DoubleOffTheWall

the astros have won more playoff games than the angels in the last 5 years. 

trout at lead off was more fun. i mean, if we're going to keep missing the playoffs, we might as well have more fun during the regular season, which trout at lead off better helps ensure. 

Love this kind of statistical breakdown. Thanks alot! 

I simply draw from this - if you have a flawed team, a solid bullpen is huge. We have a severely flawed team, even within the SP core, and our bullpen wasn't that good either. I still have high hopes for this pen though, with the likes of Gott, Rasmus and Morin. 

This woulda been epic. F'n Heaney pitching in Houston, Trout on the big stage. Altuve and Correa doing their thang. 

This was a rollercoaster season. I actually liked this team, more than even last year's team or 2012. Those teams should have made the world series, and the 2012 should have easily won the WS with grienke and weaver in his prime. This team shouldn't have been anywhere close to sniffing the playoffs. They were completely damaged goods. Their offense sucked, the pitching was suspect, no one stepped us an ace, the bullpen was an adventure (with guys like Street calling out the team and then himself choking in 2 huge games), and the drama that surrounded the team since day 1 with the hamilton incident and later DiPoto. 

This was a straight up soap opera season but with ugly people. You kinda gotta love it. 

We need much better "pre-production" planning for the next episode. 

Next year we need to learn to play cleaner more efficient baseball. Too many mistakes this year and really over the last few scioscia years.

I feel bad. Our guys played their asses off this month and gave every fan what we want. Now we need to rely on a shit team like the dbacks. We dont have as much talent as the othet teams, but i really think that losing freese and johnny G for august was what doomed us. Those guys have been great since coming back and it really intorms on some of the things we need to do for next yeAr

Yeahhhhh....i guess we should be happy 162 will be at least a mere opportunity, but this doesnt look promising at all

This is hopeless

I live in Az. Their team is a total joke aside from Goldy. I wish the stros could have at least played oakland, who always plays it tough.

We still have a chance after AZ loses today right? We would need to win out and Houston has to lose both games? If Houston splits the last 2 and we win out, its a WC tie right?

i think we're in trouble. the likely scenario is we split in texas, and houston wins 2 of 3 in Arizona. The only hope I think we have is houston drops 2 out of 3 in the desert. 

we still need houston to lose a game. we have no breathing room and its freaking me out. 

Donaldson will win. It isnt even a question.

Lol some of yall talkinf about the doyers like they are the shaq-kobe lakers. Those dudes havent won shit. I bet they are complaining on their board that it sucks that St. louis is in their league.

No way the rangers sweep th stros again: that would mean 7 straight wins against one team. Houston will win at least one of those games; angels will need to dominate against seattle and oakland.

Would be crazy. I dont see Tejas losing its grip on the division. I wonder if we can even go into Houston and win 2 of 3, which is what is going to have to happen.

Whew, that bench is just terrible. this team truly does suck. I think your roster is about right. Rasmus would have been nice but he is a lost case this year it seems

Angels suck, even rangers makin the playoffs

richards is a good pitcher. i don't know why people are worried about whether he is an ace or not. he is a solid 2, or a 3 at worst, and the #1 slot will get filled by heaney and/or newcomb.

we have bigger problems, like the fact we've basically never developed a great reliever since krod, our positional talent is a joke, our overseas scouting sucks, we might have internal issues, and the organization from a third party perspective, just isn't one of the top tier companies in the game. We're that company with a 2.5 rating on glassdoor. The Giants and Cards are like the silicon valley of the game, with a 4.5 rating and employees who love their jobs. 

Texas and twins both win, we won't gain in the standings

Seattle kicking Texas' ass again.

Can we maybe redeem ourselves vs the Astros, and hopefully someone can pitch with the guts that Richards pitched with yesterday?

This isn't a very good team but we can still make the playoffs. 

Can you imagine if we get to go to NYY for the WC game - their fans would be SO worried, considering the Angels history vs. the Yanks. 

Kubitza has looked like a butcher in the field so far. I am not very excited about him, but I think he we need to play him out a bit more next year to be sure. 

We need this guy to be good. So far, looking great. 

Gomez might be suckingg but our angels still havent been able to overtake the astros