Goodbye and good riddance, Angel

[Frayed Knot]

“You see he’s working a series, you know he’s gonna f–k you once, and he’s probably gonna f–k you a few more times after that,” ...
“You just pray to God that the f–king doesn’t come in the ninth inning and cost you a ballgame.”

-- anonymous ML manager to NY Post's Mike Vaccaro about ... well, you know who.

[Edgy MD]

Any description of him as "being more or less in the middle of the pack" is therefore pretty generous. he is somewhere in the bottom quartile, at best.

Pretty much what I expected.

And what those ratings can only scrape at but not fully capture is how he made it personal.

[nymr83]

Yeah, and I think the ejections speak to that - he is prolific ejector of players not for the things that should be automatic like fighting but for arguing with him.

One thing I didn't look at, see FK's last post, is does he screw people in the late innings more than usual (because, as John Franco alleged, he "has a plane to catch") - I think the numbers for that exist but likely require parsing

[MFS62]

(because, as John Franco alleged, he "has a plane to catch") -

If we had known that, many fans (and players) would have driven him to the airport before the game.
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