The Angels are 68-69. They will not make the playoffs. We’re now seeing open auditions for 2022.
With a combination of young rookies, journeymen, and players looking to take their next step, the Angels are fairly unrecognizable from the way they started the season.
We’ve all heard about Jack Mayfield, but it seems like he has a chance to make the team in 2022. Mayfield is under control until 2025.
Although Luis Rengifo made a key error in Sunday’s game, he also tallied two hits and sent a ball to the warning track. He’ll likely split time with Mayfield as the Angels continue to monitor his development.
Brandon Marsh has been playing better, and Jo Adell walloped two home runs Saturday. Justin Upton is on the Injured List.
The Angels are now pitching guys like Janson Junk, Kyle Tyler, Elvis Peguero, Jimmy Herget, Oliver Ortega, and Andrew Wantz. José Marte, Austin Warren, and Reid Detmers hope to come off the COVID list soon.
It’s definitely an interesting experience that will play out at the park for the rest of the year, but it doesn’t all have to be bad. Perhaps some gems will emerge from the rough.
Happy Labor Day!
Well is this the game thread for tonight?
I’m sure hoping they aren’t planning on Rengifo and Mayfield being the answer at short. That’s not real comforting.
The Wire and Board Walk Empire fans
https://apple.news/AmtokIF19Ra-rKFPPRmQ7nQ
Dang it. I really liked that actor.
Joe is a Free-Range parent
The all blue doyer uniforms last night were embarrassing.
Ed Orgeron Sissy Blue?
https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1434917172946640902?s=20
Good News!!! We don’t play the Sux till next year.
Good luck with that.
Vladdy just bombed #40. Let’s go Sho!
Would be nice to see an Angel lead the league in homers.
Don’t think it’s ever happened, even when Glaus hit 47…
Once again according to Baseball-Reference, Glaus did lead the AL in homeruns the year he hit 47 (2000) although Sosa and Bonds hit more for the NL. Previously, Reggie Jackson tied with Gorman Thomas for the major league HR title back in 1982.
Those were the days – PEDS for everyone!
Glaus led the league (not the majors) in 2000. Bobby Grich tied for the league lead in 1981. Reggie Jackson tied for the league lead on Monday in 1982. Others anyone?
Marcus Stroman anybody?
https://twitter.com/PrestonWilson44/status/1434529203404300289
Stroman is a huge Mike Trout fan. He’s a free agent at the end of the year. He would be a great signing for the Angels — he could help the young Halo pitchers get through their lumps and bumps next year and then head the rotation in 2023 with Ohtani as the Angels storm back into the playoffs.
That was the same hope last off season……
He also fits the idea of “pseudo ace” that I’d been thelrowing about also–someone who can provide inning and perform at an above avg level with some consistency, but not quite a “real ace” stuffwise. But he will be exp and it’s not obv that we’ll be able to afford him unless Arte is dissuaded from splurging on yet more position players.
No theez guyz if they’re available. 💪 💪
Anthony DeSclafani & Robbie Ray
Ray will regress to his 6 walks per game self if we acquire him. Disco isalready fading.
The Jay will Overpay for their Ray
I always think of Dan Ford when I see “Disco”.
I think of….superballs.
Yah. I’d take either one of these guys.
Shouldn’t batters come to the plate with a card in their back pocket that they can look at after every pitch that explains what the pitcher on the mound typically throws when the count is 1-0, 0-1, 2-0, 0-2, 1-1, et cetera? If the pitchers get to look at a card after every pitch that tells them how to attack the particular hitters, it only seems fair that the hitters have something comparable.
Just kidding. I hate the cards the pitchers and defenders take with them out onto the field. Looking at the cards after each pitch slows the game down. Players should have this information in their heads. Having baseball smarts used to be one of the qualities that separated good players from mediocre players.
Hitters are more high tech….I think the giant sunglasses they wear now have 5.5 inch plasma screens in the lenses….MLB version of Google Glass.
They don’t need no stinkin cards.
The big problem with rushing all these kids to the Major Leagues.
Is they have no business being anywhere near the Major leagues.
Major League hitters are going to dominate them as we have seen.
The end result being many will lose their confidence and be failures.
