Midterm Report Card

[fan_since79]

Angels Report Card, mid-term 2013

 

Managing  D

Coaching  D

 

Offense  C-

Situational Hitting  D-

Baserunning  D

Defense  D

Grit  F-

 

Aybar  D

Trout  A

Pujols  C-

Trumbo  A

Hamilton  F

Kendrick  C+

Callaspo  C-

Iannetta  D

Shuck  B

[Brent Maguire]

Trout and Trumbo are easy A's. Howie is a B only because his situational hitting still blows. Iannetta has been great at the plate and gets no help from his pitchers as far as base running goes. He gets a B from me. 

[fan_since79]

Yeah, I was a little rough on Iannetta. 

[Tyler]

Just like Dipoto, you forgot about the pitching.

[Scott34]

Why is Howie not an A?

[Torridd]

And Trout shouldn't get an A.

[fan_since79]

Why is Howie not an A?

Rally-killing GIDP's and too many baserunning blunders.

[fan_since79]

Just like Dipoto, you forgot about the pitching.

I left it open for you guys. Grade away!

[Jimmag]

Howie is having a career year he has to be minimum of B+.

 

Are you grading on a Bell Curve?

[ukyah]

without breaking down individual performances, i don't see how any aspect of this team offense, defense, pitching, managing, coaching, front office and ownership could get any grade other than an F on every front.

 

this team has been awful, truly awful, and with no real end in sight. hard to watch and a bummer to think about, but you've got to trust somebody in the organization and i trust artie, dipoto, trout and trumbo.

 

those are my guys.

[fan_since79]

Howie is having a career year he has to be minimum of B+.

 

Are you grading on a Bell Curve?

I'm grading on an Aggravation Curve.

 

Each rally-killing GIDP is the same as failing a quiz.

[Brent Maguire]

Giving Hamilton a F is giving him too much credit. He's been worse than that.

[SmallSampleSize]

I'm grading on an Aggravation Curve.

 

 

Impossible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otherwise Scioscia (Managing) would have been expelled and received no grade.

[EDinTUSTIN]

Trout and Trumbo are easy A's. Howie is a B only because his situational hitting still blows. Iannetta has been great at the plate and gets no help from his pitchers as far as base running goes. He gets a B from me. 

Trumbo and Trout are our best players, but I would say A- or B+ for Trout. He has not been particularly clutch and has been somewhat inconsistent. Same with Trumbo. Pujols gets a D and Hamilton a D. The Front Office needs a grade, and they deserve nothing more than a D at best. The team is poorly constructed, overburdened with contractual obligations, depleted at the farm level, and has failed to hold field leadership accountable.

 

Pitching should be graded.

Starting Rotation:

Weaver: IC not enough to grade on, so incomplete for now. He has been good when available.

Vargas: C+. Been solid for much of the year, but 'A' level pitchers don't give up 3 or 4 run leads in one inning after being handed that lead. They find a way to shut the door or limit damage. He doesn't do that.

Blanton: D- Pitched better as of late, but has a propensity to eat up a teams' patience rather than innings. One is supposed to supply an occasional batting practice to their own team during workouts, not provide such for the opposition.

Hanson: D  Based on what little we have seen. Not particularly reliable while on the mound.

CJ:  C  See Vargas. Too little return for what is being paid out. Inconsistent. blowing that 6-1 lead lowered an already disappointing grade. Has no will to slam the door, lack of confidence - and of course, the poor stats.

Jerome: A  Saved our teams' bacon and showed leadership by taking the bull by the horns and giving us a lift. We are still screwed, but without Jerome, we'd even be farther down the AL West totem pole. I put him in the rotation since his manager seems bent on relegating this talented pitcher to a mop up role.

 

Aggregate Score of Starting Rotation:  C-

 

Bull Pen:

(no need to grade departed flops as we already know what their grade would be. To be DFA'd from the Angels Bull Pen already speaks volumes)

 

Downs: B- Has been better as of late and is showing some signs of last season's first half

Frieri: B-  Some poor outings, and the propensity of putting everybody and their brother on base has clouded an otherwise pretty good season. Will never be an elite closer as he is unable to develop a go-to secondary pitch that can be counted upon.

Kohn: C-  Where do we dig up some of these kids? Has had some good outings, overall not one you can really rely upon. Hampered by the fact that homeplate is not the size of the average dry wall panel.

Richards: C   Good stuff has not translated into good stats overall. Showing glimpses of what he can do. Hampered by poor control and poor coaching. Not consistent owing to poor control. Also, has been given the opportunity of a life time and has yet to truly seize upon the moment to make the best of an opportunity.

Jepsen: IN  Hard to give a grade based upon him not being available for much of the season. He is injury prone, which makes it hard for him to get into a groove with his above average stuff.

Coello: C  Maybe garners a higher score. Loading up the bases late in a game is a sure way to find one's self plastered on a bus seat traveling between AA venues for one's career. Simply having a gimmick pitch does not a great reliever make. Potential is there to do well with more confidence, being able to get that forkball knuckler over the plate in any count and situation, and a better command of the strike zone. Oh, better coaching would also be a must.

De La Rosa: F  Sorry, but being demoted from this august group can only rate you as a major league failure. Has good stuff and life on his pitches, but is wildly inconsistent, unsure, lacks a reliable secondary pitch. This kid has career AAA player written all over him.

[YouthofToday]

The Albert Pujols deserves an F. Dude has a WAR, according to FanGraphs, of 0.0.

The Willingness to Win would grade out at a 30 on the 20-80 scale. That's all that matters.

[Brent Maguire]

Ed, Trout has been a top 10 player in baseball so far this year. He's been awesome yet again. 

 

Trumbo continues to make adjustments year after year. He looks like a legit .850 OPS type bat. 

 

Pujols is playing through pain so I'll give him a bit of a pass.

 

Hamilton doesn't even deserve a D. 

[Brent Maguire]

The Albert Pujols deserves an F. Dude has a WAR, according to FanGraphs, of 0.0.

The Willingness to Win would grade out at a 30 on the 20-80 scale. That's all that matters.

Which is why he should be on the DL. Bat speed and power is most definitely still there.

[kevinb]

In what universe is Pujols a C-?

[Eric]

My Report Card:

 

uck this team.

 

The letter is missing only because the Angels earned all of them and there weren't any left over.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Rally-killing GIDP's and too many baserunning blunders.

Albert leads the team and MLB with 11 GIDP's. Kendrick has 10 GIDP's.

[mtangelsfan]

I'm looking at the team as a whole and it gets a big, fat "F". 

[nate]

Howie is second on the team with RISP with a .315 AVG.  Pujols is the only one better at .349.

 

4th in RBI

 

1st in AVG

 

3rd in OPS

 

2nd in oWAR

 

People love to Howie bash but he has been very good this season.

[yk9001]

What has Scioscia done to deserve a D?

[fan_since79]

What has Scioscia done to deserve a D?

Okay, you're right. I'll give him an F.

[yk9001]

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