The Athletics claimed Angel Perdomo off waivers. So long Angel. We barely knew you.
The Yankees obliterated the Brewers using their newly designed “torpedo bats.” Those bats are theoretically legal at this time. That could change. Rafael Devers is striking out at a historically bad rate.
Josh Jung just went on the injured list with back spasms. Jose Ramirez has a sprained wrist. It was a rough weekend to be a third baseman.
Max Scherzer is on the IL with a thumb issue. The Orioles placed right-hander Albert Suarez on the injured list with right shoulder inflammation.
DFAs
Richard Lovelady of the Blue Jays. Brett de Geus of the Marlins.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
Profar popped for PEDs. Always be suspicious of a late career breakout.
Wow
If Arte was really committed to winz…. we’d have this guy
He stated ” never knowingly use a banned substance”. Just how do you get chorionic gonadotrophin in your Starbucks latte anyway?
Trout gets on track this series, starting tonight.
Fan Duel announcing Trout’s demise?
https://x.com/FDSportsbook/status/1906081866039324828
Trout doesn’t look lost up there. He’s made some good contact.
I think he gets a hit today.
Clickbait/rage farming. Complete nonsense.
he had a hit yesterday so this is already dated.
Let’s see how things are by the end of April. Unfortunately he still plays on a bad.
Royals leading the Brewers 8-0. It wasn’t just the bats then.
Paris is in there !!!
Batting 8th in CF !
MLB Gameday: Angels at Cardinals, Probable Pitchers, Lineups, and more
So Its The old ” I know you’re feeling better but We’re going to give you one more day of rest Kid just to make sure” speech
Another 8 days, then off to the IL.
But! You can feel a lot better about trading Ward for…..
MOOOAAARRRRRRR KIIIIIIDDDZ!
Whoopie
MOOAAARR KIDDDZZZZ!
Former Angels top pick Sean Newcomb is on the hill for bahstun today. Gave up 4 in the first.
Surprised he got a chance this early in the season
Pretty sure he made the squad partially due to injuries in their rotation.
I haven’t been following his career the last few years. I had high hopes for him watching him a few times in san berdo.
I was just remarking to myself that Andrelton Simmons is our #24 in WAR for the Angels franchise.
Not too bad for 4.x seasons.
Listened to that game on my way down to Palm Desert. Boston got lit up real good, came back in the 8th but Orioles held on to win. Yay!
ChiSox have 8 runs in first two innings against the Twins
– apparent they are glad to be rid of the Halo staff.
Good for the white Sox twins just got swept by the cards who we play today. Maybe a good sign for us.
Too bad the Twins weren’t after the Red Birds.
That has to mean something lol! Lending more credence to our pitching staff being good, perhaps?
Or the winless Twins are very, very bad.
Perry acquired another lefty. Mr. Eder, welcome aboard.
Stoopid Perry loves the lefties but hates the Limeys.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petermi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&utm_campaign=2025-02-11_br
Great pitcher from a great club. Not even good enough for the white Sox
why do we keep getting players off a 121-loss team?
Tradition
he pitched a grand total of 2 innings for the White Sox
He was a top 100 prospect in all of baseball for the Marlins not too long ago
Hes got good K/9 numbers but his walk rate is mega scary.
I’m sure we can fix him
eh, his walk rate isn’t atrocious, considering coming back from TJ surgery (and fwiw the ’24 rate is better than the ’23 rate)
good point.
Was it worth buying 40 man spot for him? Time will tell.
I think Perry is great at the draft but not so great on the vets. Unless he asks wash want he wants and goes and get him
I’ve liked his trade acquisitions as well.
For rookies yes
It’s not all bad. He did pretty well with Carlos Estevez and Luis Garcia. Drury was great when he was healthy. Tyler Anderson has at least been in line with expectations.
Most of his ‘bad signings’ were bargain bin types that were low risk. I think you really have to go back to Aaron Loup and Ryan Tepera to find some bad vet signings. Maybe Stephenson if you want to knock Perry for his being injured.
Every time I salivate over our bullpen I forget about Stephenson. Imagine he comes back from TJS in good form 🤤
Who?
Yes, I love the Sam Bachman pick. Or that entire all pitcher draft which was a complete bust.
Complete bust? Nope
2 have made MLB & full value TBD
3 had value derived from being used as trade fodder.
5 of 20 (25%) have provided value to the MLB club.
4 are currently injured & future value TBD
It is still super early, but Paris is looking like a stud. A completely unexpected development from the farm.
For the rebuild to happen we need one or three of those.
Let’s not forget another completely unexpected possible stud….Jack Kochanowicz spent most of his minor league career floating around with a 5+ ERA.
