WicketMaiden

UPDATE: Shohei still clearly leads the Angels but no longer the Majors with 2.8 bWAR (4th behind Semien, Acuna and Robert on 2.9) and 2.2 fWAR (9th - Acuna leads with 2.6 fWAR). Mike Trout is currently languishing in 34th place for fWAR with 1.8 fWAR and 1.5 bWAR. Second on the team for both. Estevez has a stellar 1.4 bWAR / 0.9 fWAR, with Moore just behind on 1.2 bWAR / 0.3 fWAR. Detmers is a WAR curiosity, with a full 1.0 fWAR, but a negative 0.1 bWAR. Go figure, as you guys like to say. Mickey The Masher Moniak has crashed into the Majors with 0.9 bWAR / 0.8 fWAR from just ten games (8 starts) - that's 15 bWAR pace, so unless he's channeling namesake Mantle we can expect that to flatten out quite a bit. Neto has been almost as impressive, racking up 1.0 bWAR in just 35 starts. That's good for joint 5th on the team, level with Barria. Name Age B T Ht Wt DoB Yrs G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR WAR ▼ Salary Shohei Ohtani 28 jp JP L R 6' 4" 210 Jul 5, 1994 6 48 48 48 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 2.8 $30,000,000 Mike Trout 31 us US R R 6' 2" 235 Aug 7, 1991 13 46 45 46 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 0 43 2 1 0 1.5 $37,116,667 Carlos Estévez 30 do DO R R 6' 6" 277 Dec 28, 1992 7 22 0 0 22 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 $6,750,000 Matt Moore 34 us US L L 6' 3" 210 Jun 18, 1989 12 22 0 0 22 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 $7,550,000 Jaime Barria 26 pa PA R R 6' 1" 210 Jul 18, 1996 6 11 1 0 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 $1,050,000 Zach Neto 22 us US R R 6' 0" 185 Jan 31, 2001 1st 36 35 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 Mickey Moniak 25 us US L R 6' 2" 195 May 13, 1998 4 10 8 10 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 8 0 2 0 0.9 Patrick Sandoval 26 us US L L 6' 3" 190 Oct 18, 1996 5 9 9 0 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 $2,750,000 Logan O'Hoppe 23 us US R R 6' 2" 185 Feb 9, 2000 2 16 15 16 16 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 $730,000 Anthony Rendon 33 us US R R 6' 1" 200 Jun 6, 1990 11 30 30 30 30 0 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 $38,571,428 Matt Thaiss 28 us US L R 6' 0" 215 May 6, 1995 5 32 22 32 27 0 25 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1 0.4 $740,000 Andrew Wantz 27 us US R R 6' 4" 235 Oct 13, 1995 3 14 0 0 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 $740,000 Griffin Canning 27 us US R R 6' 2" 180 May 11, 1996 4 7 7 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 $850,000 Chris Devenski 32 us US R R 6' 3" 211 Nov 13, 1990 8 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 $100,000 Brandon Drury 30 us US R R 6' 2" 230 Aug 21, 1992 9 45 42 45 45 0 0 24 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.3 $8,500,000 Hunter Renfroe 31 us US R R 6' 1" 230 Jan 28, 1992 8 48 47 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 48 0 1 0 0.3 $11,900,000 Taylor Ward 29 us US R R 6' 1" 200 Dec 14, 1993 6 47 42 47 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 0 0 46 0 5 0 0.2 $2,750,000 Jimmy Herget 29 us US R R 6' 3" 170 Sep 9, 1993 5 12 0 0 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 Jake Lamb 32 us US L R 6' 3" 215 Oct 9, 1990 10 19 14 18 17 1 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.1 $100,000 Reyes Moronta 30 do DO R R 5' 10" 265 Jan 6, 1993 6 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 Brett Phillips 29 us US L R 6' 0" 195 May 30, 1994 7 20 3 19 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 1 12 1 1 8 0.1 $1,200,000 Luis Rengifo 26 ve VE B R 5' 10" 195 Feb 26, 1997 5 41 33 41 38 0 0 0 29 3 3 3 2 2 7 0 4 0 0.1 $2,300,000 Gio Urshela 31 co CO R R 6' 0" 215 Oct 11, 1991 8 46 42 46 45 0 0 19 1 23 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.1 $8,400,000 Tyler Anderson 33 us US L L 6' 2" 220 Dec 30, 1989 8 8 8 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 $13,000,000 Chris Okey 28 us US R R 5' 11" 200 Dec 29, 1994 2 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Livan Soto 23 ve VE L R 5' 10" 160 Jun 22, 2000 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Austin Warren 27 us US R R 6' 0" 170 Feb 5, 1996 3 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Jacob Webb 29 us US R R 6' 2" 210 Aug 15, 1993 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Zack Weiss 31 us US R R 6' 3" 210 Jun 16, 1992 3 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Reid Detmers 23 us US L L 6' 2" 210 Jul 8, 1999 3 8 8 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.1 $740,000 Chad Wallach 31 us US R R 6' 2" 246 Nov 4, 1991 7 16 14 16 16 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.1 Tucker Davidson 27 us US L L 6' 2" 215 Mar 25, 1996 4 11 0 0 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.2 $740,000 David Fletcher 29 us US R R 5' 9" 185 May 31, 1994 6 8 4 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -0.2 $6,000,000 Chase Silseth 23 us US R R 6' 0" 217 May 18, 2000 2 6 1 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.2 José Quijada 27 ve VE L L 5' 11" 215 Nov 9, 1995 5 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.3 $750,000 Jared Walsh 29 us US L L 6' 0" 210 Jul 30, 1993 5 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.3 $2,650,000 Aaron Loup 35 us US L L 5' 11" 210 Dec 19, 1987 12 12 0 0 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.6 $7,500,000 Ryan Tepera 35 us US R R 6' 1" 195 Nov 3, 1987 9 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.6 $7,000,000 José Suarez 25 ve VE L L 5' 10" 225 Jan 3, 1998 5 6 6 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.9 $750,000 You can find this table here for more details: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAA/2023.shtml

