Reid Detmers got mentioned here. He is either good or he is not good.
Oh Noooo! Vladdy Jr. got injured.
Former Brewer catcher and outfielder Charlie Moore passed away at the age of 72.
Photo credit Rex Fregosi
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Super Member
18 days ago
We broke the rangers. We must have a contagious disease
Trusted Member
18 days ago
In 1983 I was 10 and my dad worked at Jim Click Ford in Irvine, CA which is about 15 minutes from Angel Stadium.
In April of that year Charlie Moore came to that dealership to get a loaner car for the three days they were in town. My dad helped him pick a car and in return Charlie gave him 4 tickets for each game of the series. The seats were in the Brewers family seating area.
In addition, during the first game, someone brought me a signed ball by the whole team, a few other souvenirs and sent a note saying he hoped we had a good time.
Class act. Sad to see he passed.
Legend
18 days ago
I walked into an MLB forum and prozpek talk broke out !!!
Seriously though, I do appreciate the content. I don’t/won’t do any of this research myself.
As for trading starting pitching away from team that has been woefully poor in this department for the past decade, I remain very dubious, though I understand the argument.
That said, if we are going to trade and/or cannot re-sign players like Soriano & Detmers, the best time to move them is now.
Now for my daily rant: Please release Moncada and Soler now. No one is trading anything for either of these players and both are absorbing roster spots and at bats that should go towards developing other players that may figure into our future.
Super Member
18 days ago
But is it better for their development to be at the major league level? Are they ready?
Is it worth burning their service time clock to call them up now to potentially have their teeth kicked in?
Even if they come up and succeed, they aren’t going to turn the team around. Best case their contributions cost us a few draft spots. Burning their service time would have to mean MLB experience is significantly better than AA or AAA.
Not disagreeing with you necessarily just playing devil’s advocate. Personally I would much rather watch Guzman than Moncada.
Legend
18 days ago
I’m not advocating that we rush our top prospects before they’re ripe. I am saying that I’d rather play second tier prospects and/or younger castoffs like Peraza versus Moncada/Soler. There is nothing to be gained from playing those two guys.
Super Member
18 days ago
100% with you on playing guys like Peraza and Grissom instead. And some of the minor league guys too if they’re really ready.
Just don’t want to see this org continue to rush guys to the majors especially in a losing season.
Super Member
18 days ago
I think I prefer searing abdominal cramps to watching Mondada, actually.
Super Member
18 days ago
What a coincidence because watching Moncada gives me searing abdominal cramps lol
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Legend
18 days ago
Here’s a fun one. Identical trade value, but it would take ruthless, flinty-eyed stares on both sides to recognize that the Angels’ contention window is 2-3 years out, while the Mariners’ window is now.

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Legend
18 days ago
And why not just do it one more time, and embrace that Hernandez-Anderson-Urena future – all with 6+ years of control?
Trusted Member
18 days ago
If we signed Maddux to a five year contract I would say let’s go this direction.
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Legend
18 days ago
Keller’s signed through ’28, when Soriano’s up too, so it’s a direct tread-water replacement, while Soriano joins Pittsburgh’s front of the rotation with Skenes.
Anderson jumps into the rotation this summer, and Hernandez arrives in late ’27.
Super Member
18 days ago
These trades are both so sexy
Legend
18 days ago
Oh my, I am big on this proposal.
Legend
18 days ago
I would do that trade in a heartbeat. I doubt Trader Jerry would though.
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Legend
18 days ago
A few more Angels prospect callouts in Baseball America’s RoboScout rankings this week.
I’ll let the AI summary explain RoboScout for those unfamiliar:
Baseball America’s RoboScout is a data-driven modeling tool and weekly column designed to identify top fantasy baseball prospects and underrated minor league players. It uses Statcast data, including barrel rates, exit velocity, and pitch-level metrics, to rank players based on underlying performance rather than surface stats.
