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[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

5 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/rpi

10th best RPI.   .506 SoS.....

 

Only 7th best in the AL, The NL only has 3 teams in the top 10.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

3 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Still too early to be concern on where a team is in the Wild Card standings. Because we all know that one bad losing streak can ruin everything. Like a bad month can keep a team out of the postseason picture. Like the Angels' performance in August of 2015.

But they were still playing meaningful games on the last day of the season in 2015. The bad month was the worst month of Trouts career. He had rolled over his wrist diving for a ball. He said it was fine, but I still believe it was bothering him.

[JustATroutFan]

1 minute ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

But they were still playing meaningful games on the last day of the season in 2015. The bad month was the worst month of Trouts career. He had rolled over his wrist diving for a ball. He said it was fine, but I still believe it was bothering him.

What I am trying to say is that a bad stretch can ruin the party. And yes, Trout's numbers that year were sort of screwed up because of a bad month in August. He just didn't hit the ball as hard as we nnoru see him do. And yeah, it was his wrist that bothered him even though he never admitted it.

[Troll Daddy]

Too soon but ... 

 

[arch stanton]

1 minute ago, JustATroutFan said:

What I am trying to say is that a bad stretch can ruin the party. And yes, Trout's numbers that year were sort of screwed up because of a bad month in August. He just didn't hit the ball as hard as we nnoru see him do. And yeah, it was his wrist that bothered him even though he never admitted it.

So by the same logic a good stretch could put them on top of the wildcard and withing visual range of the Astros?

[JustATroutFan]

2 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

So by the same logic a good stretch could put them on top of the wildcard and withing visual range of the Astros?

Astros are too many games out  in front that I would not count on it although strange things has happened before. Teams can choke in the last month of the season like the (wait for it) 1995 Angels, 2007 Mets, and 2011 Red Sox.

[arch stanton]

2 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Astros are too many games out  in front that I would not count on it although strange things has happened before. Teams can choke in the last month of the season like the (wait for it) 1995 Angels, 2007 Mets, and 2011 Red Sox.

Your math is faulty. They're only 11 games up with more than 90 left to play. Very doable

[JustATroutFan]

Just now, arch stanton said:

Your math is faulty. They're only 11 games up with more than 90 left to play. Very doable

I never said it wasn't doable. 

[T.G.]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

Relative power index -- they look at the strength of schedule, the Pythag, comp it to everyone else and try to normalize the team's performance to that of the rest of the league.   So based on how they have performed relative to the rest of baseball, the injury depleted Angels have been the tenth best team in MLB.  

Truthfully, I don't really put a lot of weight into it, there are better more advanced metrics out there..  But, given how much people have been yapping about the Angels playing a weak schedule and being in a weak division, I figured it's worth bringing them up.   The AL West BTW isn't close to the weakest division in MLB.   The AL Central, the NL Central, the NL East...  All worse.   

Looking at the NL East....  The Nationals W/L record might be a tad misleading.

 

Thanks. Interesting stuff never-the-less.

[Troll Daddy]

Only 93 games to go

[Docwaukee]

Chris Sale vs. Ricky Nolasco 

 

 

[tdawg87]

8 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Chris Sale vs. Ricky Nolasco 

 

 

Angels 8

Red Sox 1

[Brandon]

3 hours ago, JustATroutFan said:

Astros are too many games out  in front that I would not count on it although strange things has happened before. Teams can choke in the last month of the season like the (wait for it) 1995 Angels, 2007 Mets, and 2011 Red Sox.

can't say i've ever heard someone talk about chocking in the middle of june before. congrats.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

12 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Chris Sale vs. Ricky Nolasco

I don't get it we are playing KC. Matt Strahm vs. Ricky Nolasco

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

5 minutes ago, Brandon said:

can't say i've ever heard someone talk about chocking in the middle of june before. congrats.

choking, You can chock a hop scotch field on a sidewalk.

[Brandon]

18 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

choking, You can chock a hop scotch field on a sidewalk.

i think you mean chalk, you moron.

[Docwaukee]

21 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

choking, You can chock a hop scotch field on a sidewalk.

this is chalk full of awesome.  

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

12 minutes ago, Brandon said:

i think you mean chalk, you moron.

Then what is chocking? it's  prevent the forward movement of (a wheel or vehicle) with a chock. Takes one to know one.

[Brandon]

4 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Then what is chocking? it's  prevent the forward movement of (a wheel or vehicle) with a chock. Takes one to know one.

it's a one letter typo while i multi-task at work.

what's your excuse for using the completely wrong word altogether that is not correlated to a finger slip?

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 minute ago, Brandon said:

it's a one letter typo while i multi-task while i'm working.

what's your excuse for using the completely wrong word altogether that is not correlated to a finger slip?

But at least it's pronounced the same, you win. Hope you feel better now.

[Brandon]

i'll chalk that up as another victory.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

3 minutes ago, Brandon said:

i'll chalk that up as another victory.

I chocked LOL

[ten ocho recon scout]

11 hours ago, arch stanton said:

So you don't believe Shoe or the staff when they say this is something he deals with every year?

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Unrelated, but this was under that other one when i went to ye olde google images. Reminds me of something TD or Calzone would say on here just to get everyone going.

[bloodbrother]

Scioscia's got this ragtag roster competing while Joe Maddon has a stacked Cubs roster playing under .500 ball in the worst division in baseball. Sad!