tomsred

Great summary! Pretty much sums up where the Angels are at currently.

I'm calling him "DFA" for the rest of the year.

You might be in good shape, Ohtani is pitching on Friday. I'm moire afraid of what will happen on Saturday and Sunday, lol!

So sorry to hear about your Dad's tragic death, hope you find peace and have many wonderful memories of your time together.

I think he will stay. I was really encouraged to see that since he is scheduled to start on Friday against Atlanta he told Dusty Baker he wasn't available to pitch in the All Star Game. That is very encouraging to me, that he is valuing regular season games wins over an All Star exhibition game, and personal glory. He will be leading off hitting against Kershaw though tomorrow night. The Angels may not have enough talent as far as depth is concerned, but a fire lit under Minasian's butt might be enough to get the team back on track. It will be a very interesting this offseason, hopefully we get a very qualified manager and new coaching staff in place and build some proper depth.

These are good points. We need to see these guys improve and learn right now. We are highly unlikely to make the playoffs, but these last 72 games are very important to see some progress from Adel and Marsh. I really think the news is good so far on Adel, he's improving. Unfortunately Marsh has declined since the beginning of the year offensively, but it's a waiting game to see if he can do the things to get himself back on track and progressing vs. declining.

I don't think so. They will still be very young, especially Adel. They may not fully blossom until ages 26-28.

I really enjoyed that entire game, that was well done without Trout. It was like a breath of fresh air.

I was glad that Adel did so well tonight, he can bring some real energy to this team if he can get on a roll.

Actually he was clicking before he was sent down.

The photography is good, just not the outcome of the game.

Touissant could really have his hands full against any one of the next three opponents.

My guess is 3-5.

Firing Maddon was a purely emotional decision by Minasian. He replaced an experienced, and previously successful manager with an inexperienced one on a spur of the moment decision. Minasian created this problem in the past off season by the choices he made. He needs to be held accountable. It's purely Arte's decision if he wants to continue to give him chances to improve this team. Personally, I would not. Can this organization hire an experienced, not first time, GM for a change who has a good track record in that position? I think they want to control a weaker GM, not a strong willed good one. They keep cheaping out on GM's. The last one who was a strong leader was Stoneman, many moons ago.

It's a tough question to answer, a lot depends of where your organization is at development wise at this point. Generally if you have a good pipeline and have solid healthy players at most positions, then a 6 WAR player could make a big difference. If your pipeline is poor, and you have many holes, then generally 3 2.0 WAR players would be better. How healthy your players can stay plays a big role as well. The Angels are in the latter position. Their big 3 (Ohtani, Trout, and Rendon) can't pull the load for the remainder of the team, essentially they are pulling them down. There are several problems, too many veterans who are not even 2.0 WAR players, poor minor league development (the pipeline), poor organizational plan and evaluation techniques, injuries hurt to some degree as well. We are kind of the inverse of the Dodgers, not that they are perfect. I would say the Dodgers are not efficient, they are wildly outspending the Angels to help create such a wide comparison gap. Same with the Yankees. Both the Yankees and Dodgers have much better baseball operations departments than the Angels, and better young player development. Arte is trying to emulate them, but he is not spreading the investment wide enough or high enough.

I don't think Maddon was overrated, if you give him the leeway to do his thing. The guy that's overrated is no Theo, it's Perry Minasian. This team is poorly constructed. A coaching staff that could walk on water couldn't turn them around. Now that the Halos are stuck in the mud, it's going to take a big truck to pull them out of it. What kind of game plan did Perry have when he was hired, someone needs to look at it closely and analyze exactly what went wrong, and how the mess can be cleaned up. I don't know if we have that person in the organization. But if I were the owner I might look for some expert outside assistance. I've lost confidence in Minasian to critically review his own performance and correct it.

My theory is that he is so good that the offense goes on vacation when he starts a game.

In that case we will have a high draft coming, and maybe a new baseball operations department including a new GM.

Has anyone actually thought that Arte's health may not be that good, and he wants to turn over all the day to day details for the organization to handle. He has never been that great in handling press conferences anyway. I personally don't feel he is involved much like he used to be, it's more like the organization keeps him informed of major changes out of courtesy. The current year's mess was created by Minasian, can he dig himself out of it? Personally I don't think he can.

Neither do I, I believe he means what he says.

On the way to a new MLB game strikeout record?

What's the over/under regarding strikeout for today?

I'm shocked, a man of your character should know better. You have laid out for us exactly what should happen, the execution of it is another matter. This is what happens when incompetence gets in the way common sense.

David Fletcher Jr.