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It's ridiculous when you think about it, cause you basically have two guys watching TV and then explaining to you what they see on TV. If they're away, I typically just listen to the home town broadcast. This gives the added benefit of getting to know the other team/players a bit better plus some of the teams have some really good radio personalities.

It's ridiculous when you think about it, cause you basically have two guys watching TV and then explaining to you what they see on TV. If they're away, I typically just listen to the home town broadcast. This gives the added benefit of getting to know the other team/players a bit better plus some of the teams have some really good radio personalities.

Can't wait to get the single highest floor college bat in draft history and have him in the major league lineup the same night as the draft

Atta boy Adell

"We'll give you this one in a game you're gonna lose by 10 runs anyway. You're welcome."

Lol... New York felt bad and considers this a make up call for the other day.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. It's pretty crazy to think that the most productive year the Angels might get out of Rendon will be the Covid year where he put up 2.2 bWAR.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. It's pretty crazy to think that the most productive year the Angels might get out of Rendon will be the Covid year where he put up 2.2 bWAR.

It's 3/39 but still, this was a pretty good deal considering the pitching market that year. I think the intention was to provide some stability in the middle, or worst case, back end of a 6 man rotation while providing some veteran leadership in an otherwise young rotation. That next tier of guys above him were going for $20M+ AAV, and the top tier guys going for over $30M AAV so $13M is quite a bargain. I would say if Anderson has an ERA around 4-4.5 and pitches 150+ innings the next two seasons I would feel that contract was a good deal with all said and done.

Jordan Hicks has been good as well in his transition to starting.

It genuinely baffled me seeing people get upset that the Angels managed to control themselves this off season.

No one is crying. The fact is Jo Adell has no MiLB options left. They can’t send him to SLC. This is the year the Angels need to fish or cut bait with him. So it makes no sense to play Hicks ahead of Adell, since Hicks is not part of the team’s future plans. Now is when we have to find out if Adell has what it takes to be an everyday player.

So one of the first contracts I looked up was Degrom's and he has a similar clause where if he misses 130 consecutive season days or 186 days in a service period the Rangers have a conditional option in 28. That option year is much more convulated though and is based on other factors like IP during the contract and medical evaluations.
It seems like teams are going to be more likely to add these clauses to pitchers that have a history as a sort of insurance policy when there's enough red flags.

Was about to post this same thing. I can't think of too many players with injury options in their contracts.
I think a big part of it is that the rotation has been a cluster for years now. It's hard to have a good bullpen when you constantly have to bring relievers in early in the game.

So one of the first contracts I looked up was Degrom's and he has a similar clause where if he misses 130 consecutive season days or 186 days in a service period the Rangers have a conditional option in 28. That option year is much more convulated though and is based on other factors like IP during the contract and medical evaluations.
It seems like teams are going to be more likely to add these clauses to pitchers that have a history as a sort of insurance policy when there's enough red flags.

So one of the first contracts I looked up was Degrom's and he has a similar clause where if he misses 130 consecutive season days or 186 days in a service period the Rangers have a conditional option in 28. That option year is much more convulated though and is based on other factors like IP during the contract and medical evaluations.
It seems like teams are going to be more likely to add these clauses to pitchers that have a history as a sort of insurance policy when there's enough red flags.

I guess I better phrase would have been it isn’t unheard of to include options like this. Either way it isn’t anything new or it isn’t in the contract because he was damaged goods. Common sense tells you that you aren’t giving $33 million to a guy who you think has an elbow injury. 

Was about to post this same thing. I can't think of too many players with injury options in their contracts.
I think a big part of it is that the rotation has been a cluster for years now. It's hard to have a good bullpen when you constantly have to bring relievers in early in the game.

Moniak has shown a huge improvement so far. His swing % outside of the zone has dropped about 20 points compared to last year.
 
Adell is pretty much the poster child of what happens when you draft a guy with great tools but don't have the development system to refine those tools to make a great ballplayer. If anything, this is season to really try to refine everything and hope he figures it out with the help of MLB resources and coaching.

Trout: .290/.362/.710, 7 HR, 200 wRC+
O'Hoppe: .364/.451/.523, 1 HR, 186 wRC+
Ward: .313/.333/.612, 6 HR, 169 wRC+
After those three, only Sano has a wRC+ over 100 (118, due to walks mainly). Rendon has come around of late; after going 0-for in his first five games, he's hitting .395/.442/.474 with a 168 wRC+ in his last 9 games and .480/.517/.580 in his last six, including five multi-hit games.
Thaiss's numbers look gaudy, but he's played in only 4 games. The worst offenders are Neto and Schanuel, both with 39 wRC+, as well as Hicks and Moniak both with 54. Rengifo (80), Drury (70), and Adell (99) are varying shades of mediocrity.
Obviously small sample size, but clearly a weirdly distributed offensive profile. The "big three" plus Thaiss account fo 2.9 WAR, with everyone else at -0.4.

So it's not quite the same splits, but I went to Fangraphs and created a splits leaderboard with the following conditions:
Dates: 3-1-2016 to present   Inning: 8, 9, or Extras   Leverage Index: High, so LI of 2 or greater. Chart for reference of Leverage Indexes   Minimum of 50 plate appearances
This left a total of 360 qualifying players. Trout ended up ranking 43rd in wRC+ with a value of 144 (44 percent better than average). The top player was Justin Smoak with a wRC+ of 215 followed by Kyle Tucker at 200.
Some interesting names and their rankings:
Name                   wRC+  Rank
Bryce Harper       183      6
Aaron Judge        166      11
Juan Soto            163      13
Shohei Ohtani      137      55
Mookie Betts       130      72
Kyle Schwarber     17      351
 
Link for reference.

Something about the way that Anderson was going to his mouth and also touching his uniform.

Canning is just sucking right now and Sandoval has had issues for at least the past two seasons. Before Sandoval it was Andrew Heaney that would be a mental case on the mound and he's from Oklahoma. So no I don't think it's an OC native issue.

This is where it starts. The best kids are playing travel ball year round and so by the time they get to that level they already have a ton of hard innings on their arm.
Add in once you get to a high level pitching labs and coaches are instructing how to push your body to the limit at max effort every pitch and it's no wonder they break down. These things were being brought up years ago, but since so many are bought into the status quo nothing was done about it.
Last time this was a discussion it was over the recent ban of sticky stuff. Now it's the pitch clock. In a year or two when this happens again they'll probably blame something else.