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  1. Bochy is 41-17 as a manager in his last 58 post-season games. Except for that idiotic deGrom signing, the Rangers have been pretty smart lately about the way they have spent their resources. Although I hate to see a Texas/Houston ALCS (Go Twins!) it was pretty funny watching the AL East go 0-7 in the post season. They must be under suicide watch at ESPN. lol No Red Sox, or Yankees in the post season, and the AL East didn't win a single game.
  2. There was an opportunity to try to reverse this train wreck from occurring, but that passed on July 31. Instead, they went full throttle even though anyone with common sense knew it was the wrong path to take. At this point, unless there is a massive change in the direction of Arte's thinking they are one player away from being a contender, it's just going to get worse. They're many players away both at the MLB and minor league levels from fixing this. Same with spending money to fix the organizational structure. This fist has rotted from the head down.
  3. I despise Roberts. He makes me dislike the Dodgers even more than I used to.
  4. Angels lost the first game of all three series that year and won each one. Maybe that has happened with another team, but it's really hard to do.
  5. One thing you can say about Buck is that he has experienced every challenge possible. Bad owners. Bad GM's. Bad teams. Bad organizations. However, every single place he's managed, the team has been very good in either the first, or second year he was there.
  6. The minimum salary next year is $740,000. So, taking a chance on Suarez is an extremely low risk, but possibly high reward if he can get close to where he was in 2021-22. The obvious non-tenders to me are: Philiips, Wallach and Walsh. Tender: Canning, Ward, Suarez, Rengifo and Sandoval. Basically with Quijada, you're risking $1 million to potentially get a decent reliever in 2025 for another $1 million in arbitration again. Barria was absolutely horrible after the break. They kept putting him out there though which means somebody thinks he can get things back together.
  7. They need to go into the season just accepting the fact that Rendon and Trout are what they are. They are no longer 140+ games guys. There's a 3 year track record now that you can pretty much predict what you're going to get because they are not getting any younger. Figure about 50 games of .700 OPS production from Rendon and about 80 games of about .900 OPS production from Trout. Expect absolutely nothing after the All-Star Break from either of them at this point. Only Trout has played any games after the break (2022) the last 6 games other than a game, or two here and there. That's 5 out of 6 seasons where they have been basically non-existent on the field after the break. If Ohtani leaves, you have 600+ plate appearances at the DH slot that open up. That might help the two of them stay healthy by cycling them through the DH slot, but it seems to me that most of their injuries have occurred either while batting, or running the bases. You could try a load management system like the do in the NBA and limit them to 4 games in the field per week and at least one game off per week, and try to get 120 games out of them. However, I don't know if that's even going to help at this point. The track record shows they are both injury prone players. I hope both of these guys somehow find the fountain of youth, and challenge for the Comeback Player of the Year Award, but that would be an extreme abnormality at this point. So, you need to build depth. Which I think was attempted this year, but even the depth either greatly under performed, or got injured as well. There's 3 good teams in the AL West now. I don't see any of them taking a step back next season unless they are decimated by injuries.
  8. The offense as a whole had the worst batting average in MLB when ahead in games at .224. The Yankees were 29th at .234. They were 28th in OPS. The starters could not hold early leads. They definitely did not have a strong enough bullpen. However, the offense could not manufacture insurance runs. Good teams do can do those things. 8 of the top 10 teams in OPS when ahead in games made the post season. The other 2 were the Cubs, who just missed out on the post season, and the Red Sox.
  9. These are the teams that at one point in a game had a lead, but didn't end up winning the game. Most losses: 1. Colorado 50 2. White Sox 48 3. Kansas City 46 4. Angels 42 (33 in 2022) 5. Oakland 41 Least losses: 1. Baltimore 24 1. Yankees 24 1. Detroit 24 4. Philadelphia 25 5. Houston 26
  10. Gray should certainly be one of their targets. He's been very consistent, and he's pitched extremely well at the Big A in his career. 0.913 WHIP and .443 OPS against. I think he's one of those guys that's going to get more money than he usually would due to the fact that it's a year where there's not a lot of quality free agents in this year's class.
  11. 10 months on the job. There wasn't a single month where I felt this team played above it's talent level. A .550 winning pct. gets you to 89 wins. That's either going to get you into the post season, or keep you in it until the final weekend. The Angels didn't even have a single month where they played .550 baseball under Nevin. However, they had 3 of the worst months in franchise history under him. Month by month with Nevin as manager: 10-12 6-18 (I think most people forget how bad they were in July last year because of the 14 game losing streak earlier) 14-15 16-15 15-14 15-13 14-13 12-11 8-19 9-19
  12. I saw a social media post by the Reds the last week of the season pointing out that they had the most come from behind wins in MLB at that point. I was thinking how I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Angels had the most come from ahead losses this season. At least through the end of July at least. I don't know if I've ever seen an Angels team that had starting pitchers that were worse at holding leads, and offensive players that were almost incapable of adding insurance runs through productive outs. I don't know how you fix the pitching part of that. As far as offensively, they have too many players in the lineup that are trying to hit 450 foot home runs on every pitch no matter what the game situation is, or the count. I don't know if that's an organizational philosophy, or just having too may hitters with low baseball IQ's.
  13. One thing he did say when he entered the major leagues is that he considered the Mariners to be Ichiro's team, and that he wanted to make his mark with a team that didn't have a history of having a player that was hugely popular in Japan already. Whether he still feels that way, or not, is anybody's guess.
  14. Rosenberg has now made 3 starts in MLB. In those 3 starts, he's given up 4 runs in 15.2 innings for a 2.30 ERA.
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