Weekly leaderboards of 10-20 prospects (hitters, pitchers) at each level of minor league play who project well for future prospect status.
The highlight this week is Johnny Slawinski, who earned #1 status on the Complex level pitcher rankings:
Angels left righthander Johnny Slawinski shares the top spot (with last week’s leader, Cardinals righthander Xavier Cruz) with no walks given up in 17 innings while averaging over four innings per outing. In extended spring training, he was sitting 94 mph with a four-pitch mix that also boasts an 85 mph slider, a curveball with over 14 inches of sweep and a changeup that has over a foot of armside fade. The athletic 19-year-old should gain strength and hone his four-pitch mix as he matures while already showing a back-of-the-rotation profile. None of this should surprise you, though: We already earmarked him as one to watch in the ACL.
Nate Snead meanwhile cracked the High-A pitching leaderboards at #13, and Raudi Rodriguez just squeaked into the top 20 for AA hitters.
This further corroborates Rodriguez’s emerging prospect status, as Raudi also made last week’s BA top 20 “hottest hitters” report. This report is a week stale, but worth sharing:
11. Raudi Rodriguez, OF, Angels
Team: Double-A Rocket City (Southern)
Age: 22
Why He’s Here: .480/.552/.920 (12-for-25), 10 R, 3 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 4 RBIs, 4 BB, 7 SO, 3-for-3 SB
The Scoop: Rodriguez was one of the standout performers in last year’s Arizona Fall League, and he’s carried over that strong performance to 2026. He had a series to remember last week, scoring 10 runs and recording two or more hits in four of six games. He had six extra-base hits, including a pair of home runs, and he stole three bases, as well. For the year, Rodriguez is hitting .302/.438/.481 with five home runs, and his underlying data shows he’s hitting the ball far harder than he did in 2025. His average exit velocity is up over 2 mph, and his 90th percentile exit velocity is up 1.6 mph. Hit tool questions remain, but Rodriguez is walking at the highest rate of his career and striking out at the lowest rate of any full-season affiliate. (IC)
Trusted Member
18 days ago
So when the head hose-man retires, does middle hose-man get promoted? Does he just slide on up that hose? And tail hose-man follows suit?
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Prospect or Not? Luke Murphy.
• As a fire-balling beanpole 4th-rounder out of Vanderbilt, was part of the vaunted, prospect-bejeweled Rocket City pitching staff of 2022, alongside Silseth, Eric Torres, Joyce, Bush, et al.
• 65-grade four-seamer played well at AA that season, generating 52Ks in 44 innings and a 2.62 ERA in short relief.
• Mystifyingly, at least to someone whose impressions are chiefly informed by box scores such as myself, the Halos went against script and made him repeat AA in 2023. He was basically half as effective that season, yielding twice the number of hits in roughly the same amount of innings. I don’t remember reading any injury reports about him or something else that immediately/simply explained the about-face.
• He pinballed through 2024-25, excelling after a demotion to the NWL, then getting rocked in Rocket City, rocked harder in SLC… essentially starting to look like a minor league lifer.
• BUT! Has been nay unhittable thus far in 2026, allowing 11 baserunners in 16 innings with an uber-tits 0.56 ERA.
AI tells us that Murphy tends “to overthrow his curveball”… so maybe he’s doing less of that this season and has a functioning off-speed pitch. He was throwing 99 MPH out of college, so if that’s the still the case, there might still be enough helium to carry him to Anaheim.
Legend
18 days ago
Prospect
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Legend
18 days ago
Probably a taxi squad, up-and-down guy. He’s so fastball dominant, and never quite developed a plus secondary he’d need to get MLB hitters consistently out with.
Repeating AA for the fifth time, age 26, probably his last hurrah. Got clobbered in AAA last year. Even in good stretches in AA, he showed marked home/away splits – he can get real comfortable in Toyota Field but struggle on the road. Control was his nemesis for several seasons, but ultimately he just doesn’t have enough variation to consistently reduce contact.