Might have 2? Let’s uncover a 3rd… Fingers crossed.
Billy drafted em, Perry develops em!
Perry did get Arte to invest more in the development program. Considering Eppler’s strategy was to draft raw athletes and develop them, this very well could be true.
Also makes me wonder what might have been with other Eppler draftees had the team spent on better video, coaching, and nutrition a decade ago.
Paris needs to play if not cf ss or 2b
It looks like Jo may play today…. Angels Manager Provides Massive Update on Injured Angels Outfielder
Somebody else mentioned it prior, but seeing the kid below you hit a game winning HR playing your position is a good motivator for overcoming those minor aches and pains and getting back on the field…
Ha! Just someone Frosty?
This was before the Paris HR I think…. Just said that Kyren is pushing him so he would want to come back quickly…. Was it you ?
Sorry too G.A. to link it but In Yesterday’s postgame, 55yearsangelfan rightfully pointed out:
So of course I responded:
Its good that Wash shut that scenario down for at least one more day.
There’s a spot for him in the lineup. Tim Anderson is better used as a back up.
The baseball world is a sadder place without Dick Lovelady in the MLB.
Those Yankee bats are…. fine. Any player who wants one can get one and could have had one for months. Sounds like some Yankees put the work in, figured out how to make them work well, and are benefiting. The only bummer is that the Tigers or Reds didn’t all do this. Or our sad ass offense.
Max Scherzer is a true CtPG Guy. Well, accept he’s actually been really good at baseball stuff. But read his comments on this injury. It sounds like it was almost likely that planes would have fallen from the sky and children would have been attacked by pets if he’d thrown one more pitch with that thumb. The way he talks about things like the pitch clock, robo umps, new tooth brushes…. could anybody be so expert and so drama club at the same time? You are just cooked Max. It’s OK. And yet, this is how a “true man of baseball” should talk….. 1000 words of feelz to explain why you took 14M dollars when you know you can’t really throw a baseball right now and how furrowed your brow is about it all.
He’s giving a shit so hard he’s having trouble pushing it out. Some of you guys must love that. And I actually like him. He just gets a little ridiculous sometimes.
Well. Our pitching sure didn’t fall apart post Tempe. Expert minds have told me the St Louis Cardinals will tear our pitchers a new one. Could it be that our incredibly stupid manager put Hendricks in a spot to pitch to the Cardinals because he’s seen those guys a ton? It may be. It may not matter because he throws 62 MPH.
I’m tentatively hopeful we can be A’s good if our pitching is kinda good and our offense picks up…. which it will. Almost all our guys are underperforming for three whole games. I’m still fairly sure we’ll break that 70 win barrier.
There was a lot of crying about how we won two games and how we will lose some games. I’m glad we didn’t lose two to the White Sox. A bunch of middle aged men downing a bottle of Tylenol and a box of Costco wine with repeating James Taylor on Pandora is not the way to kick off a season. Messy and gross.
Onward to the middle yee Halos!
Perry apologies to Dick for in rough treatment in Canada, saves from Blue Jay scrape-heap, signs to SL AAA contract to team up with Touki Toussaint to fight crime and win ballgames?
Free Dick!
lovely.wav – PTP: “She is a lovely lady and my apologies to her.”
Glad we got the two wins, but the infield coach Washington made a series of baffling moves, including lifting the starting pitchers too early in games two and three, weird bullpen moves including using the position player in game one, going a second inning with Ryan Johnson, and hitting Schnauel at two and Anderson at three. Once again, we’ve got a manager who doesn’t know how to manage. Still glad we got the wins despite his lack on competence.
And where exactly did you get your MLB managing experience?
C’mon man, those are questionable moves made by a coach, don’t deflect from them.
I’ll bite. Soriano and Silent C are two of the most important arms in the organization. Why is managing their first outing of the year such a terrible idea, especially when you trust your bullpen?
I don’t think Schanuel should be batting 2nd either; however, you look up and he’s third on the team in batting average. Optimal in the second hole? Maybe not, but Wash has been on record several times stating that Schanuel a placeholder until Rengifo is moved up to 2nd.
Sending Ryan Johnson out for a second inning and batting TA fifth were both awful decisions. TA was immediately and correctly pushed down to eighth in his second start.
We can sit here and scrutinize every managerial decision. Whether you hate Wash with a burning passion like ML or greatly appreciate Wash like me, trying to prove a narrative correct after every series will be exhausting and fruitless.
