Ohtani&Trout

Why swing at the first pitch? Cycle gone.

Yes. He has been unlucky lately.

He still has a 150 wRC+ despite his slump, which are elite numbers. He'll get going soon enough.

Trout now 13/13 in SBs.

.647 OPS now. Really impressive, considering he was in the low 500s not long ago.

Double shy from a cycle!

He's obsessed with his K rate but doesn't mention that he also walks a lot and hits for power and hits everything hard (and has and will have a high BABIP).

Ohtani the walk machine. His OBP is now almost 90 points higher than his BA, despite not getting hit by a pitch thus far.

It's Scioscia's job to put the team in the best possible position to win, and he has failed to do so. This team has lost so many winnable games when Scioscia puts the likes of Bedrosian in close games. Giving Calhoun almost everyday PAs for 2 months despite an OPS under .400 is another huge reason why this team is underperforming. Batting Pujols 4th is another reason. Etc. etc. The only silver lining to the Angels missing the postseason is that Scioscia's reign of terror will end.

This is true. Scioscia didn't cause Calhoun to suck, but he isn't helping by giving him nearly everyday PAs for 2 months now. That's inexcusable. He's on pace for perhaps the worst season in MLB history. Also, batting Pujols 4th despite below replacement level production. Letting Bedrosian pitch in close games. Etc.

Ohtani was a free agent.

Good point.

People just want him to succeed and be the best version he can be.

There was no analysis. It was an observation.

Missing your spot by throwing strikes constantly on 0-2 and 1-2 counts? No.

No bias here. Ohtani has thrown mostly nothing but strikes on 0-2 and 1-2 counts. That's called "pitching to contact". And luckily, the contact they made didn't end up being hits despite mostly being hit in the air. Ohtani is the last pitcher one would want to pitch to contact

Ohtani is not a pitch-to-contact kind of guy. He needs to use his stuff to generate strikeouts, not contact.

Look at that shit. 1-2 pitch in the middle of the plate. SHRUG HIM OFF, PLEASE.

Just shrug him off, Ohtani. Shrug him off.

This is the third time in the last 4 PAs that Ohtani threw pitches right down the middle to the Tigers on 0-2 counts.

Yup. You just don't risk running into an out with Trout at the plate. Just plain dumb decision making right there.

That doesn't mean he's comfortable with him. I've seen him shrug him off many times. Wasn't Richards pissed off at Maldonado against NY? Besides, there's also a colossal difference in the team's ERA when Maldonado catches compared with when Rivera catches.

Maldonado is catching, too. I don't think he's very comfortable with Maldonado catching him.

Of course they should. But yet he's not only on the roster, he's batting 4th. Mindboggling. Do the Angels want to make the postseason or not? Pujols is dragging this team down. The Angels would probably be 3 wins better had they just kept Cron and gotten rid of Pujols.

Currently 4 games behind the Mariners and 5 more losses than them after 1/3 of a season. Absolutely pathetic.