Offensively

[tdawg87]

I went to Jimmy Hoffa

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I went to Jimmy Hoffa

a great man 

[Claude]

8 hours ago, Pancake Bear said:

There are people who think the Angels offense is only top ten (or worse)? Geez...

You guys have gotten so pessimistic you don’t even accept objective third party opinions about the team when they’re positive anymore. 

We are a top offense. Period. Not ‘the’, ‘a’ top offense. We’re in the top five. Injuries or breakout years by someone like Adell could change that but that’s roughly where we are. Anyone who says otherwise, I’ll just repeat @GregAlso‘s challenge: Prove it. Don’t just make idiotic assertions.

I’m not going to try to project their ranking on offense until I actually see them play together on the field. It’s the team that has to prove it. 

[Drink More Yakult]

13 minutes ago, RendZone said:

I’m not going to try to project their ranking on offense until I actually see them play together on the field. It’s the team that has to prove it. 

He said don’t just make idiotic assertions.

[GregAlso]

2 hours ago, Slegnaac said:

I will let you know as soon as I get my 2020 edition of Strat-o-matic.

I always thought that comes out after the season each year?? 

[tdawg87]

8 hours ago, RendZone said:

I’m not going to try to project their ranking on offense until I actually see them play together on the field. It’s the team that has to prove it. 

I'm not going to project their rankings until after the season is over.

Have some fun, Claude. Be positive. 

[Bronson]

He believes. We should too.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

On 1/3/2020 at 10:04 AM, eaterfan said:

Why this obsession with pitching? Can our pitching improve? Yes. But trading offense to do it probably doesn't help. You don't get any more wins for winning a game 4-3 than you do 6-5.

Assuming it's a fair trade, you expect to lose as much offensive production as what you gain in pitching. Not only does that seem to be break even, it probably hurts the team. Offense builds on itself.

For example about every 10 runs created is a win. If the league average has a .300 OBP then a HR is worth about 1.3 runs because a runner will be on base about 30% of the time. The same HR for a team with an OBP of .400 would create about 1.4 runs. In addition, the higher the OBP of the team the more PAs they get. Fangraphs did an article on putting Mike Trout in different lineups. In Houston's he would be projected for about 800 PAs over a full season. That's about 150 more than an Angels season. 

Pitching doesn't work quite the same way. You get diminishing returns once you reach a certain number of innings that starters pitch.

An Ace can impact 20% of the games. An elite offense can impact 100% of the games.

[Tank]

On 1/3/2020 at 7:07 PM, tdawg87 said:

I went to Jimmy Hoffa

one of the great urban legends is that he was buried in the end zone of the old giants stadium. it didn't prove true but it was good for a laugh.

[Stradling]

8 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

An Ace can impact 20% of the games. An elite offense can impact 100% of the games.

Sorry but an ace impacts the bullpen which means he impacts more than 20% of the games.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

22 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Sorry but an ace impacts the bullpen which means he impacts more than 20% of the games.

OK 25%

[tdawg87]

One player impacting a quarter of the games? That's pretty amazing.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

One player impacting a quarter of the games? That's pretty amazing.

Trout impacts 90% of games he plays, 155+ games without having any injuries...

Edited January 6, 2020 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Trout impacts 90% of games he plays, 155+ games without having any injuries...

No that’s not how it works.  Trout impacts 12% of at bats during the course of the game.  An Ace can impact 90% of at bats during his game. 

[ScottT]

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

14 minutes ago, Stradling said:

No that’s not how it works.  Trout impacts 12% of at bats during the course of the game.  An Ace can impact 90% of at bats during his game. 

Plus DRS, Ace 90% of AB 7 innings once every 5 days. Trout plays at least 6 mostly 7 games a wk. An everyday player has a bigger impact than an every fifth day player, that doesn't bat.

Edited January 6, 2020 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[Lou]