A rebuilt Jackie Robinson statue will be installed at McAdams Park in Witchita, Kansas a little over six months after the original was cut off at the ankles by an admitted fentanyl addict who has just pleaded guilty. The original cleats that were left behind are now in the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. This is the nastiest 75 MPH pitch I ever saw. It just plain made a lane change without signaling.
What do you think? Is Reid Detmers going to be back in the majors soon? Barry Enright says he believes so. Speaking of Barry Enright, Griffin Canning says he worked out some changes to his delivery together with the pitching coaches that result in him hiding the ball a little better. I didn’t really mention the call up of Charles Leblanc yesterday. What does everybody think of him so far?
The Dodgers DFAd Cavan Biggio.
The White Sox are making history, but not in a good way.
Behold, The Munchie Mitt! I wonder if one of the pockets can hold that death taco from Kansas City. (Probably not.)
Also Apparently one our newest star acquisitions, Matthew Lugo, is made out of RenGlass.
After his impressive halo debut last Friday ( 2 for 5 1 2B 1 HR for SL) he has gone MIA missing 3 straight games. In case there are any sightings please call 1-800- TRA-DiTiON
Well that didnt take long . Apparently Sunday’s rain out also washed away Christian Moore’s ability to hit the ball. So far He went 0 to hat trick tonight with 3 straight strikeouts tonight to mark his professional career.
Apparently The sheer magnitude of TrAdition caught up with him as he has underestimated its power. lets hope he can recover.
Who’ up next?
Two off days messed up his swing…..he’ll get it back in a few months. Probably will have Wards disease. That’s where he has 2.5 weeks on fire, 2.5 months ice cold……trAdition.
Free MAMA! Make Angels Moore Amazing
Angels: Ryan Costeiu, RHP (No. 12) In his first season back from Tommy John surgery, the Angels have understandably proceeded cautiously with Costeiu. He’s thrown a grand total of 44 innings to date, but he’s been effective. He gave up just four runs over 16 IP this past month (2.25 ERA) with a 1.25 WHIP and 20 K’s. For the year, he has a 2.66 ERA, .189 BAA and a 1.20 WHIP. There’s work to be done on the command, but he’s racking up a strikeout per inning.
https://www.mlb.com/news/each-club-s-hottest-pitching-prospect-july-2024
I love it . Even Fletcher is giving out some Rendon Love here.This time hes trolling one of the Nats reporter.
https://x.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/1820920769980907814
Rengifo out for the rest of the season. Welp
Wrist surgery. Of course
Silseth too.
Angels’ Luis Rengifo to miss rest of season after wrist surgery
Rengifo first hurt his wrist on July 3, sat out three weeks and then tried to come back, aggravating the injury twice. The Angels also announced that right-hander Chase Silseth had season-ending elbow surgery. Both players are expected to be back by spring training.
CTPG Guy guy noted that Rengifo doesn’t really even like playing baseball and is a cancerous anus.
I think Arte is forcing them to play hurt. Very much like the way they abuse and train animals at Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus. He doesn’t force Trout and Rendon because he likes them and collects insurance money on them. 🙃
You know they love to give out nicknames here like 7 year-olds on the yard, so.. ‘Renganus”?
Who?
Wow, still so young…
Trailblazer indeed. RIP Billy.
Whoa, that’s shocking news, RIP Billy.
RIP.
(Just to clarify, this isn’t the moneyball Billy Beane).
Correct this was the Billy Bean who was a switch hitter.
Oh, thanks for the clarification as I misunderstood when I heard this.
G-Rich, I mean George Klassen, as a guest on MLB pipeline podcast:
https://www.mlb.com/news/pipeline-podcast-previews-re-rank-interviews-angels-prospect-george-klassen
Rain out….day 2 without baseball.
https://x.com/Yankees/status/1820906689349980536
Noooooooooo
Thanks for the info. It frees up my afternoon
Tomorrow might not be much better.
Well its a beautiful 87 degrees with 0% chance of rain tonight in Madison Alabama so I may just take the time to watch some Moore mashing this evening
New nickname SMoores?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIQd2Ya0Ziw
Darn, two days without baseball is tough. I already had my early evening planned around the game.
and can we skip Davis in the rotation?
nevermind, I see doubleheader on Wednesday
Just think about the state of the bullpen come Thursday.
