Gameday Thread: Angels vs. A's (8/22/2020)

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

[Angel Oracle]

Good, no Upton again today

[Claude]

There’s something down with Upton.

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Good, no Upton again today

I don’t see that as being good.  This season is basically over.  We need to know whether Upton is done and you don’t know that by having him on the bench. 

[Angel Oracle]

I’m 50-50 on playing Upton.

You can’t battle out of it on the bench.   But, wouldn’t a few days on the bench give him a chance to regroup, and then have him play again maybe with a little clearer mind?

Edited August 22, 2020 by Angel Oracle

[Claude]

5 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I don’t see that as being good.  This season is basically over.  We need to know whether Upton is done and you don’t know that by having him on the bench. 

Maybe he needs a little break. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. We have spring training to figure that out.

[Jay]

16 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I don’t see that as being good.  This season is basically over.  We need to know whether Upton is done and you don’t know that by having him on the bench. 

Angels need a win.

 

[fan_since79]

If I were management I would be trying to figure out a way to unload Upton with a minimal loss of money.

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, fan_since79 said:

If I were management I would be trying to figure out a way to unload Upton with a minimal loss of money.

Then you would be the greatest manager of all time.  The only way that can happen is to play him everyday and hope he gets incredibly hot the rest of this season.  Then he goes into next season and continues that tear.  At that point you could trade him and eat part of his salary.  Otherwise the only way you trade him is to trade him to a contender that has an equally large contract that they want out of.  So something like sending him to the Padres for either Hormer or Myers.  

[totdprods]

6 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

If I were management I would be trying to figure out a way to unload Upton with a minimal loss of money.

Really hard to do with his NTC too. I think it’s a full NTC at that. 

Cleveland is so dire in need for OF help it’d be fantastic if they’d take him but we’d need to really give up something really, really good in addition to him in any deal. They don’t really have dead money to move either. 

If Upton was willing to waive his deal, I can squint and sort of see a three-way deal emerging with the Angels, Indians, and Giants. Cueto winds up somewhere. Upton winds up somewhere. Maybe some of Plesac, Clevinger, Yastrzemski, Fletcher, Adell/Marsh, Canning, Goodwin, a Giants catching prospect wind up somewhere. 

Edited August 22, 2020 by totdprods

[fan_since79]

The bunt!

Imagine that, traditional baseball. 

[Revad]

That wasn’t a good bunt, but I have to say was exactly what I was thinking

[Revad]

Only smokes safe

[Stradling]

1-0 good guys

[Revad]

Fletch is the man

[Revad]

Not just once in a while- Fletch is the man every day

[fan_since79]

A's fielders are cooperating!

[Stradling]

Ohtani is going big fly here

[Bronson]

Lol that’s not an error...

[John Taylor]

It would be sooo nice if we were the team that got up 3-0 or 4-0 for once.

[fan_since79]

Here comes the dreaded bases loaded situation

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[Revad]

Soooo

[Stradling]

Holy shit

[daygloman]

1 minute ago, fan_since79 said:

Here comes the dreaded bases loaded situation

You were right as rain!