The Angels just designated Amir Garrett for assignment. I swear! Jose Suarez must have some compromising pictures of Perry. Davis Daniel was called up to take Garrett’s place.
The Angels seem to be at the top of this list of teams who might be sellers at the trade deadline. Go figure. Who do you build a franchise around? Mike Trout got mentioned as someone who was kicked off the list as too injury prone. Aaron Judge made the list of 50, I guess because he had that one healthy season in 2022.
Twins reliever Justin Topa has a tear in his patellar tendon and will miss at least six weeks. Rhys Hoskins has a strain in his right hamstring and will miss two to four weeks. Max Scherzer is now on the 60 day IL. Also on the injured list are Nick Lodolo, Alex Wood and Darrell Hernaiz,
The White Sox demoted Michael Soroka to the bullpen and gave Brad Keller his rotation spot. The Giants signed Curt Casali to a major league deal.
Ronel Blanco got suspended ten games and fined for his foreign substance ejection.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
this is all I needed to read….
“The 24-year-old Contreras was DFA’d by the Pirates on Saturday”
I just read a small excerpt that Juan Soto is really focused on winning, regarding his next contract.
Well, there goes any idea that we might sign him.
Dang, and we were all waiting with bated breath for him to return to California-wait! There is always the team in Blue up the 5. 😄 Everybody wants to come to the Angels to play with Mike for a month every season.
So is it Andrew going to be Cy-Dog tomorrow?
Molina, yes. Pujols, no way.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10121401-mlb-rumors-yadier-molina-albert-pujols-interested-in-managing-amid-cardinals-buzz
I think they’d both be excellent managers. I think Pujols’ personality is better suited to it than Yadi, though.
Notice Albert’s head size and neck size are considerably shrunk, he used steroids is my thinking, has been also accused of fibbing about his age to boot. I won’t hire him as a ballboy, but that’s just me.
Compareing his head/neck size…. You might be on to something GPB
Sanó is almost back. I am happy that our infield is starting to get healthy. We need Drury back so bad.
I know a few here are happy that Rengifo got over his bought with Herpes, but he should be trade bait for any kind of pitching.
Rengifo was activated today
Rengifo sucks.
Also, Rengifo is our best trade asset.
Davis Daniel back to the Salt Lake Bees after a day. I worry about some of these guys getting The Bends or blood clots spending so much time in the air.
Not sure who the new guy is, the X Pirate Roansy?
Yes
So. As it stands now we have a team full of scrubs and kids who get face blasted 2 of every 3 games. And a manager who is the first I’ve seen going back past Terry Collins who seems to have just about every player sit down next to him and talk to him during the game. Probably because he is stupid.
I’ll call it a win if the team manages to get the win percentage up to .500 for the last couple months of the season. Just get better. Figure out which kids and scrubs are worth keeping around for next year. I’m not an incredibly self assured asshole so I’m not going to declare who is worthy in mid-May. But hopefully about ten 2025 roster spots will be spoken for by September. Bonus, we’ll see a bunch of MiLB arms soonish and you can all stop bleating like a stabbed lamb about Suarez.
We will not see .500, but we will do the rest.
I mean going .500 for the months of Aug/Sep
We all know Washington is stupid because after… what, 3 months? None of our infielders are instant Gold Glove winners. Never mind Texas, Oakland, Atlanta all got considerably better with patience while he was there. Stupid Wash. Stupid Perry for hiring him. Stupid pitcher draft and none are Cy winners yet.
YESH!
Not sure what phantom disease struck Rengifo but hes finally recovered and back
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a3dd5c61-87a5-4471-afaf-6c7ebe1b00c0
Best Player On The Team’itis
I hope you don’t actually believe that. He can hit fine, but every other part of his game is a disaster.
Best player on the team right now is not a high bar, pretty much every player we have on the roster is flawed. His strengths are as good as anyone else’s on the roster. No single player is the best but he’s one of the group with the best strengths. Using OPS+ he is currently the best hitter on our team and the best base stealer.
9-1 in stolen bases.
Position flexible with a cannon arm.
O’Hoppe is close, but day-in-day-out, Rengifo has been our best player on the field.
Group of Adell, O’Hoppe and Rengifo, hard to argue with. Rengifo has a big point deduction due to availability, which is likely the new normal, just because. New trAdition
Fair enough. In any fair analysis, he’s one of 5 best players. The dragging that he receives from too many people is tiresome.
Particularly when you throw in things like production vs. salary and 80% of our roster.
I must be Loney in being loyal, but I still love the Angels and watching them is a lot of fun still. Still, I think a new owner and rebuild is in order. I’m just not sure why Arte wants to hang out any longer, kind of a mystery like why do the Asstros seem to like cheating so much?
Loney? No
Loony? Perhaps
Money
See I am Loony 😃
Still?
Yep, still.
I’m not so sure right now that streaming will be the answer all to watching regional baseball games, but right now MLB has to come through and keep baseball on the air. With all the network channels, cable TV offerings, and all the available streaming services available, there just isn’t enough advertising money available to keep everyone afloat. Add to that the rise in subscription fees to streaming services going up faster in price that a Big Mac, all might fall like a house of cards. Interesting as to how MLB comes out of all this down the road if folks have to purchase games like the NFL is doing. Is the end near for a downturn in attendance coming too?
