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guys calm down.... this sucks, but the season isn't over. we actually have depth in our system for once..... Barria getting the call every 5 day now, than we may even bring Canning up.

Is it possible? are we back to scoring runs and winning games?

Suarez with another dominating start: 5 ip 2 hits 1 BB and 11Ks
  

Suarez with another dominating start: 5 ip 2 hits 1 BB and 11Ks
  

Suarez with another dominating start: 5 ip 2 hits 1 BB and 11Ks
  

I feel as if most of our guys become pull hitters at home.

man too many sliders, you have a 100 mph FB use it!!!

man too many sliders, you have a 100 mph FB use it!!!

I think you guys are overvaluing Herrera's  trade value. Maybe if it was 2 years ago, it may have cost us a top 15 prospect to get him. Half a year of him will at most cost us somewhere around the bottom 15.

But you have to consider that Kimbrel was the best closer at the time, including the fact that the market for relievers was better than compare to now. 
half a year of Herrera will not cost us that much.
Some thing like this: 
John Jay, Herrera for Castillo, Gatto and one or two prospects not on the top 30 
 

Herrera would be the ideal piece for us to get and it should not cost much. Soler is still young and i believe untradeable.
  Moose could be a nice guy in the line-up, but we also have in-house options that are cheaper..
  List of in house-options
    1. JMF- Solid K-to-BB rate, descend power and has the ability to play 2nd/1st. another LH hand option also is a protocol 2-hole hitter.   
   2. Ward- more and more he's looking as starting 3rd baseman, good BB-to-K rate and has shown power
   3. Fletcher- fringe starting 2nd baseman or UT.  
 
If i'm billy i'd make a trade for Herrera, while trying to get John Jay. we get a lead of-hitter and Rf( if calhoun continues to struggle) and we get a closer option. 

Just looked up Suarez career numbers in the minor, and was i surprised by them!!!!!! 

Those strike-out rates the past 2 years, compared to the walk rate. Than comparing his ERA to Fip and Xfip, He's  a hidden Gem in our system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe Gatto with another strong start last night. This is the best i've seen him stuff wise, at around 11% K rate and 54% Ground rate, The walks are a bit high. Another guys that will probably be in double-A soon, in Double- A i believe we will see what kind of pitcher he is, will he be a starter or a reliever we Shall find out.  
The more i see Rengifo play the more i like him. his combo of speed, power and patience are intriguing.   

look we had a chance to win 2 out of the 3 games. Game one we were 3 outs away and game 3 we were 1 hit away from winning.
look at the positives:
Other than Richards, our pitching is showning up, as a matter of fact since the houstan series, we are pitching much better.
2. Bedrock is returning back to form. With the emergence of Anderson and Middleton our back of the BP looks better.
Now we need the Starters to give us innings and the Offense to return and by the next time we meet the yanks and sox again we are going to be a different team!!!

look we had a chance to win 2 out of the 3 games. Game one we were 3 outs away and game 3 we were 1 hit away from winning.
look at the positives:
Other than Richards, our pitching is showning up, as a matter of fact since the houstan series, we are pitching much better.
2. Bedrock is returning back to form. With the emergence of Anderson and Middleton our back of the BP looks better.
Now we need the Starters to give us innings and the Offense to return and by the next time we meet the yanks and sox again we are going to be a different team!!!

look we had a chance to win 2 out of the 3 games. Game one we were 3 outs away and game 3 we were 1 hit away from winning.
look at the positives:
Other than Richards, our pitching is showning up, as a matter of fact since the houstan series, we are pitching much better.
2. Bedrock is returning back to form. With the emergence of Anderson and Middleton our back of the BP looks better.
Now we need the Starters to give us innings and the Offense to return and by the next time we meet the yanks and sox again we are going to be a different team!!!

look we had a chance to win 2 out of the 3 games. Game one we were 3 outs away and game 3 we were 1 hit away from winning.
look at the positives:
Other than Richards, our pitching is showning up, as a matter of fact since the houstan series, we are pitching much better.
2. Bedrock is returning back to form. With the emergence of Anderson and Middleton our back of the BP looks better.
Now we need the Starters to give us innings and the Offense to return and by the next time we meet the yanks and sox again we are going to be a different team!!!

ahhh look at all these bandwagoners..... no shame!!!!

ohhh gosh yesterday it was AJ, today it's Mendoza........booooo!!!

I'm more embarrassed at how we've played the past 2 week than angels stadium becoming yankee stadium with all those bandwagoners!!!! 3-8 while be outscored by who know what is the real disappointment. 

I'd rather have a guy that can gets hits and is on base,than someone that worries about getting the perfect bat flip....
 
damit he just had to get those hit!!!! but he's just another pujol's, with his low average and Obp. but just a lot cheaper than pujol's.

I think the problem could be him just being a 2-pitch pitcher now. Don't know if it's fear of hurting himself again but he's stopped throwing his curve. During the 2014 season he had that pitch mixed in with his slider and fastball and it was filthy.
Now he just doesn't throw it that much and just lives of the Fb and Slider, there really good pitches but there are two problems associated with this:
1.  both are hard pitches, 90-98. Hitters Know that it's only hard stuff that's coming so Richards need to live of his command or on that filthy movement of his slider. Buy the problem is that he's not a command pitcher and when is slider hangs it's hit hard.
2. Without his curve, he can change speed to keep the hitters off balance.
 
He thru one curve today and it was to Gardner and he couldn't even lift his bat. 
He needs to start incorporating that pitch back into his arsenal to both lefties and righties for him to be effective.  

Don't worry the youth movement is coming soon. Canning just was part of a no-hitter in double A, has front of the line potential and may be up by the September .
Guys like Barria,  Castillo and Suarez have the potential to be 3s!!
Than there are guys like Crod, Soriano and Rivera futher away but they have the highest upside beside Canning in our system.
On the offensive side:
He's not technically a prospects but JMF is making noise in triple A. 
Jone and Marsh are about a year or a year an half away from arriving to Anaheim
while Thasis, Ward, Hermosillo, Rivas Fletcher could be starter or Utility right now or close to.    

The BP has been one of our best resources! its 5th in the AL and 11 in the entire Mlb. What, has hurt us is the overuse of the BP!!! If we need to we can easily add a arm by the trade deadline. 

The BP has been one of our best resources! its 5th in the AL and 11 in the entire Mlb. What, has hurt us is the overuse of the BP!!! If we need to we can easily add a arm by the trade deadline.