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David Fletcher 
0.302 batting avg, 0.371 against RHPs, 0.313 with RISP, 0.333 in Late &Close games, and 0.500 in high leverage situations this season
TLS
0.222 batting avg, 0.239 against RHPs, 0.158 with RISP, 0.143 in late & close games, and 0.091 in high leverage situations this season.
 
Take Fletcher out to put in TLS just because he had a walk in 1 AB? or just because he hits left handed makes 0 sense
 
idgaf about fanboy crush or whatever reason ppl love Fletcher I just know that pinch hit made no sense at all no matter how you look at it. There is no guarantee that Fletcher would have come through in the situation (and of course there's no such player you can guarantee a hit in any AB) but teams take the best chance you have in a given situation to win, not a brain-dead non sense decision like Ausmus

David Fletcher 
0.302 batting avg, 0.371 against RHPs, 0.313 with RISP, 0.333 in Late &Close games, and 0.500 in high leverage situations this season
TLS
0.222 batting avg, 0.239 against RHPs, 0.158 with RISP, 0.143 in late & close games, and 0.091 in high leverage situations this season.
 
Take Fletcher out to put in TLS just because he had a walk in 1 AB? or just because he hits left handed makes 0 sense
 
idgaf about fanboy crush or whatever reason ppl love Fletcher I just know that pinch hit made no sense at all no matter how you look at it. There is no guarantee that Fletcher would have come through in the situation (and of course there's no such player you can guarantee a hit in any AB) but teams take the best chance you have in a given situation to win, not a brain-dead non sense decision like Ausmus

We finally have a team that’s as good as the world champion Red Sox and everyone is bitching. The nerve!

This must be a joke. 
You leave Bourjos with 0.103 avg in for bases loaded to get struck out and pinch hit Fletcher with La Shitella in the next inning?
Consistently having 3-4 starters batting below .200 is already a joke but how Ausmus manages makes me think he is already losing games intentionally smh

Fixed.

His current numbers are too bad to afford no matter how good his defense is, especially when he is a corner outfielder (if he is a SS or CF, I'd say yes)
But Kole has been fine as a hitter since he returned from DL with different batting stance. He's batting .270 since returning from DL and .293 with 7 HRs in July. 
He had his worst ML run in April and May but he is going back to his usual self pretty quickly so at this point, I would say Angels has to keep Kole in RF

actually has been even worse than what was already very bad

Problem is, the 2nd half is already 20 games old, and no change.

I hope they keep him out. Seriously

He wasn’t in the starting lineup last night.....against a right hander....and Fletcher got 3 hits in his place at 3b.....

Only if we kept Yates...

End it Kole

But now I'm seriously worried about our offense. Angels starters are recording 2.8 ERA for last 10 games and they are 3-7 in that span.
Apparantly we aren't going to continuously get 2.8 ERA from our starters so our bats have to come alive at some point or they will start losing 10 out of 11 like a week ago

Oh okay. We had Cy Yates on Saturday, Nolan Pounders yesterday, and Clayton Hernandez tonight.
What an amazing pitchers we keep bringing

Well.. If we look at how this team has been spending, it will be a miracle if this team is doing something positive.
We gave Gary Matthews Jr. $50M for 5 years. He was averaging 0.250 and 10 HRs for his entire career except for one good 2006 season. Of course, after signing with the Angels, he averaged exactly around his career average (0.248 and 30HRs in 3 seasons) with the Angels and we dumped him.
We traded Juan Rivera and Mike Napoli for Vernon Wells. He batted 0.222 with the Halos while Mike Napoli became a clean up hitter, batting over 0.300 and crushing 30 long balls. On the other hand, the catcher we decided to keep instead of Napoli, Jeff Mathis, batted 0.174 for whole f'n season and crushed 3 long balls. After 2 seasons, we traded Wells to Yankees but Angels paid for majority of his salary and we spent around $80M for that crap for 4 years.
We signed Albert Pujols, who absolutely had been legendary. But he was 32 years old and had 2 worst seasons of his career in St.Louis before coming to the Angels. We gave him 10 year contract and his contract is still only half way to be done.
We traded 4 prospects including 2 of top 5 at that time (1 being Jean Segura) for Zach Greinke. Then, we used him for 2 f'n months and let him walk out as an FA. Greinke had his prime with Dodgers and recorded 51-15 with 2.40 ERA for following 3 years. Also, Jean Segura, the top prospect we basically threw away for nothing, became an All-Star at the age of 23 and batted 0.319 last season, and batting 0.313 this season with Mariners.
We signed Josh Hamilton, also 32 years old like Albert Pujols and Vernon Wells, who had awful 2nd half of the last season with Rangers. He was an MVP candidate until May, and started struggling from June and literally sucked until the season's end but the Angels decided to sign him no matter what, and look at how the result turned out to be and how much money the team is spending on that shit still.
We signed CJ Wilson and wasted $20M for nothing last season, but he had 51-35 record with high 3s ERA in 4 seasons before he got injured so his contract is not as bad as the ones above.
Yes I understand bad contracts happen. I understand athletes are always in danger of injury. But if all those god damn bad contracts all happen in one decade, (if we take GMJ out, they happened in almost half decade) surely the team will be blown up. We have a devastated farm, shit loaded up salary cap, and no player with more potential to improve on our roster. This team will be painful to support for awhile. If you are going to support with logic, I think it's better for your mental health to find other team to root for. But you know, liking a team has nothing to do with logic usually. Even though you know they will suck balls, you still can't help rooting for them. That's why I've been going to their games and rooting for them while all those bad times and I think you will be with me and other guys here to support this bad team
 