13 - Delivering newspapers (the paper bag was bigger than me on Sundays with all the supplements). £2.80 per week. 16 - Working on a fruit and vegetable stall in a supermarket while at college. The job that put muscles on my skinny frame, I could barely lift a 60lb bag of potatoes when I started, by 17 I was carrying three at a time. Stayed for three years and became trainee manager of the whole store at 19. The pay was £1.23 per hour at 16, and I could go out and get drunk on a night out for £5. Fun times.

The Sabermetricians don't factor into their thinking that this is an entertainment business built on the back on a sport, not just a sport. It may well be more efficient to always swing for the fences, and be more efficient not to steal bases or try for the extra base, and that all may lead to more wins overall, but it's incredibly boring to watch. The first thing that attracted me to the Angels was the way they played baseball during Scioscia's early years. It was dynamic and interesting, with lots of moving parts and on-field action, and you could see how frustrating they were to play against by the body language of the opposing players, chasing bunts, slaps into the gaps and line drives into the channels as the Angels batted around, again. We had line-ups full of players with .300 averages that were a nightmare for opposing pitchers on the bases and almost always challenged the fielders to execute perfectly or lose an extra base. Great fun to watch, even when they lost. Re the RBI thing: a 'Clutch' metric would be handy, showing a ratio of opportunities to successes with runners on base and RISP. The detail is already recorded for each player (here are Trout's stats https://www.mlb.com/player/mike-trout-545361?stats=splits-r-hitting-mlb&year=2023), just need a way to manipulate the ROB/RISP figures into a common product and then give it a cool name.

Boom Shack-A-Lack

That's a complete non-sequitur, if you're going to jump into someone else's conversation at least try to be relevant.

Rubbish

Lots of people going, "Aaahh, so that's how it's done".

Unless Perry can pull off a couple of trades, to replace injured O'Hoppe with something considerably better than hoping Thaiss will get better, and for some high quality bull-pen help.

Happy Mondays

Does that matter as much as the worrying thought that he is in the hands of a medical team with a pretty poor history. They're a bit rubbish really, aren't they? They never get anyone back early, and don't have the best record for getting players back on schedule and then keeping them on the team. I wouldn't let them treat my cat, let alone put the future of a multi-million dollar sports career in their hands.

We're Angels fans, from a place where pitchers literally puke live on the mound and 'dehydration' can mean Tommy-John, we know better than to expect nice things.

Sunday

PM me after the Summer. A horse racing meeting might be a fun day out.

Can't believe we still let you in. I've written, I've called, even dobbed you in to M.I. whatever number but nobody seems to be listening. British bureaucracy just isn't what it used to be. So, where in the country are you headed to, this time?

The Guinness looks great, the stew looks a bit uninspiring. Was it any good?

I prefer Richard.

A must-do for any genuine British holiday itinerary.

Even nicer still would be Irish Stew and a pint of Guinness:

Vampire MVP

Welcome to AW, @Chico. If some of your life choices are anything to go by, I'm looking forward to your posts.

We should use this tread as a depository for all the bs click-bait articles that will be posted between now and the trade deadline about how Shohei is definitely leaving the Angels. There will be hundreds of them.

Grimm

A nice week from Cabbage, over the last 7 games (mostly against Oakland): 12/30 H/AB's for a .400 average, with three doubles and three Hr's and two steals contributing to his 8 runs and 8 RBI's, with no walks and 7 strike-outs across the week. Played 5 games at 1B, 2 at DH.