HaloWay94

Missing the point entirely.  Fletcher is 6 for his last 12 and got on base 4 times yesterday from a lead off spot.  Common sense says, roll with that guy in the leadoff spot.  Common sense does not say "Well in previous seasons with a different team.. as a pinch hitter.. this other guy hitting .167 is 2 for 3 against the starting pitcher so let's lead him off instead and put the 6 for 12 guy where he gets the least at bats.  That's insane and ruining baseball. 
 
To your last point... La Stella OBP this season .241.....Fletch .333.  

Stellar advice.  Baseball is a beautiful game and it's being warped by people who don't get it.

Perfectly, agreement is another subject.  
I dont care right now what the career numbers are, Feltcher had a great game yesterday AND has a better OBP than LaStella for this season to date.  
Until LaStella starts hitting more or putting up a higher OBP than Fletcher, he should not be in that spot.   Doing so is obsessing over analytics and not using common sense.

There are times when a guy is on a streak or deserves a little acknowledgement for a performance hes earned, this should be one of them.  Thats not something the analytics take into account so, plug in a robot to spit out the lineup and be done with it i guess if the human element is truly that dead. 

Now watch the asshat leadoff with a HR or something... lol   I hope he does but the cheer with be painful. 

As a pinch hitter in mainly the 8 or 9 hole he is going to get pitched around to get to the pitcher or he will get a lot of fastballs to avoid turning the lineup over.  He may also get a lot of fastballs if he's coming in to hit with runners on base.  Assuming most of these at bats were 6th inning or 7th inning, he's also facing almost exclusively middle relief pitchers.  These differences also combine with the mental aspect of never going 0 for 4 in one game and having to break a slump.  
Those factors skew numbers for better or worse.

Missing the point entirely.  Fletcher is 6 for his last 12 and got on base 4 times yesterday from a lead off spot.  Common sense says, roll with that guy in the leadoff spot.  Common sense does not say "Well in previous seasons with a different team.. as a pinch hitter.. this other guy hitting .167 is 2 for 3 against the starting pitcher so let's lead him off instead and put the 6 for 12 guy where he gets the least at bats.  That's insane and ruining baseball. 
 
To your last point... La Stella OBP this season .241.....Fletch .333.  

If you can explain why LaStella is leading off and and Fletcher 9th using ANY other logic, be my guest.  

if anyone can explain to me how Feltcher is 9th and LaStella 1st, you should seek psychiatric help immediately. 
At this rate with analytics overpowering common sense managers will start to be considered less and less important if all they have to do is read a print out and post it.

Yes.  Numbers are valuable, but when you have two similar players, you gotta trust what you see.  You have to look at small details of the game, their mental makeup, and if they bring something to the table. La Stella's ridiculous cutoff the other night wont show up in anyone's stats.  It's not an error.  But it's a huge indicator that shouldn't be ignored. On the other hand Fletch beating the shift against the dodgers in the freeway series is a positive that shouldn't be ignored.  But you won't find it in the stats.
The walk thing is a fair point. And that's probably Fletch's weakest point outside of his obvious lack in power.  But becoming more patient as a hitter is something that he can develop.  We're acting like he's stuck at a 5% walk rate. But even with his lack of patience, La Stella doesn't have the upside to justify him getting a platoon job.  
 
And no this switch wouldn't fix us being 1-3.  But it's something that bugs me as a fan of the team and fan of Fletcher.  Any way you slice it, we just have to try to stay alive until Ohtani's back. 

Totally agree with you there. And I'm especially with you on the homegrown talent as a reason I'm rooting for Fletch.
Our offense is pretty bleak without Ohtani and Upton, and we only have one lefty.  That's a good argument.   I guess where I disagree is whether La Stella will provide that OBP boost over Fletcher.  And if one more walk every 5 games is gonna be worth the loss on defense.  And I'm not anti-numbers, I just think it's easy to overthink these decisions and reduce the game to them.  OBP isn't a substance that enables you to break a slump or magically go from a pinch hitter to an everyday starter.  And it's certainly no indicator of future numbers.  La Stella could go .600 OPS this year or he could go .800 and the only way to make that prediction is the eye test in my opinion.  I think Fletch has a higher ceiling in that regard though others may disagree.  It also ticks me off that between two players who are very close in overall value, they go with the outside hire over the homegrown fan favorite for 3/4 games so far.
 
Don't mean to sound like mindless jerk.  It just seems like the mediocre vet is a recurring theme in angels management the last decade and it frustrates me @Jeff Fletcher

It's pretty much written into the league rules at this point that every year the Angels are required to give 200+ PA's to at least one horrifyingly awful player for no reason (Espinosa, Joyce, Valbuena, La Stella, etc). 

How soon before Rengifo is ready?
Meantime, we all could use some Stella Artois to numb the frustration over watching him try to hit.

Ausmus didn't sign La Stella.  And I don't hate Eppler, I'm eternally grateful for the Trout signing and I think Upton and Ohtani are huge achievements  as well.  But in the case of Cozart and La Stella, I think he made bad choices. 
Yes I know how OBP  is calculated.
 
But those numbers can't tell you if a guy is gonna come through with the game on the line or go from being a pinch hitter to a starter.  The eyes are important. And I think you lose more by having Fletch on the bench than having La Stella on the bench.  We also haven't seen what Fletcher can do.  He's played a half a season.  La Stella is a career bench player.

You're right, Jeff and Billy know best, stupid me for disagreeing smh
I stand by my statements.  Jeff's logic hinges on an obsession over the OPS of a career pinch hitter vs. a solid rookie campaign.  Trust your eyes man.
 

Oh and by the way, @Jeff Fletcher you may want to bring along a suit on days you're going to be on television if you ever want to replace this guy on MLB Network.

Fletcher can easily be an every day second baseman that puts up a .285 BA with 15 steals and above average defense. Why are we writing him off as a bench player. La Stella is a joke. Doesn’t deserve playing time. The OBP argument is absurd. The idea that Fletch peaked at .316 OBP is ridiculous. If that’s our logic Taylor Ward will never start based on his first call up OBP. Fletch is a good contact singles-doubles hitter. La Stella is below average defense with a bat that’s equal or worse than Fletch’s.
 Fletch needs to be starting. Heck I’d start him over Cozart.

Fletcher hit .291 and LaStella hit .167 during spring.
Fletcher is way better defensively 
Fletcher won the 2B job last season.
Absolute disgrace that LaStella gets the opening day job over Fletcher who is a spitting image of a true baseball player. Fletcher should start today vs a lefty and should be the every day from now on.