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2022 Season | Series #45 | Angels @ Guardians | Sep. 12-14, 2022

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KilgoreTrout said:
Sox at home. Best chance to reduce the Magic # by 3. You make life harder on yourself by trying to win there.
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It still baffles me, you have other chances to reset your starters, but in a game that is worth 3 games, you go all in with McKenzie, I just dont understand the mentaility, and short of MvKenzie having arm fatigue, i am just not going to agree with the decision to not start him.
 
Gson said:
Some "stuff" about Gaddis...

Big guy.. big hands.. big stuff, too.. Think Lance Lynn with a better FB..

He has a typical four pitch mix.. and throws all for strikes.. Over matches minor league hitters.. regardless of the level.. has his K-rate into the mid teens.. with his FB/CU as his most devastating combination.. Everything he throws moves.. that is.. nothing is straight.. He has and can pitch out of the pen (which is where I think he may eventually become the best he can be) where his already hard FB is harder, yet... In short.. this is a guy flying under the national pundit radar that has a chance to really contribute down the stretch..

He's easy to like and is competitive as hell.. Here's hoping his debut is along similar lines as he's pitched in MiLB... that would be awesome...
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He already debut against the Astro’s and got rock, hopefully the jitters will be gone this time……
 
Not gonna complain about Gaddis getting the ball tomorrow. This team just makes me very happy these days.
 
The last few Wednesdays have sucked (shut out by the O’s, the Clase blown-save against KC).

Was great to have the G’s win and the Sox’s loss in the bag, by the time I left work for my trivia bar today. I was in a pretty jolly mood.
 
Seeing how dominant the Dodgers are, at 98-43, give me a new appreciation of how dominant the Tribe was in the post-strike year, going 100-44. A winning percentage of .694, in baseball, is pretty remarkable. Could have been our year.
 
I'm very curious to see what Gaddis brings tomorrow. Maybe I wasn't paying attention well enough but in his one MLB start he looked very pedestrian and hittable to me. For a guy who supposedly has great stuff I sure didn't see it that day.

Anyone who had all of Gaddis, Morris, and Pilkington starting crucial games for us in September in a tight playoff race on your bingo cards please collect your winnings!
 
KilgoreTrout said:
Seeing how dominant the Dodgers are, at 98-43, give me a new appreciation of how dominant the Tribe was in the post-strike year, going 100-44. A winning percentage of .694, in baseball, is pretty remarkable. Could have been our year.
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Should have been.

Literally the best hitting, best fielding, and like 2nd best pitching team in the league that year.

Sigh
 
MGMT said:
Sorry if this is beating a dead horse but it’s just tragic as shit to me that an all time great in Trout has played in 3 post season games in 12 seasons. The above tweet made me look into it to double check. Major market just can’t produce a winning product for 7 straight years; that’s fucking crazy to me.
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You can argue that Trout and Ohtani are the two best players in baseball and the two best since roided-up Bonds.

The fact that the Angels can't put a decent organization around those two is an absolute travesty.
 
Tomorrow’s game is absolutely NOT the most important game of the year. That is silly. It is also not worth three games. Some of you are losing perspective here. A loss tomorrow means we still have about a 75% chance of winning the division and three other chances at securing the tiebreaker.

We just completed a sweep today (winning eight of ten and six in a row) while the White Sox lost throwing their best pitcher against a bad team at home.

You can’t just expect to win every single day in MLB. That’s why this is the correct decision by the team to stagger the rookie starters, we have a lead here and do not NEED to win any single game in the current position we’re in. If we roll Sticks out there, we still have a 55% chance at best to win the game (based on what Vegas odds would be), which means there’s a 45% chance we’re now only up three games and have three rookies going the following three games while risking destroying our pen.

I get that we pretty much put them away with a win tomorrow and you guys don’t like to be nervous. But we’re making the right call if you’re looking at the big picture and being honest with yourself about what the odds look like.
 
Anglefan said:
Tomorrow’s game is absolutely NOT the most important game of the year. That is silly. It is also not worth three games. Some of you are losing perspective here. A loss tomorrow means we still have about a 75% chance of winning the division and three other chances at securing the tiebreaker.
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I will take 90% to 75% change to our playoff hopes any day of the week if I can get it even if it is just 55% chance with McK vs what I assume is 20%-30% chance with Gaddis. And, isn't that the sports mentality -- don't take your foot off the opponents' throat? These 538/ESPN gamecast odds are just ridiculous at times. As I pointed out yesterday, ESPN shows us a 60%+ chance of winning with Gaddis over Lynn and even 538 seems high with 45% chance of win with Gaddis.

And, even though as you said elsewhere, we SHOULD win 1 out of 3 in Chicago to get that tie-breaker that us posters (who lost perspective) want, it is no guarantee especially coming off 10 games in 9 days without a break going into it that series in Chicago. We could just as easily get swept.

Anglefan said:
three games and have three rookies going the following three games while risking destroying our pen.
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I get this but in my crazy mind (and just to play devils advocate as it is fun to spur conversation) was just trying to show that even a 20-30% shift in odds of throwing McK over Gaddis today for 2 -3 points vs Chicago is better than going from 50% odds of winning vs Minni in game 2 of DH (with normal pitchers) to 0% as it only counts to 1 point change in magic number (assuming Chicago is our threat). That 0% chance, forfeit basically, is assuming that we want to save our pen by throwing Gaddis, McCarty and Clement in Game 2 of DH. This saves the pen because even in Tito's game plan, McCarty and Gaddis are down in Columbus resting on Monday with Curry up. Thus, you only have our long-term ballpen players going with Pilk on Sat and Morris on Sun which is what is ending up happening anyway.

But in reality, I am fine with what they are doing but was just being a contrarian to push some discussion (have a little fun) otherwise it might as well be crickets here as we shouldn't question anything that Tito/Chris combo does or says as Straw is great and should is the unquestionable starter for next 5-6 years of his contract. But my wife thanks the board for questioning my sanity (loss of perspective). And its time to go, I see the padded wagon out front about ready to take my nervous broken-down ass away. Think the neighbors got worried as I was trying to find a different way to skin a cat (than my usual ways) yesterday in the front yard. The school kids were running away screaming. So, I will leave everyone to watch the game today believing that just because Chicago lost yesterday that we have a realistic chance with Gaddis today of winning (sarcasm of course :chuckle::chuckle::chuckle: as I like Gaddis, as a reliever down the road, next year).
 
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