So where do the Angels stand before their first series against a division rival:
Our chances are better than I would have guessed, so GO ANGELS! 😁
Some is going to post the “so I’ve got a chance” GIF
So as mediocre as our injury depleted offense is the real problem remains pitching and defense?
Got it
Crazy lol
They were about in the same place offensively last year, so considering they lost Ohtani, that’s not bad. The problem is that the starting pitching and bull pen were also roughly the same and they spent money on the bullpen to be better so that is not good. The starters, if I remember, may have around 20th, so they have regressed.
There was a plan. A stupid plan, but it was a plan nonetheless.
That’s a fact!
You could also add a failed rebuilt bullpen
….so you’re saying we have a chance…..
Bally Sports is owned by Diamond Sports and Comcast said no thank you, so in doing the math it could be that our TV broadcast crew might be stuck somewhere on the road buying their own tickets home. Still Arte pocketed a lot of dough when the gettin’ was good.
Because it’s an off day and there’s nothing going on, from a few days back:
Our pitching needs some work I see. 🙄
We’re an Independent League team at the MLB level.
Incapable of drafting and developing depth so we claim whoever is floating around out there. Really, a mess of a franchise.
The Angels are fortunate that “relegation” isn’t part of the system.
Land of the Misfit MLB roster
Totally this.
Perry dumpster diving yet again for another pitcher who doesn’t know control or consistency. At least we know Perry is still employed by Arte.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/pirates-trade-roansy-contreras-angels.html
Oh Contrer as Senator
Is he really better than the guy we just released?
With his Right Hand.? I would think so.
Which ever hand you use, if you use the opposite hand, it’s different.
Good grief.
“Statcast painted the picture of a right-hander who opponents had little problem squaring up”
So he’ll fit right in!
“We will win some games”
Wake me up when we can win a championship.
You’d have to be Rip Van Winkle
Wake me when we can play .500.
It will be a long hibernation.
That may be as soon as the first two games of 2025….
Tomorrow we start feeding….I mean playing the AL West.
So… yet again Perry let go of cost-controlled good pitching!
https://twitter.com/milb/status/1790953216550547627?s=46
Looks like a sold-out crowd at that game
Time to bring back “The next Knuckerballer” reality show contest.
I still miss him, always was upbeat and smiling and running everything out to get on.
I have the in Weekend Links.
Suarez has been released!
Andrew, that is.
From the Orioles.
That’s just cruel.
Y’all are the ones who keep posting “release Suarez, release Suarez”… well there you go…
I guess we’ll need to be more specific
😆
BAN WARNING!!
Angels are bad right now but at least we have an excuse with our lineup and relief chokers. I feel for Giants, just from the fact their GM tried to make the team better spending $$ yet they are a flop. Soler, Snell, Chapman are all busts so far and the Korean star sure ain’t Ohtani. Speaking of, pussy ‘Easy Way’ should have signed with Giants, would have made National League west an interesting competitive division, not having the same F team who easily wins it every year. Giants lost on Ohtani and Judge sweepstakes cause nobody wants to play there. Are Angels heading into that same scenario?
watching the Mets game everyday before the Angels play is a highly recommended therapeutic intervention
–they do shit nightly that make the Angels no matter what they do, look like a team of gold gloves.
Yikes! I guess it was not money well spent then.
It will take me a long time to wash the stink off of Washington’s horrendous squeeze decision and unhinged press conference, while doubling down on the stupid the following day. At some point, he needs to come correct, but that does not seem to be in the cards. I don’t blame him for the awful roster Arturo/ Minasian gave him, but that sequence was one of the worst ever. Plus, we have got to do something about Suarez. Washington must insist on him not taking up a roster spot, or just never use him.
Ehh I got over it 30 minutes after it happened.
And based upon how they played last night so did the team.
This team cannot produce runs to save their life. Even last night’s offensive outburst was marred with multiple failures to move and score runners with productive outs. I dont blame Wash for trying even if it was really stupid strategy. But we are ignorant as to his relationship with this roster and its impact. To conclude anything otherwise is beyond presumptuous.
I am more interested on how Wash is developing the young guys. It seems to be working with the position players. The pitching may be another matter.
Indeed…it did more good than bad.
Boot up their ass is what they need.
Other than Neto, I don’t see much progress developing players, and I think Neto would develop if anyone managed him. I don’t think Washington uses a roster much different than Nevin. Nevin had Loup, Washington has Suarez. If he wants to kick ass, he should do it behind closed doors. For me this game defines Washington the same way Nevin defined himself with you don’t try to win every night. His comments about his decision making are hilarious, and will go down in the annals of bad Angels history.
we hired him for IF and development, not to win the post game presser.
good reminder – NL All star infield this decade is pretty much Atlanta Braves
Per my post earlier, Schanuel and Neto looking gooooood.
Wash’s impact rests almost exclusively in the development of our young talent and building a respectable culture.
He hasn’t done either.
Just never play Suarez is the route I would take. Make sure cobwebs are growing in his glove.
Wow. You’re dissatisfied with someone related to baseball strategy within the Angels and you’re taking them to task? Amazeballs.