For those of you new to following Spring Training, this is about the time when starting position players get 3 at bats per game and starting pitchers go about 4 innings and are followed by more guys you know than you don’t. This is my favorite time to attend Spring Training. However, I’m already back from this year’s trip.
officially, the knife.
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery tomorrow to repair a torn right ulnar collateral ligament and miss the 2025 season.
https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1899219545543348666
I blame the Angels medical staff. Worse in baseball.
That’s rough. Will he ever come back to 75% of what he was? Already had signs of slipping. Good Luck, Cash-man
Should have signed with us. he’d already be 2 years removed from his TJS by now and half way to his second one.
Holly crap. We had a Ben Gobell and a Sam Brown sighting today…. like they literally sent a guy over to another field to get some bench bench to finish out this game.
This is the time when pitchers start mixing in their full repertoire. Early outings are fastball heavy.
let’s see how Paris new swing works these last couple of weeks but so far so great.
I know. I keep waiting for the off speed shoe to drop, but we’ll see. He sure looks like he has a better idea about how he himself is gonna swing at a pitch.
So Paris has a double AND a HR
In this inning!
Could you imagine if Baseball Jesus touched Paris and anointed him an All-Star caliber infielder, with a huge bat going forward……. Just because he felt like it and wanted to do us a solid.
We’ll always have Paris
So dont Forget Paris?
This is how Paris got strong like bull, eating French grilled cheese. Way better than ‘Merica with its white bread and Velveeta
https://x.com/Alphafox78/status/1889781775905468612
Paris be like “NO TIM ANDERSON! DEE SPOT IS MINE!”
For real tho. TA has looked fine. Paris looks electric
Maaayybbeee…
it wuuuuzzz….
smart to start playing TA in CF a little? maybe?
Yeah, despite Wash’s comments insinuating he’s not ready, Paris has been scorching everything he sees.
Good. Maybe that will motivate him even more.
But we might want take this all with a grain of salt as this current Angel batted .378 with 6 HRs and 11 RBIs in 15 spring training games in 2022 and slashed .409/.435/.750 in 18 spring training games in 2023.
But how did this translate into the regular season for Mickey Moniak?
While the hopium is high, do we have our infield of the future? Please let this Paris breakout be real 🙏
C – O’Hoppe
1B – Schanuel
2B – Paris
SS – Neto
3B – Moore
if we’re talking about the future then (cough…cough) I believe Schanuel might not be in that group. I’d like to see him develop more power because .270 with a dozen HRs is not enough
I think you’re just spoiled by all the generational production we’ve been getting out of 1B since we were kids….
I knew you couldn’t resist, I’m with Eric.
Good thing Nolan turned 23 less than a month ago. Give him time
washed
I’m hopeful.
He needs to flop to get replaced.otherwise he is locked in for a couple more seasons. He is in a better space than anyone not named Neto and O’Hoppe.
A .270 average would have placed Nolan 43rd in all of baseball last year. His actual average was .250. I’ll take a 20 point increase in average even with the same HR rate. Baseball is still ‘hit the ball catch the ball’. Hitting 20 points higher and setting up for Soler, Trout, Ward, and occasionally Adell, would be fine with me. Hell, if all Angel players increased 20 points in average they could make the playoffs.
And to show he great baseball has become, .270 would tie one at 113th place in 2004.
Lo and behold, Fangraphs shows Nolan’s ST average at .269.
As far as being “The Future @ First” Nolan’s off to a nice start but he does, indeed, need to hit for more power. Not a ton. But a 1B with a .270/.340/.380 slash line, while not a BAD player at all, is easily replaced by a lot of players.
I just think it’s stupid to look at a guy who had a first pro season on the MLB team and hit like he did last year and say “Yep. This guy’s just not gonna get it done.”. He’s got stuff that needs doing, but he also seems pretty good and has plenty of time to get to a little more power.
It’s likely to chap some red ass, but it won’t shock me if Nolan doesn’t hit for THAT much more power this year and (Lord Have MERCY!) they still won’t give up on him at age 24 in his third pro season in 2026.
That would be sweet. Or Paris could be the Rengifo guy who moves around if the breakout is legit.
Hi everyone! We have a
BLITZ
And Wash in the back
Said, “Everyone attack!”
And it turned into a Halo Blitz!
And other Wash in the corner
Said, “Boys I gotta warn ya,
It’ll turn into a Halo Blitz!”
Halo Blitz…. Halo Blitz…
Halo Blitz…. Halo Blitz…
It’s a Halo Blitz!
IT’S A HALO BLITZ!!!!
Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop (Official Music Video) – YouTube
heh…I was just thinking, with 7 runs in, “surely this must be a blitz”
😀
Sam the Man!
Downtown Sammy Brown
What a turnaround this inning. Spring games are fun when you win.
Angels actually winning a lot this past week.
sure, spring training, sure, the Rockies, but I’m encouraged by two shutout innings for Detmers
I know. detmers…. makin a race out of it. Silseth…. bummer man.
Reid should replace Anderson. I’m on a mission to rid Tyler out of the roster.
I want anderson to have a fantastic spring. Then make about six great starts for us. Then get traded to Baltimore for prospects.
Paris launched that shit 💣
Absolute bomb. The launch angle looked steep on that thing.
Kyren Paris might really be a thing. I’m starting to believe.
All it took was him getting some coaching from outside the Angels org.
So does anyone know what the Angels thinking was to start Silseth against the regulars but bring Detmers in relief to face the late inning scrubs?
Also. Surprise : I guess Suarez will be starting tomorrow’s away game against the Rangers while Hendricks stays back at camp to do a bullpen/ simulation game. Is this to showcase Saurez for a trade so Detmers can work out of the pen this year?
In one Fletch’s articles it was said to be about giving Chase a chance since he’s been following Detmers.
Considering how much better Reid looks, I’d consider today a 1 off
Detmers still going 4 and still stretched out?
Solar Power
Soler 💣 jeez lol
That has to be a bad feeling as a pitcher when you hit somebody in the head.
Anderson starting to look a little more comfortable at the plate.
I was genuinely surprised at his speed out of the box on Saturday. He still has good burst.
Contact rate is definitely going up.
Just tuning in. Sounds like Silseth isn’t his best today but that’s alright. He’s working his way back from injury.
And to be real, he probably doesn’t sniff MLB the last couple of years in any other organization so if he’s in AAA three years after he’s drafted that’s on target.
Trouty’s timing is off + swing looks long today
Silseth is the Giffy of the pitching staff
That is an insult to Rengifo!