Justin Bour optioned to AAA

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, angelsnationtalk said:

Doubt it would be if he played with Salt Lake today and Angels play at 10amPT tomorrow. 

Would be nice though! 

Did he play in Salt Lake today?

[Inside Pitch]

1 minute ago, Blarg said:

Ausmus isn't the guy Dipoto thought he hired. 

My wife just said, after watching his post game answers, that he has blamed the players and is going to lose the clubhouse. 

Mike Scioscia he isnt.....

[angelsnationtalk]

I highly doubt this means Thaiss or Walsh gets called up. This was bound to happen once Ohtani came back. Now that Ohtani is up to speed it’s just a sign they really don’t need Bour. 

But man is Salt Lake gunna rake. 

[Vlad27Trout27]

finally...Still counting on Bour and hopefully figures something out in AAA, but he isn't mlb material yet. 

[angelsnationtalk]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Did he play in Salt Lake today?

Oh wait... hang on, no he didn’t. 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[AngelsFaninGA]

3 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

He's kind of a dick. I watched a few of his interviews with the Tigers and one a few weeks ago with the Angels. 

Yeah this was exactly what Tigers fans told us. He's surly and kinda dumb

Like your typical Brad/Chad trying to manage a baseball team...oh wait his name is Brad after all

[HeavenlyHalos]

1 minute ago, Chuckster70 said:

Maybe this was part of the plan, so he wanted to give Bour an opportunity to succeed or fail, but either way he was on his way to Salt Lake after the game since Walsh was held out of today's Bees game.

Yeah but if he hits a homer, he gets a congrats but you still suck so off to AAA with you? Hahaha, that would be even funnier actually.

[angelsnationtalk]

@Jeff Fletcher reports that Walsh has been called up. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

11 minutes ago, Stradling said:

If Walsh really has been in Minnesota then this decision was made before tonight’s game.  

If not its hard for me to see him playing tomorrow... I'd expect them to make the move a day later.

[AngelsLakersFan]

8 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Ausmus isn't the guy Dipoto thought he hired. 

My wife just said, after watching his post game answers, that he has blamed the players and is going to lose the clubhouse. 

I didn't hear him blame the players (I may have missed). Scisocia would blame the players a lot and I always thought that was his worst attribute. In this case Ausmus didn't seem to find fault anywhere tonight, just a lot of tough breaks.

[Inside Pitch]

2 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

He's kind of a dick. I watched a few of his interviews with the Tigers and one a few weeks ago with the Angels. 

Just today a buddy of mine asked me what I thought of Ausmus... He told me a story that Nick Castellanos was asked what the biggest difference between Ausmus and Gardenhire was.... Not sure of the exact way he explained it, but he said that while Castellanos went out of his way to say he wasn't saying one was better than the other...  But where Ausmus would go up to a guy and say, hey you can't keep going the way you have, we need to see you pick it up..  Gardenhire was more prone to put his arm around a guy and say, hey it's a hard game, and we still have faith in you but we may need to get into a more favorable match up....   I thought it was an interesting comment.   If we are being honest, that's exactly what a lot of guys here said they wanted to see, and complained MS didn't do.

[Chuck]

1 minute ago, Inside Pitch said:

Just today a buddy of mine asked me what I thought of Ausmus... He told me a story that Nick Castellanos was asked what the biggest difference between Ausmus and Gardenhire was.... Not sure of the exact way he explained it, but he said that while Castellanos went out of his way to say he wasn't saying one was better than the other...  But where Ausmus would go up to a guy and say, hey you can't keep going the way you have, we need to see you pick it up..  Gardenhire was more prone to put his arm around a guy and say, hey it's a hard game, and we still have faith in you but we may need to get into a more favorable match up....   I thought it was an interesting comment.   If we are being honest, that's exactly what a lot of guys here said they wanted to see, and complained MS didn't do.

I can totally see that. 

