WicketMaiden

14 hours ago, REDneck said:

I would like to see the Halos establish themselves as a very good team now instead of hoping to get hot after the break,or at game 120 or 140.

 

Breaking even against the Royals,Rocks and Sox is just not impressive..notice I left out the Dogs.

So when?

I'd rather they were on a hot streak going into the play-offs. If they can stay in the race until game 120+, a ten game win streak could be enough to put them over, and when everything clicks this team easily has a ten or twelve game win streak in them. They just need to stay relevant now, and then kick on after the break.

56 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Is Suits any good?

Worth watching?

The early seasons are OK, watchable and easy on the eye. It gets old after a while though.

10 hours ago, Angelsjunky said:

I really don't get him. He was so damn good for about a month last year, and after injury and struggle, was very good later in the year. I was really expecting that he'd build from last year and maybe hit .280/.350/.500 or so. I think he has that ability, but he's pretty much back to the guy he was before 2022.

Anyhow, eventually they need to start thinking about taking away his starter status. If Moniak keeps hitting and he doesn't, he has no place being a regular after the ASB or so.

It could be that Ward is super streaky like Upton used to be and that's what the team is waiting for, the next hot streak. I hope we don't have to wait much longer if that is the case.

17 minutes ago, Jason said:

FWIW, my doctor is a chick, she's good looking and I may not complain if she wanted to peg me. 

I think that may be taking the whole 'celebrating Pride Week' thing a bit too far.

3 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Max Scherzer anyone?

 

Yes, Scherzer is the sort of move the Dodgers pull off to push for a play-off run.

Mets will have to eat a chunk of the salary which could bring the Angels into it, especially if there are one or two of Eppler's old draftees still on the farm that he still likes.

Shohei Ohtani leads all of MLB in (takes deep breath...):

Home Runs (28)

RBI's (64)

Extra Base Hits (47)

Total Bases (200)

Slugging Pct (.654)

OPS (1.064)

Adjusted OPS+ (180)

wRC+ (180)

Isolate power ISO (.350)

AB's per HR (10.93)

Adj Batting Runs (33)

Adj Batting Wins (3.2)

Offensive Win % (.785)

Situational Wins Added (3.5)

Base-Out Wins Added (3.3)

Hits per 9 IP (5.664)

bWAR (6.1)

fWAR (5.7)

He is also 2nd in all MLB for Strikeouts per 9 with a K9 of 11.99.

M.V.P.

24 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

As always, thank you for doing these updates @WicketMaiden. It goes far beyond just the website here, out to social media land. 

Wondering if you or anyone else know the answer to this question on Twitter?

 

I can't find a daily list for WAR. Win Probability Added would probably be your best bet. Shohei had a .404 WPA in one game against Texas this year, David Freese had a .964WPA in one of his superhuman post-season games (also against Texas) in 2011, and that's the highest I've seen, but I haven't looked a great deal at many others.

Ohtani is a beast!

Over the last ten days he has extended his lead over the rest of MLB with 6.1 bWAR (a lead of 1.5 over Acuna), and 5.7 fWAR (1.4 more than Acuna). He has added 1.4 bWAR and 1.3 fWAR in just ten days and if you want a comparison, take any of Neto's, Moniak's, or Sandoval's entire season to date and you'll be close.

Here's the rest of the team, this week it's fWAR, courtesy of Fangraphs https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/war?lg=&teamid=1:

Not sure I'd want Alonso next year. He's going to be expensive in his final year of control ($14.5m this year, so maybe $20m plus next) and that's a lot for 1st base. Enticing for this year's run, maybe jams us up a bit for next year.

5 hours ago, Lou said:

This sounds great.

I binged all three episodes back to back. Very interesting stuff and thought provoking too. 

Before the war - which was the first fully mechanised war in history - one of the characters asks (I'm paraphrasing here): how does an army of several million men, carrying automatic weapons and heavy machinery, defeat another army of several million men, who also have automatic weapons and heavy machinery?

The answer of course is, you don't. You just steadily degrade each other over time until one of you is destroyed just slightly less than the other and everybody quits. Nobody wins, apart from those funding it.

