Friday, September 01, 2006 |
Shoals: Tigers 9, Angels 0
But, it's probably time to think about what's wrong here. For starters, Ervin Santana hasn't been able to really shake his home/road splits, and that's got to change if he wants to be anything besides a tenuous fifth starter. Considering his youth, I'll give him a bye for now, but the fact is he's got to step it up. The team's offense was a big fat zero, and I go straight back to my June OBP rant, though in fact the Angels stranded eight; that was just Kenny Rogers being Kenny Rogers. But some of it was the Angels' natural hacktasticness, a systemwide tendency that hurts them facing guys like Rogers. There was a great piece recently in BP about Mark Teahen, including this quote by Billy Beane: "power is something that can be acquired. Good hitters develop power. Power hitters don't become good hitters." Dallas McPherson and Brandon Wood, that's your future calling.
Well, its never over until were mathamatically eliminated. On paper, it does look pretty grim.
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