Gameday Thread: Angels @ Astros (9/11/22 11am Pacific): Davidson on the mound, no Trout, no Fletcher

[jsnpritchett]

Edited September 11, 2022 by jsnpritchett

[eligrba]

Win the Series!!!

 

Looks at lineup.

 

 

Try hard!!!!

[Blarg]

It's kind of hard to believe but both Matt Duffy and Jo Adell were part of the starting lineup in game 1 of the season vs Houston, in Houston. 

[Duren, Duren]

Trout is as hot as he ever has been. I hope the day off doesn't break his momentum. 

Hindsight distorts everything, but I wonder what his numbers would be in a full healthy season? Possibly up around fifty homers? It would have been interesting seeing the vote splitting for MVP between he and Ohtani versus Judge.

Mind you the mainstream narrative now seemingly taking precedence is about 'valuable' contributing to team success. In other words, not the best player, but valuable to their team. But by that they imply taking their team to the playoffs. Even though a player can be most valuable to their team even if it's lousy. So I think the semantics are misconstrued. And still to this day confuse voters. 

 

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

Win this series and every other series you have left!!!!

Go down swinging. Leave nothing on the field.

[failos]

Just now, eligrba4ever said:

Go down swinging.

They probably will

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, Duren, Duren said:

Trout is as hot as he ever has been. I hope the day off doesn't break his momentum. 

Hindsight distorts everything, but I wonder what his numbers would be in a full healthy season? Possibly up around fifty homers? It would have been interesting seeing the vote splitting for MVP between he and Ohtani versus Judge.

 

From the time he's been on the field, I think he would have absolutely been challenging Judge. Judge is amazing this year and maybe still has Trout beat. But it's hard not to imagine Trout not having 50 this year, or just under it.

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[daygloman]

Nice start!

Keep it up!

Go Halos!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

That wind-up takes the entire 20 seconds, ban his windup if you want speed up the game.

[Lou]

Pssst . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ohtani homered 

[eligrba4ever]

Catching up:

さようなら野球
Sayōnara yakyū

SHO-TIME!!!

[AngelsFaninGA]

Great heads up play by Thaiss

[eligrba4ever]

Nice play, Thaiss!!!

Alturve Hahahaha!!

[Angelsjunky]

1 hour ago, Duren, Duren said:

Trout is as hot as he ever has been. I hope the day off doesn't break his momentum. 

Hindsight distorts everything, but I wonder what his numbers would be in a full healthy season? Possibly up around fifty homers? It would have been interesting seeing the vote splitting for MVP between he and Ohtani versus Judge.

Mind you the mainstream narrative now seemingly taking precedence is about 'valuable' contributing to team success. In other words, not the best player, but valuable to their team. But by that they imply taking their team to the playoffs. Even though a player can be most valuable to their team even if it's lousy. So I think the semantics are misconstrued. And still to this day confuse voters. 

 

That's been the traditional view of MVP ever since the award started: best player on a playoff team. In the last couple decades, in the "statnerd era," the conversation about best player vs. best player on a good team has risen. I think Miggy vs. Trout in 2012-13 really brought it forward, and of course Bonds was so much better than everyone else in 2001-04 that it didn't matter if the Giants were good or not (and they were, so it was a moot point).

As for Trout and what sort of season he would be having, it is so hard to say because of the weird nature if his year - his terrible slumps, but also crazy hot streaks. But yeah, he's on a 50 HR pace (not sure the exact pace, but it is something like that). His .349 ISO is a lot closer to Judge's .375 than it is to number three, Yordan Alvarez at .293.

His ISO is the second highest of his career, just a hair below 2019's .353, when he hit 45 in 134 games.

EDIT: He's missed about 40 games. If you add 30 at the same pace, he'd have about 45 HR now.

Edited September 11, 2022 by Angelsjunky

[eligrba]

1 hour ago, Duren, Duren said:

Trout is as hot as he ever has been. I hope the day off doesn't break his momentum. 

Hindsight distorts everything, but I wonder what his numbers would be in a full healthy season? Possibly up around fifty homers? It would have been interesting seeing the vote splitting for MVP between he and Ohtani versus Judge.

Mind you the mainstream narrative now seemingly taking precedence is about 'valuable' contributing to team success. In other words, not the best player, but valuable to their team. But by that they imply taking their team to the playoffs. Even though a player can be most valuable to their team even if it's lousy. So I think the semantics are misconstrued. And still to this day confuse voters. 

 

MVP narrative will always change when a Yankee or Red Sox player is in the mix.

[eligrba4ever]

SQUID!!!

Forget that switch-hitting stuff!!!

[CaliAngel]

26 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

That wind-up takes the entire 20 seconds, ban his windup if you want speed up the game.

Seriously fuck Garcia and his absurd wind up.

VELAZQUEZ GOES YARD OPPO!!! Why was he ever batting lefty? 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Ward looked  bad there.

[CaliAngel]

Ward looking like Adell in right field.

He has a phobia of the wall still.

[Tank]

I’m glad the grounds crew was able to soak the dirt for what appears to be about an hour before game time. Good grief but that’s just way too muddy. 

[CaliAngel]

Erica is an absolute smoke show today. Good lord.

[CaliAngel]

I cannot wait until the stupid shift is gone. Seems to hurt the Angels much more than it helps.

[AngelsFaninGA]

Davidson's pretty bad

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

16 minutes ago, Tank said:

I’m glad the grounds crew was able to soak the dirt for what appears to be about an hour before game time. Good grief but that’s just way too muddy. 

From what l've been told the AC dries it up pretty fast.