Gameday Thread 09/12 vs. Rangers

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Angels

Felix Pena (R)

1. Kole Calhoun (L) RF

2. David Fletcher (R) 2B

3. Mike Trout (R) CF

4. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH

5. Justin Upton (R) LF

6. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS

7. Jose Fernandez (L) 1B

8. Taylor Ward (R) 3B

9. Francisco Arcia (L) C

 

Rangers

Yovani Gallardo (R)

1. Shin-Soo Choo (L) LF

2. Rougned Odor (L) 2B

3. Elvis Andrus (R) SS

4. Nomar Mazara (L) RF

5. Adrian Beltre (R) DH

6. Jurickson Profar (S) 3B

7. Joey Gallo (L) CF

8. Robinson Chirinos (R) C

9. Ronald Guzman (L) 1B

[Angel Oracle]

They need to win, can’t lost a series to the terrible Rangers, when the 6.00 ERA Gallardo is pitching.

[goldenGlove]

Nice lineup!

I fully believe simply replacing horrible offensive production from Valbuena/Kinsler/Maldonando/Marte/1st half Kole with what we see now gives us at LEAST 5-6 more wins. Probably more. It seems to contend you need to have at least 7 players hitting at a average rate, or only have at the most 2 easy outs in the lineup (given that you're sacrificing those outs for some great defense). I think this lineup next year gets us there if we get decent production from Ward/Cozart. Trout/Ohtani/Upton/Simmons/2nd half Kole is legit if they're not surrounded by like 3 blackholes.

[happybat4]

Fun fact! Ji Man Choi has a OPS over 900. At least we have Albert.

[happybat4]

5 minutes ago, kj_maestro said:

Nice lineup!

I fully believe simply replacing horrible offensive production from Valbuena/Kinsler/Maldonando/Marte/1st half Kole with what we see now gives us at LEAST 5-6 more wins. Probably more. It seems to contend you need to have at least 7 players hitting at a average rate, or only have at the most 2 easy outs in the lineup (given that you're sacrificing those outs for some great defense). I think this lineup next year gets us there if we get decent production from Ward/Cozart. Trout/Ohtani/Upton/Simmons/2nd half Kole is legit if they're not surrounded by like 3 blackholes.

Kinsler had an OPS over 700. Hardly a black hole. You guys act like he was dog shit when he was here.

[BackUpTheTruck]

Just now, happybat4 said:

Kinsler had an OPS over 700. Hardly a black hole. You guys act like he was dog shit when he was here.

He was until he got hot and became trade bait.

[NachoPop]

30 minutes ago, happybat4 said:

Fun fact! Ji Man Choi has a OPS over 900. At least we have Albert.

While almost purely DH'ing. At least Albert didn't completely block Ohtani

[goldenGlove]

34 minutes ago, happybat4 said:

Kinsler had an OPS over 700. Hardly a black hole. You guys act like he was dog shit when he was here.

He had a .654 OPS through his first 3 months/70 games of the season. And that's including his .744 OPS in June. Pretty bad man, that would have him as the 19th ranked 2B in MLB by OPS

Like I said, replace those 70 games with what Fletcher is doing or I guess with what Kinsler did his last few weeks here, however you want to look at it, and a lot of those runners stranded in scoring position/weak flyball outs are hits/more runs instead and we probably win some of those ones that got away.

And to be fair I was thinking of Valbuena/Maldonando/1st half Kole as the blackholes and Kinsler as the "bad" production you can tolerate because of his defense, if he's pretty much the only one you're having to do so with.

[UndertheHalo]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

They need to win, can’t lost a series to the terrible Rangers, when the 6.00 ERA Gallardo is pitching.

They literally don’t need to win.  LoL. 

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

Go Felix Pena!!! Keep up the solid pitching! You might win!!

Go Calhoun, Fletcher, Trout, Ohtani, Upton,

Simmons, Fernandez, Ward and Arcia!!

Get some runs tonight!!! The Angels' Elimination Number tonight is 2!

145 DOWN!!! 17 TO EERIE SILENCE!!

[happybat4]

48 minutes ago, kj_maestro said:

He had a .654 OPS through his first 3 months/70 games of the season. And that's including his .744 OPS in June. Pretty bad man, that would have him as the 19th ranked 2B in MLB by OPS

Like I said, replace those 70 games with what Fletcher is doing or I guess with what Kinsler did his last few weeks here, however you want to look at it, and a lot of those runners stranded in scoring position/weak flyball outs are hits/more runs instead and we probably win some of those ones that got away.

And to be fair I was thinking of Valbuena/Maldonando/1st half Kole as the blackholes and Kinsler as the "bad" production you can tolerate because of his defense, if he's pretty much the only one you're having to do so with.

Cherry pick all the stats you want. Kinsler had an OPS over 700 with the Angels. Sure he struggled, but who doesn't. Fletcher has a sub 700 ops. We need better than that at 2nd base.

[fan_since79]

Orioles are really, really bad.

A's have a 10-0 lead in the 7th inning. Baltimore has one hit so far.

 

[eligrba4ever]

The Angels' elimination number will may be down to 1 when if Baltimore  doesn't rally from 10 runs behind.

CORRECTION MADE

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[CDiaz27?]

Now it’s time for Kole to do whatever it takes hope he’s got some adrenaline in his veins 

[eligrba4ever]

Arcia is helping the Angels keep an elimination number alive for at least one more day. 

Nice double. 2-0 Angels.

[eligrba4ever]

Trout has been working on those throws, I guess. Nice peg. Great tag, Francisco!

[daygloman]

LOL! Just think....... If that stupid cutoff play happened the way pitcher intended it to do.... Trouts FANTASTIC throw just now would have gone for naught!!! 

[daygloman]

Ohtani....Crushed that baseball!

[daygloman]

Far out!

Go Halos!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

A's are 1 game back of Yankees for the first wild card...

[daygloman]

1 minute ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

A's are 1 game back of Yankees for the first wild card...

LOL!

Yuck the Fankees! Jk....

[daygloman]

Tonight's a good night so far......... 

[eligrba4ever]

HIP HIP JOSE!!! 

(credit to Terry)

[popo85]

3 hours ago, BackUpTheTruck said:

Best lineup of the year.

Maybe the Scioscia bobblehead won't be necessary after all.

Yup! Hoping for more of this next year