Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
The River Of Pitching: A's 3, Angels 1
Troubling signs: still nothing from Anderson, still nothing from Vlad, Kennedy's gone into a funk, and almost no power from the offense. The Angels are eleventh in home runs in the AL, worse even than Minnesota and Tampa Bay. Stephen Smith can kid himself all day about "Contactball", but the Angels' absence of power is going to kill them, if not now, then in the playoffs. (Those who think I'm exaggerating should be reminded that the 2002 squad hit 24 home runs in the postseason, versus eighty total for this season and 152 for the 2002 regular season; they're on pace for 139 on the season.) I don't know if McPherson's going to be anything useful, but man could they use that home run swing.
Tomorrow, a resurgent Barry Zito. I'm not looking forward to it, not with Paul Byrd on the mound.
It says that an organization can't be spectacualry deep at every position. Mosely would be the fourth-ranked (or higher) pitcher in a lot of organizations.
It's weird but it seems that the Angels and A's are mirror images of each other in their minors; the A's turn out very, very good pitching, and the Angels are poised to turn out a mess of quality position players, some of them with very good power.
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