It looks like Edgar Quero is going to get his first cup of coffee. In other White Sox news, they just DFAd Mike Clevinger.
The Twins acquired infielder Jonah Bride from the Marlins for cash. The Pirates swapped outfielder Bryce Johnson to the Padres in exchange for catcher Brett Sullivan. The Pirates and Nationals had a benches clearing incident. It doesn’t seem that they brawled, but a pitcher did get ejected for throwing at Andrew McCutchen’s head after having hit the previous batter.
Right-hander Casey Lawrence cleared waivers and elected free agency.
Baffling Injury of the Day
Jose Miranda injured his left hand by carrying a case of bottled water.
Bought these today for good luck. Hope only they get shelled tonight.
Enjoy your sack o’nuts.
SALTY NUTS GUY!!!!
i miss you
Jimmy Herget dealing for the Rockies. Didn’t recognize him without the glasses. Angel castoffs over in Colorado
Woo hoo
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
Unfortunately, that isn’t Neto’s bag.
I know, cheap and easy, but hey it works…..
Neto is on a plane
Not in the line-up so he must be heading to Anaheim
Not to worry, Anderson and his .158 average will fill the void.
Anderson better get his Angel memorabilia souvenirs while he can
All planes leaving SL are required to have a layover at John Wayne.
Pick-up-drop-off players.
……
Slow Jo?
https://x.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/1912645234955284509
Why? Is it his ham meat?
Torpedo sandwich made of hammy? Guessing his hip still not 100%.
Can’t read it too cheap. Maybe someone will Eppei interpret it for us?
This will work… Neto looking familiar
https://x.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/1912695303104565742
A play that every SS should make
40 mph exit velo up the middle.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6273808/2025/04/16/mlb-top-10-front-offices-executive-vote/
Heres a poll from The Athletic ranking front offices. 20 teams got votes. Guess which team is not among these top 20 vote getters.
Just checked and the Angels are currently 12th in runs scored, which is good, although the teams that have better records are scoring more. Not surprising though, is that we are tied for 27th with the Marlins for giving up runs with only Colorado and Washington giving up more. The good teams are all giving up more than a run less a game than we are which is the big difference.
Interesting — particularly because the general notion has been the pitching has been solid. The stats say otherwise.
Yes, and in particular, Houston is 11 and Texas is 5. Unfortunately, the Giants are 6 so it won’t be easier this weekend.
It’s been good more often than not but when it has been bad it has been horrible.
Opening Day, the blowout loss in Houston, and the 5 run inning in Houston account for a lot of our runs allowed.
Those couple blow outs we had have skewed things….
When you have bad management, a bad manager, and a bad team, what we have seen the last few games will inevitably happen. I said when we were winning, and I will say as we’re losing, it’s a small sample size. We should know right where we are after about 50 games. I have my suspicions. As I have also said repeatedly, we need to play the kids and not play the retreads and roster fillers.
Let me kill the suspense. It’s still a team with a lot of meh players on it. So we will likely be a bad team. Because it is still 2025, and that is what almost everybody has seen the 2025 Angels pulling off.
“How good we are doing” will be relative to last years crap pile.
We will need to play retreads when guys are hurt.
CtPG Guy will not be happy till we have All-Star alternates at every position…. or he just gives up and becomes a Dodger fan.
This is how things will be after 50 games.
this is why 9-6 was so much fun and the current 9-8 isn’t too bad, either.
You already have it made up in your mind that we’ll suck, and you want the kids playing.
Well all the kids who are MLB-ready are playing, so what’s the point of always being negative and critical lol ?
We’ll get MOAR KIDZ. Gotta let em cook in the MiLB. Which means TiAnderson has a job… Moncada… etc. If august rolls around and we have no injuries but still play Anderson at 2B then I’ll be all pissy about it.
Ben Joyce done for the year, career over?
I’ll just assume this until we get an update.
Perhaps surgery to remove irritated, inflamed bumps from his splinker
I’ll take Spelunker, Sprinkler, Splinker for $1600 Alex…
Hey! The Blummer wrote a fun piece on the Angels that isn’t doom and gloom. Neither Arte nor Perry mentioned once.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6285779/2025/04/17/angels-tyler-anderson/
Holy crap. Actually just telling us an interesting story about the team we follow. Amazing that that works.
In other news, Jackson Holliday is not so popular any more in Baltimore.
Why?
Not doing so well and now being benched against lefties.
Uh oh…. man, they have like 12 prospects ready to take ABs.
Predicting the sweep, our offense looks lost on this Texas trip. Trout looks like Joey swingnmiss Gallo. How could they not hit the worst starter in the game Corbin? Sad, our ‘’meh’ starting pitchers have done well enough for us to win a few of these. Today let’s hopefully not see Rocker make us pay for not drafting him.
However we drafted matt thaiss
So we have played about 10% of the season, we have a winning recored, and we haven’t put ourselves in an early hole. All good things, and we accomplished them without our best player from last year via WAR.
We do not have playoff caliber starting pitching yet and at this point, we really haven’t had any legitimate 3 and 4 position hitters in our line up nor have we had a lead off hitter. We have hit a lot of HRs, but we make too many outs, so not enough baserunners.
A 3rd of our line up has been pretty weak. Via OPS+ Anderson 80% below average, Adell 31% below average, and Rengifo 11% below average. Anderson will soon be replaced by Neto and there is reason to believe Rengifo will get better, making it easier to absorb Jo who will likely be in the line up for the rest of this year.
In 2027, when we have money, we’ll need to add a couple of middle of the order bats and replace Soler, who thus far has been very solid with a 279/352/525 slash line for a 152 OPS+, 50% above average.
