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I mean I guess if you suspend any objective criteria by which to assess a team's potential and probability for success, it makes sense to believe.

Run differential

Angels baseball happened.

Fat

You'd get 3 solo HR's and 20 strikeouts looking

In what, Santa Claus??

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I believe the Angels will win more than 60 games this year.

Really excited to see what Adrianza can contribute. He may only have a .659 OPS in 1550 career ABs, but he's just 34 years old. This might be the year he unlocks another gear.

New lineup graphic. Thoughts?

Sir, this is a Wendy's and Urshela plays for Detroit.

I get that win/loss record is not a great indicator of pitching success but 18-40 is enough to say that he hasn't been good.

Best REM song to describe today’s Angel fans: Everybody Hurts

Kid? He will be 35 in August.

I have no blurred vision of this team being anything more then 500 in the best of cases but I will say I am liking the style that they are playing its more fun to watch then everyone standing around waiting for a homerun to happen and going 1 base at a time on hits. That was so boring to watch last couple years.

blind faith. I don't see anything either. I'm just trying to speak things into existence.

It's baseball. Anything can happen this early in the season.

When Trout slumps he does it in a big way.

6-14

It has been in space since 1977. Think about it, no repairs on anything has taken place on this craft for nearly 50 years. Just amazing.

The White Sox are now 3-19, with a -78 run differential. They've only scored 45 runs so far. It's hard to be that bad.

lmao at Lakers fans blaming the refs as if they have helped them all freaking season with that crazy FT disparity. Always a good day when Lebron loses. Better day when he retires.

In all seriousness, why? What do you see in this collection of players that gives you hope? I'm not trying to be difficult. I'm trying to understand.

Washington just commented “You gotta swing the bat.”

That’s a bass

Looking at Strike 1, 2 and 3 That was a Little League at bat.

I think it's time to sit Trout and tell him it's time to get his shit together. Bases loaded with two outs is no time to play umpire on borderline pitches, foul that shit off.

Appropriate suicide commercial is appropriate.

Casey swung the bat.

Why not?

His swing looks a lot shorter

Boneheaded baserunning mistakes aside, Jo Adell has legitimately been phenomenal this year. His statcast numbers show an expected batting average of .315, and expected slugging percentage of .478. With 2 HRs and 5 SBs in ~35 ABs, you could extrapolate those figures for a full season of 600 ABs and estimate that Adell would be on pace for 30 HRs and 75 SBs over a full season. While these numbers would probably be wildly optimistic, they do show that his small sample size production at the start of this season has been truly elite.

Plus, Hicks is terrible.

Stupid yellow line nobody asked for dicks us again.

That's ok. We can disagree. I think if you're going to draft college pitchers with 19 of your 20 picks, you're probably hoping more than two of them would have hit the majors in some capacity by now. I just don't see much talent there. Bachman is the only guy from that draft who's listed in the top 10 AngelsWin.com prospects. The only guy from that draft who's in the top 30 Angels prospects on MLB.com's Pipeline is Ryan Costieu at #11, even though he hasn't pitched since 2022 due to TJ surgery (I'm assuming they don't consider Bachman a "prospect" any longer, even though he still qualifies as a rookie). Kerry has had a good start to this year, but his numbers in previous years haven't been very good. Murphy was the closer for one of the best college programs around, but struggled last year when he was repeating AA. Jones could maybe be a respectable middle reliever at some point.

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69 420 lmao

Taylor Ward grades out fine defensively but I feel like he just does not pass the eye test out there at all.

Whatever the correct move is, Arte will do the opposite.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?team_ID=ANA&year_ID=2021&draft_type=junreg&query_type=franch_year

Got to stop with the lead off walks, holy crap.

The Toronto/Boston game was pretty good.

Were you talking to the Os

Solid beginning for Detmers.

Halos sweep this series. Calling it now.

You’re not factoring injuries in. Or the cost of beer or parking. Wtf is this amateur hour!?