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    Game of Adjustments: Josh Hamilton

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    With that last AB, Josh might've just cracked my top 5 in least favorite Angel of all ****ing time. Not a clutch situation, not a high pressure spot, nothing real special about the situation, at all. It was just another in the never ending series of absolutely horrible ****ing plate appearances, a series that appears to have no end, like the Simpsons. 

    Down the drain we go

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    Jayson Stark wrote this today, pretty damning for JDP...

     

    "But other teams say the Brewers have other forces at work. In Lohse's case, they surrendered a first-round pick for signing him, and clubs they've spoken to say they believe the team has factored that into its price tag. And past history also may be an element in their asking price on Gallardo and K-Rod.

    "One of the problems with dealing with Milwaukee," said an AL exec, "is that [their] trade for Segura last year was so one-sided that they want another tilted deal. Not going to happen."

    MOTO first-half update

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    Things were getting better...

     

     

    ...Until he opened his mouth and said things were getting better.

     

     

    But not small sample sizes.

     

    The last 19 games for Pujols might qualify, but this was after he said things were getting better.

    Has it been 19 games since that ridiculous piece came out about him 'finding his stroke'? I knew that was a whammy....

    Way to lay an egg Angels

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    This is what they do after a hot streak. They don't "cool off", they just completely shit the bed.

     

    This is a bad baseball team. Plain and simple. I'm not getting excited over anymore hot streaks this team may have, because I know they will follow it up by playing like this.

    Just said the same thing to my wife TD, their 'hot streaks' are complete anomalies, total bullshit. I ****ing hate this baseball team. They are my least favorite Angels squad of all time, that includes the 1992 Von Hayes-Hubie Brooks-Ken Oberkfell version...

    Did they just show Percival in the dugout?

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    At the big league level, it's more about between the ears than mechanics. That's not to say tweaking a guy's mechanics aren't addressed from time to time. But (and this makes me wanna mouth-vomit) I agree with LT on his point about when guys get up to the show, they pretty much have their shit dialed in mechanics wise, classic delivery or not. On his point about which pitching coach has really made a difference, consistency-wise, for some guys, I would suggest Dave Duncan, Leo Mazzone, Roger Craig, Dave Wallace, Rick Anderson, Rick Peterson, Joe Kerrigan, John Farrell, Orel Hershiser, Bill Fischer, Bud Black, Larry Rotschchild, Marcel Lachemann, Galen Cisco, Art Fowler, Mike Maddux, Ray Miller just to name many. I'm well aware that most of these guys also had some studs to coach in their time, but most of these guys were also able to crowbar some pretty nice performances from some otherwise nondescript pitchers. Examples? Here ya go:

     

    Duncan: Pineiro, Lohse, Kile

    Mazzone: Neagle, Burkett, Ortiz, Wright

    Craig: Reuschel, Mike Scott, Donnie Moore

    Wallace: Martinez Brothers, Hershiser

    Anderson: Hernandez, Pavano

     

    I would love to keep Googling, but I gotta split...I guess my point is, I like Mike Butcher. He will always have equity with me because of the way he handled the Adenhart tragedy, but I don't think he is a difference maker as a big league pitching coach. And I don't think it's about helping with a guys delivery, I think it's because, from what I heard, (Jepsen is a Reno guy, he's a friend of a friend, and it may be BS) he's an asshole. we've seen glimpses of it in some of his soundbites ("I sleep just fine"). Who knows for sure about that part, but I can't name one guy who came here and either:

     

    A. Got Better

    B. Continued his previous trajectory (outside of Pineiros 1st year here)

     

    I could be way off, I'm on vacation, I have had a few beers.

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