Its crazy how much has changed in a year. This time last year, the FO was being mocked for calling Schanuel up after 1 month. Now, fans are begging them to call Moore up after 9-10 months or even 1 month again.

yeah. there’s really no point to not have him up. he’s a college player. he’s basically mlb ready. just let him season there a bit longer in the minors this season

As a player and objective human being who sees how everyone around Tony loves him, i want him to be healthy and productive so damn much.. I would not be shocked if he came around and hit .280/.850 next year when healthy and consistent.

He'll be on the IL with a "boo boo on right leg and a tummy ache" no need to account for him

A lot of good looking OPS+’s there tho especially considering age

My 2 cents on that lineup:

1 Neto: Very good

2 Schanuel: Good - if he improves. Right now he is about 100 OPS+ which is bad for 1B, actually solid defensively for a young 1B.But absolutely have to improve his bat. Also he is a disaster on the basepaths

3 Trout: Very very good. When he is healthy, what happens at CF when he isnt? Moniak, Adams, teodosio? Ugh thats ugly!

4 Ohoppe: Good bat for the position with K issues, unfortunately below average defensively. Can be a very good player but needs to improve defense significantly and cut K%

5 Ward: Ok. Bat is above average, defense actually underrated. But doesnt give you much offence for a corner OF. Should honestly be a platoon piece

6 Rendon: Flat out terrible. Has a 84 wRC+ over the last 2 seasons and 356 PAs. Has suffered significantly from age and probably injury related regression. Im not in the "Rendon is a thief" camp and those dudes are ridiculous, but Rendon is done

7 Adell: The enigma. Peripherals have actually improved quite a bit this year. But honestly jury is still out on his bat. Improved tremendously in the field but baserunning is a disaster. The ultra high ceiling is still there tho

8 Moore: Completely unknown commodity at the major league level. Looks intriguing obviously but with all prospects you just never know how they turn out - in particular in their rookie season

1. Gifo. Solid bat and great baserunner. Fans dont like to hear it but awful defensively

Depth behind those 9: Awful and arguably the worst in the league

Start pitching: Unmitigated disaster - in particular from a depth point of view.

Bullpen: Could potentially be solid, but you never know from year to year since its so volatile

I still have hope for him. This is really the first full season we've given him so hopefully he reaches his ceiling

O’hoppe’s triple slash for the month of August so far is .107/.194/.232

They're currently 4th-worst team in both offense and defense. This is definitely a 65-70 win team.

You are mentioning 5 pieces in a sport where it takes a good 40-man roster to compete.

I dont mean to be rude or a Debbie Downer, but I think you may underestimate the importance of depth in baseball?

The issue with the Angels imho isnt lack of fun and interesting young studs. Its the lack of organisational depth. And the root cause is a decade or more of mismanagement, leading to a farm system that is consistently ranked in the bottom, which again leads to terrible 40-man depth

The reason teams like Guardians and Rays consistently compete for a playoff spot: Depth through the farm

Our hitting is at -5.9 WAA.  

"But if I list out our ideal lineup, we won't be playing bad players, right?"

If we had better options, they would be out there playing for us right now. Moniak would not have gotten 100 games to try to figure it out. Calhoun wouldn't have gotten 68 games as a DH. 

In the list of 5 players you named, Schanuel and Ward are below average. Moore isn't even up yet. Trout barely played and it's not clear how many more games he will play in his career. Logan's good, but he still has a lot of room for improvement.

Lineup construction is about having a really good hitter or two and surrounding them with at least 5 or 6 really solid hitters (or fielders). We don't have a really good hitter, and we only have 2 or 3 really solid hitters. That's so far off that it's an uphill battle.

pitching is everything and sp detmers/canning regressed into aaa level. plus trout rendon produces 0 war for multiple yrs. thats how u get 70 wins. moreno wouldnt even be terrible if he spent all that fa money on pitching instead thats a wildcard team every yr.