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Angels News
Angels sign someone! To an MiLB deal. Travis Blankenhorn. I have no idea who that even is.
How did the Angels do this offseason? Here is MLB Trade Rumor’s take, mostly behind a paywall. I bet they did not like it.
Some Angels have been lying about their height. While this isn’t all of them, it is kinda funny.
Around Baseball
MLB Games started… in Japan. Dodgers beat Cubs 4-1. It was on after midnight in the US, even out here on the west coast. Game 2 results will be here by the time people wake up. I blame this on Manfred.
The Marlins are cheap. How cheap are they? Well, they may have found a loophole in paying players.
Former Angel Patrick Corbin gets a 1 year deal from Texas. He has been one of the worst pitchers in Baseball over the last few years but kept pitching due to his long term contract. Seriously, there were no good deals from the 2019 Nats roster huh?
Alex Verdugo has not gotten any MLB offers this offseason. He was the player traded to Boston in the Mookie Betts deal.
Craig Kimbrel had to sign an MiLB deal. Braves get him.
MLB wants Japan to cheer for more than the Dodgers. Yeah, well, you should have thought of that before they keep signing all the Japanese players.
Anything I miss? Post below for upvotes!
$1.5M on a 1yr 😫 😡
Braves NOT THE ANGELS……
Eminem? I don’t know if he can still rap much less play OF. He doesn’t play CF, which is what we need.
Well hey, Alex is Brave.
And Brandon Marsh?
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Lying about your height, weight and age is a well worn path to the big leagues! When asked, I still tell people that I’m baseball card 6’2″.
Thursday! The answer is Thursday ladies and gents. The Missing Link.
Just an idea…. maybe speed up The ReTool a little….
Trade for Vaughn Grissom (I like him) since the Red Sox have pretty much buried him under top ten prospects and sent him to the minors and then take the easy road and move Moore to LF so he can be a pretty good OF with pop for the next several years? Look at Grissom’s contract situation….
But if both of them work out, and maybe Shanuel gets a little power this year, that’s a pretty young core of O’Hoppe, Neto, Moore, Grissom and Schanuel…. not too bad….
some one is not buying Kyren’s spring.
I’m buying it as much as I should. But we need as many irons in the fire as possible. I think both I and Washington are attracted to Kyren’s ability to play middle infield and OF. They keep putting him on the grass to see how he feels. What if he becomes Rengifo with solid defense who can play in CF?
He may also hit .210 in MLB. Same with Moore. Grissom’s a little more experienced. But gambling almost nothing on all three working out and jumping our roster by three quality players would be something I’d try. That’s two roster spots we didn’t have any hope for coming into ST and we could get a verdict on it working within a year and move on happy or not….
Count me as a non believer. If he was really all that, then we aren’t other teams inquiring…..they’re not
 🤔  🤔 
I was not surprised by the Kingery move, in fact I actually expected it. I was sitting right behind Perry and Prebynski – right after Kingery made two errors. (Don’t know if they both went in the books as errors, but plays that should be made.) The look on their faces told the story after his at bat where he got sworded badly. I knew it was over right then. I’ll tell you this, I’d like to play poker with them.
Looked it up, just one error. Man scorers have gotten easier. By the way, Hendricks is so fun to watch. Gives guys fits throwing about 87.
Could Kyle Hendricks be the reincarnation of WTY circa 2015?
Jaime Moyer
Chris Flexen
A right handed Randy Jones.
I liked the guy because he was a local HS kid but he seemed to regress as the spring went on – other NRIs made a better impression and Mershon especially
He won’t get picked up given his arbitration salary, so he’ll likely end up taking a minor league assignment with the Angels.
Sworded!
It’s Thursday morning, do you know where your links are?
No game thread yesterday either. Do we need to put in a call for a wellness check?
Sorry guys. Yesterday was kind of nuts for me.
I thought you guys had these automated!
Jeff automated all the game threads, at least through spring training. I don’t know what happened yesterday.
We can’t make links ahead of time. Sometimes I am up at 3 A.M. to make those if I couldn’t get to it earlier. Today I just forgot to do that.
Yeah I meant the game threads, not the links obviously.
Well regardless we appreciate all the work you guys put in! I think we can live without links for a day. Hopefully the craziness is behind you soon.
I have a gut that Neto will end up being the spine of this team.
https://x.com/JackJanes_/status/1902527310365905037
Does that mean “It’s spinal?”
