MLB Thread - 2022
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It could be worse... the Angels have the two best players in baseball and yet they've made the playoffs just once in the Mike Trout era (they got swept) and they just fired the manager who was supposed to rescue them from irrelevancy because the team lost 12 games in a row. Or you could be an A's fan. My experience has been that a bullpen which is lights out in June probably won't be by September anyway so it's not a bad problem to have in the first half of the season when you still have time to address it. Bullpen help is always plentiful at the trade deadline.
It's certainly evidence that something isn't working. I don't know that a team in first place (or close to it) would intentionally sabotage their chances of making the playoffs just because a guy rubs them the wrong way but if players don't like their roles, don't feel prepared game-to-game, and disagree with the lineups and pitching substitutions they're probably going to underperform and the effect is the same. So it could be a subconscious thing....
Or maybe it's just baseball and they've been unlucky. A first ballot hall-of-famer with nearly 5000 career ABs going 0 for 26 during the win-less streak just seems like bad luck to me. But as we've seen multiple times in Sacramento, it doesn't take much for an owner or general manager to fire a coach if they don't have a great relationship anyway,
Or maybe it's just baseball and they've been unlucky. A first ballot hall-of-famer with nearly 5000 career ABs going 0 for 26 during the win-less streak just seems like bad luck to me. But as we've seen multiple times in Sacramento, it doesn't take much for an owner or general manager to fire a coach if they don't have a great relationship anyway,
Yeah just a strange season all-around. Injuries haven't been kind with Longo/Belt/La Stella/Wade missing a good chunk of the year, it's been a little difficult trying to replace Posey/Bryant offensive production, Desclafani has been hurt all year, the BP horses from last season haven't been the same... yet we're still 5 games over .500.
Fully healthy, this is probably a 90 or so win team. Our depth and some surprise years out of Junis/Gonzalez have kept this thing afloat, but we really need to get those bats healthy and the BP arms back on track.
Fully healthy, this is probably a 90 or so win team. Our depth and some surprise years out of Junis/Gonzalez have kept this thing afloat, but we really need to get those bats healthy and the BP arms back on track.