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May 6, 2026

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The Angels FINALLY won another game last night. It was only their 4th win since GA’s passing, and first win in a 9 inning game since APRIL 22ND. The Angels are 4-13 in their last 17 games.

Anyone who went prolly got a great deal. Some tickets went for 3 dollars.

Series finale vs the White Sox this afternoon, and the White Sox already won the season series. Urena is going for the Angels as the worst team in Baseball tries to win their first series since the April 10-12 series at the Reds.

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In funny news, the Dodgers have gone 3-11 in the last 14 regular season Ohtani starts. Tungsten Arm Indeed…

Jon Bois at Secret Base is documenting the history of mound charges and episodes 1 and 2 are out on Youtube. He notices that they do not happen much anymore, is that a good or a bad thing?

Anyway, in an unrelated note, Gerrit Cole beaned a guy who hit a home run off of him in a rehab start. Didn’t get mound charged at all…

There was a bench clearing non fight with the Tigers and Red Sox when Valdez drills Trevor Story. Valdez really isn’t liked anywhere, huh?

Check swing challenges are happening in the minors. What do you think of them?

Anything I missed? Post below for upvotes!

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jefftulsa

10 days ago

I just wanna know what set of Pokemon they were opening 😎😎😎

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AnAngelsFan

10 days ago

Reply to jefftulsa

We know they pulled a Charizard.

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KelN90

10 days ago

Here’s hoping Neto pulls another Charizard card from Trout’s Pokémon stash

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KelN90

10 days ago

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https://www.mlb.com/news/zach-neto-breaks-out-of-slump-to-lead-angels-to-win?adobe_mc=TS%3D1778093085%7CMCMID%3D37042006850851486589052913327641839649%7CMCORGID%3DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44@AdobeOrg&affiliateId=mlbapp-ios_webview_news-index&rsid=mlbios.at.bat.new.implementation

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Reply to KelN90

Very cool story! Fun way to see Trout lead Neto.

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KelN90

10 days ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

It’s time for the young hitters to take a step up. The pitching, at least the starting pitching, has been solid recently. As per usual it coincided with the offense struggling. Maybe they’ll click at the same time and the angels can get back to like 4 games under .500

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Reply to KelN90

I’d love to see some more actually hitting than the KKKKKKHRKKKKKK sequence we see from a lot of streaky hitters, like the all .300 lineup we had for a minute.
I miss the 1st to 3rd days with good defense to support whatever pitcher was going.

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KelN90

10 days ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

I mean yeah it would be cool to have an all .300 lineup, but the entire MLB has like 9 .300 hitters a year these days so you may have to let that dream die

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KelN90

10 days ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

Situational hitting needs to be taught/coached/implemented more. Schanuel should be the perfect guy at bat for a hit and run. But it’s just not what the Angels preach anymore

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Stability of CA sports franchises since ‘16

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

Shouldn’t we top the list? Ausmus, Maddon, Nevin, Wash, Montgomery, Suzuki

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Exactly! Don’t know when that was updated and doesn’t include another socal baseball team on the list. Pulled from a Niners site (rams/49ers fans having a discussion about which franchise is California’s most stable. We are clearly on the other side!

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ryanfea

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Right?! Is this image from 2022?

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Perry is such a loser
LMAOOOOOOOOO 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Angels transactions:
•Reinstated RHP Alek Manoah from injured list
•Following last night’s game, LHP Sam Aldegheri was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake

https://x.com/i/status/2052071862574919718

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

at least we get the good lineup today 😇

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

It’s closer

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Turk's Teeth

10 days ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Would like to see what Frazier can do from LF for a week or so, and at the top of the order.

Frazier LF
Trout CF
Grissom 2B
Soler DH
Peraza 3B
Adell RF
Schanuel 1B
D’Arnaud C
Neto SS

Take the pressure off of Neto for a week, and shift the OBP guys to the first half of the order.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

That would be great. Any combination of Frazier, Grissom, and Peraza in the 1, 3, and 5 spots works for me. I would also be ok with Neto and Schanuel hitting in front of Adell. I just don’t understand the resistance changing things up for a while since what we’ve been doing isn’t working. And I have never understood Neto in the leadoff spot period.

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Hellen Keller can see that Manoah is going to get absolutely lit the f’up over the course 3 ignominous starts and then DFA’d…..

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tanana40

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Let Sam get more experience at AAA. Alek will be rocked but whatever, we are a 105 loss team so it does not matter.

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PedroCerrano

10 days ago

Valdez: Very hot headed with a huge cranium that no hat could fit. Clearly steroids have been removed from the game.

https://youtu.be/xybLWdP119A?si=-UiXlW3EZjEzyHgi

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Ted Turner passed away. In a weird way, I became an Angels fan because of him.

My friends and I would play neighborhood baseball and be able to watch Braves games together on TBS in the very early 90s. The whole worst to first team. They were fun and we could watch and play baseball together. The dodgers and angels came on much later when we were all home and it was more dinner time and bed time than watch TV.

