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    Ohtani vs Tanaka

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    8 hours ago, nando714 said:

    Ohtani in New York , tons of pressure, I don’t think he likes that kind of pressure yet. Jmo

    Based on, what?  As far as I can tell, kid is immune to pressure. Comes to the states and sucks air in Spring training because.... well apparently, because he doesn't care what anybody else thinks - he KNOWS who he is and what he can do.  REALLY curious about your reasoning

    The Official 2018 Major League Baseball Thread

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    5 minutes ago, True Grich said:

    I was listening to mlbnetwork radio this morning and they were talking about the D-Backs and their .217 team batting average!  Wow.  League average is only about .243 - so BA's are down over all, but the D-Backs have been doing it with their pitching (they just fell out of first place).  That team batting average is pathetic!

    Hard for me to believe the Humidor has that big of an effect, but.... I dunno.  AJ Pollock went down, and he was providing a decent bat before then. But what the heck happened to Goldschmidt?  

    Deadweight Position Players

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    1 hour ago, SuperTroopers said:

    Pablo if those are bad pitches being called then it’s on Maldonado, the catchers call the pitches.   I’ve noticed more times than not it isn’t a bad pitch call it’s missed location.  I remember guys on here railing on Maldonado for calling a fastball, but they ignore the fact that he’s set up outside and the pitch ends up on the inner part of the plate only to see the balldriven hard by the batter.   Who knows if it was a bad pitch selection but it absolutely wasn’t pitched where he called for the pitch to be located.  

    Oh, I agree, I think pitcher execution has far more to do with it. For clarification, though, I'm not saying Maldonado doesn't call the pitches; my point is that if he CHRONICALLY calls bad pitches, Scioscia would not keep him employed on his team.  That leads me to look elsewhere for the cause, and I think you put your finger on it.

     

    Deadweight Position Players

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    3 hours ago, greginpsca said:

    Maldonado is as good as it gets defensively. He is a bargain for the pay. 

    Catcher defense is so hard to quantify. Fangraphs podcast "Effectively Wild" recently studied the affect of effective pitch-framing on staff ERA, particularly (in this case) as it pertained to the Cubs with a 'location dependent' pitching staff and a sub-par framing catcher (Wilson Contreras). They were hoping to bring a correlation to why the Cubs staff has been struggling. Their research, however, showed the pitch-framing/pitching success link was (surprisingly) non-existent. So how do you quantify catcher defense?

    I have heard some rail on Maldonado's failure to 'call good pitches" this year, but after watching Scioscia micro-manage his catchers for nearly 20 years, I gotta say that's a bunch'o'crap. IF Maldonado were calling the pitches, and IF he were doing a poor job, he would not be catching for a Mike Scioscia managed team. 

    Blocking the plate used to be a good metric, until it was no longer allowed. So for me, the casual fan who has watched Angel catchers throw out 10% of opposing runners for 15 years, I am so over-the-top excited that we FINALLY have someone who can actually gun down a would-be base stealer, that this whole "Maldy is a bad defensive catcher" nonsense is just noise.

    Gameday Thread: 5/15/2018 Astros vs Angels (Trout at leadoff, Ohtani 2nd)

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    1 minute ago, Angelsfan1984 said:

    I legitimately cannot take you seriously. You simply don't understand basic fundamental baseball. Keep living on baseball reference, it's truly amazing how poorly you comprehend the game 

    Fundamental Baseball. Game comprehension. After spending a few weeks on this board, I have lost absolutely all respect for those arm-chair managers who blame the front office or manager for every failing the players have. The sheer chutzpah of trying to claim, with a straight face, that you saw this or that coming, and insisting that anyone with any baseball understanding can see it coming, when all they can actually see is what happened. "Why did you take Barria out after only 94 pitches" can simply be restated as "Why would you leave Barria in when he's already thrown more pitches than any time in his career?". Just as "Gotta stick with Alvarez here because he's the only rested, reliable arm" gets substituted with "how can you leave him in to blow the lead" - all depending on the outcomes. And then, THEN, "supporting" their assinine conclusions (based on things that have already happened) by claiming that nobody else understands fundamental baseball. 

    I'm frustrated. ANOTHER tough loss as the Angels try desperately to hold on with a bullpen devastated by injury. But at least we can count on the 'knowledgeable' baseball fans to tell us what should have happened, based solely on what actually did. Cowards.

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