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I don't know why any pitcher would trust him to catch a pitch in the dirt with a runner on base. Other than that he's fine.

5 hours ago, Lou said:

You obviously didn't read @Jeff Fletcher's article on La Stella 

I'm referencing the microcosm of this message board.  Real baseball writers aren't suggesting Ausmus is on his way to getting fired.

This message board defaults to "fire the manager" the same way lazy sports talk shows lean on "Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame".  Ausmus MAYBE cost the team an opportunity to win twice this season (which is way different than saying he caused them to lose).  Harvery, Allen, Noe, Cahill. . . it's not his fault they can't pitch.  You don't seen Allen or Noe in high leverage situations and he can't cover up both Cahill and Harvey with bullpen games.  You tell someone to bake a cake with a turd and it's going to taste bad. There's no sense in critiquing how he makes the butter cream frosting.

Jury is out on Ausmus. Maybe he sucks but there's no way you can say he's the reason this team is 5 games under .500.

A MUCH bigger discussion should be going on about what the hitting staff (which Ausmus hired) has done to La Stella.

Buster Olney and Keith Law talked about this in detail

http://play.podtrac.com/espn-baseballtonightwithbusterolney/c.espnradio.com/audio/3641699/baseball_2019-05-22-111639.64k.mp3

3 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

I would love to see somebody defend this one.

It always makes Victor appear to have magic powers.

Does it seem like the video on the FSW broadcast is delayed by half a second. A lot of times it seems like Victor is predicting pitches as they are thrown.  Tonight he said La Stella's HR bounced off the wall before it actually did.

I'm streaming off YouTube.TV so that might have something to do with it.

On 5/10/2019 at 5:40 PM, Randy Gradishar said:

Imagine a starter goes 4 2/3 perfect innings, leaves the game with a 17-run lead, and the team uses 13 different relievers to get the remaining outs. By law, the scorer has to give the W to one of the guys that got one out. 

The opener gives the "starters" the chance to take back their Ws. That's huge; probably the #1 reason for the opener tbh.

OR . . . we could all just recognize the inherent weakness with the W stat and stop using it.

Their Pythagorean WL is 11-13. That feels about right to me. 2 games under .500 in April is nothing more to get excited about than going 13-3 last April. Patience.

9 hours ago, Stradling said:

Granted I don’t lead people that make $2.5 million a year, but I certainly lead people that make good livings where they make between $80k-400k.    

#humblebrag

3 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

 even if he doesn’t pitch another inning. 

Did you hit "submit" before, during, or after the run down in which he got injured?

1 hour ago, RBM said:

Ausmus based his decision on the situation, not the book. 

I thought pitching to Contreras WAS pitching by the book, he's just got a new book that's REALLY thick with predictive analytics.

4 minutes ago, Lou said:

that would be TOOTBLLAN, not TOOTBLAN.

thrown out on the basepath looking like a nincompoop.

Fixed. Message board gotta message board.

2 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

What the hell is going on there?

Apparently Sciosscia was kayaking in Newport Beach

TOOTBLAN

thrown out on the basepath looking like a nincompoop.

I thought for sure it was a set up for some tragedy with the wildlife.

1 hour ago, notherhalo said:

Hey if it wasn't for GMJr, we wouldnt have the run that got Saunders that epic win over a 6-0, 0.50 ERA Zack Greinke 

That was an epic game. Thanks for the memory.

Not my first choice but someone still feels strongly

It's posts like this that makes me hate internet forums.

There's one problem with your analysis; he's probably 2 years older than what's officially listed.  Run the numbers again assuming a different age and those age 32 and 33 years are better than you thought.

^ if anyone can get on base