Comments on: Anaheim Has Angered Someone

By: alskor

alskor — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:49:46 +0000

Yeah… its almost like there is driving force linking all this “bad luck.”

…perhaps something like “bad management.”

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:39:21 +0000

I think the Angels will turn it around and still win the division. Shields is declining it was quite obvious in the 2nd half last year when he walked batters to regurlaly. But when this team gets healthy their pitching staff is to good to not keep them in games.

By: Taylor H

Taylor H — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:00:00 +0000

“DMZ fascism victim” — fantastic.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:54:45 +0000

More troubling than the pitching injuries is the way Scioscia has set the lineup. Maicer Izturis has not only DH’ed but batted 3rd this season. Brandon Wood never plays yet Kendry Morales is penciled in everyday as the starting 1B. The management hasn’t shown that it has the flexibility to get away from what has worked for them in the past.

By: Brian Kick me in the GO NATS Jones

Brian Kick me in the GO NATS Jones — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:47:00 +0000

Being a NATS fan, you guys have never seen a real bad defense or real bad luck. The Nats between 2006-2008 were the unluckiest team in history for injuries. We lost our true ace three years in a row. We entered each season with one pitcher being called an ace, one of the best in the game, only to have that pitcher never pitch again after a handful of awful starts. And our best offensive player played 38 games over that entire time period. We lead the league in days on the DL three years in a row. By huge margins! All time bad luck there. And this season the Angels defense is much better than the NATS.

By: Uh, no

Uh, no — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:03:29 +0000

Hitters are making contact 75.7% of the time (73% last year and 73% for his career). That’s down from 78% just a few days ago.

Moral of the post: Small sample size.

By: Rally

Rally — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:37:13 +0000

If everything that a batter makes contact on falls in for a hit, a pitcher will (eventually) strike out 27 batters per 9 innings. If his defense improves, his K/9 will go down, but K as a percentage of batters faced will remain the same.

No, this isn’t a good defense. Aybar doesn’t hit, so he either needs to stop making the bone-headed plays, make some great plays that save runs, or be replaced. If the Angels are going to get crappy SS defense, they might as well at least get some homers out of the deal and play Wood.

The outfield is old. Don’t think there is much they can do about that.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:07:20 +0000

The Angels defense is not very good at all. With or without Vlad, they have subpar defenders in the outfield corners. Replacing Kotchman/Teixeira with Kendry Morales is a defensive downgrade. And Aybar has misplayed at least three popups behind short this season. The bullpen FIP numbers are nice, but they aren’t a guarantee that things will get better.

By: alskor

alskor — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:40:24 +0000

But he’s not giving up more solid contact – that’s the whole point. His stuff looks very good, too.

By: DMZ fascism victim

DMZ fascism victim — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:38:05 +0000

Hooray for ‘goods news’!

Just giving you a heads up ;)