I understand your concern, but if we want to get Trout into the playoffs before his window closes, this is something the Angels have to do. Another thing the Angels have to do is treat 2022 like a year of development for Adell, Marsh, and all of these promising young pitchers. Get them MLB experience. Let them fail and learn. This is the only way to get the Angels back into the playoffs by 2023.
The long term outlook of our pitching staff is not about Trout.
It would indeed be great to put the “Fat Kid” into the playoffs.
But not at the expense of all this great young unproven talent.
If Trout never wins a playoff game he wont be the first or last.
Okay tar and feathers out there…I understand what I just said.
So whats the deal with the double spacing? I thought you were going for some type of Haiku or maybe a limerick?
Just something I do.
My style I would say.
We all have our thing.
So a limerick it is.
Title
The “Fat Kid” into the playoffs….
All these worlds are yours.
Except for Europa.
Attempt no landings there.
Pitchers never sign
The market thin as paper
The blog poster weeps
In two-thousand-two
Angels won the world series
Never again, fail
2023? I don’t think you can take a mulligan on 2022. Angels need to approach next year aggressively as they can, to win it all. That should not equate to just committing to Adell and Marsh to flounder in the big leagues, like now. There will come a make or break time with these guys. Angels are expected to win, now. We’re not a small market team. They better get to the damn post season next year.
I’m not sure Perry is as smart as I thought he was taking the job. That is my big concern. Can he get us there? His pitching acquisitions thus far has been dreadful. That needs to change plus adding Rendon and Trout back to the everyday lineup will be huge, Sign D-cell get an accomplished OF and it’s game on. We can be top 5 in offense and this is with a $1.5M SS. I’ll put money down on a WS futures bet if Perry can figure it out.
I give up whose nickname is D-cell?
The Closer
Thank You!!
It’s a nickname that doesn’t really work. Thankfully it’s also not really his nickname “RamRod” from Supertroopers is smoother off the mind than Raisel = Duracell = D-Cell. Though, being a baseball player his nickname is probably something as dead stupid as Raiselo.
There is nothing as sad as players weekend when you see all the player’s nicknames on the jerseys… makes me miss Travis “ProDonk” Hafner.
Probably just “Iggy”
It is truly frustrating to be the fan of a franchise that has been floundering in mediocrity for the past seven years, but I just don’t see how the pitching will be ready in 2022 to lead the Halos back into the post season.
You would have just loved the nineties.
Disney years were horrid and bizarro.
and then that World Series thing happened. So Bizarre .
That was all about Mike Scioscia.
hah
Who would of thought our starting pitchers this season would have been so good as they were from May through July before the injuries took over. We lost Sandoval and Cobb and Canning and still keep going.
It doesn’t matter if you can make it work in your head, just demand it. Demand it loudly and constantly. Then it will totally happen.
It is and always has tough to watch the growing pains of the kids, but it is necessary if we are to get better as a team. Our veterans are just not enough to rise to the occasion and put us over the top.
Funny thing is most here want to see the “Kids” and we are rooting for all of them especially right now Marsh and Adell in the OF. What PTP is doing is rebuilding the team, even without losing our prized possessions. We are not Playoffs bound so why not play the youth? Especially the young pitchers.
Kyle Tyler looked good in his MLB debut giving promise for 2022. Thanx H.T. for listing all the potential arms we may see in ST in February as I was not aware yhere would be so many. This is a good sign that more “Kids” will come up to the Big A.
Good Morning and Happy Labor Day.
Remove this comment if you please, but GB’s greeting brought up in my mind an old question that I haven’t gotten a satisfactory answer to — is Labor Day a capitalist holiday or a socialist holiday?
Everyone- and I mean EVERYONE- loves a day off of work – particularly missing a Monday.. So let’s just leave it at that.
The correct answer is yes
You’re wrong, he’s right………no
I think a _union worker’s_ holiday would be more precise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day). It doesn’t quite have the same overtones that May Day does.
But with the mnemonic device of “labor comes after 9 months” — maybe it should be considered a mother’s holiday. 😀
Same……thoughts & prayers with Ida victims in the NE and LA areas.
What are you, some kind of Brit? Or maybe an Aussie?
Just happy it’s not the Hammer and Sickle.
How do you feel about the Ball and Chain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9wowg4AjI