Angels Add injury to insult as they lose Kikuchi AND the game in Extras

The first couple of weeks were fun as the line-ups were working and starting pitching looking good and the BP as predicted was, well, an Angels Bullpen full of disappointment. Good was Trouty’s OBP & OPS & power numbers. Good was the aforementioned SP. The bad is our hitting pretty much sucks and worse yet is the BP.

Most here predicted that the team would win 66 to 76 games or be a losing team. When reality sinks in and become something that is really real, panic sets in and we look to blame someone. Why blame Suzuki? No one here could do better, especially with what he has to work with. The manager is not to blame in this case. So, just what is the problem? Let’s count the ways.

Our minor league system is in complete shambles. Bad facilities, poor coaching, and SLC is no place to bring up players from (altitude). Weak drafts contribute, because if you don’t draft well, you then lack the players to promote that well help.

Remember when Sosh was chosen to be the guy at fault? He was replaced and that proved to show Sosh was to blame, right? From then on, we just went on to be in the pennant race every year with Trouty and Showtime.

Since Bill Stoneman show some backbone after Arturo purchased the Angels and informed the GM who had just won a WS that all player moves had to go through the owner and Bill saw where that was going and retired, we have had Reagins, Jedi, the guy who signed Shohei and really did nothing before or after that, then another guy that would work on the cheap who is in way over his head and has no back bone.

So would this team be contending if we had Cora for instance or someone of the like? How about that GM in Philly who sold off his minor leaguers and now has a losing team. The true be told the Angels are doomed as long as Moreno owns this team.

Arturo has no idea of how to run the operation from hiring the right people, to filling positions that will stay, to staying out of everything. He has two things going for him, he owns the team and he will possibly acquire billions of dollars simply by luck as his teams value has gone up in spite of him. So don’t blame Suzuki, he was one of the very few who would take the job.

Until the teams sells and sells to the right person or group of persons nothing short of a miracle will improve this organization. So, frustration reigns supreme for all of us here at CtPG.