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Come on Trop, don't F*ck around. Let's get the 3rd out. 

Hey, there we go. It's gonna be a good Ohtani night! Let's go! 

So, does this mean the Astros have to forfeit all their wins? Lol

8 hours ago, Blarg said:

The Ohtani problem is he is only a month into his MLB career and he's missing time for blisters and a twisted ankle. Any more incidents and he's Shohei Itzuris. 

That definitely seems to be the problem with his pitching. The fact he can't throw his splitter seems to be killing his potential on the mound. 

25 minutes ago, Lou said:

Not proof of anything.

lol 

We know. 

Whatever you say, dude. I honestly don't even know what you're arguing / hassling me about. 

6 minutes ago, Lou said:

So, you saw the first inning, which you included in your assessment that his pitches were wild and up in the zone.

 

 

He had blisters on his pitching hand. That's the reason why he couldn't locate his splitter, not because he's just wild and needs more seasoning. The fact remains his first two starts prove that point, regardless of your analysis. 

I really don't know how you can't follow your own points. 

*sigh*

I never said the start against Boston was proof of anything. And him being "effectively wild" obviously doesn't apply to the Boston start. 

Look, whatever you say, dude. I really don't care enough to argue. You're right, I'm wrong. Have a nice day. 

Wait, huh? Didn't know when watching that inning, but yes, I know now. 

Nice find! Had a DVD copy of this on my shelf for the past 15 years. Dust it off and watch it every now and again. 

6 minutes ago, Lou said:

You did hear about the blisters, right? 

Ya, though I must admit, when watching it happen I didn't know and was therefore very...frustrated. 

40 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Are you sure you watched because we haven't been to Boston yet.

Look dude, I saw him pitch the first inning against Boston. His splitter looked like shit, he threw about 30-40 pitches but only gave up one run. Probably had 4-5 wild pitches. Sorry if I wasn't paying super attention to location, I was watching from the bar where I play in my pool league on Tuesday nights. 

Why am I defending myself? I don't give a rats ass if you believe me or not. 

Well, at least that gives more time for the blisters to heal I guess.

Just now, Chuckster70 said:

But that's baseball. The Red Sox probably didn't think they'd lose two out of three against the Oakland A's, you know the same team we beat 4 out of 5 games. 

My old man always told me that baseball is a game of averages. 

To be fair, we suck right now. 

Well, for the second half of the month, we somehow didn't look like a 16-12 team. 

8 hours ago, Lou said:

Ok, now I know you didn't watch. He didn't get away with anything in spring training 

No, he left ball up in spring. Which, yes, he didn't get away with. Should've worded that better. I watched the man pitch every game except past the 1st inning in Boston. 

I'm sorry if you don't believe me? 

2 hours ago, Lou said:

13 ip

18 K

2 BB

183 pitches

67% strikes 

.093 BAA 

.133/.163/.296 

Something tells me that you didn't watch him pitch before the Boston game 
 

I did. He looked wild. He got away with a lot of balls up. Same thing in spring.

10 hours ago, Lou said:

He's never done it, so why start now? 

This guy hits a ton.

32 minutes ago, stormngt said:

What have you seen that makes you think he needs more time as a pitcher? The one start against Boston?

He honestly looks a bit wild. Even before the Boston start. I mean, I guess he's "effectively wild". But, I think he just needs a bit more seasoning on the mound than at the plate is all I'm saying.

The thought has crossed my mind. We know that he crushes the baseball. He has tremendous potential on the mound but seems to need time. 

I'm not willing to say we should give up, and I'm sure Ohtani wouldn't want to give up doing both, yet. 

But, is anyone else thinking it? 

1 hour ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

I think the problem could be him just being a 2-pitch pitcher now. Don't know if it's fear of hurting himself again but he's stopped throwing his curve. During the 2014 season he had that pitch mixed in with his slider and fastball and it was filthy.

Now he just doesn't throw it that much and just lives of the Fb and Slider, there really good pitches but there are two problems associated with this:

1.  both are hard pitches, 90-98. Hitters Know that it's only hard stuff that's coming so Richards need to live of his command or on that filthy movement of his slider. Buy the problem is that he's not a command pitcher and when is slider hangs it's hit hard.

2. Without his curve, he can change speed to keep the hitters off balance.

 

He thru one curve today and it was to Gardner and he couldn't even lift his bat. 

He needs to start incorporating that pitch back into his arsenal to both lefties and righties for him to be effective.  

Interesting. Something I'll look for. 

37 minutes ago, Glen said:

Going to a baseball game is a tremendous waste of money.

That said, going to my first game this year on Thursday to get that sweet poncho. Guess I'm a bad fan.

Angels Poncho bro? I have interest. What Thursday are we talking? lol

3 minutes ago, CaliAngel said:

Richards is a lost cause. Needs to be DL'd, then designated for assignment, then should never show up at an Angel game, in an Angel uniform, ever again.  

How much time and effort are you supposed to spend on a guy? He's had his chance. 

It's time to turn the page. 

Sadly, we're such shit, we can't afford to do that. 

Jesus fucking Christ. Come home, turn on the game, see the score, turn the fucking tv off.

10-0 in the goddamn fucking 3rd?

This team is hot fucking garbage right now. 

What have you done for me lately?

Fuck watching this goddamn crap

See ya later boys, I'm gonna go do something that's actually fun