Arte fired the wrong guy

[Make Angels Great Again]

One of these days i'd like to change my username.

I'm thinking Maintain Angels Greatness Assholes.

[CaliAngel]

2 hours ago, Duren, Duren said:

The game now has too much micro managed pitching specialization. The differentiation of relievers into basically one inning or so roles doesn't factor in what kind of groove a pitcher may be in after his allotted inning is over. Pitching changes made mostly automatically  according to a script. The three hitter rule addresses this to some degree but doesn't address the mindset that made it necessary. The old adage, "go with the hot hand" has been pretty much negated. Intuition and live in game feel also have been replaced with a plethora of equations.

This is what I struggle most with when it comes to bullpen management. Not to keep ringing that bell but pulling Iglesias last night after throwing 10 pitches for a 1-2-3 inning with a ghost runner on 2nd base was bologna. He obviously had a feel last night, get him out there again in the 11th to keep us in the game while he's got it going. A relief pitcher starts the inning getting 2 strikeouts, but here comes the manager to bring in a lefty for the lefty batter, except the pitcher with 2 K's is obviously in a groove and should be given the privilege of finishing that inning. Not to backtrack too much but when I think of 2002, Scioscia didn't just replace players during the game because the "equation" said to do it, he replaced them because it made sense, and they were the right guy for the job at that moment. Of course he got away from that in his later years, and we saw the results. 

[Chuck]

5 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

That's pretty damn cool. Thanks Chuck.

 

[failos]

I wonder if he’s looked at the forum before. You guys better straighten your act.

[Stradling]

2 minutes ago, CaliAngel said:

This is what I struggle most with when it comes to bullpen management. Not to keep ringing that bell but pulling Iglesias last night after throwing 10 pitches for a 1-2-3 inning with a ghost runner on 2nd base was bologna. He obviously had a feel last night, get him out there again in the 11th to keep us in the game while he's got it going. A relief pitcher starts the inning getting 2 strikeouts, but here comes the manager to bring in a lefty for the lefty batter, except the pitcher with 2 K's is obviously in a groove and should be given the privilege of finishing that inning. Not to backtrack too much but when I think of 2002, Scioscia didn't just replace players during the game because the "equation" said to do it, he replaced them because it made sense, and they were the right guy for the job at that moment. Of course he got away from that in his later years, and we saw the results. 

They also said they aren’t going to use him for multi innings until a possible stretch run.  Also if a game on June 21st is a must win, then most games after that will also be must wins.  Scioscia didn’t get away from that later, he had lesser quality players.  

[Stradling]

Just now, failos said:

I wonder if he’s looked at the forum before. You guys better straighten your act.

I’ll be fine.  Unless of course he liked the intentional walk with the bases loaded.

[failos]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

I’ll be fine.  Unless of course he liked the intentional walk with the bases loaded.

I don’t think he did

 

 

[Taylor]

[Dtwncbad]

At this point the Angels need an impact bat as much as anything else.

I can only imagine the heads exploding if they go get something they actually need, driving the narrative that Arte is meddling and demanding bats over arms.

[Angelsjunky]

I don't think the Angels need an impact bat as much as they need to replace some of their crappy bats with halfway decent bats.

[zenmaster]

I'd never have imagined in a million years our lineup on June 22 would have been:

 

Ward

Ohtani

Rengifo

MacKinnon

Stassi

Duffy

Marsh

Lagares

Velazquez

 

[Inside Pitch]

2 hours ago, Angelsjunky said:

I don't think the Angels need an impact bat as much as they need to replace some of their crappy bats with halfway decent bats.

Yep...   Run clustering is a thing and nearly impossible to do when you have three black holes lumped together in the lineup.   Impact bats are great, not having any black holes is even better.

[Make Angels Great Again]

Would be real nice to get Stefanic up here and get good Fletcher back. Marsh needs to remove his head from his bum as well.

 

That would all help quite a bit.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Ill say this. I threw a tempur tantrum when we didnt get Stroman. And was upset we didnt get him or Ray.

And we almost paid Scherzer.

None would have changed this year.

Funny enough (so far), Lorenzan and Syndegaard have been much better choices.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

Yep...   Run clustering is a thing and nearly impossible to do when you have three black holes lumped together in the lineup.   Impact bats are great, not having any black holes is even better.

We have brown holes, basically.

[Lou]

6 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Ill say this. I threw a tempur tantrum when we didnt get Stroman. And was upset we didnt get him or Ray.

ERA+ 2021 :

Ray = 157

Stroman = 134 

ERA+ 2022 :

Ray = 88

Stroman = 80 

[Taylor]

Big if true.

[CaliAngel]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Big if true.

I've heard the "like you're doing now" is a Rainn Wilson line, along with a lot of the same mannerisms repeated here...

[cals]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Big if true.

First of all this is clearly bullshit.  Second, I don't really see the problem.

[T.G.]

I heard he lives under the second street bridge that goes into Belmont Shore now.

[tdawg87]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

Big if true.

Fucking reddit 

[Stradling]

Seems legit. 

[tdawg87]

It's only legit if he fell over and spaghetti spilled out of his pockets.

[Inside Pitch]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

Big if true.

What, Dunn-Edwards was closed?

[arch stanton]

I don't know how you guys are still taking AJ seriously after he said he doesn't  like The Who