Cozart is utter garbage

[popo85]

Nothing is worse the Failbuena who now in his Angel career over 170 games is  hitting .210 with a WAR of -0.3 this year, keeping him over Cron was a horrible decision. So what if he is a left handed batter, he couldnt hit a friggin beach ball

[Ohtaniland]

[stormngt]

22 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Neither can Young,  Calhoun, Hermosillo.

Blash at least gives us an all or nothing guy. We got nothing from the previous guys. 

I will have more confidence in Blash when he shows he can at least make contact with fastball over the plate.  

[Chuck]

1 minute ago, stormngt said:

I will have more confidence in Blash when he shows he can at least make contact with fastball over the plate.  

Well he's had what, 3 games with us so far? Let's give him more of chance. 

Also, Upton swung through an 84 MPH fastball right down the middle with the bases loaded. 

[stormngt]

Just now, Chuckster70 said:

Well he's had what, 3 games with us so far? Let's give him more of chance. 

Also, Upton swung through an 84 MPH fastball right down the middle with the bases loaded. 

Can he at least foul off the meatballs down the middle?  

Blash swung through five of them in two at bats

[ten ocho recon scout]

16 minutes ago, OHTANILAND said:

I usually get pissed at crap you post...that one would be a shot if you were at the bar tonight.

Kudos. You cannuck bastard.

[stanick88]

28 minutes ago, The Boogie Man said:

I’d still take Calhoun over all present options.  Blash is Facking awful.  

I agree. Atleast Kole does something well (his defense). 

[Pujols4MVP]

21 minutes ago, stanick88 said:

I agree. Atleast Kole does something well (his defense). 

Same.

The few Blash at bats i've seen were quite awful, so awful i'd rather watch Calhoun chase the record for worst WAR in a season.

[TroutField]

What do we do with Cozart if this continues? There are too many bad hitters to have this kind of production out of 3rd.

 

Seems like he is owed too much money to scrap the move to 3B project. 

 

We are stuck with this offense the more and more I think about it. Either they start hitting now or we miss out on the playoffs. I don’t think much help is coming from outside the org.

[Ray McKigney]

What about Eric Young Jr.? He isn't going to hit with a ton of power, but he does a lot of other productive things. He's better than Blash.

[ukyah]

you guys are living in a dream if you think the angels have any intention whatsoever of using cozart as a super utility bench player. he's starting now and next year too, albeit possibly at 2b.

i think i'm going to have to take a break from this board. it's just a shit show of negativity and tantrums from the top on down. 

i'll see you guys when you're in a better place.

best of luck.

[Docwaukee]

dump Valbuena, Marte, Fontana, Paredes, Drake, Blash and Young.  Calhoun and Simmons come off the DL.  Call up Jewell and Lamb.  Cozart becomes the util inf.  Call up one of Ward or Thaiss.  JMF to 3b or 1b full time depending on who it is.  Call up EY jr as the 4th OFer.  Trade for a reliever and dump Johnson.  

Kinsler
Trout
Upton
Pujols
Simmons
JMF
Ward/Thaiss
Calhoun
Maldo

Cozart, EY, Briceno

Herrera. Parker, Anderson, Alvarez, Ramirez, Lamb, Jewell, Bedrock

Richards, Heaney, Skaggs, Barria, Trop.  

Lamb can spot start if need be or you play roster roulette and call up one of Canning or Suarez for that 6th spot.  

Herrera cost you Rivas and Aquino/Soriano/Pena.  

That's too many moves for a team in the mix so it'll never happen.  They won't shake the roster up that drastically.  

Of all the things that won't happen even though we want it to is ditching Valbuena.  He'll be here the whole year.  

 

 

[Pujols4MVP]

43 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Robb Quinlan thinks Blash’ swing is f’d up.

If even Robb Quinlan thinks Blash's swing is f'd up then it must be really bad lol

Blash will be lucky if he even comes close to Quinlan's production, Q has a .723 career OPS with 2 seasons where his OPS was over .800 (.836 in 2006 & .926 in 2004).

[Billy_Ball]

2 hours ago, OHTANILAND said:

Hanley Ramirez and A-Gon signings incoming!

[nando714]

8 hours ago, The Boogie Man said:

Playing where?

Third base 

Devers is terrible 

[Troll Daddy]

8 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Neither can Young,  Calhoun, Hermosillo.

Blash at least gives us an all or nothing guy. We got nothing from the previous guys. 

Calhoun is a proven ML hitter who been shitty the first two months. The smart thing to do is get him back on track. 

[TroutField]

7 hours ago, ukyah said:

you guys are living in a dream if you think the angels have any intention whatsoever of using cozart as a super utility bench player. he's starting now and next year too, albeit possibly at 2b.

i think i'm going to have to take a break from this board. it's just a shit show of negativity and tantrums from the top on down. 

i'll see you guys when you're in a better place.

best of luck.

You realize he’s hitting .222/.297/.367/.661 ?

 

that doesnt really cut it at 3rd, we aren’t being negative we all just want to fix the offense.

[fan_since79]

Is there something about Angels Stadium that turns our hitters into mush, Trout excepted?

Plate alignment? Wasn't that Vernon Wells' excuse? Of course the mystery is why other teams don't seem to have any problems here.

[fan_since79]

7 hours ago, calscuf said:

Robb Quinlan thinks Blash’ swing is f’d up.

It's got more moving parts than a Swiss watch. 

Someone's got to sit him down and start back at square one. Geez.

[Angelsfan1984]

3 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Is there something about Angels Stadium that turns our hitters into mush, Trout excepted?

Plate alignment? Wasn't that Vernon Wells' excuse? Of course the mystery is why other teams don't seem to have any problems here.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

In Cozart's defense last year was clearly a career year in a contract year as he had career highs in HR's, BB's, AVG, OBP, SLG and OPS .  Even after including last year offensively he's been below league average for his career.  Most guys that perform like he did in their early 30's after a history of being average or even below average haven't suddenly figured things out it's an outlier.

[bloodbrother]

9 hours ago, ukyah said:

you guys are living in a dream if you think the angels have any intention whatsoever of using cozart as a super utility bench player. he's starting now and next year too, albeit possibly at 2b.

i think i'm going to have to take a break from this board. it's just a shit show of negativity and tantrums from the top on down. 

i'll see you guys when you're in a better place.

best of luck.

And that would be a mistake. That does not solve the massive issues this team has offensively at multiple positions. Unless he picks it up the remainder of this season, there's no reason to go into next year having him as one of your starters. If they do so, it's simply because of how much money he makes

[Angelsfan1984]

Last year was a complete outlier for Cozart. He got paid on the false premise that his adjusted swing changed his career arc. He's basically playing at or right around his career norms. to expect anything different would be wishful thinking.

[hangin n wangin]

So two more years of Cozart after this one? Just when a bad contract ends, it seems like another one always arises.

[nando714]

13 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

So two more years of Cozart after this one? Just when a bad contract ends, it seems like another one always arises.

You do whatever you can to try and get rid of it