Jeff Fletcher

What you’re missing is that the Angels were up for sale at the time, so it would have been hard to get any experienced manager to walk into such an unknown situation.

I would add one caveat to Moustakas: he would probably be much more productive on a per-AB basis if he were playing 2 times a week instead of everyday. Obviously, if the Angels signed him, it would be with a plan of him doing that.

I have no idea. I was merely speaking from the standpoint of positional versatility.

In my story that will be published tomorrow I say the Angels seem like they should go for versatility again among position players and I also identified Bellinger and Turner. Schanuel, Drury, Neto, Rendon, O’Hoppe, Ward, Trout, Moniak. (Plus Rengifo) They have a reasonable choice at every position now. Obviously some of that won’t pan out, but right now you don’t know which one (Rendon is the best bet.) Getting more players who could move around helps them cover for that.

And don’t forget that the other Will Smith won the 2020 World Series.

Oh I’m sure they are tracking it. If they believe it hurts them, they’ll change it.

They are trying to avoid having 4 games one day and then zero the next day.

I can’t see that ever happening.

So what happens if they keep moving up the earlier series but then the WS can’t move up?

That’s Oakland. Major League was shot in Milwaukee.

I don’t think there’s any way you could do this without actually watching all the HRs. You could make a rough estimate using the distances, and I suppose as long as you used the same numbers for each team you’d get a pretty accurate relative number for how many extra HRs the Angels hit vs HRs they allowed.

I’m honestly not sure when the deadline is for them to have to move him back to the 40-man or do something else with him. These are questions that generally get sorted out at the GM meetings (right after the WS).

I think it was all Arte

I think you’re probably right. I don’t think that should surprise anyone after Nevin got fired. That was obviously Arte too.

Why don’t you just say what it is you suspect and I’ll tell you if I think you’re right.

I think the question will be which, if any, the new manager wants to keep. It’s not which ones are going to get fired. When the manager is gone it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that most, if not all, of the coaches will be gone.

The bullpen matrix was so overblown. It was just who had thrown how much in the previous few days. I was doing the same thing on Twitter with my red light/green light.

I would not expect decisions on any of the coaches until there’s a new manager.

It should be no more confusing than when Nevin got fired. People lose their jobs when you don’t win.

It pains me that you’re quoting my story but instead of quoting my story (which is published on here for free), you’re using the link of the clowns who steal all of my stories.

I have talked to both Perry and Nevin about this plenty of times. My sense from both of them is that what happens with the Angels is no different than how most teams operate. The GM and the analytics team comes up with some basic strategies and then get together with the manager and “agree” how they’ll be implemented. If the manager disagrees, he can voice his opinion and sometimes he’ll win and sometimes he won’t. But ultimately the GM is the manager’s boss and it’s no different from any of you who have a boss.

I don't know if I'd go that far. I would say that you shouldn't just classify all "analytics" guys as the same. Some are better than others, even if they are all "analytics" guys. My sense is that the Angels weren't relying too much or too little on "analytics," but maybe that the particular analytics they were using weren't the best for the particular players/coaches they had.

Funny aside: Early in 2022, when things weren't going right for the Angels offense, Joe Maddon shook up the batting order and he basically admitted it wasn't for any reason more than just for the sake of making a change. He called it "rearranging deck chairs on (pause) the big boat." Maddon was halfway through his sentence when he realized he was about to compare his team to the Titanic.

I think that was it.

Yeah. This is a good question. But as you referred to, Perry did say way back in May he intended to use a five man rotation if Ohtani wasn’t involved.