Which one should we assign for Home Run Derby this All-Star break?
Yikes or Pounded?

You must be a prophet. Or fortune teller at least

Stroman puts the ball always around the zone. He never puts it in the middle of the plate but never too far out of the zone. Always somewhere around black. Amazing command

Well.. If we look at how this team has been spending, it will be a miracle if this team is doing something positive.
We gave Gary Matthews Jr. $50M for 5 years. He was averaging 0.250 and 10 HRs for his entire career except for one good 2006 season. Of course, after signing with the Angels, he averaged exactly around his career average (0.248 and 30HRs in 3 seasons) with the Angels and we dumped him.
We traded Juan Rivera and Mike Napoli for Vernon Wells. He batted 0.222 with the Halos while Mike Napoli became a clean up hitter, batting over 0.300 and crushing 30 long balls. On the other hand, the catcher we decided to keep instead of Napoli, Jeff Mathis, batted 0.174 for whole f'n season and crushed 3 long balls. After 2 seasons, we traded Wells to Yankees but Angels paid for majority of his salary and we spent around $80M for that crap for 4 years.
We signed Albert Pujols, who absolutely had been legendary. But he was 32 years old and had 2 worst seasons of his career in St.Louis before coming to the Angels. We gave him 10 year contract and his contract is still only half way to be done.
We traded 4 prospects including 2 of top 5 at that time (1 being Jean Segura) for Zach Greinke. Then, we used him for 2 f'n months and let him walk out as an FA. Greinke had his prime with Dodgers and recorded 51-15 with 2.40 ERA for following 3 years. Also, Jean Segura, the top prospect we basically threw away for nothing, became an All-Star at the age of 23 and batted 0.319 last season, and batting 0.313 this season with Mariners.
We signed Josh Hamilton, also 32 years old like Albert Pujols and Vernon Wells, who had awful 2nd half of the last season with Rangers. He was an MVP candidate until May, and started struggling from June and literally sucked until the season's end but the Angels decided to sign him no matter what, and look at how the result turned out to be and how much money the team is spending on that shit still.
We signed CJ Wilson and wasted $20M for nothing last season, but he had 51-35 record with high 3s ERA in 4 seasons before he got injured so his contract is not as bad as the ones above.
Yes I understand bad contracts happen. I understand athletes are always in danger of injury. But if all those god damn bad contracts all happen in one decade, (if we take GMJ out, they happened in almost half decade) surely the team will be blown up. We have a devastated farm, shit loaded up salary cap, and no player with more potential to improve on our roster. This team will be painful to support for awhile. If you are going to support with logic, I think it's better for your mental health to find other team to root for. But you know, liking a team has nothing to do with logic usually. Even though you know they will suck balls, you still can't help rooting for them. That's why I've been going to their games and rooting for them while all those bad times and I think you will be with me and other guys here to support this bad team
 

Maybe it was because of the jersey you were wearing.
 

On the other hand, it is truly amazing how Angels donated like 3 runs to Jays and are refusing to walk it off against crappy pitcher and Jays still can't win it

This offense is really f'n pathetic smfh

So we are facing Cy Latos tonight

With sub par offense, his defensive abilities solely made him one of the best short stops in the league.
He just started his 6th year in MLB and already has 17.7 dWAR, which ranks 70th in the Major League history. He is going to make his mark in this league with his gloves throughout his career. I don't really care if he bats 0.280~290 continuously or his avg drops little bit. Even if he hits like 0.230 and has 5 HRs for entire season, his defense at SS position makes him special and will be very valuable asset for the team.
Odd thing is, the ones that provide good D for the team are also the ones that has been providing O as well (Maldo, Simba, Trout). The ones with no D or awful D (Pujols, Cron, Maybin) can't do shit offensively either. So it's pretty clear who's to keep and who's to dump