Gameday Thread (5/29/23): Angels @ White Sox - Canning on the mound

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

 

I love him. 

[Chuck]

 

[Blarg]

At this point I don't know of any player that has contributed more to the Angels winning games this year than Neto. You can't see it in his slash line but you can see it every time he makes a 5% chance of success play, like that one that ended the game.

He can easily be the Rookie of the Year with a slightly above league average bat. 

[ScottM]

I fully admit I was wrong about the Neto callup. I thought it reeked of desperation and I also thought he was not ready and we were going to Jo Adell him. Props to Perry for some really really good recent drafts 

[khouse]

3 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

Well, it's great that he held on for the win...but he didn't look good doing it...

[AngelsLakersFan]

Just now, Blarg said:

At this point I don't know of any player that has contributed more to the Angels winning games this year than Neto. You can't see it in his slash line but you can see it every time he makes a 5% chance of success play, like that one that ended the game.

He can easily be the Rookie of the Year with a slightly above league average bat. 

It’s a little early to check in on the defensive stats but the glove is legit. His emergence has easily been the best thing to happen to this team this year. Maybe Minasian really did know something this off season when he didn’t get a shortstop.

[HeavenlyHalos]

game winning sac fly too. He has been so freaking huge

[Lou]

Thaiss is batting .300 

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

He has been so freaking huge

Gross

[Justin]

5 minutes ago, Lou said:

Thaiss is batting .300 

If he keeps this up, he could be an All Star reserve.

Yandy Diaz will probably get the start at catcher, though. 

[TroutField]

What’s up with Renfroe. Dude has been slumping for like a month it feels like, starting to think maybe Adell could contribute to the outfield mix 

[PattyD22]

13 minutes ago, khouse said:

Well, it's great that he held on for the win...but he didn't look good doing it...

Come on man @khouse.  We won.  Style points don’t matter.  This ain’t college football.

Lets enjoy it brother

[halonatic13]

19 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

btw, Matt Thaiss is good. He's even a great interview. 

What a refreshing interview.  Oh yea and Thaiss was good too.l

[arch stanton]

20 minutes ago, khouse said:

Well, it's great that he held on for the win...but he didn't look good doing it...

You might want to consider upping the dosage on your anti-depressants

[oldguy]

1 hour ago, eligrba4ever said:

In spite of the many insults Thaiss has received here over the years, he seems to be a productive player when given the chance.

Thaiss and O'Hoppe will make a great catching combo.  What to do with Stassi?

[ten ocho recon scout]

23 minutes ago, TroutField said:

What’s up with Renfroe. Dude has been slumping for like a month it feels like, starting to think maybe Adell could contribute to the outfield mix 

That's the thing about him. Super streaky. He's our new Upton.

But I still like the move a lot. He'll get hot again.

Thr shit thing is we won a lot of games this year because of him, and other guys you wouldn't expect it from. (Random Drury late game homer, Thaiss, etc).

When they go cold... and Trout and Ohtani aren't super stars..... the offense looks really flat.

The bright side is Ohtani and Trout WILL wake up again. Those are the last two to worry about. It's just cringy watching them not be themselves lately. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

25 minutes ago, PattyD22 said:

Come on man @khouse.  We won.  Style points don’t matter.  This ain’t college football.

Lets enjoy it brother

If anything I see it different. First thing I thought of when the game ended was "damn... good for him. First bad game in a while, and he still took care of business".

He's been a really nice surprise this year.

[Chuck]

Just uploaded our latest podcast this evening! 

[Lou]

Amazing to think both Neto and Joyce were playing college baseball a year ago.

[cals]

4 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

If anything I see it different. First thing I thought of when the game ended was "damn... good for him. First bad game in a while, and he still took care of business".

He's been a really nice surprise this year.

Feels like Lee Smith.  Dudes got on base, but if we were only up by 1, they didn’t score.  But if we were ahead by 2, they’d score 1.  If we were up by 3, they’d score 2.  But in the end, we won, and he got the save.

[cals]

6 minutes ago, Lou said:

Amazing to think both Neto and Joyce were playing college baseball a year ago.

They probably knew some chicks with some banging bodies.

[Chuck]

 

[aznhockeyguy]

I bashed the Angels when they drafted Joyce so high, but that fastball with running action at 102 is fucking nasty.  He already beat the odds by making it to the bigs already.

[TroutField]

2 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

Admittedly Perry has done a great job building bullpen depth. 
 

we could have easily let Loup, Tepera, and then the Moore injury sink our season but we seem to have a solid reliever to fill the role every time we have needed so far… 

 

Devinski, Estevez, Joyce, Silseth, Webb, Bachman

And we have a couple more down in the minors doing very well. 

pleasantly surprised 

[aznhockeyguy]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

At this point I don't know of any player that has contributed more to the Angels winning games this year than Neto. You can't see it in his slash line but you can see it every time he makes a 5% chance of success play, like that one that ended the game.

He can easily be the Rookie of the Year with a slightly above league average bat. 

FYI Neto's OPS+ right now is 103 so he is slightly above league average.  At this pace, he'll hit 4 WAR.