Jeff Williams

A few thoughts since Wed: Chavez looked sharp out of the pen on Wed. While Sciosh threw in the wrinkle with Fri night's game of bringing Cam in the 6th, I thought he might bring in Chavez for the 9th. Tip of the cap to Machado who singlehandedly won that game for them. That's baseball and the Halos are resilient to come back Sat and win it without wearing the heartbreak on their sleeves. Ramirez is quite underrated, with the win and quality starts he has put together throughout the season. Simmons has slumped and Altuve has taken over the WAR position lead. The Norris breather helped and he looked sharp tonight. Andrew Bailey has been off the DL and hasn't come out out of baseball's best bullpen, yet. You wonder if they will put him on waivers for a trade; maybe for that guy from the Washington system, after all? We'll see.

I'll let someone else say that for me. "They lead in comeback victories." AND, by lead margin to the 9th inning. I'll add about Simmons. He is the current MLB WAR Position Player leader with 6.4 and the Defensive with 3.0. Altuve (currently considered among the MVP leaders) leads on the Offensive WAR with 6.4, but Simmons leads on the Position player. Is that moreover the grounds for MVP? He's the first name atop on MLB Referece.com, I need some help there? So, Simmons and Trout is pretty damn special alone, Jukaa and Jarro (with the neon helmets riding the tandem)! Trout, himself, along with the rest of the team, manager, coaches, and staff might be to first to you themselves, SIMMONS AS THE MVP (up to this point). Interesting, too, they had 41 comeback wins in 2002. They have how many this season with Mike Scioscia still the Manager?! I won't say anything more, other than I will just keep watching to prove my point behind this thread.

That's not funny! You 2 should strap on neon helmets and ride a tandem in the dark, down a steep slope. Here's your practice. Enjoy the ride:

\to A few thoughts before I begin: Trout doesn't have a cape but is damn close to having one. Norris is tired, stuff is flat, he might rebound with the right tweaking in between, but it's uncharted territory that he probably needs a breather for his own good altogether. Not the Doug Corbett vacation request, but he could use a little breather. The assembly with this team has been interesting all season, and if they can stay healthy of getting key pieces back into their rotation beginning with Skaggs, then maybe Heaney, and even Richards, this could be quite the winning club down the stretch. Shades of 1995 for the Astros? Well, they're hobbling and baseball is the wierdest game! When you're running on all cylinders focused on playing winning baseball, you move up, it's that simple. Beginning with the figment of Jay Buehner's say to the camara's that Mid-August, 1995, with the Angels ahead of them 10.5 games at that point, "we got Griff back and we're just going to hang around and see what this thing can do." Everything around Trout is working, the team held fort while he was out, Simmons is quite underrated of an impact key element hitting extremely well (gipped out of an AS...idiots!), and Cron and Calhoun are looking really nice of getting back to their hitting forms. Their back end bullpen is solid, and they have Scioscia. The Angels could be making things look interesting toward the MLB playoffs.

How about a Tom Slick? YAAAY!

Had Trout and Simba for the 2x down on a BTS of 15 tonight, shucks!

They we go Nasty Cam, can we bring u back out for the 9th, Norris' has no leash here?!

It's just too by the book for me when u bench the tools talent at 2B for the glove-only veteran in Pennington. Let alone, leaving Valb at 3B instead of him late in the game. Another late lead probably about to vanish like a fart in the wind

Revere, playing like he has, as Scoiscia drains it playing Maybin off the DL instead

Penington playing in front of Cowart?

Can the Angels win this one now without having to put ourselves on pins and needles over the bullpen the last couple of weeks?!

Just used to being ahead, situation in the previous week was when they were down, The stuff is at work

Ur damn right to bring Norris in, with Cam behind him!

Pounders is what was wrong with Norris today. It's easy not be ready when it happens so fast for the guy in front of you to give up a 2-run HR then a 2B with 0-out, when u have 6-run lead in the 9th expecting to get the day off.

They need to get some of their SP's back, then we're talking! Pettite yesterday, Chavez today risks overworking bullpen altogether. Ricky and JC, though they lost, at least went 6.2 innings this week on top of Parker. They've got to have help on the way behind it all.

At least Toronto has bad lighting in the visitor's manager office for one to hide from a meltdown shame. Despite, I'm encouraged the direction the offense has been and the 38-run differential into the 9th inning (added todays game) as 1st in the majors.

It's HERSHEY altogether, when u look at it, for them leaving that damn bar on the Toronto field with this road trip!

It's HEARSAY, Siri!!

I don't know! Typo for all I care, what is this the Dad Gomn Scripps Belling Bee?!

Hey, shaddup, Richard!!

Damn it, that one hurt!! They were sailing until Pounders pounded them in the sand beaching the damn thing! That's 2 GS Norris has given up on this week, too. They probably should have sold him after the 1st one, but that's heresay.

MLBTR reports that the Angels will consider dealing Norris, Pettit, or Hernandez. Pettit might continue as a good spot starting option until Meyer, Shoe, Skaggs, maybe even Heaney return, and I wouldn't deal him. Jose Mota believes they'll add by today's post game show, and Scioscia's probably urging Eppler to keep his deep back-end bullpen in tact [Norris, Bedrosian, Middleton, Hernandez, Parker] until he gets some SP rescue back. They have Street and Bailey on the DL, too, who may return, I guess. I applaud this team for holding this season together despite the repeat injury bug biting them in the ass. Look how deep they are if they get many of those guys back shown by the notes with their depth chart at angels.com If Eppler want's the Meyer type, though, he might seize it with Norris, we'll see.

3B has fallen off adding Donaldson to that mix. Thx to Longoria, 3B has been held up somewhat in the AL. The Tigers Castellanos (who the Angels missed in that draft) yields great chip return value if they put him on the block. Escobar is good value, relatively, to a rather scarce MLB position. Eppler is playing his cards right to treat it that way while 3B is still a call.

Keep Cam. Probably still a little tender off the DL and should have a nice stretch!

Yet, the Angels kept him although they didn't want him? The guy can hit in the clutch with men on base, but can be a stupid poison to the rally at the same time by his base running.