In 2nd grade our school went to an after school field trip of sorts at dodger stadium to see the braves v dodgers. The game was 2-1 and we all were rooting for any offense, including from the braves! That didn’t sit too well with the locals and they decided to heckle some 8 year olds. I told my dad about it when we got home and he took me to an angels game shortly after and we had a bunch of fun.

TLDR Turner’s braves were fun and I could watch early as a youngster, dodgers fans dodgered, & an angels gameday experience made me a fan.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

With Peraza and Grissom sitting a lot these days, we only have 2 players in the line up who are actually hitting (Trout and Soler). Neto is the only other player regularly in the line up whose OPS+ is over 100 and he’s only at 103 because of his HR last night. We’re a way worse hitting team right now than even last year.

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I know it’s easy to critique roster moves in hindsight, but, damn, the numbers that Taylor Ward, Brandon Marsh and Mickey Moniak are posting are difficult to ignore.

Particularly when you consider that our catcher is injured (and sucked prior to that), the pitcher we traded for has yet to..you know, pitch and the LF we traded for is an absolute void in the lineup.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

True. And it doesn’t help that Adell, Schanuel, and Neto have all been struggling so far at the same time.

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MarineLayer

10 days ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Mostly a terrible approach by our hitters. Anderson seems useless. More Minasian badness.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

Moniak move was the most shortsighted of the bunch. Let’s review why he was he DFAd —

Perry traded for Soler to occupy the DH spot. A dumb move that has had no impact whatsoever on this team winning. We still had enough room to roster Trout, Ward, Adell, and Moniak. Perry fell for Paris’ hot ST and decided that the natural infielder would take the backup outfielder role because Jo and Mickey apparently couldn’t co-exist any longer.

As we all know Paris was short-lived and sent back to the minors (currently in AA), Trout AND Soler got injured, and we ended up giving OF starts to Lamont Wade Jr., Campero, Lugo, Chris Taylor.

Perry did well trading Thor for Mickey. Perry then dumped Mickey for no good reason. Perry is a fucking moron.

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smithy610

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

You know, with Mickey, I don’t think it’s all Perry. For some reason he also just ended up on Wash’ doghouse. Wash made this flippant comment about telling Mickey “you’re not the kind of hitter who hit 14 HRs last year. You’re the kind of hitter who’s more gap-to-gap power than HR power.” I think that messed up his juju. Here’s a kid who just became an everyday player the season before, played well enough, and then was suddenly told “you’re not that kind of hitter, screw that.” From that point he started flailing, wasn’t playing everyday, wasn’t getting consistent reps, and so I wasn’t surprised Perry eventually rid of him.

I’ve always liked Mickey. Yes his platoon splits are bad but it’s not like our LH hitters are doing hot right now. Remember there was a time he was protecting Trout in the lineup! When Aaron Boone was asked why he didn’t walk Trout in one game, he actually said “well that guy behind him is batting .330” And it wasn’t Shohei. It was Mickey.

And now Wash is gone and Perry most likely too. Really good tag team of talent evaluators there.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to smithy610

Good point re: Wash’s comments, but Perry didn’t have to cut Mickey before the season started.

Trout got injured so early that Mickey would have gotten back in the starting lineup and remained there all season. There was no pressure to dump him and that’s on Perry

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Indeed X one million.

Burke/Moniak >>>>>> Lowe

Daayaammm

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Turk's Teeth

10 days ago

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While I tend to agree that Moniak was prematurely DFA’d, especially after his strong 2023 season only one year in the rearview mirror, some caveats are due here.

Moniak is 100% a creature of Coors. His OPS is 600+ pts higher at Coors than away this season, and his .680 OPS away last season was 11% worse than league average. He’s hit 9 HRs at Coors this season, and 2 HRs on the road.
He’s 100% a platoon bat. He’s hitting .111 vs LHP in limited play this year, and .222 in a larger sample last season. His OPS was 29% below league average vs LHP, and that was inclusive of Coors.
His defense is bad. Last year, when he played more CF, it was simply terrible. This year, as they’d nudged him more to LF, it’s just below average. But dWAR is still a counting stat – give it time!

Moniak has basically learned to use Coors field to his advantage. But as an Angel, he would almost certainly be a variation of Josh Lowe – a bad glove, high-K, low BA guy who can’t hit lefties but runs into a HR every now and again.

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FungoAle

10 days ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

You echoed what I was typing up. No. 2 was why he was limited here in Anaheim before being dealt. I think his lapses in the OF helped push him down further in Wash’s doggy house. Nice guy from Encinitas, but Angels need to do better.

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Turk's Teeth

10 days ago

Reply to FungoAle

He’s just not a solution – long-term or middle-term.

But short-term, for another year or two, he was better and/or cheaper than what he was replaced with.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Fantastic context, appreciate it. I’m critical of the decision making process which led to the DFA more than the DFAd player himself.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

We already corner the market on those guys. 🙂

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AnAngelsFan

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Don’t forget… Moniak won his arbitration, so the Angels were paying him more than they wanted.

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FungoAle

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

Moniak and Marsh are still being coddled against LH starting pitching. Forever a platoon player it seems. Yes, better than what the Halos have today but ceiling is squashed.

