Gameday Thread (5/20/23): Angels vs Twins - Walsh making season debut at 1B

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[gurn67]

Sit a red-hot Moniak with a right-handed starter on the mound. Put Ward in the leadoff spot with his remarkable .309 OBP. Makes sense.

[halonatic13]

9 minutes ago, gurn67 said:

Sit a red-hot Moniak with a right-handed starter on the mound. Put Ward in the leadoff spot with his remarkable .309 OBP. Makes sense.

What in the actual F!!!

[VladdyforHOF]

What kind of maniac makes this lineup without Moniak??

[Jason]

20 minutes ago, gurn67 said:

Sit a red-hot Moniak with a right-handed starter on the mound. Put Ward in the leadoff spot with his remarkable .309 OBP. Makes sense.

That was my first thought too. So dumb 

[Jason]

6 minutes ago, VladdyforHOF said:

What kind of maniac makes this lineup without Moniak??

[Don3347]

Moniak obviously needs to hit and field better. Sucks that they kept him over Phillips.

[DMVol]

6 minutes ago, Don3347 said:

Moniak obviously needs to hit and field better. Sucks that they kept him over Phillips.

And I’m still bummed they gave up Syndergaard to get him…

[VladdyforHOF]

If Taylor Ward doesn't start hitting like a maniac then he better lose playing time to Moniak.

[DMVol]

8 minutes ago, VladdyforHOF said:

If Taylor Ward doesn't start hitting like a maniac then he better lose playing time to Moniak.

I don’t think it’s impossible that you could rotate the 4 of them with some success. Keep Renfroe and Ward fresh and rest Trout….maybe workable, don’t know….

[Slegnaac]

They are just keeping Moniak fresh by giving him a night off.

Don't worry there is a RHP going for the Twins tomorrow.  Mickey will be back in the lineup. 

[TheLordofOuts]

Despite not having Moniak in the lineup, I still expect a Halo victory 

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

Jared's back!!!! All fixed up and ready to bash???

[BTH]

Would be nice to see the Angels win today.

They haven’t won the first two games of a series since the sweep vs. St. Louis.

In fact, that was the only time they won the first two games of a series.

It’s either a win followed by a loss. Or a loss to start the series.

[Stradling]

If you want Moniak on the big club this is what it looks like.  We are weeks away from them giving him a majority of the playing time. They aren’t giving up on Ward at least until the end of June. 

[HaloBronco]

Moniak not being in the lineup today makes zero sense to me…..

Really would to hear from the team, the logic to sit him.

[DMVol]

43 minutes ago, Stradling said:

If you want Moniak on the big club this is what it looks like.  We are weeks away from them giving him a majority of the playing time. They aren’t giving up on Ward at least until the end of June. 

You don’t have to give up on Ward or give Moniak a majority of the playing time….he doesn’t play every day (like today) but rotating the 4 of them might be workable….we’ll see where it goes….

[HeavenlyHalos]

I guess they wanted Ward to play one of these two games and they face another righty tomorrow. Hope he contributes

[Docwaukee]

23 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

I guess they wanted Ward to play one of these two games and they face another righty tomorrow. Hope he contributes

bingo.  Lopez is a much tougher matchup tomorrow.  

[Chuck]

 

[Chuck]

 

[Revad]

WTF Sandoval, get it together!

[Blarg]

Tonight's seats.

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Tonight's seats.

You get watch Sandoval suck from good seats. 

[Blarg]

Hey @Chuckster70, guess who I'm sitting next to? It's your Memphis buddy.