Jered Weaver won't start Friday vs Rangers

Jason Beck is reporting on Twitter that Garrett Richards, a minor league prospect, will start in place of Jered Weaver on Wednesday vs the Rangers. This is not good for Tiger fans hoping for home field advantage. It does seal the ERA title for Verlander, assuming that Weaver doesn't come in and pitch a scoreless inning.

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Sorry to hear that Weaver and the Angels don’t care anymore for the fans that paid $ to see quality playing even though it’s the end of the year. Fans don’t count must be. No wonder the A’s are losers!!

by Cupcake1 on Sep 27, 2011 9:16 PM EDT reply actions

I disagree with that sentiment

I certainly wouldn’t put my meal ticket out there on short rest in a game that means nothing. And who’s to say the fans don’t want to see some prospects?

http://www.pe.com/sports/baseball/angels/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_angels_28.40511fe.html

Manager Mike Scioscia decided Santana and Weaver “really are on fumes right now and just need to take a back seat” with nothing riding on the final two games of the season.

…“I’ve never been about personal goals,” Weaver said. "I just want to improve every year. I guess this leaves a little room for improvement next year.

“Obviously, there’s a little something out there, but I’m not into the individual numbers. It’s a team game. … The guy on the other end (Verlander) has had an outstanding year. He had a lot of support over there. He’s done great. To lose to a guy like that is not too bad.”

Told how close he was to taking the ERA title from Verlander, Weaver said, “Oops — I guess I should have thrown a couple more zeroes up there.”

Scioscia dismissed the idea of sending Weaver out to pitch just long enough to get his ERA below Verlander’s and called the stat honor “insignificant in the big picture.”

“You get to a point where we would be stretching them for diminishing returns,” Scioscia said of the decision. “We have to look out for these guys moving forward.”

by Dergunna Wavimin on Sep 28, 2011 6:52 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't follow....

Angels won’t pitch Weaver on short rest in a meaningless game…and that proves why the Athletics are losers?!?!?

Put down the cupcakes…

(aside: Stupid suburban baseball team can’t even take one from Texas)

Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when he's losing: nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson

by LittleLeagueTiger on Sep 28, 2011 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions

It's hard to take issue with this.

The Angels just gave Weaver $80M and he’s pitched on 3-days rest multiple times this year. I’d want to err on the side of caution and protect that arm as well.

Now, Scoscia’s other lineup decisions are fair game.

by rcpratt on Sep 28, 2011 10:01 AM EDT reply actions

Completely disagree

The Angels can go golfing tommorrow. Today and yesterday they have/had a chance to alter the course of the postseason chances for a team that is their main division rival and has now kicked their overpaid, underperforming asses for 2 consecutive years. Instead, they trot out a couple rookie starters and some guy named Romine at short.

Fuck ’em. Screw Sciosia who I always had the utmost of respect for. The Dodgers have played with more heart and effort than this worthless pile of talent the past month.

I truly wonder if the bad blood from the last game the Tigers and Angels played had anything to do with this.

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Sep 28, 2011 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions

It's not their responsibility to risk injury to a major asset for no personal gain to their franchise.

In fact, if JV had pitched on 3-days rest five (I’m guessing) times this season, the Tigers were out of the race, and Leyland wanted to throw him again on 3-days rest for game 162, I think I’d throw a fit. Regardless of how durable a pitcher is, how you feel about pitch counts/inning limits (I think they’re overblown), it’s an unnecessary risk with no potential benefit.

by rcpratt on Sep 28, 2011 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions

I do hope they're playing baseball for free today

or at least giving their fans a deep discount on the tickets since they’re refusing to put a major league team on the field for them.

Bless You Boys.com

by Kurt Mensching on Sep 28, 2011 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree with everyone else on the shitty lineup they're putting out there, FWIW.

The risk there is magnitudes lower.

by rcpratt on Sep 28, 2011 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions

Remeber when the Giants beat the Dodgers on a Joe Morgan homer the last day of the season?

It knocked ’em out of the playoffs.

If the Yankees had a chance to knock out the Red Sox, do you think they’d rest everybody? Hell, no! That’s what rivals do. The Angles prove they’re soft and a bunch of losers.

Weaver was asked if he wanted to pitch one inning so he could get the ERA title. He said, “No, I’m not interested in personal goals”. and then his next sentence was, “however, if I was going for 20 wins instead of my 19th, I’d want the ball”. Fuck you, and fuck your loser brother.

This makes me sick and infuriated as you can see. Obviousy because it’s bad news for the Tigers, but because I had come to be a secondary Angel fan living out here. That changed as of yesterday.

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Sep 28, 2011 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions

And they could have thrown Santana tonight on normal rest.

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Sep 28, 2011 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

now boarding: The A' band wagon!

get on early, there are seats … well basically everywhere.

Bless You Boys.com

by Kurt Mensching on Sep 28, 2011 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions

I hate Mike Scoscia

Look at the bottom four in his fucking lineup tonight! You can’t tell me this isn’t payback for the Weaver-Ordonez-Guillen game.

Fat prick……he deserves Vernon Wells.

RANGERS
2B Ian Kinsler
SS Elvis Andrus
CF Josh Hamilton
3B Michael Young
DH Adrian Beltre
C Mike Napoli
RF Nelson Cruz
LF David Murphy
1B Mitch Moreland

ANGELS
SS Erick Aybar
RF Mike Trout
CF Peter Bourjos
DH Vernon Wells
3B Alberto Callaspo
LF Jeremy Moore
C Bobby Wilson
1B Efren Navarro
2B Gil Velazquez

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Sep 28, 2011 5:57 PM EDT reply actions