The Final Offense Upgrades! Angel in the Outfield #26

It is time for episode 26 of Angel in the Outfield. It's actually crazy that we're already at 26 episodes, dude. But in the last video, I had a pretty dominant performance from Tarek Skubal. He struck out 10. Mike Trout hit a homer. I was able to win the game and I finished it all with four upgrades. The like goal was set at 8000 likes. We didn't hit it, but I'm not going to bring it down. I'm going to keep it at 8000 likes. The like goal has like one HP right now, but I'm not giving up on it. But now let's check out the comments to see where the four upgrades will go. The top comment is from LOL Podcast Fan Page one, who says Adley Rushman, Chris Bassett, Giancarlo Stanton and Rafael Devers, since he just got traded and Devin Williams. And the other comment comes from Cindy Glover, who says Rafael Devers, Bo Naylor, Chris Bassett, Giancarlo Stanton and Nate Pearson. So we'll start with our starting pitcher upgrade today, Chris Bassett. He actually looks kind of good. He's got crazy speed differentials on some of those breaking pitches. Our next upgrade will go to the offense with Giancarlo Stanton. I was low key surprised it took this card this long to get an upgrade and Angel in the outfield. Our third upgrade will go behind the dish. We get Adley Rushman. This card is very solid, man. I love a good switch it and catcher. And Adley is one of the best ones you can get. And that leaves the final upgrade today, Rafael Devers. You guys wanted to add him to the team after the news broke of his trade. I actually just posted a Giants rebuild with Rafael Devers yesterday. Go check that out if you're interested. But now we get to add him to the Angel in the outfield squad. And actually that completes the final phase of the Angel in the outfield lineup. Assuming we don't get any downgrades. This is what the final team looks like this year. I did finally have to move Mike Trout to a corner because Stanton can't play left. I have Bryce Harper in center field. He also cannot play left. So as much as I want to have Mike Trout in center field on Angel in the outfield, I just got to make it work with the squad around him. And now that just means there's only two more upgrades left in the rotation, as well as I believe six in the bullpen. So still eight upgrades before we finish the full team. But we're getting kind of close to the finish line in Angel in the outfield. As I look for this game, just a reminder that if you're going to go to a baseball game this year, Code Koogs on SeatGeek will save you $20 on your tickets. If you enjoy fantasy sports, make sure to check out Underdog because you can do daily fantasy against other real players. Or they have pick-em entries where you pick higher or lower based off their projections for players on that day. Either way, sign up with Code Koogs and you can get a free pick for your first pick-em entry. And if you want to come watch some MLB games with me, head over to Playback.TV slash Koogs46, join the playback room, connect your MLB TV to your playback, and you can watch the games with me as I'm live streaming. So I'm on the road for this one, taking on Dustin May. And he also has Vlad and Adley and Seager and Willie Mays. This guy's got a good team. Oh, man. Was I late? Oh, yeah, I was way late on that. Trout. Oh, I didn't track it well enough. I thought that was going to go all the way to the corner. Damn. And then I'm late on the sinker. OK, pretty horrendous start for me offensively, but it's all good. A lot of game left. And we've got Chris Bassett on the mound. I actually remember I used this guy a lot in the miniseason as I was grinding for Adley. He tore up that rookie CPU, dude. Yeah, that was way slower than anything I've thrown already. Let's go with the splitter. Low and in. As much as I despise Anthony Rendon, I can't expect him to make that play. Damn it, dude. Two guys on and he hasn't even hit the ball well. Come on, I can absolutely get this guy to ground into a double play. We got this. Or not. His base is loaded. Dude, he is taking everything on the corner. I literally can't get him to swing at a pitch right now. Come on. OK, he's out in front. I got to go with the sweeper here. Got to get the corner of the zone, though. Double play. We got it. That's huge. Super annoying inning, but we got out of it. Uh, I don't know. Is he toying with me or is that getting out? He was toying with me. Adley, come on, come on. Oh, my God. No way. Safe. All right. Well, Giancarlo is back on the squad and Giancarlo gets an inside sinker. OK, I'm first and third. That's a great pitch. Devers put a good swing on it. That is down and we're safe at third. Devers has an RBI. He's one for one. Got to add more, though. Can't leave these guys out there. Oh, that was the pitch. That's a great swing. I should be able to score here. Yeah, I don't think I left early. Let's go to nothing. Ambushing a sinker in. He goes with the same first pitch every time. Righty, righty. I ambushed and Anthony Rendon still couldn't get it. I might get a downgrade on purpose, dude. Second at bat for Trout. I just missed the sweeper with him in the first at bat. I knew