Good morning Angels fans! We are almost there to a new season. Have some links.
Angels News
Another day, another intersquad game. Canning and Bundy did pretty well. And here is a video of Adell vs Middleton.
Brandon Marsh has joined the camp! The OF of the future is all in Anaheim now. Trout, Adell, and Marsh.
Angels pitching coach Callaway likes what he sees so far this summer. Just be safe, people.
Maddon is optimistic and has the same goals for the season as he did in March. World Series here we come!
The Angels join the Allience LA to combat racism, an organization of the Los Angeles professional teams. Even though they are in Orange County. Then again it is Los Angeles Angels so…
Around Baseball
Puig finally has a team for real now. He’s a Brave.
No fans in the stadium yet. So a Blue Jays employee pretended to be one.
Bryon Buxton is out for a sprained ankle. He is day to day.
Rangers furloughed 12% of their employees. Don’t look at the Angels numbers.
11 umpires have opted out for health and safety reasons. Joe West was not one of them.
Some Japanese students ask r/Baseball how well Japanese players will do in the MLB this year. Consensus? Ohtani to have a big year.
Fangraphs has their Position predictions rankings updated. So far 1B, 2B, and 3B are done. Yeah… Pujols is the second worst 1B according to Fangraphs. But average in 2B and 3rd best 3B!
The Mets sale is confusing as mystery buyers are now a thing. At least we can laugh at the Mets.
Anything I missed? Post below for upvotes.
Brandon Marsh is going to be very good, even better than Adell l’m thinkin’.
Sounds like we still get two great players out of that battle. Sounds good! I’m sure one will be shipped out for an ace eventually.
for me, the ultimate in fandom is to have our team be completely homegrown. If we could draft and develop pitching talent……but “sigh”
Nice picture John Henry. Do you think Mike Trout can hit one out of that park?
Of course. The thin air only makes it inevitable.
Alias (aka Joe Smith — if that’s his real name) has opted out of the 2020 season.
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/07/15/astros-reliever-joe-smith-opts-out-of-2020-season/
A11IANCE LA. There are only two replies from twitter feeds outside of #TheAllianceLA group. One from UCLA, MIA represent, and the Halos.
https://twitter.com/WhiteApe76/status/1283180881956401152
How can you participate, and call yourself a fan of a team, when you don’t even support the team?
Not even going to speculate, just stay classy @WhiteApe76
What’s one more empty seat at the Big A?
We fans just can’t get a break, can we?
Just watch. They will team up Joe West, Doug Eddings, and Angel Hernandez in a trifecta of suckitude and then assign them to the western regional grouping because: 2020.
Every game goes into, overtime.
Interesting. Fangraphs projects Fletcher to get over twice as many at bats at second as La Stella. They say Thaiss will get more at bats at first.
Does La Stella have any trade value as a short season rental? I wonder what they will do with that guy.