John Taylor

This is normal. This world is healing, Angels baseball is back.

lol, my OCD wants to fix the title which would render a lot of the replies obsolete, but nah, Krenshaw it shall remain

Just now, tdawg87 said:

I appreciate your input and I don't mean to come off like a dick. 

He does have some control issues for sure. The good news is he keeps the ball in the park. 

Your point is just as valid as mine. I just don't like raw ERA because it doesn't tell the full story. 

I actually didn't view your response as dickish at all, in fact it made me reevaluate my perception of him (Which I would assume was your's and @Dtwncbad's point).

I think I get too hung up on legacy stats, lol

34 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Don't use record and raw ERA as an indicator of how good/bad a pitcher is. 

His ERA+ was 120. That means his ERA was very good with park factors included.

Fair point. I'm still concerned about how many walks he has allowed, but the K/9 rate is pretty impressive as well. 

This is not the (Ken) hill I'm going to die on, so if he is much better than I realize and we land him for a decent price, I'm in.

7 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

I would say Castillo is safely among the top 20 starters in baseball.

That is not a middle of the rotation starter.  That makes him a #1 for many teams.

If Castillo is your #3 starter, your rotation is epic.

8-16 with a 3.98 ERA and leading the NL in walks is top 20 in baseball?

He wasn't even the best pitcher on his team last year Tyler Mahle was.

3 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

I really don’t get the predictable “that’s a lot to give up” and “that’s a high price to pay” comments every time the Angels are rumored to be trying to acquire a high quality (high value) player.

Duh?

I honestly do not believe Luis Castillo is a high quality nor high value pitcher. He is middle of the rotation/middle of the road.

I'll pass if i involves any of our blue chippers.

I honestly don't think you can measure the value of someone like Ohtani.

Outside of the fact he is currently our best pitcher, and one of (if not) our best hitters, he also amplifies the profile of the Angels organization around the world. Even though Trout has been the best player of our generation, you can still argue that Trout may not have lifted the Angels into a more marketable and valuable team like other "all time greats" have in the past, but Ohtani has the effect of creating new Angels fans outside of our market, including making the Angels incredibly popular in Japan (I believe the most growth on both the AW website and the AW Twitter were from Japanese baseball fans)

With that being said, he needs to be untouchable for now, i mean even if you did trade him, at minimum you would need two frontline starters or else you've already lost, and there are no starters in MLB that have even close to the profile of Ohtani. Honestly I don't think there are any players in MLB. Vladdy Jr. could be a distant 2nd

I believe you only float the idea of trading Ohtani if the Angels feel like they wouldn't be able to sign him to a long term deal, other than that, back up the truck of money and lock him up, even if he doesn't hit the kind of historic season he had this year, his name value should be a net positive in return over a long period of time.

1 hour ago, Trendon said:

I wonder if Ohtani asks to be traded this offseason.

Of course, the Angels don't have to oblige to that request. But that would show that he really means it when he says winning is most important to him and put even more pressure on Moreno/the Angels.

I really hope Ohtani's disgust at the state of the team lights a fire under Arte and Perry. Trout was never the kind of guy who would publically call out the Angels but Ohtani has no problem with it, which I actually love.

This team is an absolute mess right now.

At this rate we will have more PbP announcers than starting pitchers this season.

My problem with Heaney which you can clearly see has translated to his tenure with the Yankees is his demeanor. @Chuckster70frequently talks about that "John Lackey" bulldog type pitcher that we seem to never have consistently since we lost Skaggs.

Heaney optimises the opposite of that, he showed promising stuff but was always rattled easily and could cruise to 2 outs in an inning and then just mentally collapse getting that final out.

Going to the Yankees is the worst possible place for him, he would have honestly been better off in Cleveland or Tampa, I don't see him as a Yankee next season.

This is a "must sweep" series. Not as much for our playoff hopes, but so we aren't the team that let the O's break their historic losing streak against.

Also obligatory Twitter poll I put up on the matter:

4 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Whataburger needs SoCal locations.

When we were in Texas I never actually ate at a Whataburger, lol

11 hours ago, angelsnationtalk said:

return of the low effort photoshop with Adell as Princess Leia 

Thank you @Dave Saltzer, @totdprods and @Chuckster70 for this. Awesome to see!

Couldn't stand Rich at first, but within about a week or so he completely won me over. Once he got comfortable in the booth I have found him to be a very good storyteller, and doesn't suck up to Gubi like Sutton did.

3 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

 

I can never tell which one is Cash Wheeler or Dax Harwood, lol

8 minutes ago, Adam said:

I’m at the game. Ran into @Lou

Hopefully he is keeping that 100 ft distance from women and children as required by his probation

8 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

Marsh’s sister is cute

Agreed. Angels twitter is all aflutter over her. I kind of dont blame them.

@Stradling I changed the title of the thread so I can promote it on Twitter, lol

I found him insanely boring. I almost switched to the ROOT sports feed but I ended up putting a podcast on in the background and watched without pbp

The Angels only hire Hollywood Upstairs Medical College's finest

13 minutes ago, Taylor said:

No

I had a little fun with this to trigger Dodgers fans...

Also....

I actually liked Sutton slightly more than Matty V. Neither one of them hold a candle to Victor IMHO but I thought they both brought different strengths. Daron was definitely a huge homer but I personally didn't mind that.

This is a huge surprise especially if Vasgersian doesn't do all the games for the rest of the season.