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One-quarter of the year done is no longer a small sample size. Trout is hitting .279/.367/.510, with a 10.1 BB% and 27.2 K%. His wRC+ is 141 and his 1.4 fWAR is 21st in the majors (and I believe his fWAR has actually gone down over the last few weeks). He's been the definition of mediocrity since that two HR game in late April, after which he declared he was back to his "old self." Maybe he meant "old" literally. 
Sure, he could get hot and finish with 7-8 WAR. But I'm starting to doubt it. This just feels different, like a different player than we've seen. In a similar sense, I'm losing any sense that this team is going to catch fire. They're looking more and more like what their results have been: an average team.
It is a bit hard to stomach and embodies this season as a whole. The silver lining is that I find my interest in this team slipping away. I just don't care as much as I did a decade ago. I haven't been watching the games and usually only remembering to check the score sometime after it is over. Which is depressing in its own right, but I suppose the good news (for me) is that I find myself just not very invested. I wonder if my era of Angels fandom is coming to an end, or at least greatly diminishing. 
Meanwhile, the team is 21-19. Yippee, another .500ish season! I do think I'd be more prone to stick with it if the team was playing better, but I just can't muster the energy to follow the team closely through another mediocre year. So yeah, I'm turning into a fair weather fan. I'll be with y'all if things turn around, but I just can't muster the interest to follow a mediocre team closely, yet again (and again and again). Or to think of the next seven and a half years of Trout getting worse and worse. I mean, if he's at this level at age 31 what will he look like at 35? Do I really want to watch that closely, game after game? Similarly, if the farm was brimming with talent, I might be more enthused, but aside from a bright spot here and there, the farm is what it has been for over a decade: shallow in talent. If the team has another golden era in the future, I just don't see it.
This shit is just stale, y'all. I've done this dozens of times already, and every year for almost the last decade. I can't remember feeling so lacking in zest for the team. 

Yeah and Mike Trout was basically getting fitted in a Phillies uniform according to the media, right before signing that huge deal to stay here lol 

Angels are 12-4 against teams <.500, 8-13 against teams .500+.

Since 4/23, Brandon Marsh's BA has dropped 56 points.

I’d be a little more okay with it if they didn’t lose every series to a decent team so far this season. When do they start playing consistently? 

Tommorow

Everything about the team is hot and cold. Score 12 runs one night. Get shutout the next. Lights out pitching one night. Lit up the next. Trout on a tear. Trout brings you to tears. 
 
It’s literally the only consistent thing about this team. It’s the box of chocolates squad. 

Script was pre-approved by Carpino

Those ranger games were a bit of a gut punch but nice of MLB network to remind us we have won 6 of 8. 

I’ve had a hard time buying in 100% based on not winning a series against a good team yet… 
 
Jays, Red Sox, Brewers, Yankees, Rangers.. all series losses. 
 
they can avenge it with some good play against the Astros, Orioles, Twins, and another series with the Red Sox.

Those ranger games were a bit of a gut punch but nice of MLB network to remind us we have won 6 of 8. 

My thread worked.

With a runner on 3rd and less than 2 out, the hitter you would want to see the most at the plate in this lineup is Rendon IMO.

Rendon is hitting .291 with an OBP in the top ten in the league at .418.  Let’s hope the power comes back. I read a tweet that his EV is trending up of late. 

Would it be appropriate to start a "Astro's messageboard imploding" thread?

Did you finish your cotton candy?

I still haven't gotten over Fernando Salas no longer being on the team

Hmm, I think I figured out that Suarez is still tipping his pitches.  Freeze-framed these two from the Sunday game.  Maybe you can spot it also.
This is his fastball:

This is his changeup:

I meant series opener** sorry missed a word lol

I was going to buy myself a city connect trout jersey if they took this series (having 4 kids has your money prioritized for things not usually for yourself), guess these past two losses saved me like $150 bucks. 

Well.  They angels had a couple of chances to get back into this.  Pretty much a wrap now. 

It’s basically 4-0 right now, not over but the bullpen needs to keep it there.