His .162 BABIP isn’t going to last forever this season.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Good points. Would love to see him in SLC or Anaheim to get a clearer read on his development.
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Legend
18 days ago
After yesterday’s game, Jake Munroe now leads all Northwest League hitters in wRC+ and OPS/OPS+.
If there are any caveats on his current performance, it’s a big platoon split vs RHP. The guy absolutely destroys LHP (1.642 OPS), while putting up more modest results against righties (.826).
He might be outgrowing this level. AA will be challenging – a June promotion might be in order.
Super Member
18 days ago
Thanks Turk’s. It has been rough going to this site this season. Your updates on our minor leaguers has been a highlight. I am glad that you did not leave us for the A’s.
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Legend
18 days ago
There’s a bit more to follow this season than the past few years. I’d still characterize it as a below average system in terms of position players, but it’s getting closer to average on the pitching side of the ledger. If Bremner/Shores get healthy, and some of the kids keep progressing, you might see this system more in the 18-22 range in a year or so – my guess.
I’m still following the A’s, btw. 🙂 My wife watches or listens to almost every Sacramento game. And I keep a close eye on all of their minor league affiliates, am rooting for Kurtz’s streak, awaiting Gage Jump’s call-up, hoping for Jacob Wilson’s health, etc.
But, as always, most of my attention is to MiLB, college, draft etc. While I’m not emotionally attached to the Angels MLB team these days, and despise its ownership, I still root for some Angels prospects along the way.
Legend
18 days ago
We got a little motion at every level with Alvarez, Munroe, Raudi and Guzman all on heaters
Trusted Member
18 days ago
In his favor regarding adapting to AA: He’s a true-outcome monster. 26 walks against 24 Ks this year. How rare is that, even at High-A? My sense is: very rare. Also seems to be evolving defensively with one error this year in 280-plus innings at third.
Legend
18 days ago
Minimum 43 AB’s to appear on the leaderboard
2026 Midwest League (Advanced A) Batting Leaders
Dean Curley. BB: 51. SO: 46
Kane Kepley. BB: 42. SO: 25
Bennett Thompson. BB: 36. SO: 26
Cameron Sisneros. BB: 34. SO: 22
Luke Hill BB: 29. SO: 26
Josh Adamczewski. BB. 28. SO: 27
Charles Davalan. BB: 28. SO: 22
2026 Northwest League Batting Leaders
Luke Stevenson. BB: 35. SO: 39
Trevor Cohen. BB: 29 SO: 26
Peyton Williams. BB: 24. SO: 19
Carlos Gutiérrez. BB: 23. SO: 25
2026 South Atlantic League Batting Leaders
Colby Jones. BB: 38. SO: 31
Jack Winnay. BB. 36. SO: 35
TJ White. BB: 29. SO: 27
Devin Fitzgerald. BB: 27. SO: 30
Emillian Pitre. BB: 27. SO: 18
Colby Shelton. BB: 25. SO: 26
Kodey Shoginaga BB: 22. SO: 20
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Pretty rare?
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Legend
18 days ago
And tough to characterize Munroe as a TTO guy, because he has impeccable strikeout rates. He’s at 15%, whereas minor league averages are in the 22-24% range.
His swinging strike rate is a 8%, and contact rate is 80%+, both excellent.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Mmm. Tasty! I guess I was thinking of his TTO-esque aversion to singles. He’s only had 13 this season against 19 extra-base hits… but 10 of those were doubles, which to your point is not part of the true-outcome profile. Excited to see how his advanced approach plays in AA.
Super Member
18 days ago
Wow – not a partnership you might expect.
Legend
18 days ago
Old gnus, buddy. That’s from June 2025
MLB and Jomboy Media to forge strategic partnershipJune 10th, 2025
Super Member
18 days ago
Well I’m a little old and slow…
Legend
18 days ago
I didn’t realize just how bad the Rangers really are. If we could only play them more frequently…..we just might win some more games.
