Interesting note on Ohtani from Joe Maddon

[Chuck]

 

[southpaw]

with a 26 man roster, that could work. 

[Chuck]

Just now, calscuf said:

I love Joe.

Me too, for several reasons. But for this reason in particular. 

He's not average Joe (pun intended), but will go against the grain to maximize the talent on the roster. 

Personally I never liked babying Ohtani with a day off before and after his starts. 

[Ochocinco!]

He was pretty adamant and optimistic about that idea. Apparently his ERA in Japan during games where he also batted would cut in half... Fuck it let em eat!

[eligrba]

4 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

[Taylor]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Personally I never liked babying Ohtani with a day off before and after his starts. 

This is a bad take. They were being cautious with him because of his elbow issues.

[Chuck]

3 minutes ago, Taylor said:

This is a bad take. They were being cautious with him because of his elbow issues.

No. Eppler said that hitting had no bearing on him pitching. I'm also talking about 2018.

[tdawg87]

This gives me a boner. 

Imagine a game in which Ohtani pitches a SO and also goes 4-4 with 2 homeruns. That's like a 1 WAR game.

I'll be in my bunk.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Love it. 

[Homebrewer]

WWSD
What Would Sosh Do?

[Pancake Bear]

When most pitchers said it was hard enough to pitch every five days and that they couldn’t imagine hitting multiple days, too, saying it’s babying him to only let him hit 3 days a week is ... a take. But, ️

[Chuck]

49 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

This gives me a boner. 

Imagine a game in which Ohtani pitches a SO and also goes 4-4 with 2 homeruns. That's like a 1 WAR game.

I'll be in my bunk.

Is there room for one more?

[Chuck]

I miss the days when pitchers went 300 innings and didn’t bitch about it.

Bumgarner strikes me as the type that would love to pitch 200 innings and bat 7 days a week.

[tdawg87]

Just now, Chuckster70 said:

Is there room for one more?

*sucks in gut*

Yeah there's plenty of room

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, Chuckster70 said:

No. Eppler said that hitting had no bearing on him pitching. I'm also talking about 2018.

It’s a bad take because he’s already doing something no one has done in 100 years.  It’s not babying it’s load management of sorts. 

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I miss the days when pitchers went 300 innings and didn’t bitch about it.

Bumgarner strikes me as the type that would love to pitch 200 innings and bat 7 days a week.

And go 10-12 with a 4 ERA and bat .230 with 14 home runs. 

[Claude]

[Chuck]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

And go 10-12 with a 4 ERA and bat .230 with 14 home runs. 

You just pulled that out of your ass didn't you Strad? Wouldn't be the first time. 

[Stradling]

Just now, Chuckster70 said:

You just pulled that out of your ass didn't you Strad? Wouldn't be the first time. 

Yes I did.  I can’t predict the future anymore than you can.  But bottom line is fans want more and more and more and don’t simply appreciate what he does do.  What he does do is twice the workload of anyone in the game.  

[Chuck]

13 hours ago, Stradling said:

It’s a bad take because he’s already doing something no one has done in 100 years.  It’s not babying it’s load management of sorts. 

That is you and Taylor's opinions. I obviously disagree with your takes.

You can strategically give him off days against tough lefties many times throughout the season. But I want his bat in there against other teams RHPs more times than not.

[Stradling]

12 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

That is you and Taylor's opinions. 

You can strategically give him off days against tough lefties many times throughout the season. But I want his bat in there against other teams RHP more times than not.

We all want that.  By the way it might only be my opinion or Taylor’s opinion, but it is based on what the team is doing with him so far.  So there’s that.  

[angelsnationtalk]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

I can’t predict the future anymore than you can.   

Then fine... Ohtani will have  2.70 ERA, 200K's and will bat .280 with 25hrs and 85RBIs

[Stradling]

Just now, angelsnationtalk said:

Then fine... Ohtani will have  2.70 ERA, 200K's and will bat .280 with 25hrs and 85RBIs

Cool.  

[rafibomb]

Bumgarner when he sees this news

 

[Glen]

See my new avatar for how I feel about this.