I agree micromanaging is never any good. But we can all agree that he has made questionable decisions but it’s a long season. Hopefully their bats come alive, like paris did in the 8 th inning yesterday. The only spark the Angels have had from their hitters so far. To not play that spark would be a huge mistake in my opinion. For fun here are the mistakes I have seen from wash so far
1. Batting Order
2. Not playing Paris when others are struggling
3. Putting a non pitcher in the first game of the season with a day off the next day.
4. Sending Ryan Johnson out for a second inning with a full bullpen available.
Of course this is my opininion and you know what opinions are like.
I think that we can all agree that a guy who starts listing all the questionable shit you’ve done, some of which isn’t even all that questionable, through THREE GAMES is kind of a dick. The fact that the guy doing all the listing is talking about a guy who has succeeded in baseball, while the guy doing the talking has succeeded in watching baseball without choking on his food, makes the Big Talker a bit of a turd.
Let’s not deflect from the serious tendencies towards being a bunch of hot fragrant hard blowing turds around here. We’ve had 1000 at bats and the scouting report is in. I’m not sure CtPG will ever not be a soft warm collapsing turd… it is what it is… it gets the team it deserves…. it’s juju is poo… tear it down, or rather march it to death in the desert.
It’s so great to be called a dick because I have an opinion. I wonder what that makes you.
Awesome? a dick? Awesome dick?
Technically he called you a bit of turd too. Not sure thats much better.
small turds always better
Let’s end this now. Calling a poster a dick is a clear personal attack and well outside of community guidelines.
Thank you, Jeff, I’m trying to post my opinions in a reasonable way. I would love to stick to opinions and away from personal attacks.
Sorry
His moves were criticized by former players, not just people on this blog.
Yeah, we’re all turds here except for you man. Great thinking there.
Who says I’m not a turd?
Do you include yourself in your cptg rants? I haven’t noticed
I’m part of the blob am I not?
I don’t care about Washington one way or the other. I just want us to have a good manager who makes good decisions. Based on what I have seen so far, I don’t feel he is that guy. I appreciate your optimism and I hope you are right about being optimistic, I see things slightly differently, and I think there is room for both of our opinions on this board.
100%!
Yes but as important in game strategy is, at this point in the franchise’s life, Player development is way more crucial. If Wash and his coaches continue to have a positive effect on the development of O’Hoppe, Paris, Adell, Schanuel, Moore, Neto and the young pitching staff I can put up with some boneheaded pitching moves and starting lineup decisions. Because in the long run the team’s potential and success will benefit more.
(Of course I will be the first here to completely ignore this extremely rational comment the next time MoRon pulls our starting pitcher too early or sits El Fuego Paris’ down on the bench in lieu of Tim Anderson or Newman flailing at the plate.)
Watch Anderson start over Paris today.. lol
That would be a total Scioscia move.
He will because Wash had already promised TA 2 starts at shortstop before he would evaluate the shortstop position. Yesterday was the first.
I agree with your first take entirely. Our bullpen is probably the strength of the roster. Pulling the starters in their first game of the season after 6+ innings was a long term preservation decision that I can live with.
Every team juggles batting order decisions through the first few weeks of the season so I’ve got no issues there either.
The Ryan Johnson decision definitely makes no sense to me. A rookie pitcher who just got through his first inning clean should get an atta boy and a pat on the butt. With a fully rested bullpen and a day off the next day this was perplexing.
Why should he have gotten a good job when it looked like he had plenty left in the tank?
Just seems silly to have a bullpen arm go multiple innings when literally every other arm is fresh and you have a day off the next day. He isn’t a long reliever as far as I am aware.
If nothing else, let him pitch a scoreless frame and hit the bench with a 0.00 ERA through his first appearance rather than risk damaging his confidence by sending him back out there with a chance to get fatigued and get knocked around.
I can’t give credence to outsiders pointing to the confidence argument.
Baseball players deal with failure their whole playing “career”. If this is the outing that causes him to go Ankiel, better to do it now than when you’re relying on him in high leverage situations.
Of course they do, but virtually none of them are in the unique situation of pitching in the majors for the first time after also never pitching in the minors. That’s a different kind of failure that could make you second guess if you are ready for the big show.
Regardless, that was my secondary reason. It mainly just seemed silly to ask a non long reliever to go multiple innings with an entirely rested pen and an off day to follow.
Clearly Wash trusts his bullpen after pulling Soriano and Silent C as early as he did. Why not give RJ the same treatment, especially with an off day? Just seems weird and inconsistent.
A rookie who had never pitched an inning above mid major College ball?
Wash should have taken the gimme and moved on.
and dude pitched like a grizzled vet getting 3 easy outs.
He’s doing the same mistakes he did last year and we’re only 3 games in. That’s alarming.
Huh, this is a message board where people with no managing experience express their opinions. If you don’t like my opinion, go ahead and express yours I won’t comment about your lack of managing experience either.
