Angels in 2030

Walks suck. Only a matter of time before you pay.

And a late effort Spurs win without Kane today to boot!

thought for sure Angels would be leading league in giving up BBs -- nope. Only 12th. However, we have 2-3 less games than most teams, so really we're around 5-7th range.

He forgot where he was supposed to stand. Go the the X and throw the ball Quintana. Listen to your teacher.

Rojas sucks

Velocity is down. That’s a concern. He’s not throwing his FB. And when he does, he’s working more 94-96. Hit 98 once I think. Hopefully it’s just The blister. But always a concern especially with Ohtani

He’s missing. If anything he’s gotten a couple calls shouldn’t have

I don’t really care what the owner, espn, the jersey, online, etc. says - they are the ‘California Angels’ to me.

Who is that? She has a bit of a Kate Beckinale look to her.

Well done all -- this thread has been freaking gold

Mets: Well he seemed like a great guy when we hired him...

If only the league gave us control over who we put on the taxi squad. Too bad they don't have a system in place to select and acquire young/vet players to develop over the years throughout your organization to provide depth throughout and give you an advantage over other teams for when there are injuries, etc. We could even hire people to identify these people and help bring them in and teach them. If only they had that. It would really benefit a team and give you a big advantage over the long course of a grueling 162 game season. Not to mention with CV issues causing some roster havoc.

you’re right - The angels and their bench and the whole team is awesome.

Anger much dude?!? It’s a game and entertainment. Geezzz

I didn't say anything about Rojas when he made the team -- because i'd never seen nor heard of him before. Was hoping for the best and that he'd never play. It's early -- what i've seen i haven't liked to say the least. But i've talked about lack of depth being an issue for years. That's what mediocre teams have -- lack of depth. Exactly what the angels have been the past few years -- mediocre (record wise it's worst actually but i'm being nice). Jon Jay has an OPS+ of 21 & 68 for the prior two seasons (2020 & 2019). Not good....not good at all. If you feel like we have good-to-great depth -- hey, more power to you. I'm not going to shove my head into the ground and pretend. The AAAA level guys we have are in the lower of MLB. Even our AA & AAA is lower level. Most of our MiLB talent are very young. We have great top end talent on the big league team. We have a long ways to go to fill out our ML depth and minor leagues too. Ignore reality if you want.

7 games for Rojas. Regardless, you're any absolute idiot if you think Jose Rojas, Jon Jay, Juan Lagares and Jack Mayfield are semi-decent (very, very low bar) players to get ABs. Let alone start consistently for an injured player. We can, and should, do better.

2021 - this year

Someone's trying to get laid. Wrong message board for that lol.

I'm not asking for much. How about we aim a little lower. I'll take someone who isn't a negative OPS+ guy....even a single digit OPS+ would be an improvement over -39, -30, -100, -100 bench guys.

If you are going to quote me, please at least do me the favor of doing so accurately. didn't say "average major leaguers". I said "just somewhat close to league average would be great". Further, that was after basically saying i wasn't looking for anyone to come up and kick butt or anything. As Strad (i think) mentioned, we actually have some others that were better and would have been the right guys to bring up (Ward, Rengifo). Whether they would perform or not is unknown. But those are much better options. Still, i don't understand why you get so defensive. Angels lack of quality depth (position players, SP, RP) has been a problem for several years. If you want to deny it or pretend it's not, then so be it. Proof is in the results -- until proven otherwise by future performance. It is what it is.

This is why the Angels are not a top team currently. They have some amazing top talent. The top 3 players are arguably the best in MLB (at least easily top 5). Some good players within the top 15-20 roster players as well. But the depth is bad...really bad. Bench ughhh...worse yet, having to reach down to minors is really not ML-level players. I don't mean bring up and kick butt -- just somewhat close to league average would be great. Currently it kills us though. It's coming, hopefully, when some of the young guys develop and are ready. But man it's like scrounging for change in the glove department & car trying to pay a freaking $1 toll. Brutal.

BP amirite

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It’s early in the season. But for as bad as Q has been to start, Cobb has been the opposite. Dude has been great. Jam Jones who? Who cares!