AngelsFaninGA

Not surprisingly, the Angels are second only to Houston in walks allowed by the bullpen. 

There is absolutely no reason for him to opt out. His value as a manager will be at its lowest after this season and there is no way he commands the kind of money he has left remaining on his current contract. 

Playing the blame game gets us nowhere at this point. Who cares whose fault it is, just work on fixing it. 

Trout channeling his inner Wells. Speaking of Wells, he homered today when the Yankees were down 7-0.

Nothing will happen. Lowe or Enright might finally get released, but that's really about it. 

I don't get why we pulled Enright so early. Lowe is so awful that he'll only last another inning or so and then we'll have to use our normal relievers for five innings. If you're going to start Enright and concede the game, then commit to it and leave him out there until he gets his 100 pitches. Same exact thing happened when we started Roth and he was pulled at the first sign of trouble. 

I don't understand why we're throwing games when we're 15-24. 

Nice to see Scioscia at least has a quick hook tonight..

Not sure if that does us any good though. We pretty much conceded the game by starting Enright, and now we're wasting our bullpen on top of that. 

I don't remember anyone being too broken up about Corbin getting traded. It was Skaggs that was considered the main piece of that deal.

The Cardinals were plenty active in free agency and had Pujols for 12 years at his peak but yes, their draft picks have had better success at the MLB level than the Angels picks. They have nothing on their roster that says a foriegn presence other than Yadiar Molina and Fernando Salas in the bullpen.

 

 

BTW the Cardinals passed on Trout with their 15th pick in the draft to take high school pitcher Shelby Miller that is kicking ass in the majors as well.

Actually Oscar Taveras and Carlos Martinez were both international free-agent signees. 

It's early......as in, it's very early morning over here and I should probably get to bed. 

Owen Ate

Lodge is an idiot.

 

We'll go 21-0.

Too pessimistic. We'll go 23 and -2.

Of course the poster named "Lou E. Ville" would come up with something like this

Hellweg is currently 1-4 with a 4.41 ERA and 25 walks in 32.2 innings in AAA

Pena similarly has 22 walks in 31 innings. We didn't lose much by giving up either of those guys. Regarding Segura, let's not forget that he hit .264 with no homers over approximately the same number of AB's last year as he has so far this year, so it's way too early to draw any sort of conclusion on his future in the majors. When we traded him he was a typical slappy middle infielder. 

Trade him while his stock is high.

I'd rather make it in as the 8 seed under a different coach than as the 1 seed under Boudreau. He is a joke. 

The Caps choked in the playoffs every year under Boudreau. This is hardly surprising. His teams will have regular season success and flame out early in the playoffs. 

At this point I would be surprised if Sale doesn't pitch a perfect game. It's actually surprising that considering all of our futility in the last 3+ years, we haven't been no-hit in that span. 

Saw that coming from a mile away. Just like games 2 and 4, as soon as they make any headway, they promptly give it right back. 

To be fair, Vargas's pitch count was still fairly low at that point. If he was already over 100 pitches he should've been pulled, but in this case I can understand leaving him out there. 

HaloThunder?

I have a friend that plays XBox with Scioscia and he says the league won't know what hit it once Scioscia unleashes his mighty wrath. 

The system is to play so poorly that it lulls the opposition into a false sense of security. Thus, when we're in 5th place and no one takes us seriously, we pounce and take over the 4th spot. It's a brilliant strategy, I must say. 

Well since unearned runs don't count against CERA Conger is good to go.