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Check swing triple!

1 minute ago, HanfordGuy said:

Will people complain that Ohtani bunted with a big lead?

Good.

"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him."

I don't think Bregman liked Marsh tagging up, either. Tough.

8 caught stealing for the Angels is a lot. The next team has 3.

Dominant

Just 2 innings but I don't remember a start when Ohtani had both slider and split working so well.

16 hours ago, Taylor said:

Tyler is a weak name.

Taylor, Tyler, Jordan, Flynn... THOSE ARE NOT REAL NAMES!

Baseball players Kyle Tucker and Kyle Tyler get clowned twice.

Maybe the camera director is remote too.

With a rested pen I hope they have a short leash on Herget.

This ump is the worst I've seen in a long time.

That was great defense.

That has to be top 5 distance for Trout. He hit a 489 ft in KC.

Hate the artificial turf but like the camera angle. No parallax.

Angels have a Moran and a guy with infinity ERA warming up in the pen. Now would be a good time to score some runs.

Seattle's version of a disappointing top prospect: Kelenic 0/4 4k

Rendon needs to step up here.

Marsh!

Bundy pitching for the Twins. 5IP 1h 0ER

Solid at-bats from Marsh. Time to cash them in.

Nice pitching wedge, Walsh.

Curve looks good.

Homerun pitcher?

Matt Vascocktease

(I thought it was gone too)

The fan made a better throw home than Adell.

2 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

I think this Valdez character looks developmentally challenged.  I bet my man had to use the special kids reading room when it was time to read 4th grade stories in class.  

His parents named him Framber. That would mess anyone up.

Marsh hits the ball hard.

Last year he was 2nd on the team in avg exit velocity (Ohtani) and 3rd in HardHit% (Ohtani, Trout). Good company.

Cobb has only allowed 3 HR all season. That's like a single bad Heaney inning.

"Prior to the 2020 MLB season, Sports Info Solutions (SIS) announced major upgrades to its flagship defensive metric, Defensive Runs Saved (DRS). These upgrades centered around the incorporation of infielder starting positions in the calculations and the improvements that were consequently able to be made."

...

"Whatever credit the fielder may receive or lose on a play is based on where they were standing when the ball was hit, rather than simply assuming they were standing in a traditional starting location."

https://library.fangraphs.com/tag/fielding-bible/

Looking at Team Shift Runs Saved (rTS) it somehow has the Angels at #1. It looks like the same data as the fieldingbible uses, just shift and non-shift added together.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31&sort=10,d

"rTS measures whether a shift is doing what it is supposed to do – get outs on ground balls and short line drives that wouldn’t have been achieved with the traditional infield alignment. The calculation is done at the team level rather than the individual level."

from https://sportsinfosolutionsblog.com/2019/04/01/what-is-team-shift-runs-saved/

All of that doesn't mean that the Angels are a good defensive team. They're bad. Now I wonder if every time I witnessed the shift failing it just added to some confirmation bias. Maybe Iglesias (-23 DRS) was really that bad independent of the shift.