Last edited 18 days ago by Senator_John_Blutarsky
Super Member
18 days ago
Same with the A’s
Super Member
18 days ago
Great news – hot dog sales per attendee were up 12% this weekend.
Legend
18 days ago
All the fans in attendance sure taught Arte a lesson he’ll never forget: paying customers putting money in his pockets.
Fools.
Super Member
18 days ago
I’ll tell you if the shirt waver crowd keeps growing like it has – and it goes stadium wide like the wave, his ego will take a beating. I hope they stay at it. The brand is getting damaged for sure.
Legend
18 days ago
I think this current stuff is more of a novelty than a weapon. Considering Skaggs, Kay, Ippei, Ohtani, the Anaheim Mayor corruption, Rendon, Pujols, Hamilton, the decade of losing, and the desolation of Trout, I’m not sure the “shirtless boy choir” is really damaging the brand more than it’s already been damaged on its own.
Trusted Member
17 days ago
But we are old and unhip, Senator. The kids see things through different eyes!
Legend
18 days ago
I looked for a post I saw on Facebook it is in Babylon Bee style and couldn’t locate it again.
It was something like this:
Angel fans protest owner by buying tickets and $15 beers. They sure showed The Man!
Super Member
18 days ago
If a few games had gone our way – we could be the number one team in baseball right now. — Perry Minasian
Last edited 18 days ago by HalosFanForLife
Trusted Member
18 days ago
If I was smarter I wouldn’t have made dumb decisions. – Perry Minasian
Legend
18 days ago
“They say that love is more important than money, but have you ever tried to pay Anthony Rendon with a hug?” – Arte Moreno
Last edited 18 days ago by Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend
18 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Super Member
18 days ago
“He could also be a valuable trade piece.”
Could be – but they’ll blow it.
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Legend
18 days ago
I’ll fix it for them. 🙂
Three years of Reid right in the Pirates’ contention window, and he goes to an organization with one of the best pitching development systems to reach his ceiling.
Super Member
18 days ago
I would so love that, I just look at them as the poor man’s Rays. Always sellers. Rays are so good at this. They blow me away to always be in contention playing in that shit hole. That’s a really good one though Turk’s. Nice. I would do that deal without the comp pick too if I was negotiating and they said no. I think Hernandez has the so much upside.
Last edited 18 days ago by HalosFanForLife
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Legend
18 days ago
Yeah, I was looking at the Pirates system over the weekend precisely for the comp pick – thinking what the A’s or Angels might trade for that – when I saw Hernadez’s value and noted it was basically a Detmers equivalent.
This year’s draft class is a lot like last year’s – the players that excite me most are ‘tweeners who fall in the supplemental round ranges – it’s another year where, as a GM, I would want more draft picks as opposed to higher draft position.
But back to the fantasy trade – right now, each of Anderson, Detmers and Hernandez are value-equivalent on the BTV scale. Which makes one think quite a bit about last year’s draft, and the state of the Angels’ contention timeline.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Is it too early to project Cortez’s or Hernandez’s MLB projections? I recall you have written about Hernandez before but I don’t recall the projection or the projection of BA or Fangraphs.
Hmm, I think I need to read up on comparison of Anderson and Hernanadez as well.
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Legend
18 days ago
Hernandez has top of the rotation projection – currently the top-ranked prospect from last draft, at #3 overall at MLB Pipeline. He was the most dominant pitcher at the low-A level, and has already been promoted to high-A, where Bremner is now. RoboScout assessed him as the top pitching prospect at the high-A level already this week, even as he had his first rough outing in Greensboro.
Anderson has more 2/3 projection, but a high mid-rotation floor. He was top of my board on draft day. Detmers isn’t a bad comp, in terms of polish, but Anderson has a low pulse and rarely rattles, and has four above-average pitches, with a good FB-CH combo that’s effective against most hitter types.
