Bipolar

[Docwaukee]

lose 4 of 5

win 4 in a row

lose 5 of 6

win 5 of 7

lose 10 of 12

win 4 in a row.  

I am having ptsd flashbacks from my first high school relationship.  

[Chuck]

Such is life in the world of Baseball. 

[tomsred]

I give them a lot of credit for hanging tough.  This many key injuries would pulverize most teams.

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, tomsred said:

I give them a lot of credit for hanging tough.  This many key injuries would pulverize most teams.

I wonder if they should just rid themselves of Nava before the season gets too far along.    DL'd TWICE already?

[Amazing Larry]

[nando714]

And yet only 4.5 games outta first lol

the AL West is wide open

the royals are currently 5.5 out of first. I wonder if they're throwing in the towel?

Edited May 17, 2016 by nando714

[bloodbrother]

Good ole baseball. Angels offense started out the season with an offense that was too bad to last all season and now the offense is too good to last. In the end, it's all just evening things out over the long haul

[Angel Dog and Beer]

I'm having a hard time figuring this team out. We sweep the A's, then get swept by the Twins. Sweep the Royals, but then get swept by the Rays and then Cards. Then sweep the Mariners.  We look really good on occasion, but then really bad. 

Next logical result in this sequence is a sweep of the Dogs. Get it done, team.

 

[Amazing Larry]

Imagine how many wins this club would have if the rotation would have been able get through the 5th inning on a consistent basis throughout the beginning of the season. I see potential in these guys but I'm still hesitant to put faith in them. Good to see the front office hasn't given up on the season yet.

[Angel Oracle]

I've bagged on Scioscia my fair share of times over the past several years.   Give him props though on both nearly getting them to the post-season a year ago when it didn't seem likely they would get close, and getting them so far through a rough stretch in 2016. 

[Second Base]

11 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Such is life in the world of Baseball. 

It's much more if an Angel thing than a baseball thing. Either the pitching is dominant with no hitting or the opposite. Rarely do we have a team firing on all cylinders.

[Docwaukee]

When you have Mike Trout you are always going to be better than it might seem.  In 2013, we had some of the worst SP in baseball.  Our bullpen was horrendous.  On offense we had a 10.5 WAR player and no other above 2.6 WAR yet we ended up top 10 in offense.  We had -72 defensive runs saved that year.  3rd worst in baseball.  We were only 4 games below .500.  

This years team has a similar offense (I think we will see that it's actually better over the course of the season).  Defense is way better.  Bullpen is better.  SP is probably worse right now if that's possible but in the end it will likely be about the same or even a touch better.  

How many games does that amount to?  I think we are gonna end up around .500.  

I look at this teams results over the past 4 years and I see way more wins than the collective talent that was on each of those teams.  

What made us a 98 win team in 2014?  A couple of very good performances from guys who elevated a bit.  Aybar, Kendrick, Iannetta, Shoemaker.  Maybe Richards as well.  A really good second half pen.  Except for maybe Shoe, none of those performances were crazy out of the realm of reasonable.  So if Shoe isn't around, maybe we win 94 games.  

The impact that Trout has on this team is even greater than the stats tell because he creates such a high floor almost by himself.  So just a couple of good performances can put you over the top.  Something that can fluctuate dramatically in the span of just one year as we've seen.  

Sometimes having all your eggs in one basket makes them easier to keep track of.  

 

Edited May 17, 2016 by Dochalo

[Angel Oracle]

If Pujols can continue to duplicate 2012 as he has the past 3 weeks, and Calhoun and Escobar continue to hit like they are, this can still be a decent offense.

[krAbs]

Oh, yeah, thats just because we are trying for the baseball records for most sweeps (by and against) in a single season.