Gameday Thread: 9/1 Red Sox @ Angels: Goodwin hitting 3rd again

[jsnpritchett]

1. David Fletcher (R) 3B

2. Mike Trout (R) CF

3. Brian Goodwin (L) LF

4. Albert Pujols (R) 1B

5. Justin Upton (R) DH

6. Kole Calhoun (L) RF

7. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS

8. Luis Rengifo (S) 2B

9. Max Stassi (R) C

Heaney on the mound.

Red Sox:

1. Mookie Betts (R) RF

2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B

3. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS

4. J.D. Martinez (R) DH

5. Sam Travis (R) 1B

6. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF

7. Christian Vazquez (R) C

8. Brock Holt (L) 2B

9. Gorkys Hernandez (R) CF

Price on the mound.

[Angelsjunky]

To put Brian Goodwin's year in context, his 126 wRC+ is 52nd in the majors among 247  players with at least 300 PA. In other words, he's been better than almost 80% of major league hitters with 300 PA.

He's tiled with Ronald Acuna, who also has a 126 wRC+. Players with 125: Max Kepler (36 HR), Charlie Blackmon (.319, 27 HR), Marcus Semien.

Calhoun's best qualifying wRC+ was 124 in 2014 (he was at 127 in 2013 in 222 PA).

[stormngt]

Is Ohtani hurt?

[Claude]

2 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

To put Brian Goodwin's year in context, his 126 wRC+ is 52nd in the majors among 247  players with at least 300 PA. In other words, he's been better than almost 80% of major league hitters with 300 PA.

He's tiled with Ronald Acuna, who also has a 126 wRC+. Players with 125: Max Kepler (36 HR), Charlie Blackmon (.319, 27 HR), Marcus Semien.

Calhoun's best qualifying wRC+ was 124 in 2014 (he was at 127 in 2013 in 222 PA).

Goodwin’s obp .346

enough said. 

[DMVol]

Goodwin makes Calhoun at 14 million very expendable....

[Angelsjunky]

4 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Is Ohtani hurt?

Who knows, but my guess is that they're giving him a day off to get his head clear. He's in a horrific slump, hitting .100/.129/.133 over his last 8 games. 1 walk, 11 Ks.

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Who knows, but my guess is that they're giving him a day off to get his head clear. He's in a horrific slump, hitting .100/.129/.133 over his last 8 games. 1 walk, 11 Ks.

David Price.

[eligrba4ever]

34 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Is Ohtani hurt?

Isn't Price a lefty? But get used to it now because it Ohtani completes his pitching rehab and retakes his rotation position in April then you'll be seening about 50 percent less of him at DH.

And he has to get a better-fitting helmet.

[Blarg]

Pujols back in the #4 spot hitting cleanup. 

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!! Bet you didn't think on Friday that this series would have a "rubber" game!!

Go Heandog!!!! Be the Heandog!!! Throw strikes and let the Ks come!!!

Just 7 games under .500 today. The Angels elimination number in tne AL West remains 3. It dropped to 12 in the Wild Card.

 

[Lou]

35 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Isn't Price a lefty? But get used to it now because it Ohtani completes his pitching rehab and retakes his rotation position in April then you'll be seening about 50 percent less of him at DH.

And he has to get a better-fitting helmet.

and stop striking out

[Angel Oracle]

Unfortunately, he’s been Outani these past couple of weeks.

A rest day is the best thing right now.

[Justin]

51 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Pujols back in the #4 spot hitting cleanup. 

I've been as disappointed in Pujols as anybody here (well, almost anybody) but after the last couple of weeks, he certainly deserves cleanup more than Upton, Calhoun or Simba. 

[eligrba4ever]

ELIMINATION UPDATE:: The Angels' elimination number in the AL West has fallen to 2 today because of Justin Verlander's third career no-hitter.

[eligrba4ever]

High pop fly into a white tent roof. Oh well.

[Duren, Duren]

Would be nice to stall the Red Sox a bit. Glad to see Goodwin in the three spit. He's pretty patient and hot right now.

Just watched Verlander no hit the Jays. What a treat to watch a masterful pitcher operate. Didn't have his best stuff but was a surgeon operating around the four corners of the strike zone. Struck out 14 with a mid 90s fastball, high 80s slider and 12 to 6 curve. A tense 0 0 game till the eigth, when a recently promoted mid level prospect homered in just his eigth game. And a Canadian on Canadian soil no less.

 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Fletcher is a keeper.

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

 

[Justin]

Those 89 mph fastballs over the plate are a bitch. 

[eligrba4ever]

GOODY EN FUEGO!!!

[Slegnaac]

We have Upton's Big toe to thank for Goodwin.  

[Chuck]

12 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

We have Upton's Big toe to thank for Goodwin.  

Seriously! 

Upton is playing his way out of the starting lineup over the final month of the season. 

I hope to see more of Goodwin, Ward and Walsh out there instead of his ass. 

[Jay]

Heaney's back on the pills I see.

 

[Jay]

That second HR was a BP pitch.

 

[eligrba4ever]

Where's that marine layer when you really meed it?