Stop being an enigma Richards!

[Angel Oracle]

I sure haven't seen many pitchers with the talent he has and the extremes from real good to real crappy.

[Jason]

He sucks so I'm not sure what the enigma is

[jshep]

He's a flamethrower with stats you would expect from a fringey junkballer

So frustrating.

[Angel Oracle]

Typical Eddie Bane draft pick, high risk and low chance of success

[Jason]

He has zero command and this is the result

[Glen]

I imagine AO has a few dozen STOP signs in his yard.

[Angel Oracle]

It does get the neighbors to ask questions.

[jsnpritchett]

He sucks so I'm not sure what the enigma is

 

Exactly what I was going to say.

[Lifetime]

I sure haven't seen many pitchers with the talent he has and the extremes from real good to real crappy.

uh.... have you forgotten Santana already? Or Ramon Ortiz?

[Bruce Nye]

I imagine AO has a few dozen STOP signs in his yard.

 

 

Yup - easiest "Name the OP" ever.

[YouthofToday]

Last time I called an Angels player an enigma was at Angel Stadium. I was talking to a random dude that was sitting near me in the lower level section. Brandon Wood was at-bat and I called him an enigma. Random fan was a good friend of Brandon. Dude shrugged his shoulders and shared insight into how the team developed him.

This was in the Walks are a False Stat era.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Last time I called an Angels player an enigma was at Angel Stadium. I was talking to a random dude that was sitting near me in the lower level section. Brandon Wood was at-bat and I called him an enigma. Random fan was a good friend of Brandon. Dude shrugged his shoulders and shared insight into how the team developed him.

This was in the Walks are a False Stat era.

who knows if wood was ever really cut out for it. That said, I've always wondered if its in the minors where we screw up (oppossed to simply pointing the finger at the front office)

[Angel Oracle]

Believe me, I know not hard to, I've thought about the development coaches on the farm.

There's something about this that yells out a total cluster bunch on the farm. The wrong players too often being scouted and signed, and then developed by the wrong coaches. Lack of foreign signings the past several years just makes it even worse.

This org has been a Frank Lloyd WRONG throughout this decade. The only right things seemingly have been the new tv deal, of course Trout, until 2013, Weaver, and a few feel good things mixed in.

[Angel Oracle]

Santana was year to year normally, and not up and down with every start. Ortiz is the one pitcher similar to Richards.

[Docwaukee]

Richards is being asked to cut his teeth out of the pen.  It works for some guys yet clearly not for him.  Richards has Josh Hamilton syndrome where he doesn't remember the last pitch and how the knowledge of such might help for the next one.  They move him to the pen out of the necessity of needing late inning contributions from a guy with good stuff.  It's not working. 

 

The season is pretty much lost.  Move him back to the rotation and let him develop properly. 

[Lifetime]

Santana was year to year normally, and not up and down with every start. Ortiz is the one pitcher similar to Richards.

Actually, even in his good years, Santana mixed in plenty of bad starts. He, like Ortiz had great stuff but were complete head cases that never succeeded to the level their stuff suggested they should. It's much too early to jump to that conclusion with Richards. There have been control and consistency issues with Richards even before this season. When he's on, he's very good. When he's not, he's very hittable. 

[Docwaukee]

yep.  The repeatability of his delivery seems to be an issue.  That's why it seems starting will help his development. 

[dimitrig]

He sucks so I'm not sure what the enigma is

 

 

The enigma is why anyone thinks this guy is a good pitcher who needs more innings at this stage in his development.

[Lifetime]

yep.  The repeatability of his delivery seems to be an issue.  That's why it seems starting will help his development. 

I really don't think starting is the answer or that coming out of the pen is causing the issue or thwarting his development. l

[Tyler]

He's still a thrower and not a pitcher. He needs to be a starting pitcher and sacrifice some velocity for better command. And develop a changeup while he's at it.

[Inside Pitch]

Richards is being asked to cut his teeth out of the pen.  It works for some guys yet clearly not for him.  Richards has Josh Hamilton syndrome where he doesn't remember the last pitch and how the knowledge of such might help for the next one.  They move him to the pen out of the necessity of needing late inning contributions from a guy with good stuff.  It's not working. 

 

The season is pretty much lost.  Move him back to the rotation and let him develop properly. 

 

 

I'm hoping they pull the plug on contending soon and do just that....  

[shellback]

appears to choke in pressure situations. does ok in games like last night.

how do you teach, ahem, intestinal fortitude?

[Adam]

He sucks so I'm not sure what the enigma is

yep

[jsnpritchett]

appears to choke in pressure situations. does ok in games like last night.

how do you teach, ahem, intestinal fortitude?

 

?  He gave up 3 runs last night (yes, Buckner allowed 2 of the runs, but Richards put them on base), and had to be pulled in the 9th inning.

[shellback]

?  He gave up 3 runs last night (yes, Buckner allowed 2 of the runs, but Richards put them on base), and had to be pulled in the 9th inning.

if i remember right he had 2  1-2-3 innings prior to that.