Mike Tyson – “I broke my back … Spinal” HD Interviewclip
Epic interview
I’d like to believe that Neto is our Sgt. Hulka. He is the “big toe” of the 2025 Angels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhanPGlfs5w
Anyone can get a toe. We need a toe with some grit on it.
https://youtu.be/20wUS_bbOHY?si=MDBwf9NlZywaCtxx
Kyren Paris batting .378 is still blowing my mind a little
kept it going in the 8th
I guess that’s a wrap, unless they go on playing for no apparent reason.
I was just wondering how Jo was doing- looked at the screen, 2 for 3, nice, then BOOM!!! Me like!!!
Finally! Jo Adell wakes up. Maybe he heard us talking about him.
finish ST hot > start ST hot
Adell Era is just getting started
JO ADELL
I am following on mlb.com. How long was the throw Mike made to Logan ?
Was it a really good throw or a short and relatively easy one ?
Was from the middle range of right field. Throw was good and on target, but the runner got himself out by diving a foot short of home. Was a rather funny play
Game day says the runner was thrown out from third at home on a FC from right field
How does that happen?
Bad base running. It looked like Trout had a chance to make the catch so the runner left late then had a terrible slide to home.
When your RF is a gansta’ and makes the decoy like he’s gonna catch it.
runner says he’s not going to Fafo and goes back to the bag to tag.
psyche! Ball fall for a single. Errrrr makes that a FC.L.O.L.
easy throw home. Easy out. 😇🤣
It started with Mike acting like he had the catch and ended with the runner’s slide about 6 ft short of the plate
Video of catch up in yesterday’s gamethread
Use yesterdays gamethread for game
Good sequence from Adell at the plate and on the bases.
But way to advance the runner to third there Newman
Stoopid Perry
https://www.mlb.com/player/will-wilson-669717?stats=career-r-hitting-minors&year=2025
For drafting him, or trading him?
Yes?
The correct answer-
he should have signed him in n 2024
Both happened under Eppler
It remains one of life’s great mysteries how he was taken 15th overall….
It remains one of life’s great mysteries how we signed Zack Cozart ….….
MLB ranked him No. 21 so not a huge overreach… just a shame they didn’t overreach a little more and draft Gunnar instead. https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/2019/draft/
From Fletch’s Angel Notes today:
So it seems to me if you are trying to control his pitch count you:
Dang, I thought Cubs were good but they were totally outclassed by a Doyer team even without Betts and Freeman. Thinking Seattle’s record for wins in regular season will be broken this year. Team Japan only gonna get better next year, Muncy gone and upgrade 3b with superstar Murakami. I’m sure Sho already has secret handshake with him. Sure would have been interesting if he recruited Senga, Suzuki, Sasaki for the Angels. We may have cornered that Japan market first.
Remember the no other Japanese players on the team rule which wasn’t a rule?
As it turns out that was probably C & E Arte’s rule
I don’t think it ever was a rule, it was just a factor in the team he picked. Then paying him, Trout, Pujols, Rendon became a factor.
People seem to forget, he was a 30M player for us towards the end there. A bargain, but not 5m either. AND we were saving tooooo…. try and pay him even more.
LAD has a historically loaded roster. They’ll make every team look bad lol.
LAD has a roster historically loaded.
Which has been called Hysterically unfair because of all the backloaded contracts.
25 players, 25
CabsCellphoneshttps://x.com/RhettBollinger/status/1902419432816906428
That itself is worth at least 5 WAR of the Wash 15 WAR
At least 5 WAR-FI?
I like this.
In other news, Angels clubhouse staff also instituted the requirement that players don’t piss in the shower and that they must wash their hands after dropping a deuce.
Didn’t Kershaw get on one of his teammates about the second issue you brought up there ?
Yep – sure did!  😂 
Pooping in the shower is not hygienic!
https://youtube.com/shorts/5zqisH5Y_LE?si=UltmGtoyNywt9Qgc
But if they dont piss in the shower how will they build up calluses on their hands to turn on those inside fastballs?
Not sure. Perhaps by creating friction without lotion?
I really doubt Moises Alou would ever agree to become our hitting coach with such a draconian rule.
They have lotions in the basket.
https://youtu.be/qvIvR7oiXbI?si=ISHX8O0uyKF8k-AO
Stupid Perry
I figured Trout being Mr. Fantasy would be the abuser
Trout would be checking the weather.
Big W
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