8 hours ago, full circle said:

Lol.  Dumb ass fat morons from their couches, or in Taylor’s case his boyfriends couch, that never played or coached or developed a ball player.  it’s pointless arguing with baseball illiterates.  

Genuine question: what is the extent of your first hand experience of player / swing development?

28 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I agree, Greg. 

It has to be IMO for a cost controlled starting pitcher and a bullpen arm. 

I still wouldn't do it for that much. Catchers who can hit (.282 career) and have an eye that good at the plate (.416 OBP) are far more rare than cost controlled pitchers. Quero has a .986 fielding pct too, so he's clearly no mug with the glove either. Surely he's a keeper.

Parliament

4 hours ago, Tank said:

according to baseball reference.com, ohtani has a batting WAR of 3.0 and a pitching WAR of 2.4 so far this season.

Trout is also ahead of him. He has 2.5 with Baseball Reference, and 2.7 fWAR to Moniak's 1.5 with Fangraphs.

3 hours ago, rbis said:

Mickey Moniak, in contrast to the other outfielders on this team, has contributed numerous CLUTCH hits in late innings. His WAR, the highest of any Angel, is already 1.9. He is batting .337, with a slugging percentage of .707, and an OBS of 1078, the highest for Los Angeles, except for Escobar, who has played only two games. Will this continue? Of course, not; however, the 25-year-old deserves a regular starting spot, even against lefties. At a given point, much further down the road, you can make an assessment of the kid's propensity to be a star in this league. In the meantime, the Angels seem to have a better chance of winning if he is a regular in the lineup, and not part of a platoon that messes with his timing and consistency.

 

 

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As many others here have alluded to, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Alone: Season 10

Now this is more like it. I'm only one episode in but there are some serious players in this season. No gimmicks this year, just a great new location (Saskatchewan) and the standard rules, but from what I've seen so far the overall quality of the contestants is up on the last couple of years. A promising beginning.

On 5/26/2023 at 9:17 PM, WicketMaiden said:

Alone: Australia

Same format at the US version but the contestants don't seem anywhere near the same skill-level. I'm 4 episodes in and no-one is shelter-building or displaying anything other than the most basic fishing or hunting skills. It's like a parody of Aussie culture at some times and then a therapy session at others, so it's a curious watch with at least a hint of Schadenfreude seeing what seem like amateur survivalists make some pretty basic errors. If you like Alone, it's worth a look for the comparison. Will add more when I've watched the whole season.

Well, it didn't get much better. They had an advantage over the US series with the climate and didn't face the challenges cold weather and extreme weather events pose, so it was a far easier challenge overall, and spent a lot of time wallowing in the misery stories of some of the people there. Not really the sort of content you watch Alone for.

I thought there was one guy who had some serious crafting and survival skills and thought he was head and shoulders the best candidate. But in the end the competition was won far more by luck rather than skill. Overall, a very poor imitation that could have been edited down to 3 episodes.

19 minutes ago, Jay said:

Save yourself some trouble and buy it on DVD:

Amazon link

You're welcome.

Are DVD's still a thing? I honestly can't remember the last time I bought one, or even used one.

27 minutes ago, Tank said:

I notice you neglected to invite me and Arch over to your place to watch it with you. 

My apologies, that was rude of me, wasn't it? It would be quite a journey for a TV show though @Tank, but if you guys are up for it, I guess I am too.

Rambunctious

3 hours ago, arch stanton said:

I've been looking for it. Not on Max or Apple or Netflix so it appears to only be available on BBC

2 hours ago, Tank said:

thanks. i hadn't checked apple yet.

@WicketMaiden

You can access BBC iPlayer if you have a VPN. Or, you can find that show here: https://www.dailymotion.com/search/37 one month in Summer/videos

Fletch!!!

Home run festival!

Fletch!!!

On 6/23/2023 at 8:16 PM, full circle said:

My scouting report on Trout has been dead on balls accurate.  When many thought he would come out of his slump, I said he wouldn’t. And it isn’t data that tells me that. 

Is it written in crayon?