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to FungoAle

Oh, I get it, but, positive production even in a platoon arrangement is still positive production.

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toad2065

10 days ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Continuing to play Moncada and Lowe is killing us! In this day and age of “analytics”, just exactly what “analytics” are the Angels looking at?

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Turk's Teeth

10 days ago

Reply to toad2065

When even hype men like Rodger Lodge and Trent Rush are urging the team to option Lowe and bench Moncada, you know there’s something bizarre afoot.

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FungoAle

10 days ago

Afternoon game today, Walbert going up against 6’10” LH Noah Schultz, both talented young arms. Noah has had a couple of shutdown games against inferior teams, that’s what we are. Need to be patient, make him throw strikes. Moncada sure to ride the pine today against this Randy Johnson slinger type. Chi-Sox slight favorite -115. Grab your beers and peanuts.

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Turk's Teeth

10 days ago

Reply to FungoAle

I watched Noah in his second start against the A’s, and he was very impressive. A rare example of a high school first rounder making it to the Bigs and posting in under four years flat.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to FungoAle

Appointment TV! Wally World is a tasty matinee appetizer to enjoy before tonight’s Ducks Golden Knights game.

FA, are you gonna tune in to the hockey game?

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FungoAle

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

You bet! I expect a strong bounce back by the Ducks tonight. Love playoff hockey.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to FungoAle

I thought we played pretty well in game 1. Gotta get this one!

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AnAngelsFan

10 days ago

I watched the game last night. I know the Angels won 4-3. And yet, when I read the headline, I had a moment of panic that the blowpen gave up 10 runs in the 9th to lose 4-13. It took a moment to remember I watched the final out.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Trout is 4th amongst all position players with 2.2 WAR, Soriano is 1st for pitchers with 2.3 WAR, and the Angels are 9 games under .500.

It’s like we took a time machine back to 2016 😂

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steelgolf

10 days ago

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2916 has been a long, long, long, long year.

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Nothing good to see here, we are #27 and talk about Trout

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48678810/mlb-2026-stock-watch-change-dodgers-yankees-braves-cubs

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smithy610

10 days ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

A change in scenery is strictly a matter between Trout and the Angels, and if he wants to stay, then so be it. But I’d really love to see this rejuvenated version of Trout in a postseason race and in the playoffs.

From his paper (or computer) to God’s ears. For the love of God.

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Reply to smithy610

fwiw I don’t think trout gets traded nor have I ever advocated for it. I image we just eat a bunch of salary and get nothing back/what we do get back doesn’t do anything for us but may elsewhere.

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TrojanBoiler

10 days ago

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But what if offloading some of that salary makes the team easier to sell? Then I think we are all for it!

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Angels2020Champs

10 days ago

Sure nice to see Trout and Neto show up for the home fans!!

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WallyChuckChili

10 days ago

Lucchessi is back with the team on a minor league deal.

Kirby Yates has been activated.
Saucedo optioned.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

10 days ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

Perry is eco-friendly and continually recycles his waste.

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HalosFanForLife

10 days ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

It’s sure looking like an intentional tanking.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

10 days ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

He does it without thinking – it’s pure muscle memory after so many years of losing.

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Biggiswrth

10 days ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

So does Yates and the eventual addition of Joyce fix our bullpen or are we still a broken mess?

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to Biggiswrth

Yates’ fastball averaged 90 in his rehab appearances. He’s more likely washed than not.

Bullpen’s success will depend on the younger relievers — Joyce, Bachman, Silseth, Zeferjahn, Fermin, and eventually Najer Victor

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I’ve noticed that Silseth rarely pitches one full inning during his appearances (16 appearances / 11.1 innings). It’s often just one out. Given our dearth of options, you would think that the manager would have him go a bit longer with each appearance.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

The way we’ve deployed Silseth has been weird. I agree and would like to see more of him. I’ll never forget that stretch in 2023 where he looked like an ace and then got taken down by a Trey Cabbage laser beam to the head

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MarineLayer

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I forgot. The Trey Cabbage era was awesome.

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Pineapple12

10 days ago

Reply to MarineLayer

For those who don’t remember. I forgot the unfortunate incident happened because O’Hoppe is the dumbest catcher of all time and threw an ill advised throw to begin with

https://www.mlb.com/video/chase-silseth-ball-to-daniel-vogelbach-aeguuc-x0955

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MarineLayer

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Dumb and Dumber.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

O’Hoppe is a great young man, I just wish he was a better BB player

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TrojanBoiler

10 days ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Perry’s tenure encapsulated in a single moment

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BannedInLA

10 days ago

Reply to MarineLayer

“The Trey Cabbage era” is about as memorable as the Jack Mayfield era.

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Roy Hobbs

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

Where the heck is he when we need him. The fact that there was even a Trey Cabbage era says everything you need to know about this organization.

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Born_in_59

10 days ago

Reply to BannedInLA

I thought the team was deploying Silseth like Cleveland did Andrew Miller. Come in and get the guy on the other team you need to get out, finish out the inning and then start with a fresh reliever the following inning.