halonatic13

That's usually hemorrhoids for me.

That's usually hemorrhoids for me.

That's what she said.
 
 
F*ck!

2021 is shaping up to be the Joe Maddon Reunion Tour.
You know, I went to a few reunion tours over the years... Chicago, Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind and Fire, America...  They're never as good as the original.  They actually sucked for the most part.
 

His mea culpa should be wearing high heels and tight skirt for 60 days, while in public.
Just to see how it feels to be on the other side.

Way to wear the pants, Albert.

Dad's total career earnings were $17.8 million across 11 seasons.

I believe he was on the Angels when he hit that into the rocks.  Farthest homerun I've ever seen hit dead center at the Big A.

Read what later?

Alright let's just get this out of the way: I do not like the SP acquisitions this offseason. Quintana is fine, but Cobb is gonna have to pitch much better than he has for me to understand that trade. As of now, it's an absolute ball scratcher.
That said, I think he's looking at what happened last year at the back of the rotation as well as the depth. He's also banking on significant improvement from Ohtani.
The Angels used 10 starting pitchers in 2020. Teheran, Ohtani, Suarez, Peters, and Andriese all combined for 15 starts. That's 1/4 of the season. 
They had an 12.29 ERA. And that's with Andriese giving up 0 runs over 5.2 innings.
The other five, Bundy, Heaney, Canning, Sandoval, and Barria had a *4.22 ERA. That would have been good for 12th in baseball, and 5th in the AL. The 5 starters I mentioned in the previous paragraph, including Ohtani, took the rotation from being above average to the 2nd worst in baseball. This is despite only making 1/4 of the starts. That's how fucking bad they were.
[*is based on overall ERA for GS, Barria and Sandoval made "relief" appearances.]
So, lets say the rotation this year is Bundy, Heaney, Quintana, Canning, Cobb, Ohtani. Quintana replaces Sandoval, who put up a 6.75 ERA. I'm going out on a limb and say Quintana pitches better than that. 
Cobb replaces Teheran and his 10.73 ERA as a starter. Even if Cobb sucks and has a 5.00 ERA, that's a pretty significant improvement. 
Anyway, I'm done with stats. My point is I kind of get what Minasian is doing this year: He's strengthening the back end and the depth so when we need 4-5 starters to pitch in a quarter of the games this year, it won't be so devastating. 
I lied, I'm not done with stats. 
Let's say we need 10 starters again, and the 4-5 "back up" guys suck and combine for a 7.00 ERA. Let's also say the main rotation doesn't improve and keeps the 4.22 ERA. That would give the rotation a 4.59 ERA, which would have been 18th in baseball and 9th in the AL. Is that good? Of course not, but I'm assuming the rotation sees no improvement and the depth sucks, just not quite as hard as 2020. And that's still overall much, much better than 2020.
Minasian isn't just trying to improve that 4.22 ERA with Quintana, he's trying to improve the fucking 12.29 ERA with Cobb and a healthy Ohtani. Barria will take starts away from Suarez, and Sandoval will make sure Peters never sees another inning. 
The rotation won't be good, barring some incredible performances. But it could be average, which is so ridiculously better than last year it's not even funny.
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I’m shocked no one has expressed concern over PTBNL.

I'm pretty sure Trout is having conversations with Perry and Perry is keeping him in the loop.  I can totally see Trout agreeing with Perry's approach about seeing what this year produces with our young players.  He's too important to not keep in the loop.

When an Angels reliever walks the first batter:

I'm tired of Odorizzi's antics.

I hope he gets a hemorrhoid