WicketMaiden

Booo!
Booooooo!
We saved you from Napoleon!
Booooooooooooooo!
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Numpty Notice: This is a joke... it's also true... but mostly it's a joke.

Oh, man, @Chuckster70, could we have a numpty emoji, please? I'd be wearing it out today, mate.

Oh, man, @Chuckster70, could we have a numpty emoji, please? I'd be wearing it out today, mate.

Is the sky falling in too?
Even if it's a broken bone, Trout will be swinging a bat again in the middle of August. A week of that absence will be for the All-star game; Moniak will cover half of Trout's missed games and he's doing pretty well; and Trout wasn't really himself this year at the plate: so how much of a loss is it really? One game lost? Two, three? Then add to that there is a fair chance that Trout comes back raking after his break and is fresh and revitalised at the plate.
And some of you want to trade the best bloody baseball player that has ever played the game? While he is having a career season? Performing at a level that has never been seen before?
Numpties.

Booo!
Booooooo!
We saved you from Napoleon!
Booooooooooooooo!
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Numpty Notice: This is a joke... it's also true... but mostly it's a joke.

Is the sky falling in too?
Even if it's a broken bone, Trout will be swinging a bat again in the middle of August. A week of that absence will be for the All-star game; Moniak will cover half of Trout's missed games and he's doing pretty well; and Trout wasn't really himself this year at the plate: so how much of a loss is it really? One game lost? Two, three? Then add to that there is a fair chance that Trout comes back raking after his break and is fresh and revitalised at the plate.
And some of you want to trade the best bloody baseball player that has ever played the game? While he is having a career season? Performing at a level that has never been seen before?
Numpties.

It's pure fuckwittery!

Is the sky falling in too?
Even if it's a broken bone, Trout will be swinging a bat again in the middle of August. A week of that absence will be for the All-star game; Moniak will cover half of Trout's missed games and he's doing pretty well; and Trout wasn't really himself this year at the plate: so how much of a loss is it really? One game lost? Two, three? Then add to that there is a fair chance that Trout comes back raking after his break and is fresh and revitalised at the plate.
And some of you want to trade the best bloody baseball player that has ever played the game? While he is having a career season? Performing at a level that has never been seen before?
Numpties.

Moniak was basically dumped by the Phillies after underperforming in their system. Incidentally the vast majority of big prospect coups happen in these random trades like the Moniak trade and Clevinger/Pestano, etc, not the major trades. 

Losing the 2023 version of Mike Trout may not be that big a deal.  We lose little by having a little more MM in center.  Heck, bring up Adell. As someone previously mentioned, we’re doing pretty good in the outfield position.  For anyone not watching the games, Trout was striking out way too much.  

I think our OF depth is probably the strongest right now out of all the positions. Wouldn’t mind Adell up and seeing him and the other 3 rotating and seeing what they can do. Trout’s last few months of production shouldn’t be that hard to replace. Obviously a trout hitting on all cylinders is more upside than anyone besides Ohtani can produce but it’s not the doomsday that a lot will make it out.

We did...in 2002

I wasn't kidding, I had bad information. Not afraid to admit when I get something wrong.
The US is miles ahead on guns per capita, but it's not so much the case with the percentage of households with firearms. Yes, the US is still no1 for that stat too, but only by a couple of percentage points. US is 42%, Finland 39%, Bosnia 35%, Switzerland 29%, Norway 26% and so on.
But the murder rate does not correlate: Murder rate per 100,000:
US - 8.5
Finland - 1.6
Bosnia - 1.3
Swiss - 0.5
Norway - 0.6
The USA is also 55th in the world for murder rate, yet no1 in the world for firearms per capita.
It's not the firearms, it's the people holding them.
*links to data (it is not exhaustive)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_guns_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
 

I’d have to assume he’s kidding. Because we’re definitely #1 in guns per capita, with Yemen in second at less than half of us (they’re doing great btw). So unless everyone in Serbia with a gun also carries like two knives on them at all times (totally possible), and everyone in the US has given up on non-firearm weapons (we haven’t), I’d have to assume this can’t be true. 
 
Also, gonna be real pissed if I find out everyone in Tajikistan carries a crossbow and two swords on them as a matter of custom.

Los Angeles Angels 2023 Team leaders

- G Ohtani 84
- PA Ohtani 377
- AB Ohtani 324
- BA Ohtani .306
- HR Ohtani 31*
- RBI Ohtani 68*
- R Ohtani 61
- H Ohtani 99
- 3B Ohtani 5*
- SB Ohtani 11
- BB Ohtani 45
- XBH Ohtani 51*
- TB Ohtani 217*
- OBP Ohtani .390
- SLG Ohtani .670*
- OPS Ohtani 1.060*
- OPS+ Ohtani 185*
- W Ohtani 7
- ERA Ohtani 3.02
- GS Ohtani 16
- IP Ohtani 95.1
- SO Ohtani 127
- WHIP Ohtani 1.04
- AVG Op. Ohtani .180*
- WAR Ohtani 6.7*
- Offensive WAR Ohtani 3.9
- Runs Created Ohtani 85
- Adj. Batting Runs Ohtani 37*
- Adj. Batting Wins Ohtani 3.6*
- Offensive Win % Ohtani. 796*
- Power-Speed # Ohtani 16.2
- AB per Hr Ohtani 10.5*
- Base-Out Runs Added (RE24) Ohtani 38.13
- Win Probability Added (WPA) Ohtani 3.2
- Times On Base Ohtani 145
- Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI) Ohtani 3.9*
- Championship WPA (cWPA) Ohtani 2.1
- Base-Out Wins Added (REW) Ohtani 3.6

*MLB leader

Back to the sub this one gave me a laugh

I think, per capita, we have the most guns but I agree that culture is the biggest driving factor when it comes to violence. If you remove suicides from the numbers then the firearm death rate isn't all that large considering how many guns we own here. Remove inner city gang violence and this isn't even an issue. The inner cities have a bad combo of socio-economic issues and a culture that embraces violence and crime. That is the area you need to deal with and if it means locking criminals up then so be it. There should be stiff and severe penalties for committing criminal acts of violence using a firearm.  

Red Vining 

There aren't any rules, per se, but an expectation of at least a modicum of maturity, most of the time. Constantly making penis references is just tedious, and has been since childhood. Cals seemed to mention them so often for a while that I actually started to think he was in the closet and was banging on the door to 'come out'.

The worrying aspects are the walks and strikeouts in high leverage situations. Facing some high class relievers in some of those  situations won't help, but even so, he walks a third as much and strikes out twice as much when you compare his high and low leverage situations.
It reads to me like he is doing something different in clutch situations, but he is also having some terrible luck with that .125 BABIP.

There aren't any rules, per se, but an expectation of at least a modicum of maturity, most of the time. Constantly making penis references is just tedious, and has been since childhood. Cals seemed to mention them so often for a while that I actually started to think he was in the closet and was banging on the door to 'come out'.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention this year. Neto, O'Hoppe, Moniak, Estevez, even the revitalised Thaiss have been great fun to watch this year, and they will all likely be better players next year.
Plenty of reasons to watch this Angels team outside of Trout and Ohtani.

Interesting.
Luck could also be a factor here: this year Ward has a .276 BABIP (batting avg on balls in play), which is 49 points below last year (.325) and 30 points below the MLB average (.305).