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This creates a nice platoon for Moniak/Grichuk and Moustakas/Cron when(if) Trout(Rendon) are healthy Moniak's OPS vs RHP 1.049 (.419 vs RHP) Grichuk's OPS vs LHP 1.066 (.744 vs LHP) Moustakas' OPS vs RHP .817 (.662 vs LHP) Cron's OPS vs LHP/RHP are basically the same this season but over his career he has been slightly better versus LHP .815 than versus RHP .785 That's actually the case with Rengifo and Drury as well Drury's OPS vs RHP .868 (.678 vs LHP) Rengifo's OPS vs LHP .900 (.607 vs RHP) When healthy this creates a deep lineup versus both right and left handed pitchers vs. RHP something like LF Moniak (1.049) DH Ohtani (1.146) CF Trout (.902) 2B Drury (.868) 1B Moustakas (.817) RF Renfroe (.775) C Thaiss (.716) SS Neto (.700) With either Rendon slotting into the middle of the lineup or Rengifo/Escobar towards the bottom vs. LHP something like SS Neto (.957) DH Ohtani (.919) CF Trout (.759) LF Grichuk (1.066) 2B/3B Rengifo (.900) 1B Cron (.763) RF Renfroe (.725) C Wallach (.915) With either Rendon slotting into the middle of the lineup. Or Drury going in front of Cron Playoff teams have deep lineups that can hit RHP and LHP this gives the Angels a deep lineup versus both.

Cabbage pinch hit later in the game so it seems like it was just a day off for him

His first 12 starts IP 58 ERA 4.66 FIP 5.35 H/9 6.7 HR/9 1.7 K/9 6.8 BB/9 3.3 His last 13 starts IP 71 ERA 3.04 FIP 2.51 H/9 8.5 HR/9 0.3 K/9 9.9 BB/9 3.2

Calabrese went 3-5 with a HR tonight (First 54 Games) AB 201 BA .194 HR 3 2B 11 3B 3 OBP .267 SLG .323 BB% 8.4 K% 28.9 (Last 53 Games) AB 204 BA .299 HR 4 2B 11 3B 4 OBP .379 SLG .451 BB% 12.1 K% 19.6 He also has 26 stolen bases on the season while being caught only ONE time. 3rd round pick in 2020 and still only 19 years old.

He wasn't giving up walks, but he still wasn't throwing very many strikes

Obviously a lot more goes into it than just comparing the numbers but O'Hoppe Age 22 Double-A AB 260 Avg .269 HR 15 2B 11 OBP .385 SLG .492 BB/K 39/52 CS% 21% Realmuto Age 23 Double-A AB 375 Avg .299 HR 8 2B 25 OBP .369 SLG .461 BB/K 41/59 CS% 39% Age 22 Double-A AB 368 Avg .239 HR 5 2B 21 OBP .310 SLG .353 BB/K 36/68 CS% 34%

Since May 7th Avg .333 OBP .425 SLG .444 in 43 games and 144 AB. But he does have 48 strikeouts and a .489 BABip over that stretch. Since June 15th Avg .390 OBP .486 SLG .509 in 17 games and 59 AB. Still striking out 30%+ of the time though.

Fletcher is also playing second base. So Velazquez staying at SS and Fletcher going back to second?

Hopefully this works out better than the last superhero we signed from the Mets

He got his first start at SS tonight. Looking at the boxscore he got 2 ground balls and 1 line drive. No errors.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/international/denzer-guzman-694203 #29 on that list

The Angels are tied for the third least amount of signing bonus pool money, we lost $500,000 for signing Rendon. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-international-signing-day-2020-21?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage Here is a list of the top 30 international prospects

Are the Angels linked to any of the big international free agents? Tomorrow is the first day of the signing period, but haven’t seen anything

This could fill two holes.

2019 Standings through 50 games (roughly) vs Division/Wildcard winners AL East NYY Actual Winner NYY AL Central Min Actual Winner Min AL West Hou Actual Winner Hou Wildcard TBR/Oak Actual Winners TBR/Oak NL East Phi Actual Winner Atl NL Central Chi Actual Winner Stl NL West LAD Actual Winner LAD Wildcard Mil/Atl Actual Winners Mil/Was 2018 AL East Bos Actual Winner Bos AL Central Cle Actual Winner Cle AL West Hou Actual Winner Hou Wildcard Sea/LAA Actual Winners NYY/Oak NL East Atl Actual Winner Atl NL Central Mil Actual Winner Mil NL West Col Actual Winner LAD Wildcard Phi/Pit Actual Winners Col/Chi Last 2 years the division winner was 9/12 Last 2 years the wildcard winner was 3/8 The division winner at 50 games is pretty accurate (75%) wildcard winner is a lot less accurate (37.5%). Better than nothing

I think Jones deserves the promotion. He's closing in on 200 games and 800 PA at Double-A. He finished the season strong. Over the last 3 months of the season he hit .277/.350/.393, that was over 324 plate appearances so not exactly a small sample size. Not bad numbers for a 21 year old facing guys 2-3 years older. In comparison, as a 23 year old, Fletcher posted a slash line of .276/.341/.354 over 272 plate appearances before getting called up to Triple-A mid season. Depending on what happens with Simmons next year and if we trade Rengifo or not there is a chance Jones is our starting second basemen in 2021.

We already have Steven Matz LHP Player A (2018-2019 Average) IP 157 ERA 4.09 H/9 8.5 K/9 8.7 BB/9 3.1 FIP 4.61 HR/9 1.5 ERA+ 95 WAR 1.7 LHP Player B (2018-2019 Average) IP 138 ERA 4.41 H/9 8.6 K/9 9.7 BB/9 2.5 FIP 4.21 HR/9 1.5 ERA+ 98 WAR 1.2 his name is Andrew Heaney

The Angels have 2 games today, La Stella is starting in the other game

Haven't read the thread, but I get why they would want more teams in the playoffs. If you're a casual fan you're more likely to watch the playoffs if your team is in it. Having division winners playing a 3 game series is dumb, but I wouldn't be against more teams making the playoffs. If more teams are added to the playoffs I would add 1 more, so a total of 3 wildcard teams. If you win your division you advance to the ALDS/NLDS (increase the DS to 7 games). Wildcards 2 and 3 play each other one time the day after the final regular season game. The winner of 2/3 plays the wild card team with the best record one time the next day. From there they can have the team with the best record choose who they want to play. In order to avoid playing into the middle of November I would get rid of the of some of the off days forcing teams to use 4 or 5 starters instead of 3 or 4. In this scenario there would be 12 playoff teams

I wonder if we aren't getting Pages now