chw42

They have way too much talent to be this bad.

They paid 240 million $ for 5 WAR over 10 years. Including -3 WAR in the past 5 years. People rip on Rick Hahn for bad FA signings, but those are at least somewhat cheap signings. Pujols basically handcuffed the Angels over the past 5 years. Imagine paying $45 million per WAR over a decade. Yikes.

Yup. We're benefiting from the 7 inning double headers rule though. So all in all, we're even in terms of Manfred rules.

A lot of the stuff TLR does makes no sense.

So we're 1 dropped third strike, 1 shoe ball, and 1 HBP away from 3 perfect games in the span of a month. Whatever they did to the baseball in the off-season needs to be reverted.

MLB At Bat told me it was a perfect game Edit: it's been changed to a no hitter. Sucks for Means if he gets it and loses the perfect game on a dropped third strike.

John Means is perfect thru 8 against the Mariners

This is the most hyped Sox team in years and then we end up with drama that rivals the Drake LaRoche saga.

It's cause there's no one to play the OF if they sub him out. That one is on Hahn.

Can they take TLR out of the hall of fame? Cause him not knowing the rules should straight up disqualify him.

If Garcia doesn't turn a single into a double in the 9th, I doubt Hendriks has to come into the game. If the umpire would have done his job and not called 2 strikes balls, Hendriks doesn't come into the game. TLR did some stupid shit, but those 2 things got us into a situation where he'd be allowed to make dumb moves.

You also get a force at every base. I just don't get it.

Hendriks didn't look good today at all

Yeah we all saw that coming.

Is Hendriks gonna throw anything except fastballs?

Can't win with speed when the speed guy can't hit the ball.

Having to bring Hendriks in in the 9th with the double switch basically screwed us. Umpire changed the entire game.

gg

I thought they would play for a double play before Hamilton came up, but they were playing the IF in. There was no good reason to steal there. Especially since there's no way the pitcher comes home on the steal attempt.

NL baseball combined with the extra innings rule is so terrible.

I was ok with Leury stealing to stay out of a double play, but they clearly weren't even playing for it.

Fuck...

Yup.

With a pitcher on 3rd? No chance.

Moustakas probably could have tagged Hendriks out if he turned around.