TEvans

4 hours ago, mulwin444 said:

Dude, Mike Trout was promoted in July 2011, at age 19, and spent the last three months with the team.  At age 20, he was promoted April 28th and went on to win rookie of the year.  No one considered him a bust in 2011 at age 19 after 135 plate appearances.

 

 

Add in that Mike was sick during spring training in 2012...otherwise he most likely would have started 2012 with the big club. 

1 minute ago, Chuckster70 said:

Is anyone else getting terrible quality over MLB.tv for this game?

I watched the Yankees/Tigers game earlier and it was in full HD mode. This game is blurry and laggy. 

Could be better, but mine doesn't sound as bad as yours. 

Figured this one would be the most popular quote...

Jeff Mathis, Diamondbacks Catcher; Angels Catcher, 2005–11: I was at Angel Stadium right after they drafted him. They brought him in to see the stadium and take BP. He didn't have a bat, so I gave him mine. He steps into the cage, and he starts hitting these deep bombs to right center, one after the other. My bat never sounded like that. He was 17 years old.

On 2/25/2017 at 2:16 PM, Chuckster70 said:

I still cannot believe we took a chance on McKay Christensen with such a high pick. (6th overall)

What a waste! 

 

HAHA. I see McKay at the gym a few times a week. Speed doesn't mean much when there isn't anything else to accompany it. 

I'm not sure if you spelled his name that way on purpose or on accident...but "i before e" is why he'll never pitch for the Angels again. 

11 hours ago, Dochalo said:

 

The Dodgers had -$73.2mil in operating income.  

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- The Dogs were kinda nuts in 2015 taking on that much debt.  But even with their recent spending,  they stand to make a profit this year.  

 

 

Not to derail this topic and focsu solely on the Dogs...but interesting article and history to go along with your point about them. 

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/11/dodgers-must-cut-debt-to-comply-with-mlb-rules.html

Can’t believe I’m even going to say this….and I’ll probably have to take another shower after sending this…but it might be time for the Angels to bring Sean Rodriguez back home.

Moment of the game for me last night: Ozuna had singled scoring Buster to make it 4-2 in the top of the 4th. CarGo liner to Altuve for the second out. Guys on 1st and 2nd and Addison Russell is up. How many Cubs fans, praying like hell for home field advantage, would have rather had Seager, Diaz, or Crawford up in that spot rather than Addison? It's not possible to pin the whole game on one play/person, but it's kind of fun to blame Cubs fans and their stupid voting of an undeserving All-Star for losing the game for the NL and thus forcing the Cubbies to play the WS on the road, should they get there. Haha. Stupid fan vote. 

54 minutes ago, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

Kardashian? Cattrall? Jong-un? Zolciak? Fields? Soo Hyun? Basinger? Carnes? 

...Byung-hyun

On 7/5/2016 at 7:07 PM, Angels#1Fan said:

Who said it was? lol 

 

I stand by my opinion that the loss of Adenhart was huge, no more , no less.  If you want to read something else into that then be my guest.

Nick, along with the injury(ies) to Kendrys, and the ultimate sucking of Brandon Wood loom really large in my opinion. They weren't caused by any front office decision, but the impact those three had on the future decisions by the Angels front office have put the org in the hole it is today, IMO. 

On 2/24/2013 at 0:00 PM, VanderTweets said:

2000 had 

 

1. Darin Erstad

2. Adam Kennedy

3. Mo Vaughn

4. Tim Salmon

5. Garret Anderson

6. Troy Glaus

7. Scott Spiezio

8. Bengie Molina

9. Benji Gil

 

That's the year Erstad hit .355, Kennedy drove in over 70 runs, and... oh yeah, Vaughn, Salmon, Anderson, and Glaus were the first time any team had 4 players hit 30+ homers (Glaus led the league with 47). 

 

If that team had ANY pitching at all (and-- spoiler alert-- it didn't), they could have won the West and been a serious WS contender. Unfortunately, while that team scored a whopping 864 runs, they gave up 869. So that awesome lineup managed 82 wins.

