After a 4-8 start for the Halos, how many wins do they finish up the season with?

[Angel Oracle]

This looks like 1981 second season, all over again.

[tomsred]

1 hour ago, calscuf said:

I think everyone here was thinking the same thing.

[bloodbrother]

Originally had them going 30-30 but might need to bump that down to 26-28 wins. Already off to such a dreadful start and they still have to play the A's/Dodgers/Astros 19 times

[Torridd]

I said 28-30. We must shore up the bullpen. It's a major morale problem.

[zenmaster]

Just enough to ensure we don't get the #1 pick, so maybe 23 wins.

[Biergott]

Why can’t we seem to get the big 3 (offense, starting pitching and bullpen) to ever fire at once?  Seems like we only get 1 or 2 at a time.

last couple years we’ve bitched about starters and now we’ve got them rolling, and some good offense coming around, but our bullpen is a bowl of boiling diarrhea.  Like the worst BP we’ve had in a LONG time.  We’ve had some BPs where you puckered up on a few pitchers, but this is almost a guaranteed blow up when the first arm faces the first batter.

id take Daisy Fuentes and Crooked Hat back at this point.

[Angel Oracle]

Voted for 24-27.

The MOTO is horrible.

The bullpen is horrible.

Hard to win games that way

Next question, should the Halos go to the A’th method for building success?   No more high priced FAs or acquisitions, and unlike the A’ths the Halos have the desire to pay their better established players to stay.   Focus on scouting and coaching, and build long term success.

Second question, why have just about every key acquisition since 2010 struggled so much compared to their past seasons?   Is Moreno calling the shots always on those, being more interested in marketing than long term success?

Edited August 6, 2020 by Angel Oracle

[Claude]

1981

[Claude]

Voted 24-27 but that obviously means no postseason again. Trout has to be shaking his head about that. 2020 just keeps delivering. 

Edited August 6, 2020 by RendZone

[Mark PT]

11 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

This looks like 1981 second season, all over again.

Looks like deja vu all over again... OK Yogi

[Brandon]

1 hour ago, Biergott said:

Why can’t we seem to get the big 3 (offense, starting pitching and bullpen) to ever fire at once?  Seems like we only get 1 or 2 at a time.

last couple years we’ve bitched about starters and now we’ve got them rolling, and some good offense coming around, but our bullpen is a bowl of boiling diarrhea.  Like the worst BP we’ve had in a LONG time.  We’ve had some BPs where you puckered up on a few pitchers, but this is almost a guaranteed blow up when the first arm faces the first batter.

id take Daisy Fuentes and Crooked Hat back at this point.

agreed

[Dtwncbad]

This season is rough for a hundred reasons.  I never ever had to TRY to be interested in a season as I am having to do right now.

We need to come up with a symbol much more screaming and serious than an asterisk for this season.

And we all should fully expect that there will be more contaminating episodes to come when certain high impact players either opt out or test positive for Covid totally changing a teams ability to compete.

So while baseball has been a lifelong organic passion for me, this 2020 experience is so bastardized (with more bastardization to come) I can barely barely find the energy to keep trying to be legitimately emotionally engaged in it.

I don’t blame anyone.  It’s just so fucked up.
Its a bummer.

Maybe maybe maybe it will feel more normal and relatable deeper into the season?  I hope so because this is painful.