Arms strewn across the field.
But,But we get Rendone back.
https://x.com/LAAngelsPR/status/1820916013426413680
Rendon’t is back. Oh goody.
At least they can call up that 27th man tomorrow.
But can he pitch?
Might just be Rendon.
Breath in the optimism and let it hit your soul for a few minutes …
“Angels last 50 games: 26-24
O’Hoppe: .312, 9 HR, 20 RBI, .895 OPS (44 games)
Neto: .267, 8 HR, 30 RBI, .832 OPS (50 games)
Schanuel: .291, 5 HR, 19 RBI, .826 OPS (50 games)
Soriano: 4-2, 2.98 ERA (8 starts)
Joyce: 1.82 ERA, 1 save, 21 K (21 games)”
https://x.com/TrentRushSports/status/1820785761597489579?t=LUl_7I3TIo02sHJrWVhTvg&s=19
That’s a big hit of hopium right there.
That is impressive
Remember, puff, puff, pass!!
On the left hand side
All of that and they were only 2 games over .500? 😉
Plus over that same span:
Mickey Moniak .268/.315/.457
But if the rest of the starting pitching sucks and you have no second baseman or third baseman and no consistent corner outfielders just above.500 is about what to expect.
Updated farm rankings from Kiley McDaniel, ESPN:
https://archive.ph/BaB49
No surprise where we are ranked. A little surprised who is ranked #1 in our system.
Embarrassing. The draft alone will not interject the talent depth absolutely needed by the franchise. If the team stays the course with the current approach, Neto and O’Hoppe will reach free agency before the surrounding cast is in place…which is what happened with Ohtani. The missed opportunity by not trading Ohtani and others set the franchise back at least 5 years.
Stupid Arte. Idiot Perry. Naive fans.
Yep. Angels (i.e. Arte) really missed a chance in inject a simultaneous wave of talent into the farm system by not trading Ward, Anderson, or Rengifo.
I get Rengifo’s market might have been depressed by his injury so I’ll give them a pass for that.
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-executives-react-to-2024-trade-deadline
Well Mark Feinsand showed his ignorance right there . Everyone knows Taylor Ward isn’t a free agent until 2026.
Duh.
Details…smetails…….it’s only the Angels. We don’t follow closely the lesser teams….Unplug and reboot opinions? Maybe someday. When you are worthy.
……… looking down nose, trying to hide contempt, but can’t.
Botching our drafts and ignoring the international market (Other than Sir Baldo) for 12 straight years probably did more damage than anything.
Some discussion on Caden Dana and why he might not be rated among the top SP prospects just yet:
https://x.com/lancebroz/status/1820860309361541284?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
I’ve only seen highlights of Dana. His fastball looks to be 93-94, so not overpowering. Didn’t see crazy movement on it. Not too familiar with his offspeed or breaking stuff. He’s only 20 though and finding success in AA. That has to count for something, right?
Edit: some statcast data on Dana’s futures game appearance
https://x.com/tjstats/status/1812228747380051977?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
Just going to leave these Kumar Rocker links here:
https://x.com/aramleighton8/status/1820662148940402827?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
https://x.com/lancebroz/status/1820668930689556922?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
Ben Joyce spoke with The Sporting Tribune after his first career save:
https://www.thesportingtribune.com/2024/08/04/fresh-off-historic-close-joyce-focused-on-getting-better-every-day-
He seems very coachable
Btw, I totally forgot that we also signed Ben’s twin brother lol. I’m not familiar with his stuff, but how crazy would it be if we had two of those guys. 😅
Dr. Joyce Brothers
If we carry on with those two, CSNY would sing, “Rejoice, rejoice, we have two Joyce”….
And 2 Dana
This was a meatball, but the swing looks good. Joswa Lugo:
https://x.com/jared_tims/status/1820622112559858107?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
Batted ball data broken down (all of MLB included):
https://x.com/yankeesfocus/status/1820516027165249651?s=46&t=aBK1MPhSIvfd0DTl6snnFw
Nothing groundbreaking I think, just cool to see.