he was going to go sinker again, man. I was out in front. Three, two now. Full count, Trout. All four. That was tough to take. Blatty. Oh, that's an out. Dude, that baseball was basically disintegrated. How did he catch it? That's a perfect pitch, man. Not even sure how he was able to keep that fair. Here we go. Yo, Chris Bastet is awesome. He's got me thinking about maybe putting him in the God Squad rotation. Just got to add more runs, though, man. Two is not going to cut it. And that inside sinker is just so tough for me to see because Dustin May has all of these pitches that move all over the place. I can't tell if it's going to be a cutter or what. There we go. I told you he goes with the high and in sinker every single time. Welcome back to the squad, Stanton. Yeah, catch that one. That's easy. Two bases for Brian Roberts. Bang, Rendon did something. Never thought I'd see the day. Oh, he might have got hurt diving into second base there. Yeah, why not? Sure, that's going to be another double. It's five nothing. Now that brings up Trouty. Come on, go with the inside sinker. No, I'm going. He's going back to it. I know he is. Dude, I had him read so perfectly. How did I screw that up? That should have been a home run for Trout and a plethora of upgrades. Yep, might be getting a little bit more aggressive now. Yeah, he's getting real aggressive. Bang, maybe the easiest inning Bassett's had so far. 115 miles an hour off the bat. Bryce Harper just destroyed another baseball. 469 feet. Tough break. That was his best swing in a while. And Chris Bassett is starting to get in the 60s for his pitch count. OK, that's two. Come on, man, keep him scoreless. Don't let him drive him in. Yes. Put up a couple of good swings, but he can't bring anybody across the plate right now. Bottom of the order in the top of the six. Let's see a Devers nuke in this at bat. Oh, yeah. You see how far that went? On the tag, you're out. I didn't get the PCI all the way up there. That's going to die at the track. Guess what he's going to throw first pitch, guys? Who would have guessed that? Now, imagine if I actually timed it up right. I thought that was going to be a cutter that came back as a strike, but I might be stupid and I got lucky with that. I can't get the timing down on pinpoint with the splitter right now. I think I'm slow every time. Hold on. Let me see if I can get it here. Yeah, I'm like slow. I can't get it right. And it's forcing me to make bad pitches because of it. Maybe we just don't throw the splitter anymore. I mean, why would I throw the splitter when I can just throw that? Oh, but I didn't get him at second. Nice. This inning just got a little bit more sketchy. Cool. That's going to drive in two. Hold on. Trout's fielding this at the wall. Go three. I wanted the outfield assist. There we go. That's what I need to see. Not done yet. Seager could easily crush one here. All right. I got Seager. I allowed two, but yeah, my own mistake. I should have just got the easy out at one. Now he's going to Ottavino. So I'm on the top of my order here in the seventh. Ottavino against Trout does make me nervous. Corey Seager draws a walk. Great A.B. Trout needs to do something here, man. 0 for 2 with a walk. I'm going to ambush sinker inside. How do I keep missing it? There we go. That works, Mike. That's his second time on base. That's an upgrade. Bro, I mean, how is that an out? I ambushed the sinker inside. I guess it right with 95 Vlad and the game lines me out. Yeah. Catch that one. That's going to score one. Come on, Adley. One swing. Get us in double digits. All four. Here comes Giancarlo. We already know he's throwing the sinker inside. I swear if I miss this, I was early. Oh my God. That'll do the job. Devers could go wild right here. On a 3-2 count, you can't throw a better pitch than that. I know I'm up seven, but I wanted those runs so bad. Chris Bassett, man. His pitch count is above 90 and he's still dealing. I'm going to keep him in until he gives up another run or until he gives up a perfect swing, which was right there. Maybe I should stop messing around. Jaron Duran. Okay. He gets one more batter. Probably a bad decision. Great start for Chris Bassett, but we're going to get a new arm in here. Ah, got Duran. And Andrew Miller gets Adley. I can always rely on him out of the bullpen. He might stay in my bullpen all year long, or at least until we get another Andrew Miller card. He just, he just dove for that ball, threw me out, took away a hit. By the way, that would have been the 12th hit and Mike Trout was coming up after Seager. What? So for that one, kind of weird way to finish, but we won the game and we got a rage quit. I'm counting that as a rage quit because he quit right before I was able to get the run total and right before I was able to get the hit total. And Mike Trout got on base two or more times, but I think that's it. Three upgrades in this one. And like I said earlier, we have two more starting pitcher spots and six more relievers. Assuming we don't get any downgrades from here on out, every upgrade you guys give will go to a 90 to 99 overall pitcher. So let me know what arms you guys want to add to the staff.