UndertheHalo

Lol Cozart is just lost up there. What a shitty pitch to swing at.

It’s fine.

I’ll take playing against incompetence every time vs. being good.

Stfu that hurt dude.

Watching several angels take walks makes me happy.

Albert has been bitten by the baseball.

Maybe the turret can hit one out to the wall and move Simmons over a few bases.

Simba !

I’d like to see him back also. I think it’ll be sooner then later. Honesty I think we’ll see plenty of phantom DL trips this year for several of our pitchers. They’re going to try and spread the innings out.

Back tracking ? Lol what ? You’re talking about how analytics has murdered common sense and “removed the human element” all I pointed out was that even if they were purely running the team with some algorithm there’s nothing that would stop them from including recent performance and emphasizing the value of it. If they chose to value that stuff. The T-3000 isn’t running the team dude. You’re just being contrarian for sake of it.

Math. The greatest foe of common sense.

He didn’t lead off with a homer so you’re good. Also, even if they were having some program spit out a line up, don’t you think they’d have that program add some positive weight to recent performance ?

Hopefully

This breakfast abortion appears to be of the British variety.

Lol I don’t even know what to say to this. This just a retarded post Eli.

Tommy LaStella hit .285 against righties last year. @arch stanton noted that he’s had success against Shelby Miller. If he pitches into the 6th. Then LaStella will have 2 or 3 AB’s against him. Your concerns about situational hitting are ill founded today.

Do these guys understand that the line up is a circular thing ? Fletcher is hitting 2 spots ahead of Trout.

Is it common sense ?

I don’t really care whether it’s LaStella or Fletcher. I don’t think either are particularly good lead off batters. I’ve been saying that LaStella makes more sense leading off then batting like 6th or 7th. It would be fine for him to bat 9th as well. I’m not arguing that I think he’s a better player then David Fletcher. The two are interchangeable in the lead off role for the 04/07/2019 Angels. There aren’t a lot of options. In a good line up David Fletcher and Tommy LaStella are both bottom of the order guys. Also, I don’t understand the point of your comment on his “pinch hitting” numbers. He collected a volume of AB’s. I think it’s ok to take that as face value. He played quite a bit for the Cubs last year. Can you read ?

Just pointless. The main difference between batting 9 and 1 is that 1 probably ends up with one more at bat. For David Fletcher that’s not that big of a deal. It’s still a table setting role. You’re bitching about nothing. And you’re making absurd judgements about LaStella. You are literally deferring to a tiny chunk of data from the 1st week of season over a much larger amount of data represented by the guys career numbers. Just reactionary bullshit.

The 9 hole is a good spot for hitters that get on base or make contact. It provides opportunity for the mid order thumpers. Trout and Bour today. It’s a fine spot for Fletcher. I realize that his ability to make contact also profiles well batting first. LaStella is on the team because of his demonstrated ability to get on base (in his career - not one week of this season) and play multiple positions. Getting on base is usually regarded as a good thing for lead off hitters. This isn't rocket science. What’s crazy is that we constantly keep trying to run a guy with sub .300 OBP in the lead off spot. The line up looks better with Kole not leading off.

What does analytics “overpowering” common sense even mean. Jesus Christ.

How do you figure Scioscia would have configured the line up differently ? And how would it have been better ?

I think this is pretty close to the best they can do right now.

I am an all in supporter of baseball players destroying their bodies with steroids and HGH and whatever to entertain me an help my favorite baseball team win. The right to troll my asshole friends is very important to me. Get Albert on that shit immediately.