Let’s assemble the best possible Angels team by letter of the alphabet to begin a player’s last name. Today is M. 100 men whose last name started with “M” played major league baseball in an Angels uniform.
C – Bengie Molina
1B – Don Mincher
2B – Billy Moran
3B – Ken McMullen
SS – Rance Mulliniks
OF – Hideki Matsui
OF – Bubba Morton
OF – Gary Matthews Jr.
DH – Kendrys Morales
Surprise, surprise, Jeff Mathis is not the best “M” Catcher in Angels history. There are few things more indelible than Bengie Molina running toward Troy Percival after Erstad made the catch on October 27, 2002. The 2009 Morales and the 1967 Mincher are two all too unheralded single seasons by a Halo.
SP – Andy Messersmith
SP – Kirk McCaskill
SP – Ken McBride
RP – Donnie Moore
RP – Greg Minton
Messersmith -aka the one that got (traded) away- here heads up a more than serviceable starting staff and memories of Donnie Moore should occasionally recall that 150 ERA+ and 61 Saves he amassed for the club, right?