We’re nothing like last year but we still have a number of holes that aren’t realistically going to be filled this year and maybe not next year either. We’re just going to have to be patient and wait for more kids to develop.
And we strike out way too much. Why do we have so many hitting coaches and strike out too much. Does anyone know our Whiff rate
Hmm I looked it up. Angels 26% mlb average 25.9%
Don’t go throwing in facts, figures and data into this den of rumor, aspersions and innuendo my friend!!
I like him. I yearn for him to play well. But I think Adell is in more danger than we may all think. IF Paris is any good come say July. Or IF an MiLB OF gets hot. With Neto taking up his spot in the line up, if Adell is still crap and they have to get Paris ABs he’s gonna be in trouble.
Granted, we still likely hold on to him and then play him if Rengifo, Ward or both are traded. But it’s not like Adell has the “you’ll start most of the games all year” mandate this year. He’s got to pull it together semi-soon or I am fairly sure they start hatching plans that involve him less.
Fortunately, there isn’t necessarily a lot of urgency to do anything right now. We don’t have any other options as you have pointed out but I do agree his leash is getting shorter.
He’s always started off slow….. might be how he rolls. Fingers crossed, decent defensive in CF, learn to steal some bases like Paris….. Hit 245, 23 HR’s, 65+ RBI…few more hot streaks, few less cold streaks.
go Jo?
Yah. There’s gonna be plenty of “showcase” happening too. See if Anderson can get hot and be traded. Anyone named Anderson. For example. It’s just part of being on a rebuilding team. Puting out “the burst line hup parsible!” cause we demand the win isn’t what is always gonna happen. At least for now they also have to try to create trade bait. Or at least they should.
Guys like Adell, Detmers, Dana, Paris are mid-season issues.
Wait a minute, Gitch! Are you suggesting that we should be “chasing wins”?
Nope. I’m saying we can’t chase 2025 wins all the time because we have to chase trade bait and seeing if guys like Adell suck…
Catchers don’t matter unless they can be Piazza or Bench. 2018 Red Sox steamrolled everybody with 3 lousy catchers.
BYE!!!
Well, somebody has to sit back there or else the umpire gets plunked by every single pitch.
I like this idea. Like that carnival game where you dunk someone by hitting the target. If an ump misses a ball and strikes call the catcher moves out of the way the next pitch. Better than robo umps and that will bring out more fans
I’ll do it for $20 a hr and no bennifittz
So true. That’s why the Doyers suck with Will Smith. The Giants got no where with Buster Posey. The Cardinals were like Yadi Molina? Garbage. Jorge Posada? Almost zero value to the Yankees. JT Realmutto. Vanilla value. Salvi Perez. The Royals are always talking about how little he really matters. Darren Daulton, Tony Pena, Jason Varitek, Terry Steinback….
I think your hot steaming pile of take is that a good catcher is hard to find and thus some teams have had to win without one. But I also think just about every team that has a good one has a pretty solid advantage over teams that don’t.
Actually. How many teams HAD a really good catcher and sucked? The Twins in some of Maur’s catcher years? The Carton Fisk White Sox? The teams Benito Santiago was on?
Klassen was lights out last night on Wednesday… too bad Pandas’ bats MIA.
Sammy Natera struck out all four batters he faced in relief, which is awesome, but I don’t understand why they’re using him strictly in relief this year. Thought he was a starting prospect. In any case, wonder if they’ll be moving him along soon. Hasn’t given up any runs this year in AA yet.
Sounds like Klassen is getting prepared for when he gets called up to Anaheim. Pitch your heart out and get zero run support.
Must Be fun to know that less than perfect is probably a loss. Would do wonders for your confidence as a pitcher.
Eh. Speaking as a guy who pitched for a team that lost all but five games while he had an ERA just over 1 and two Ks per inning…. it doesn’t matter all that much. I was a little mystified when I managed to LOSE a no hitter. Defensive errors are WAY more of a piss puddle for a pitcher than wins and losses. Losses happen. But if you know you pitched well it doesn’t suck much more than if you played OF. What DOES suck is when you get a guy to ground out and he end up on 2nd base.
True, A little grittyness goes a long way….more worried that kids like Jack Koch, Soriano, eventually Detmers, Dana start to form some bad habits knowing that that run support isn’t very supportive. More of a focus thing.
Even as a meh high school pitcher you pretty much just learn to focus on the next pitch, next batter, etc. I’m sure it’s hard for CoachDad to hear, but at a certain mental level you don’t give a shit that your team is crap and your W/L record stinks. You can go 4-8 but you still feel OK if your walks and runs allowed were low. You got your change up to work well. etc. You make a summer ball team if you’re good, even if you have a losing record.
Sure, you’d love to win the championshit too, but most pitchers get to pitch for poop teams, and in college they play at App State, not Vanderbilt. They’ve been doing it since little league. So it’s not like it warps you into a bundle of nerves regarding run support. If you get a big lead you’re relaxed. You’re pissed when you give up runs, even if you have a big lead.
Pitchers are narcissists. Should we be concerned?
I think, if I remember right, Natera is being built back better? He was injured for a long time and they are throwing him multi-innings in AA right? They do that a lot in AA. Throw a guy four or five, then another guy 2 or 3 innings…
Natera News
https://x.com/TaylorBlakeWard/status/1912570414594957573
Soooo… after he crosses three weeks at AA it’s time for me to get pissed off every time I see InAnderson? That’s what you’re saying right?
Ex-Angels prospect in, ex-Angels prospect out…
Let’s score some runs today!!!
Score runs? Are they supposed to do that?
I think that’s the idea, but maybe Manfred instituted a rule change while we weren’t looking.
I started a GoFundMe to send the boys Tacobell for lunch.
Good morning Halo faithful-Let’s salvage a win in Arlington.
Go Halos!!