This pitching staff

[Glen]

[Claude]

Pitching is killing us. 

Out of the 30 MLB teams, 23 of them are less than 13.5 games back in their divisions or they’re sitting in first place. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

20 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Not just a dumpster fire, but a floating dumpster fire. Well played, Dawg.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

20 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

They are good at giving up a lot of HR's

Any team looking to set a team record for home runs in a game ought to pass through.

[Angel Oracle]

I guess it's 2021 now, when the next good period in Halos baseball history will begin.

It will take until then for Ohtani, Canning, and Suarez to get to where they can pitch at least 170 innings in a season and join Heaney.    Hopefully, they acquire another young pitcher later on this year or in the off-season to join those four and probably also Sandoval in a solid rotation. 

[eligrba]

This pitching staff clearly demonstrates the physics for how spin rates can result in launch angles and exit velocities.

[PattyD22]

2 minutes ago, eligrba said:

This pitching staff clearly demonstrates the physics for how spin rates can result in launch angles and exit velocities.

I'm an old school baseball fan and I don't really know or follow the sabermetrics of spin rates, launch angles, and exit velocities.

All I know is this staff is handing out home run souvenirs at a near record pace.  There should be warning signs out there

[Biergott]

[Troll Daddy]

If Ohtani can be a true #1 ... I think the pitching staff will be fine. I don’t see the Angels going after a big name free agent. 

Madison Bumgarner would be desirable imo. 

[Biergott]

[stormngt]

Previous years we we had devastating luck with injuries to the staff.   This year is all o. Eppler transaction 

[Mark PT]

21 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

They are good at giving up a lot of HR's

Ya, on 0-2 pitches. This staff cant hit their spots. This is the source of the problem.

[DCAngelsFan]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Not just a dumpster fire, but a floating dumpster fire. Well played, Dawg.

At a thrift store ...

Coincidentally, when I searched for "matt harvey stats",  I got this:

 

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Mark PT said:

Ya, on 0-2 pitches. This staff cant hit their spots. This is the source of the problem.

Looking at you too, Lucroy?

[Angel Oracle]

Worst Halos pitching staff since 2000?  Maybe ever?

 

[Tank]

7 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Worst Halos pitching staff since 2000?  Maybe ever?

 

Have you forgotten about some of those 70s teams? Yikes.

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

On 6/10/2019 at 12:57 PM, PattyD22 said:

I'm an old school baseball fan and I don't really know or follow the sabermetrics of spin rates, launch angles, and exit velocities.

All I know is this staff is handing out home run souvenirs at a near record pace.  There should be warning signs out there

We should net the entire field to protect the fans!!! Someone might take one of those rockets in the DOME!

[PattyD22]

This should do the trick

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Somewhere, Chris Knapp, Dave Lemanczyk and Steve Renko are laughing their asses off....

 

We have had some Dog Shit pitchers through the years even dudes who only lasted 8 starts before their arms fell off that had better ERA's than some of these guys including Skaggs. And they only gave up 2-4 Home Runs in 8 starts! Ed Halicki, Doug Rau etc. Both of those guys had ERA's around low 5's....

Ken Forsch gave up 25 home Runs in 1982 sure he pitched 228 innings but he only had a 3.87 ERA.

The problem is they are throwing too many pitches, and falling behind in the count. They are playing with breaking balls early in the count and then throwing 2 fastballs up or way out to get them to chase! Then the 6th pitch is a breaking ball out of the zone so now you have a 50/50 chance of getting strike 3 or having the ball put into play, or walking the hitter!

IT's the pitching philosophy~    We used to call it pitching scared! Or, worried about the perfect pitch!

You can even work backwards if you can throw your break stuff for a strike. They are trying to be too perfect with the first pitch breaking ball instead of a get me over or something with less spin which will end up in the strike zone instead of the dirt!     SPIN RATE this is an over analyzation of a stat!

[T.G.]

We want pitchers not belly itchers.

[Angel Oracle]

16 hours ago, Tank said:

Have you forgotten about some of those 70s teams? Yikes.

From 1971-1977, it was mainly the very offensive to Halos fans offense.   The starting pitching at least had Messersmith, Wright, and May at varying times from 1971-1973, and Ryan and Tanana after that.   The problem was piss poor relief pitching, along with the very offensive to us offense.

Don't forget that a mid 1970s Halos team hit a whopping 55 HRs as a team, and the fable was that they couldn't break glass in a hotel lobby.  

[tdawg87]

[mmc]

Actual footage of one of our pitchers throwing an 0-2 or 3-0 pitch

 

[Troll Daddy]

Needs work 

[ten ocho recon scout]