Man what I wouldn't give to get this kind of production from today's lineup!

Damn those Bees teams from the mid to late 2000's were stacked and so fun to watch.

Wood was so good in his time in SL. Really cool to hear him open up and speak positively about moving forward. Hope him all the best. 

Every time I see TEvans post I think of Terry Evans. I remember Terry Evans hitting a home run and his parents were at the game. Might have been his Big A debut.

Had Bees season tickets when he played in Salt Lake. He had a cannon of an arm in RF. I used to take dates there and tell the girls Terry was my cousin. They never knew better...

Minor league deal...

https://twitter.com/ChrisCotillo/status/715227924887171072

Seems like this one is coming out of left field doesn't it?
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/715226745784430592

Trout's slide in productivity IMO coincides with his taking a first pitch much too often, putting him at a disadvantage if that first pitch is a strike. Opposing pitchers can throw a room service fastball right down the middle with impunity. Until and unless that changes, you'll see the current Mike Trout, and that is not nearly enough. Pujols is done and Trout and Calhoun are all we've got. He needs to step it up.

Here is his strike/ball percentage on first pitches this season. 

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/h_tabs.php?player=545361&gFilt=&time=month&minmax=ci&var=po&s_type=2&startDate=01/01/2015&endDate=01/01/2016&balls=0&strikes=0&b_hand=-1

And here's a good article on what happens when Trout gets behind 0-1.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/so-you-want-an-edge-against-mike-trout/

And here are his season stats in 0-1 counts. 

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/h_tabs.php?player=545361&gFilt=&time=month&minmax=ci&var=ra&s_type=2&startDate=01/01/2015&endDate=01/01/2016&balls=-1&strikes=1&b_hand=-1

And, just to prevent a barrage of ideas that he's been poor in 0-1 counts since August 1:

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/h_tabs.php?player=545361&gFilt=&time=month&minmax=ci&var=ra&s_type=2&startDate=08/01/2015&endDate=01/01/2016&balls=0&strikes=1&b_hand=-1

Mets vs Jays, although I'd be willing to root for a Cards vs Jays WS even though the Cards have played in it recently.

I want the best pitching vs the best offense. 

Dont really care about all the court stuff. For the record I dont are about Bonds or any athlete personally, Bonds was my favorite player on the field though. My opinion stands I think you put Bonds on the division winning Angels in the mid 2000's, we probably have another World Series.

To the guy who said having Bonds means we dont trade for Tex and get the pick to draft Trout, I dont see why we wouldnt trade for Tex. In fact we probably would have had even more of a reason to make that trade. We needed a 1st basemen and Tex was a great fit. If we had Tex Vlad and Bonds in the middle of that lineup it would be pretty hard to convince yourself that isnt a World Series winning lineup.

I still think without the comp pick from NYY for Tex that the Angels draft Trout instead of Grichuk

Miggy can't do this though:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/mike-trout-los-angeles-angels-mvp-power-opposite-field-homer-al-west-080715

It's not that I don't value or appreciate what he has to say, it's just that I've never been able to read a full Peter Gammons article. The dude is a terrible writer. 

The dodgers would definetly pay him

Have sosh stay in his contract. Somehow trade him to the Dodgers for Puig

How are you so sure the Dodgers would take Scioscia? They now have a very forward thinking front office that would most certainly clash with Sosh like Dipoto and his staff have/did.

I was at the game. Rasmus made quick work in his 2 ip.

Morin appeared to me to really slow down his motion/arm speed when throwing off speed pitches. The radar gun must have been really whacky because he topped 98 on one of his fastballs and was as slow as 71 on one of his off speed pitches...

Cabrera = no tex = no trout

Are we 100% sure he wouldn't have been drafted instead of Randal Grichuk?

I think the "NL" part of the title should have clarified that Mike Trout was not being compared with Gordon.

And yet the post highlighted Lorenzo Cain's (AL position player leader) WAR, hence my post. 

There is a discrepancy between rWAR and fWAR, always have been and probably always will be. That's more the point I was trying to make.