Cheap and Evil Arte finally embracing technology?
https://x.com/BeyondTheHalo/status/1820518556859260946
That’s some serious shit when you start introducing Laboratories into the equation! Probably will buy the cheapest, glitchiest internet to run it….
Next thing you know he’ll hire people to run the front office. Then he’ll get super fancy and hire a medical/training staff that can keep players on the field, even the old guys!
i reported this last month but it just looked like expanded baseball facilities.
when i hear ‘laboratories’, the first thing that comes to mind is that’s where they’ll be developing new formulations of buttercup
Speaking of advanced enhancements and theoretical physics during the Spring in Tempe, that one February about:
Always throwing strikes on the FIRST pitch! – that was a brilliant output .
So how is that going? Does the theory work?
Slow but sure….their seems to be a concerted effort to finally move forward from the 1990’s way of running a MLB team……fingers crossed!
Free Perry from the burdens of what was!
Always remember to wear your safety goggles!
It just makes me think of Dexter
I’ll have you know that those laboratories are level VI clean rooms, where only deep, deep research is done in a highly top secret, ultra secure facility. Triple authentication to gain access.
in this case: skunk works
Yes. We don’t want any dust particles to interfere with the analysis of Ben Joyce’s 104.7 heater. And no food or drink in the control room. We don’t want Sandoval eating a hot dog and spilling his juice box on the main board, while recovering from TJ…..
They’re run by top men…
Good news
I thought removing and vandalizing statues was allowed in today’s society.
Just in the Southern States.
No way bruh. You can do it anywhere now.
😄 You’re right, what was I thinkin’?
Including Palm Springs.
Yikes, that statue is offensive but not other things they allow in that city. 😂😂 this world is going insane
Just testing my understanding here. You are actually conflating the vandalism of Jackie Robinson’s statue – the act and the statue itself an illustration of modern racism – with the removal of statues that celebrated men who committed treason and fought to continue enslaving and torturing other human beings (our society’s Original Sin)?
This, in spite of the history that those statues were originally created to literally “whitewash” said history.
Losing 21 games in a row in baseball is almost as statistically unlikely as winning 21 games in a row.
As well as it is statically unlikely either team will win the World Series.
But I wonder if the Pale hose are going to eclipse our beloved Gene Mauch’s record with the ’61 Phillies. 2 to tie 3 to make history.
All I know is that by the time the Angels play them they will be a juggernaut.
How in the heck does a team lose 21 games in a row? Hard to believe in such incompetence by any franchise. How can owners talk of expansion when teams in the SoCal and Chitown markets are so pathetic? And the Bay Area Market is such a mess too. Add in that there is not enough pitching to go around and expansion talk is really about ownership greed, plain and simple.
Contraction does make more sense. Drop Oakland, maybe Pittsburgh?
A’s and Marlins.
The Pirates? No way mang!
Time to step out on the limb and make some long-term deals for O’Hoppe and Neto some they stick with the team as they become stars. Catchers and Shortstops are almost impossible to find, especially great fielding SS like Neto. imho
I assume you mean to compliment a roster which includes Neto and O’Hoppe. “Long term deals for O’Hoppe and Neto” sounds as if you want to deal them to another team
If so, I would add Schanuel to the mix..
Long term deals mean exactly what I posted. How does that become interpreted as a trade? Not many players want to really become Angels, especially good ones like Neto and O’Hoppe, so sign them up to 7-year deals for what may later be for a lot more money kept them in the fold. You’re smarter than that to see signing up as a trade, come on now. Stick with the team? really?
As it turns out, I made the unclear comment. I said to add Schanuel to the list. I made it sound as if I wanted to trade him. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Pretty sure “long term deals for O’Hoppe and Neto” literally meant signing those 2 to extensions, not to trade them haha.
In which I agree with GB, lock them up ASAP
I suggested this 3 months ago and got yelled at.
you were right then and still are.
Thanks 12!!
…regular yelling?
https://youtu.be/xeVn4luxg6A?si=Jy1eaNFAlvQ6YnQh
Watching O’Hoppe, compared to Trout, etc…. he’s got “Team Captain Vibe”. They should totally extend him early and tell him he’s our Johnny Bench.
I think they should tell him he is our Johnny Quest!
But f the Angels extend them, won’t they get SCREWED later if they stop hitting?