Joe Maddon and LA Angels agree to three-year deal to become next manager

[Lou]

he should switch to the Optigrab 

[ettin]

Happy to see him coming onboard, I think this is an absolute upgrade and will help our 2020-2022 squads gel well and create some magic!

[Taylor]

[ettin]

Just now, Lou said:

he should switch to the Optigrab 

I certainly think Joe will help the players see the game through a different lens.....

[Taylor]

What was Joe's MWAR last year?

[ettin]

Joe might help the pitchers get stronger and not be like glass arms all the time.....

[ettin]

Joe has an eye for talent too.....

[ettin]

He is a leader of players, a real visionary leader.....

[T.G.]

Yes, I'll be your 1B coach...

[ettin]

Sorry for all the puns I know Iris-k my standing in the AW.com community.....

[Docwaukee]

1 minute ago, ettin said:

He is a leader of players, a real visionary leader.....

you're making a spectacle of yourself.  

[ettin]

23 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

you're making a spectacle of yourself.  

Actually it's Joe, he's the one that left his former organization, you know a Ray-Ban....

[T.G.]

Source:  Elvis Costello to sing national anthem at Angels' home opener

[eligrba4ever]

Dear Joe, I hope we still love you when you're 68.

[T.G.]

[mulwin444]

2 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

this is a common misconception for both Scioscia and Maddon.  They both use numbers a fair amount.  It's what guided their 'instinct'.  All good managers do and it's what has made them good managers.  Before advanced metrics were presented to all these guys on an ipad, the numbers were hand written or rolling around in the manager's brain somewhere.  It was their ability to assimilate all that info and turn it into useful info to help win games.  

That's a lot of "words" for Troll Daddy so don't be discouraged if his response is the verbal equivalent of someone falling down the stairs.  He's under the impression that the great managers of yore kept a finger bone Al Spalding in their pocket for good luck and that they would regularly commune with the infield dirt for who to start that afternoon.

[ten ocho recon scout]

It would be funny if he brought back sosh as his bench coach.

[beatlesrule]

1 hour ago, krAbs said:

I'm stoked about this, but I think a lot on here are going to Facking HATE him.

Why?

[Lou]

6 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

It would be funny if he brought back sosh as his bench coach.

bullpen catcher

[floplag]

Excellent, right man, right time, right message.
Step one in the off season plan complete.

[T.G.]

Just now, Lou said:

starting catcher

 

[Angel Oracle]

23 minutes ago, junkorama said:

Nope. Cry about it if you need to, though.

 

I wear that style proudly!

[T.G.]

Just now, Angel Oracle said:

I wear that style proudly!

Congrats.  You're the new Director of PR.

[krAbs]

13 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

Why?

The top reply to the /r/baseball reddit thread on it is a joke:
"Update: Mike Trout now bats 9th"
"And left-handed because that decreases your time to 1st base"

Obviously a joke, but the point is, Maddon likes to play as hard as he can to statistics and to what spreadsheets say. I believe he was the first manager to heavily employ the shift, for example. Often it works out, and especially often it works out over a large enough sample size. But when he does something that goes against baseball "common sense" and it doesn't work out...That's the kind of thing that pisses a fan off.

 

Edit - don't get me wrong, I'm SUPER excited about him, and I think he's the guy who can lead us to the next level. But, he seems like the kind of guy who makes choices that really rub a certain kind of fan the wrong way, and I think we have a lot of that certain kind of fan here. I expect a lot of head-scratching bullpen choices that will lead to a lot of "Fire Joe!" threads.

[tomsred]

   2 hours ago,  krAbs said: 

I'm stoked about this, but I think a lot on here are going to Facking HATE him.

Why?

 

1.  Because they don't like people who wear black glasses.

2.  Because he doesn't give a crap about what his critics think.

3.  Because he likes Mike Scioscia and Arte Moreno.

4.  Because he likes wine, cigars and parties on yachts.

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