That manager who just drunkenly stumbled into a couple World Series with the stank of whores all over him.
That’s a great take. I have no idea what it has to do with what I just said.
Love that image of Figgy, @RexFregosi! Classic!
We’re heavy dogs for today’s game.
under or over variety?
https://youtu.be/tEVsRLhet2k?feature=shared
Yes
Remember the days when the Angels didn’t have pitching? Those days are now in the past. 3 quality starts to begin the season!
Tyler Anderson has a plan for us today.
Keeping us in balls games longer might make us the scrappy team that can pull off some late inning antics! It’s better baseball to watch too.
Well, Soriano and Silent C appear to be up to the task. As far as I am concerned, those are our #1 and # 2 guys. I was especially impressed with the mental makeup of Silent C in that after giving up those two in the first he did not fall apart. He got right back on the horse, righted the ship, or whatever metaphor you want to use. The mental part of the game is so big for pitchers…. in the past some of our talented young guys didn’t have it. But it appears Silent C does…. And Soriano just has purely awesome stuff.
But let’s see about 3-5. Kikuchi I think can be at least average. I feel he will keep us in games on most nights. But I have concerns about Anderson and Hendricks because of the way they pitch. They rely on expert control and deception. Very little room for error with those guys…
Better give credit where credit is due Frostie. Having backup catcher Travis D’Arnaud behind the plate yesterday was huuge. When it became apparent that the Pale Hose were sitting on his sinker and she wasn’t sinking very well, D’Arnaud had Silent C implement a revised the game plan and went to a heavy diet of 4 seamers. As result
Ckept us in the game while being near the leader board yesterday for swings & missesI doubt we had this resource available to us last year to make meaningful in game changes. Good for Perry to make this change as well as Wash to start him yesterday. Last year O’Hoppe would have got the day game start after a day game.
IF you believe the articles written about the D’Arnaud signing, this is precisely what he was signed for; the in-game adjustments based on what he sees. This is exactly what O’Hoppe is learning. That’s not a knock on O’Hoppe, as he says he has much to learn. Now he’s got someone to teach it to him.
That will be the most important aspect of D’Arnaud signing, teaching O’Hoppe.
Very true. Travis is a big plus for us at backup catcher; especially on the defensive side. D’Arnaud > Thaiss. And there is no question about that. It was probably Perry’s best off-season move.
And Travis (as well as Barry Enright of course) may have played a role in keeping Silent C calm (both things can be true and valid; the change in approach AND keeping the mental/emotional balance).
Best part, you KNOW he and O’Hoppe talked through that too.
Would like to see a larger body of work before I gain confidence. Certainly a good showing.
I also look at a pitcher/staff to determine if their stuff is post-season material, i.e. swing and miss stuff with 1-2 out pitches. Soriano can get there, Kikuchi can be if he sticks to his Astro pitch-mix but I would not trust Anderson or Hendricks. I have to see Kochanowicz go into NY, Boston and Baltimore before I allow my head to swell..
It’s also crazy to think we still have Detmers and Dana waiting in the wings
It’s certainly a step forward. We have some work to so on the position player side of things.
my favorite in the wings is Jamie Arnold 🙂
BA has a new mock draft this morning, with Hernandez to the Nats and we get Jamie Arnold.
We have a lot of baseball to be played. As of today, Holliday and Hernandez are my top 2
“We have a lot of baseball to be played” is the new “it’s early.”
Hopefully the cards not seeing him very often throws their timing off tonight.
I was so excited to see Silent C regroup and actually change strategy. So promising. Loved it. One of my favorite performances in a while. And my goodness did Paris smoke that ball.
No way they outlaw the bat. They need something for offense.
What’s stopping them from allowing corked bats and extended runs of pine tar then?
They will keep them. They are to spec and not the magic miracle hitting cure they are being made out to be. Might feel good, but it’s not that easy. Yes, they may square up a few more and exit velos may go up a few miles per hour, but you still have to hit it.
Remember when cupping the end of bats and axe-handle bats were the “new thing”?
Remember for a brief moment, everyone had the yellow-tinted eyewear.
I read that judge doesn’t even use that bat and he was 3/8 of those hr.
This made me feel old af.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT23Sfqjc/
Video of Trouty trying to list the lineup for his debut.
Well Old Lady, I feel young, energized and ready to go!
Could just be the coffee talking.
Yer a youngsta. I’m “you have to cut off a limb and count the rings” years old.
I went to a reunion last night. A really old one. 🙂
I threw up my Del Taco when he said Vernon Wells starting in LF….
That’s GOLD GLOVE RECIPIENT, Vernon Wells, if you please….
Old “too blessed to stress”?