 hours ago, mulwin444 said:

Ms blew two 5-run leads in this game

Glorious

But the Mariners

[tdawg87]

Butt the Mariners

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Red Sox playing without Bette and Bogaerts are down 5-0 in fifth.

[101halo]

Kershaw with a 2.0 WHIP in his return. Should trade for that guy. 

[fan_since79]

Mets had runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out in the 5th, trailing the Dodgers 3-2, and couldn't score.

NY is 4 for 63 with RISP in their last 13 home games. They've lost 12 in a row at home.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Boston 5 - Seattle 0 - 6th inning

[Dick B Back]

37 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Boston 5 - Seattle 0 - 6th inning

Groovy!

[WeatherWonk]

Reds complete four game sweep of Cubs. First time since 1983. Reds outscored the Cubs 31-12 in the series. 

[Lou]

Fire Maddon!

[Lou]

19 hours ago, 101halo said:

Kershaw with a 2.0 WHIP in his return. Should trade for that guy. 

too injury prone 

[nando714]

1 hour ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Boston 5 - Seattle 0 - 6th inning

Won’t mean much if the angels split vs Toronto 

[WeatherWonk]

13 minutes ago, Lou said:

Fire Maddon!

Great idea!

Then fire Scioscia and hire Maddon!!! 

[Angel Oracle]

Seattle imploding this week didn’t matter much, with the Halos only going 3-3 at home.

Now a terrible 28-35 since the 13-3 start!   .444 baseball since then, no better than in 2016!!!!!!!

[Lou]

31 minutes ago, WeatherWonk said:

Great idea!

Then fire Scioscia and hire Maddon!!! 

and then get swept by the White Sox!

[ten ocho recon scout]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadspin.com/report-cops-looking-into-hanley-ramirezs-possible-conn-1827067147/amp

 

Not sure if a Craig or not...

[mulwin444]

3 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Seattle imploding this week didn’t matter much, with the Halos only going 3-3 at home.

Now a terrible 28-35 since the 13-3 start!   .444 baseball since then, no better than in 2016!!!!!!!

The Seattle losses buy them some time but Angels need to play better or they are going to create such a big a hole they won't be able to crawl out of it.  They NEEDED to take at LEAST 3 of 4 from a bad team like TOR at home but, the fact they couldn't do that supports that .444 record the past 63 games.

I wish I could say it's something as simple "Fire Scioscia" and it would be fixed but the collection of flotsam he has to work with makes it hard to say he had anything to do with it.  Look at the BP: Parker and Alvarez are probably the only guys you'd keep in a decent BP...Bedrosian and Ramirez are either DFAd or the last resoective men in the BP, Anderson would be in AAA, Morris, Drake, Robles, and McGuire would not be on your roster at all.  This is what Mike has to work with game after game and, because the starters can only go 5 innings, he needs to get 12 more outs from these guys.  There is no clear path, game in and game out, from a starter exiting after the 5th to Parker trying to convert the save...there is no magic formula or positioning or alchemy...the only reason these guys on the roster is because they can be optioned to AAA so a equally shitty "fresh arm" with options can be called up.  It's truly awful.

Add to that the obvious line-up holes and there is little margin for the kind of error that Anderson, McGuire or Robles exposed them to the last couple of games.

The fix is getting two, maybe three, BP arms and the offense hitting.  Angels just have to figure out a way to "get good" and fast