I've actually been in the clubhouse before and witnessed Sosh doing this same exact thing as Gardy did back in 2009 when I was covering the Angels for AW, for Kazmir's first start against the Mariners at Safeco Field in which he pitched well, but lost to King Felix. I think we lost 3-0.  

Anyhow, I was in the clubhouse interviewing Kazmir after his start, (Figgins later), when Sosh had his arm around GMJ and encouraging him. I didn't hear the entire conversation, but I thought it was really cool to see that.

Besides Jose Guillen who was a dick and Mike Napoli (Naps would show up on gameday hungover), all of the players loved playing for Sosh and considered him a players manager. 

[Angelsjunky]

So y'all are saying that Ausmus's old school approach doesn't work for the Millenial snowflakes?

[Blarg]

That's not Old School, that's Special Ed. 

[John Taylor]

28 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Just today a buddy of mine asked me what I thought of Ausmus... He told me a story that Nick Castellanos was asked what the biggest difference between Ausmus and Gardenhire was.... Not sure of the exact way he explained it, but he said that while Castellanos went out of his way to say he wasn't saying one was better than the other...  But where Ausmus would go up to a guy and say, hey you can't keep going the way you have, we need to see you pick it up..  Gardenhire was more prone to put his arm around a guy and say, hey it's a hard game, and we still have faith in you but we may need to get into a more favorable match up....   I thought it was an interesting comment.   If we are being honest, that's exactly what a lot of guys here said they wanted to see, and complained MS didn't do.

Let's be honest. if he loses Trout, he loses his job. I don't see Trout as the kind of player who would play politics, but I absolutely see Eppler as the kind of guy who would remove Ausmus in a heartbeat if he felt that Trout didn't have faith in him.

[stormngt]

A game too late!

[stormngt]

48 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Ausmus isn't the guy Dipoto thought he hired. 

My wife just said, after watching his post game answers, that he has blamed the players and is going to lose the clubhouse. 

Did he blame the players in Detroit?  I havent heard anything since he had been an Angel.

[stormngt]

38 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I didn't hear him blame the players (I may have missed). Scisocia would blame the players a lot and I always thought that was his worst attribute. In this case Ausmus didn't seem to find fault anywhere tonight, just a lot of tough breaks.

When did Scioscia blame the players?

[Docwaukee]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

First time ever I believe the Angels GM made a move to keep his manager from using a guy...  You guys always make cracks about it, but I believe it actually happened..

Playing for the HR... As a saber inclined manager?????   That's Jerry Dipoto level "that's not how it works" thinking....

it would have been better odds if Bour had bunted the runner over.  This feels like when you were trying to bust the lid off of the Dipoto can of bullshit.  Only now I think there are a lot of people holding their nose this time.  

[Second Base]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

First time ever I believe the Angels GM made a move to keep his manager from using a guy...  You guys always make cracks about it, but I believe it actually happened..

Playing for the HR... As a saber inclined manager?????   That's Jerry Dipoto level "that's not how it works" thinking....

Jerry Dipoto traded Jeff Mathis to save Scioscia from himself.

[rottiesworld]

Ausmus is such an idiot, I never liked the hiring and hope he doesn't stay here long. They should have sent Ausmus and Justin Bour together. It's early in the season and Ausmus has done so many bone head mistakes. Hope they have a short leash on him.

[Stradling]

Something we’re not talking about, Walsh has to be added to the 40 man roster. 

[Docwaukee]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Something we’re not talking about, Walsh has to be added to the 40 man roster. 

we had 2 spots available.  At 38 before this move although it's gonna be interesting when Upton, Ramirez and Middleton come back.  

[Stradling]

2 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

we had 2 spots available.  At 38 before this move although it's gonna be interesting when Upton, Ramirez and Middleton come back.  

Probably that Ramsey dude you mentioned last week. 

[Docwaukee]

Just now, Stradling said:

Probably that Ramsey dude you mentioned last week. 

yep.  and we'll need one more.  probably Peters unless they decide to DFA Bour by then.  Or we'll see what happens to Cody Allen.