Gameday Thread: 7/24 White Sox @ Angels

[Stradling]

Just now, Angel Oracle said:

All I know is, he is well on his way to not anywhere nears earn his $21 million for 2018.

That’s the problem with this franchise this whole decade.

Guessing wrong on most acquisitions, and waay overpaying for Pujols, Hackilton, and now Upton

[daygloman]

Gad......................

Bummer.

[Docwaukee]

Upton leads the league in plate appearances with runners on base.  He's 39th in RBI.  

[UndertheHalo]

2 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

All I know is, he is well on his way to not anywhere nears earn his $21 million for 2018.

That’s the problem with this franchise this whole decade.

Guessing wrong on most acquisitions, and waay overpaying for Pujols, Hackilton, and now Upton

Why don’t you tell me what 31 year old players with comparable numbers year over year make.  You can get back to me once you find one making 10 million or whatever.  At that point I’ll apologize for being wrong about saying it’s stupid to constantly criticize the Angels for signing Justin Upton. 

There’s so many things to bitch about with the Angels.  For some reason some of you are fixated on Justin Upton.  It’s dumb dude.  Sorry. 

Edited July 25, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[GrittyVeterans]

1 minute ago, Angel Oracle said:

All I know is, he is well on his way to not anywhere nears earn his $21 million for 2018.

That’s the problem with this franchise this whole decade.

Guessing wrong on most acquisitions, and waay overpaying for Pujols, Hackilton, and now Upton

Upton has been slightly underwhelming but there’s no way you can put him on the Pujols/Hamilton/Vernon wells tier of disasters

[kevinb]

Good work Angels! Stellar last two series. 

[Angel Oracle]

Just now, UndertheHalo said:

Shhh.  Nothing matters because that one those many many times he didn’t get a hit with RISP (under .200 BA).

Fixed.

[GrittyVeterans]

Might as well just get swept tomorrow to leave no doubt in Billy’s mind about selling

[Stradling]

Calling Upton a bad contract 4 months into it is one of the most ignorant things I have seen on here.  Lumping it in with Albert and Hamilton is really, truly delusional.  

[UndertheHalo]

Hey I think this is a W.  

TANK TANK TANK

WHEEEEEE

Edited July 25, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Seattle lost, so the A's are only 1 1/2 games back of the M's.

[kevinb]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Calling Upton a bad contract 4 months into it is one of the most ignorant things I have seen on here.  Lumping it in with Albert and Hamilton is really, truly delusional.  

Why Cozarts been a Facking disaster w his 212 batting average as well. 

[eligrba4ever]

You can put this in the books, YESSS! 

Third-worst team in MLB clinches at least a split at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

The 20-game Angels winning streak remains just over the horizon. 50-52.

[Angel Oracle]

5 minutes ago, GrittyVeterans said:

Upton has been slightly underwhelming but there’s no way you can put him on the Pujols/Hamilton/Vernon wells tier of disasters

A sub .200 BA with RISP is only slightly underwhelming?   Okay 

As a MOTO guy, is he not paid to produce with RISP?

[Stradling]

Just now, Kevinb said:

Why Cozarts been a Facking disaster w his 212 batting average as well. 

Thanks barry

[robblin17]

Tim Salmon talking about tipping the cap. My god. From top to bottom. 

[fan_since79]

2 minutes ago, GrittyVeterans said:

Might as well just get swept tomorrow to leave no doubt in Billy’s mind about selling

Four game series.

Four game sweep...very possible.

[GrittyVeterans]

Just now, Angel Oracle said:

A sub .200 BA with RISP is only slightly underwhelming?   Okay 

Overall his numbers are reasonable. Little below what I wanted but pretty solid for him. What he’s done with RISP this year makes it underwhelming

With Pujols, Hamilton, and Wells you are talking about 3 of the worst 15 contracts in MLB history

[robblin17]

6 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Upton leads the league in plate appearances with runners on base.  He's 39th in RBI.  

Wow. That’s pretty remarkable. 

[UndertheHalo]

It’s going to go the other way with Upton and RISP.  It just will.  

[UndertheHalo]

I think I did pretty good here.  So I’m going to post it again. 

[Dick B Back]

Against LHP going into tonight’s game:

Upton: 2 HR, .218 AVG, .295 SLG

Mang: 4 HR, .173 AVG, .347 SLG

Kinsler: 1 HR, .194 AVG, .258 SLG

[Angel Oracle]

What is causing such bad RHH numbers against LHP???

What?????

[Angel Oracle]

21 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

It’s going to go the other way with Upton and RISP.  It just will.  

As Judge Smails says in Caddieshack...

”Well?   We’re waiting!”

.170 RISP BA, truly pathetic for a MOTO guy

[Anaheim Ohtanitrouts]

Trying to be optimistic, here are some positives to take from the game:

Pena pitched well to recover from a poor 3rd inning, at least looking like potential to be a solid contributor out of the pen or starting every now and then.

Fletcher looks like the real deal and I'll be happy to watch him for the next couple seasons.

Things we've learned from this game:

It's probably time to move Upton out of the 4 spot. It's too early to call his contract a bust but you can't keep throwing the least clutch player in baseball out there in a cleanup spot and behind Trout.

This nonsense with benching Ohtani against lefties has to stop soon. It'd be one thing if we were actually competing and had someone better to play but throwing out garbage like Valbuena and Marte while leaving a generational talent on the bench defies all logic.

I can't wait for this trade window to close so we can see if these young minor leaguers can actually make a difference.