Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Astros (9/6/2020) - Let's go for the SWEEP!

[Vlad27Trout27]

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Angel's are 5 GB behind the Ass* and The Shanks!

[eligrba4ever]

LIGHT IT UP!!! Four-game sweep of the Cheaters from Texas.

Rendon and the bit players at the back of the lineup!!! 

Time for a gallon of ice water.

[Stradling]

11 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Maddon is a Scioscia clone. The season is lost and the idiot goes on a winning streak to fuck up the draft. 

He certainly isn’t better than Scioscia.

[Stradling]

Another Blown Save and a win.  

[Redondo]

5 game win streak

[Justin]

Have a good Labor Day, folks. See you Tuesday evening. 

[Ariamus]

11 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Maddon is a Scioscia clone. The season is lost and the idiot goes on a winning streak to fuck up the draft. 

I looked it up and I was surprised to see that the number of #1 overall MLB draft picks to win a World Series with the club that drafted them was as high as it was. Heck, our very own Angels are represented on the list. But it's still only five guys out of 55 so far; Strawberry, Chipper, Erstad, Pat Burrell, and Carlos Correia.

In fact, The Asterisks had three first overall picks in a row and only Correia made it to the bigs, let alone win it all.

So, no thank you. I'd rather see them play well than tank for a one in eleven crapshoot.

[daygloman]

Nice!

Schwept them!

I'm gonna put a 3 lb. Tri Tip on the Q.

Go Halos!

[Angel Oracle]

It was a beautiful weekend!

Imagine AsstrosWin.Com by now.

[eligrba4ever]

14-4 gets the Angels to 31 wins. 

Following the Angels one game at a time all the way to a slightly improved chance of postseason.

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

Imagine if the Halos had the A’s pen, and the A’s had ours.

A’s starters: 4.60 ERA and 1.40 WHIP

A’s relievers: 2.20 ERA and 1.10 WHIP

Whoever is GM in 2021, better start taking bullpens seriously!

I always felt a lockdown pen can be just as valuable than great starting pitching. 

You can get by with mediocre starting pitchers with a great pen.

You can get by with a mediocre oen with great starting pitching.

What you cant have is both mediocre starters and relievers.

Edited September 7, 2020 by stormngt

[Angel Oracle]

There is some talent in the pen.   They just need some confidence building, and someone to close that can lead by example.

[rafibomb]

Maybe we should put Pena in the rotation because he's been wracking up the Wins

[Warfarin]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

Imagine if the Halos had the A’s pen, and the A’s had ours.

A’s starters: 4.60 ERA and 1.40 WHIP

A’s relievers: 2.20 ERA and 1.10 WHIP

Whoever is GM in 2021, better start taking bullpens seriously!

I'm hoping we can start sorting some of that out now.  Pena looked great until the last few appearances.  Quijada looks like he has some potential.  Mayers has been a pleasant surprise.  

That said - look at last year.  Robles and Buttrey were rather dominant on the whole.  Robles has been awful this year and Buttrey has been mediocre at best.

Bullpens are really volatile on the whole.  Hopefully, whoever is putting things together for next year can help patch things together.  

[Ariamus]

16 minutes ago, Randy Gradishar said:

Wow, clutch job by Buttrecup.

Buttercup... LOL

[Ariamus]

2 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

Bullpens are really volatile on the whole.  Hopefully, whoever is putting things together for next year can help patch things together.  

This and exactly this! It's very risky to throw resources willy-nilly at relievers because they are so volatile. One year they can be lights out and the next year, they can be a big steaming pile of horseshit.

I live in Jersey so I get a lot of Mutts chatter. Stankees too, for that matter. Anyway, it was rather amusing being a close witness to the dumpster fire that was Edwin Diaz's 2019 season. This just a year after he had arguably the best season any "modern" reliever has ever had.

[Lou]

22 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

It was a beautiful weekend!

Imagine AsstrosWin.Com by now.

Enjoy today's banter:

https://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php?threads/official-astros-angels.306997/page-14

[CaliforniaYankee]

What a great great great thing to see.     Seeing the Astros go down  4 games in a row !!!     

[Warfarin]

13 minutes ago, Ariamus said:

This and exactly this! It's very risky to throw resources willy-nilly at relievers because they are so volatile. One year they can be lights out and the next year, they can be a big steaming pile of horseshit.

I live in Jersey so I get a lot of Mutts chatter. Stankees too, for that matter. Anyway, it was rather amusing being a close witness to the dumpster fire that was Edwin Diaz's 2019 season. This just a year after he had arguably the best season any "modern" reliever has ever had.

Yeah.  I would avoid tossing money at relievers for this reason.  We have a lot of holes on this team, and all things considered, I'd rather spend it on SP.

Last season, Robles and Buttrey were dominant to start the year.  Buttrey wore down with overuse, but Robles was still fantastic.

This year?  Robles has been so terrible that he's likely a non-tender candidate this offseason.  And, of course, the Diaz example you cited is just one of many instances of things like this happening.

 

[Angel Oracle]

It would just be nice to have a solid pen for one of the few times after 2009.

[Bronson]

12 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

Yeah.  I would avoid tossing money at relievers for this reason.  We have a lot of holes on this team, and all things considered, I'd rather spend it on SP.

Last season, Robles and Buttrey were dominant to start the year.  Buttrey wore down with overuse, but Robles was still fantastic.

This year?  Robles has been so terrible that he's likely a non-tender candidate this offseason.  And, of course, the Diaz example you cited is just one of many instances of things like this happening.

 

We at least need to get a reliable closer. Isn’t Liam Hendriks a free agent this upcoming offseason?

[Jay]

57 minutes ago, Randy Gradishar said:

Hot take: I'm actually a big Royal Scam guy, and I usually skip "Kid Charlemagne".

That is odd.

 

[tdawg87]

Did we win? The thread length could go both ways.

[Lou]

8 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Did we win? The thread length could go both ways.

Too easy 

[Revad]

2 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Did we win? The thread length could go both ways.

Well, how much scotch are we talking about?