Zach Gallen hit a bird with a pitch, so now Randy Johnson is not the only one. In other news, the Rays selected the contract of pitcher Zach Burdi.
Phil Nevin says Tucker Davidson is fine after being hit by that Orioles double on Tuesday. This article features Angels quotes about getting Shohei Ohtani into the postseason. Says Tyler Anderson, “You can’t eat an elephant all at once. You gotta eat it one bite at a time. The season’s one big elephant. You’re just trying to take it down, you know?” Good to know. I’m not sure I’ll be eating any elephants, but the advice is appreciated. People are saying Carlos Estevez is good, so at least there is that.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. will miss four to six weeks with turf toe. Here is a veritable cornucopia of injury reports.
Pitcher Injuries
Wade Miley is on the 15 day IL with a lat strain. Mason Miller of the As is shut down with a mild UCL sprain. Dustin May left a game early with elbow pain.
Umpires
Hats off to the long suffering youth umpires. This one saved a poor kid from ending up in the land of OZ. Then again, this youth umpire applied a choke hold on a deputy sheriff and ended up in jail. I guess there are limits.
Aaron Boone got himself ejected for arguing balls and strikes. (video) Yankee or not, you are not in charge of the umpires unless you are a deputy sheriff.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
Is Trout’s recent struggles at missing fastballs an exaggerated outrage, or a legitimate concern? You be the judge:
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/17/angels-mike-trout-searching-for-answers-to-rare-extended-slump/
It feels like he’s now just a tick old, and on the way down. It’s a very high place from which he is descending.
Until he solves it, it’s a concern.
Think is he will get hot and it will be impressive.
Told Ya!!!
Trout’s rare killing of a high fastball yesterday hampers your hypothhh…hypohthh……..point.
In other news: Dylan Bundy was recently ejected from a AAA game due to using a foreign substance.
Probably the same stuff he was using here in Anaheim
That’s terrible considering the results.
Today’s lineup:
Moniak
Trout
Ohtani
Renfroe
Drury
Wallach
Rengefo
Neto
Soto
Anderson
Halo Power Baby!!
Here are stats for each player’s last seven games, although for Moniak, it is only for his last four games:
Moniak .417 BA / 2 XBH / 1 BB
Trout .200 BA / 2 XBH / 3 BB
Ohtani .259 BA / 4 XBH / 4 BB
Renfroe .269 BA / 3 XBH / 3 BB
Drury .192 BA / 1 XBH / 0 BB
Wallach .363 BA / 2 XBH / 0 BB
Rengifo .105 BA / 0 XBH / 1 BB
Neto .208 BA / 3 XBH / 0 BB
Soto .170 BA in 30 games in the minors this year
If we’re going with the hot hand batting order philosophy, Neto and Wallach should be hitting higher up in the order and Trout should be batting ninth.
Trout in the ninth spot…scary!!!
sends him a message lol
😂
So we trade Trout and keep Moniak?
No. I’m sure Trout will snap out of it. He always does. But for the time being, he should be dropped in the line up until he is once again productive at the plate.
It feels like Ward has been playing his way out of the lineup for a while. On top of his wonky hitting, he’s looking very shaky on defense, which is traditional for our left fielders.
And according to Fan Graphs Ward has one option left . The Angels might be sending him down to the Great Salt Lake until Moniak runs out of steam
Free Mickey!
Sending Ward down and keeping Phillips on the roster is grounds for immediate expulsion of the front office
At least we’ll know if impeachment proceedings can commence on Perry by this weekend if Walsh says hes ready to return.
Great news to get Walsh back in there for his defense alone
Ahhh….the mysterious Phillips. Rengifo’s late inning OF defensive replacement and hat wrangler. At least they don’t let him play.
Hat wrangler…LOL. Yippee-ki-yaaa! Autry would have been so proud.
It worked for Kendrick.
We’ve had LFers the last couple of years?
Good morning to all, East Coast get-away games are brutal as they are too early imho. Thankfully spared yesterday’s loss as I was doing the going to the Doctor stuff. I got good news, no TJS for me and the team can sign me up for Bullpen duty 😂
This Orioles team is good, but going 2-2 against them would be kool. Any day now we will go on a winning streak, it is written in the stars-how do I know, the 8 Ball told me so and who am I to disagree I say. But the real truth is because this team is too good to fail.
Walsh could return sometime this weekend, which is a great thing as he has been hitting the cover off the ball in AAA. I hope I make the game with you folks today, so see you then. 😀
“because this team is too good to fail.”
Depends on what your definition of failure is. If 81-81 is failure- I disagree with you. If 81-81 is success- I agree with you.
Too bad .500 won’t get you into the playoffs. It will be hard for all that talent to overcome the bad defense, bad pitching #18 4.39 team era. Don’t see many prolonged winning streaks with this group, too many deficiencies.
The positives, looks like we have a legitimate, maybe a stud, SS and Catcher. Still hope we have a good amount of cheap cost effective pitching talent that’s on the way.
Doubt restless evil Arte will go many more seasons without getting rid of PTP. I’m sure he already has his eye on some “rising through the system assistant GM” somewhere that he can hire on the cheap. It will be interesting to see the organizational backlash for not getting anything for Shohei. Unless they really do crater before the deadline and do actually do trade him.
With that amount of talent .500 baseball is sad.
Success is at least making the playoffs. Failure is missing them.
Then I think this season is more likely than not going to be a failure by that metric. I believe it will be a success from the better than last season metric.