Gameday Thread: 5/15/2018 Astros vs Angels (Trout at leadoff, Ohtani 2nd)

[UndertheHalo]

Ive never understood how Albert just stopped walking.  .281 OBP.  That is gross. 

Got robbed there tho. 

Edited May 16, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[JarsOfClay]

Baseball needs to seriously make these shifts illegal.  It's not how baseball is intended and is being overly abused.

[Dick B Back]

11 minutes ago, OHTANILAND said:

You should quit

[Stradling]

Just now, JarsOfClay said:

Baseball needs to seriously make these shifts illegal.  It's not how baseball is intended and is being overly abused.

Nah, just beat the shift.  If the league wasn’t such a 3 outcome league, shifts wouldn’t exist. 

[krAbs]

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

Ive never understood how Albert just stopped walking.  .281 OBP.  That is gross. 

Got robbed there tho. 

To me, there are two options that make sense. 1. He only cares about rbi, and you don't bat runs in with a walk. Or 2. He's going blind and guessing on every pitch. Frankly, both kinda make sense to me.

[Taylor]

Just now, krAbs said:

To me, there are two options that make sense. 1. He only cares about rbi, and you don't bat runs in with a walk. Or 2. He's going blind and guessing on every pitch. Frankly, both kinda make sense to me.

It's because his bat speed has decreased. He no longer has the luxury of sitting on his pitch, so he has to make up his mind to swing a lot sooner.

[IEAngelsfan]

1 hour ago, Randy Gradishar said:

*English Beat*

I confess, I really liked them.

[bloodbrother]

Just now, UndertheHalo said:

Ive never understood how Albert just stopped walking.  .281 OBP.  That is gross. 

Got robbed there tho. 

His plate approach completely deteriorating since coming to Anaheim is the thing that baffles me the most and always will. His physical ability declining is obvious because he's older, but I don't get how you can just stop being good at recognizing balls/strikes etc. That shouldn't be something that diminishes with age. That's something thats innate to those who are good hitters in this league. I'd expect Trout to still be able to hit even as he gets older because of his elite strike zone awareness/pitch recognition skills.

[UndertheHalo]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

It's because his bat speed has decreased. He no longer has the luxury of sitting on his pitch, so he has to make up his mind to swing a lot sooner.

It seems like even from day 1 with us though he just didn’t really get on base as advertised.  I mean he was good.  But not the walk machine that he was.  Just seems strange that would go so quickly. 

[UndertheHalo]

2 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

His plate approach completely deteriorating since coming to Anaheim is the thing that baffles me the most and always will. His physical ability declining is obvious because he's older, but I don't get how you can just stop being good at recognizing balls/strikes etc. That shouldn't be something that diminishes with age. That's something thats innate to those who are good hitters in this league. I'd expect Trout to still be able to hit even as he gets older because of his elite strike zone awareness/pitch recognition skills.

Agree.  

[bloodbrother]

Barria sure can chew a wad of gum

[BackUpTheTruck]

Nice play Barria . . .

[Lou]

Albert with the mad hops!

[Lou]

Just now, bloodbrother said:

Barria sure can chew a wad of gum

Calm down, @tdawg87

[UndertheHalo]

Marwin Gonzalez looks like shit and my fantasy team is struggling.  

Tolerable tonight at least. 

[bloodbrother]

Marwin looking like a fool on that changeup

[Taylor]

Barria is in beast mode.

[BackUpTheTruck]

Alvarez right choice for 8th IMO

[Lou]

14 minutes ago, Waybackman said:

Oakland beats Boston again

Boston can't compete

[bloodbrother]

What a goddamn pitching outing by the rookie!

[UndertheHalo]

Can’t really ask for much more from Barria.  Great start. 

[Ohtani&Trout]

Really love this Rivera-Barria combo. Great start!

[Rico]

Too much to ask to have him pitch the 9th as well?  96 pitches.

[moccasin]

This starting rotation tho.

[Taylor]

What a start. Wow.