Last night, the Angels returned from their day off, fully recharged and ready to win. Jo Adell made his big-league debut. Mike Trout homered. David Fletcher homered. Albert Pujols homered. Andrew Heaney and the ‘pen held it down well enough for the win.
It seems like Justin Upton and Brian Goodwin will platoon while Adell gets the everyday starts. Seems positive for his development.
Mike Trout talks about fatherhood and COVID-19 testing ($$).
Julio Teheran is set to debut for the Angels Wednesday night.
The Marlins are back in action. Fangraphs takes a look at the whole situation from an MLB perspective and what can be done to prevent something like that in the future.
In other COVID-19 news, Jemele Hill goes after baseball for a myriad of reasons.
The Cleveland Indians won Tuesday on three hits. The offense has definitely been a problem for them, but pitching has not. Zach Plesac is another pitcher out of the blue to have success. Will they perhaps trade us a young arm for Goodwin? They do need the hitting…
Aaron Judge is trying to re-establish himself as a top-5 hitter in baseball. I’m inclined to believe that he is succeeding…
It’s very refreshing to hear from Maddon himself that he intends to play Adell everyday, and that he will have a secure position, unless of course, he struggles mightily. I love that he recognizes that bringing him up only to be a bench player does not do both the team and the player good. The new era has come upon us indeed.
A change of scenery maybe just what JUp needs to kick start and resurrect his fading career. Trading Goodwin now for pitching is really something to look into. Beating up on the M’s could cost us dearly in the long run, like a better draft pick.The devil is in making the right decision such as play bad / draft good, play good / draft bad. Now or future. l lean to the future as l don’t much care about this throw away season. interesting point for next season, depending when a vaccine is readily available we just might have two back to back short or shorter seasons. Like 1994-1995 and 1981-1982. Congrads to JoA on getting a hit in your first game, nice job.
The Fangraphs article strikes a note of pessimism about whether these guys can keep from doing high risk outside behaviors. How is a middle class guy in a blazer with a whistle and a clip board going to stop a bunch of famous millionaires from carousing?
With the threat of shutting down the season, depriving them of their salaries for the remainder of the season. If that threat doesn’t work, the season will be shut down, if not by the MLB, then by the government.
But the clipboard guy and the multimillionaire have the same boss, who does not want to make the decision on the season, clipboard guy does not have the power to shut things down, open threat got turned around quickly by the clipboard guy, boss will wait it out until enough multimillionaires can’t or will not, show up to work, then bosses hands will be tied by rules and the season gets shut down by other causes. Boss wins.
My point is that if the players don’t take this seriously, California (and others states) will probably shut down the season with regulations before enough players opt-out to give Manfred the chance.
The guy with the clipboard isn’t there to actually control the players, he’s there to make it harder for the players to blame the MLB when the government shuts it down.
I’ll bet against young men being saints every day of the week. Just look at the number of kids some of these guys have, especially in the NBA and NFL. So far the NHL seems to be handling this the best but you rarely hear about NHL guys getting into trouble in general.
Hockey is occurring in Canada, where there aren’t many cases. Not because they don’t engage in similarly risky activities.
As if NBA players wouldn’t break the bubble to hit a strip club, errrr get chicken wings, in Toronto like they did in Orlando. Yes, lower chance at Covid when the bubble is broken and protocols aren’t followed, but individual conduct plays a huge part here, as the Marlins and others have demonstrated.
Theo Fleury was practically hockey’s answer to Lenny Dykstra.
I’ll have to look into that. I don’t follow hockey much but I rarely hear of guys exhibiting the same type of behavior NFL guys do off the field despite it also being a violent sport.
That might be because hockey isn’t as popular, so the stories go unreported.