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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.

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

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

Showalter never played MLB either.
The young players coming up to the team need solid fundamentals emphasis.  He works well with young players.

That’s fair enough, and totally agree to move on from Ohtani.
Let someone else way overpay, and not know if he is even going to be effective on the mound anymore (2nd surgeries being much more difficult to come back from).   Give the DH spot to Rendon, and mix in Trout from time to time.
Thank Ohtani for what he brought, even though they didn’t get any closer to success, and going forward build a balanced approach that isn’t way too top heavy.

Can sign a needed proven RHP starter and THREE proven relievers, and maybe even a proven OF, and still spend a LOT, LOT less than $500 million total and not clog up payroll for 8-10 years.
But sadly, we are talking about an owner who seems to prefer the Ringling Bros environment.

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.

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.

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.

I despise Roberts. He makes me dislike the Dodgers even more than I used to. 

Because of this thread, the Dodgers will win the next three games and then go on to win the WS.

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.

Mine, that is.
35.5 years in IT
Freedom!

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.

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.

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

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.

I keep Suarez he is young and was hurt last year. Only 1.1 mill. and Barria was horrible last year but in 2022 was solid again 1.5 mill not a lot.

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
 

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.

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.

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.

Do they try to sign someone like Sonny Gray?
Two solid years with the Twins, although also age 34 in 2024

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
 

Experienced and successful managers can get quality people to work under them. So can experienced and successful General Managers. Something that Arte obviously doesn't agree with me about. When it comes to hiring General Managers, his philosophy seems to be, the cheaper the better.