Angels at Season's 1/3 Mark: Report Card

Ok, except for you Jared…

Is in currently in Detention.

would almost be getting by in special ed.

I mean we’re still only a couple games out of first place, and with how bad we’ve been, that gives me hope that the Angels will pull this one out. The end of June comes and us and Texas are suddenly above .500 and are neck and neck and Oakland begins to fade, the end of July rolls around and we’ve got an uncomfortable 3 game lead, the end of August rolls around and it’s 5 games and then September comes and we turn on the after burners.

Pretty good assessment. Rivera’s fielding is the only thing I can quibble with.

Here’s the question: how much blame do we heap on the teacher (Scioscia) and the Principal (Reagins)? I’m not sure there’s much Scioscia can do, but Reagins needs to re-write that entrance exam.

LINKIE (oh, and Mom/Stephanie is HOT follow link for photo…traded in the old one for this one…whoa)

I will take that, and my mom will be proud of me.

LOL
2nd on the team in rbi

Don’t worry little howie, your teacher just hates you

but a couple of F’s for blown plays as well
(like the one that rolled between his legs for a triple—ouch…)

However, we do have too many underachieving for no good reason. Get it together Angels.

Slot Rivera over in RF where he’s always belonged and put Willits or Ryan out in LF. Our defense becomes much better……

Respectfully disagree. Forget about how hot Mike’s been in may, His April doesn’t even come close to Kendry’s and both of their Mays are fairly even. Napoli get’s a B- and Morales gets an A-.

if only the jays accepted the Aybar, Saundo, Bourjous offer. I hate you Halladay, you and all your Mormonism. You go ahead and keep Glenn Beck. I got animosity towards the Jays management as well.

You do realize with the grades you have issued make this Angel team a D team. With that said I would agree with your assessment. I may not agree with some of the individual reports, but the truth of the matter is there is a serious issues that need/must be addressed in order for the 2010 Angels to be considered a solid team

Keeps running into the aces. Faces Zack G next.

Abreu’s grade should be lower, he isn’t hitting as much and striking out too much
Bulgers grade is a little rough too since he had a bad April but a really good May.

shouldn’t this be more of a judgement or inquisition rather than a report card?

please use something different than a school “report card” scale.

I would prefer movie reviews.

For example:
“Brian Fuentes is like ‘The Human Centipede,’ gross everywhere.”
He receives 1 star out of 10.

“Bobby Abreu is like ‘Cool World,’ nice soundtrack but no substance.”
He receives 4 out of 10.

#1-Walks from starting and bull pen

1. no legit Leadoff hittter
2. Fuentes- (in just 12 innings has cost us 3 games, imagine if we were a better team and he had twice the innings.)
3. - Wood- He has struggled with the glove too, missing some rountine plays and throws, seems to not have his head out there (.958 ). Looks as if the lights are too bright in the majors for him. even though he is hitting 9th (OPS+of —2!, strikesout 30 of the time and it seems like more, and while I don’t hav ethe hard numbers to back it up, I read an article the tracked LOB stat, and said that Brandon is in the top 5 in LOB for hitters 7-9.) Meaning he comes up with men on, will usually strike out, and plays average defense.
4. Kazmir supposed to be better than this. Saunders has had his troubles too, but looks as if he might be turning the corner, Kaz just looks done.

Ironically, I’m advocating grade appeals for two members of the beleaguered bullpen: Kevin Jepsen and Brian Fuentes.

Jepsen: has appeared in 23 games thus far, and has pitched scoreless baseball in 18 of those, or 78%. That’s C+/B- territory. The 24 Ks in 18 2/3 IP is impressive. Give him a B-.

Fuentes: it hasn’t been pretty, but look at his game logs. He has failed to do his job only three times out of 13 appearances, and one of those fails really belongs to Abreu (dropped fly ball on 05/26), and the Angels won that game anyway. He has been better than the bullpen as a whole. It’s fun to bash the guy, yeah, but if you look at the actual results, he gets a C. Surprised the heck out of me, actually. When I started to write this paragraph, I was going to advocate for a D+ but on careful review, he breaks into C territory.

for screwing up my life
thanks for nothing ass holes

GO ANGELES
now win again