Gameday Thread: (8/12/23 4:15pm Pacific on Fox) Angels @ Astros: Anderson on the mound

[jsnpritchett]

Edited August 12, 2023 by jsnpritchett

[jsnpritchett]

Matt Olson just hit his 41st HR to take the major league lead in HR.  Ohtani needs to grab it back tonight.

[BTH]

I could see Rosenberg and maybe Detmers  get optioned.

Herget or Ingram could replace em.

They can’t really bring up Wantz, because he’s close to reaching his options limit for the season.

[VladdyforHOF]

15 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Matt Olson just hit his 41st HR to take the major league lead in HR.  Ohtani needs to grab it back tonight.

I'll make a wild call - Shohei goes deep twice tonight.

[jsnpritchett]

5 minutes ago, Trendon said:

I could see Rosenberg and maybe Detmers  get optioned.

Herget or Ingram could replace em.

They can’t really bring up Wantz, because he’s close to reaching his options limit for the season.

Yeah, Rosenberg should definitely be gone.  Detmers would make sense if they plan on either skipping his next turn in the rotation or giving it to Canning. 

[BTH]

4 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Yeah, Rosenberg should definitely be gone.  Detmers would make sense if they plan on either skipping his next turn in the rotation or giving it to Canning. 

I can’t see Detmers getting another start. The only reason for Detmers not to be optioned is if they want to put him in the pen, which I think would be awful for the long-term outlook of the team and his development.

[jsnpritchett]

15 minutes ago, Trendon said:

I could see Rosenberg and maybe Detmers  get optioned.

Herget or Ingram could replace em.

They can’t really bring up Wantz, because he’s close to reaching his options limit for the season.

 

8 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Yeah, Rosenberg should definitely be gone.  Detmers would make sense if they plan on either skipping his next turn in the rotation or giving it to Canning. 

Lol, maybe not.  This is odd.

 

[jsnpritchett]

Probably won't be a huge deal one way or the other, but I am kinda confused by why they didn't send Rosenberg down.  He obviously won't be available for 4-5 days after his workload last night, so unless they're for some reason considering starting him in Detmers' slot next week, why wouldn't you kick him back to AAA for a warm body?

[Duren, Duren]

Everyone in the lineup except Thaiss with ten homers or more. But all between 10 - 17 except Ohtani. Renfroe and Trout the only others likely with 20 plus this year. 

Without Trout they have been suffering without that back to back power potential.  Even in a relatively down year he always was a threat for the big blast.

Despite Drury, Moustakas, Moniak being hot at various times it still hasn't compensated from losing Trout.

The middle of the lineup hasn't had stability. And that doesn't even factor in Rendon, the disappearing man who was supposed to anchor third base and provide extra base production.

A stable regular day to day lineup (allowing for situational substitutions ) has evaded this franchise and really hurt them. 

[jsnpritchett]

22 minutes ago, VladdyforHOF said:

I'll make a wild call - Shohei goes deep twice tonight.

Olson just hit another one.  Want to up your call to three for Shohei tonight?  Ha ha.

[DMVol]

33 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Probably won't be a huge deal one way or the other, but I am kinda confused by why they didn't send Rosenberg down.  He obviously won't be available for 4-5 days after his workload last night, so unless they're for some reason considering starting him in Detmers' slot next week, why wouldn't you kick him back to AAA for a warm body?

Not a lot of options at SLC…

[Farmbuildingfan]

If Trout was hitting behind Ohtani, he would still be leading.

[VladdyforHOF]

35 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Olson just hit another one.  Want to up your call to three for Shohei tonight?  Ha ha.

At first I was going to say he'll hit three tonight, lol.

[Slegnaac]

1 hour ago, jsnpritchett said:

Olson just hit another one.  Want to up your call to three for Shohei tonight?  Ha ha.

When do teams stop pitching to Olson?

[jsnpritchett]

7 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

When do teams stop pitching to Olson?

He might get some pitch-arounds, but they have guys like Sean Murphy, Marcell Ozuna, and Eddie Rosario behind him usually. They're obviously not at Olson's level, but they're not easy outs, either.  Plus, they have Acuna, Albies, and Riley AHEAD of him, so there's a good chance at least one of them will be on base when he hits, meaning multiple runners on if you walk him.  Just a nightmare for opposing pitchers.

[Slegnaac]

23 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

He might get some pitch-arounds, but they have guys like Sean Murphy, Marcell Ozuna, and Eddie Rosario behind him usually. They're obviously not at Olson's level, but they're not easy outs, either.  Plus, they have Acuna, Albies, and Riley AHEAD of him, so there's a good chance at least one of them will be on base when he hits, meaning multiple runners on if you walk him.  Just a nightmare for opposing pitchers.

So your are saying no one is going to go full Maddon when he is up to bat.

[gurn67]

Olson's got 13 home runs and 33 RBI's in the last 26 games. Nobody is even talking about Riley and he's got 12 home runs and 31 RBI's in the last 26 games. Albies has 25 RBI's in the last 26 games. Ocuna and Harris have OPS over 1.000 during that span and Arcia at .963. They are clicking on all cylinders right now.

The Braves were so right on Olson. That's what good organizations do. They lose a player like Freeman, and are able to replace him with a younger lower salaried player and get even more production.

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

FOLLOWING THE HALOS ALL THE WAY TO POSTSEASON OR FREE AGENCY!!!!

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[Vlad27Trout27]

Cubs did these looser a favorite beating the Jay's! now these mutherfucker need to stop f'ening around and take care of business!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

21 minutes ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

Cubs did these looser a favorite beating the Jay's! now these mutherfucker need to stop f'ening around and take care of business!

Cubs did these losers a favor beating the Jay's!

Edited August 12, 2023 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[Farmbuildingfan]

Main reasons I will continue to watch games are:

1. To follow their season series record against the AL which is currently a surprising 7-4-2, but which I predict will end at 6-7-1.

2. Can they finish above .500?

3. How will O'hoppe, Trout and , Neto do when or if they return?

 

 

[jsnpritchett]

Wow, they got Jon Singleton out!

[jsnpritchett]

This game so far:

[jsnpritchett]

Whoops.  Spoke too soon.  Alvarez drives in two.  Astros up 2-0.  Ugh.

He has an OPS of close to 1.300 with RISP this year.  It takes adding like 4 Angels together to get that OPS with RISP.