We will most likely never see this happen again. Too many injuries.
November 24, 2025
We will most likely never see this happen again. Too many injuries.
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Fun Fact: Jamie Moyer was on the other team
It’s crazy how for the whole 162 game season they didn’t try out any new arm or even play a bullpen member starting the game
This team had more wins than the ALCS team this year, and didn’t make the playoffs because of the Athletics moneyball era, truly unlucky
Yeah not a snowballs chance in hell that’s happening again.
Crazy thing is they didn’t make the playoffs. It should have been a sign to start rebuilding right then and there. To have that kind of injury luck and still not be able to make the playoffs.
And one of them was Jaime Moyer -age redacted lol
And Jamie Moyer was 21-7 at age 40 with an 83-mph fastball.
The GOAT.
The Angels, of all teams, made it into July this year with only 5.
It’s wild that a team this good got blocked by the perfect storm of the A’s moneyball run and brutal injury luck.
This was the formula for a lot of winning teams during the mid to late 2000s. Rotation depth was the key to winning postseason series once teams stopped running the same guy out three times (although the Giants went back to that well after the decade), and it was before teams started investing money and mid-season resources on stacking the bullpen. The ’02 Angels might be the closest thing we had to a modern pitching staff in usage.
Dodgers – 17 starters in 2025.
Terrible what getting 2-3 MPH on your fastball has done to this game.
12 comments
Fun Fact: Jamie Moyer was on the other team
It’s crazy how for the whole 162 game season they didn’t try out any new arm or even play a bullpen member starting the game
This team had more wins than the ALCS team this year, and didn’t make the playoffs because of the Athletics moneyball era, truly unlucky
Yeah not a snowballs chance in hell that’s happening again.
Crazy thing is they didn’t make the playoffs. It should have been a sign to start rebuilding right then and there. To have that kind of injury luck and still not be able to make the playoffs.
And one of them was Jaime Moyer -age redacted lol
And Jamie Moyer was 21-7 at age 40 with an 83-mph fastball.
The GOAT.
The Angels, of all teams, made it into July this year with only 5.
It’s wild that a team this good got blocked by the perfect storm of the A’s moneyball run and brutal injury luck.
This was the formula for a lot of winning teams during the mid to late 2000s. Rotation depth was the key to winning postseason series once teams stopped running the same guy out three times (although the Giants went back to that well after the decade), and it was before teams started investing money and mid-season resources on stacking the bullpen. The ’02 Angels might be the closest thing we had to a modern pitching staff in usage.
Dodgers – 17 starters in 2025.
Terrible what getting 2-3 MPH on your fastball has done to this game.