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It’s a compliment. StradTime is to baseball takes as Jim Cramer is to stock picks.

If he gets the surgery immediately he could be ready to DH by say early May or sooner if he’s a quick healer. He won’t pitch next season tho. I’d say this cost him about 200 mil at least. Probably more

Completely not surprised. I’d love to know what his between start throwing regimen is. And I bet I’d have a better idea of why this happened.

Hillary hits like a bitch, tho still harder than Taylor.

Interesting. I like how posts disappear when certain posters look absolutely stupid, but when that same poster can make others look stupid, the posts remain. Not surprising, but incredibly douchey all the same.

Long Beach Millikan alum. Good kid.

Why? Is she planning on suiciding some of the players?

Are the Angels on the hook for paying him while he continues to decide whether he wants to go public with whatever his issue is? Again, that’s another unique thing about this. Usually you can’t just skip out on your team, you have a contract. I wish him the best. He’s fortunate to be playing on the West Coast, seriously doubt he’d get away this secrecy in East Coast media.

If you’re going to insist on a “strategy”, you’d better be able to show proof of concept, or you just look stupid like the Angels do now. The thing that stuck out most to me in the article was the player saying how the Angels didn’t want them pitching to contact, and damn if that didn’t ring true. It’s what we watch on a goddamn nightly basis. If you’re a pitcher that’s afraid of the ball being hit then you’re not a pitcher period. You can’t pitch scared, you challenge guys with your best stuff and say here, hit it.

Those things they’re talking about with velo, pitch shaping and spin rate are all things that must be worked on outside of games and really most if not all in the offseason. There is no mental space available to be thinking about any of that during a game. During a game you just get guys out.

If it was my career at stake, I’d certainly call out what I felt was a problem. Ultimately it is your career and you need to do what’s best for you.

All of this is to say we have stupid people that don’t know baseball running our team and it shows all over the field. Baseball is a situational game that can’t be played by a script.

Maybe he’s tipping pitches haha. I know some on here fall for that.

We find out when players’ family members have things happen to them as well. Especially when it causes the player to not play. If it’s not something directly about him, usually there comes a point when that player can play despite turmoil in a family. This indicates it is something directly about him. We’ve heard of players playing when their parents have terminal illnesses. John Lackeys wife had cancer. Players playing after they’ve beaten their wives. It’s just unique.

Speaking of personal issues, the Max Stassi situation is interesting. I can’t recall another situation ever where a player sat out an entire season, disappeared, and people never knew what the reason was. We’ve seen everything from severe drug and alcohol abuse, cancer diagnoses, steroid use, Wander freaking Franco, Trevor freaking Bauer, things I’m sure many of those players wish the public never found out about, and yet we found out about them anyway.

Unless Moreno suddenly turns into Steve Cohen, we can’t sign Ohtani and win, bottom line. One, Ohtani will never be worth what he’s going to get, and two, Arte has already proven he won’t back it up with more spending when that inevitably happens. Unfortunately a rebuild in personnel and coaching staff is in order.

Freddie Freeman looking like one of the best free agent acquisitions in history.

But the senior citizen set on here says leadership among the players doesn’t matter, it all comes from the manager. Spoken like someone who has never played baseball or spent any time in a dugout.

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This doesn’t surprise me.

Oh and in case it’s not clear for you, I am insinuating that you are a douche.

That’s not all I said douche Larouche.

I’m insinuating that Barria had better stuff that game, because I was there. Giolito didn’t even hit 94 on the gun. Barria was near 96. Giolitos slider was trash. Even if it was an off game, Giolitos velo has trended down. Should not have traded for a guy like that and certainly not a top prospect. Not a difference maker.

None of the acquisitions were ever difference makers. Hell, Barria had better stuff than Giolito the other day. Throws harder and has a better slider. These results shouldn’t be surprising. Minasian and Nevin are not taking us anywhere.

People argue out of emotion, not logic.