LA Angels Monday News Crash

15 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Neto to 2nd and guzman to ss, let’s make it happen.

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Jeff Joiner

13 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

But let’s make it happen when Munroe is actually ready.

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milehigh

13 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

So we improve SS defense by weakening 2B defense? Neto isn’t the best lateral mover. I don’t know where to put Neto if Guzman or Monroe are better defensively.

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Turk's Teeth

12 hours ago

Reply to milehigh

On someone else’s roster. Ideally in a trade for outfield sluggers and/or rotation depth.

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Jeff Joiner

12 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

How do you rate Advincula as a prospect?

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Turk's Teeth

12 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

If he reaches his ceiling, a potential Luis Arraez in the wings. That obviously has value, and limitations too. Downside Fletcher, upside Jacob Wilson.

Kind of a bummer that we haven’t seen him debut with Willits and Grahovac at Rancho this summer. Apparently he broke his nose when he was hit by a pitch in an Arizona practice game.

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Jeff Joiner

11 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

This year’s Arraez, right? The kid has pretty decent defense at second base.

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milehigh

6 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Thank you , Wash.

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https://www.mlb.com/news/angels-top-30-prospects-2026-midseason-update

14 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Cardinal Munroe has developed gracefully. I am trying not to get too over excited about him. But he looks really good on the TV. Solid 3B prospect.

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Jeff Joiner

13 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

And thank you for the inspiration for this afternoon’s piece on SI.

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Turk's Teeth

13 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Happy to feed the fire.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

10 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Good article!

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smithy610

16 hours ago

Here’s a deep dive article on mlb.com on the Angels farm:

Best tools
Hit: 60 — Jarren Advincula
Power: 60 — Gavin Grahovac (Arjun Nimmala)
Run: 60 — Nelson Rada (Hayden Alvarez, Advincula, Rylan Lujo, Jeyson Horton)
Arm: 65 — Marlon Quintero
Defense: 60 — Rada (Juan Flores, Quintero)
Fastball: 70 — George Klassen
Curveball: 60 — Talon Haley
Slider: 55 — Klassen (Johnny Slawinski, Haley, Chase Shores)
Changeup: 65 — Tyler Bremner
Control: 55 — Bremner

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FungoAle

18 hours ago

I think JJ was on to something, Cardinals exec, Randy Flores, is getting a lot of smoke back in St. Louis, that he will be poached as the next Halo GM, assuming Mozeliak sticks around. There is a great video put out by the Cardinals org on their recent internal 2026 draft board collaboration with Randy leading the charge.

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Turk's Teeth

17 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

St Louis had my favorite draft in 2026, so this is good news to my mind.

In fact, St Louis would be a great trading partner (and an obvious one, given Moz’s connections) in the off-season. The Cardinals farm is now a top five system, imo.

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Jeff Joiner

17 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

Flores makes the most sense. I am not the only one who thinks he will be the guy. But I did identify him very early and profiled him in one of my first Mo pieces.

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smithy610

19 hours ago

The draft rankings is actually a very impressive jump. There’s no way to go from last place to first place in a single year. So the fact that the Angels find themselves now in the mid-teens, after being in the 27-30 between 2024-2026 is rather remarkable.

I can only hope the farm gets better once the new acquisitions get acclimated, and some of the development also improves.

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FungoAle

18 hours ago

Reply to smithy610

The climb is also in conjunction with other teams prospects graduating (Mets, Cincy to name a couple) but granted, farm has gotten more deeper and more players on the watch list. High-end prospects are unclear to me at the moment. Will Bremner become anything more than a mid-rotation arm? The high school arms are what will propel us higher in the rankings.

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Jeff Joiner

17 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

The Angels graduated Urena, Klassen, and Detmers, plus I believe Moore no longer qualifies.

And obviously the Red Sox, Dodgers, Blue Jays, and others dipped into their talent pools at the trade deadline.

Definitely think the high school arms are the key to rising up the rankings. But a year ago we had no bats really worth mentioning and now we have a few. The farm is much more balanced now and I like the college players added this draft.

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jco

14 hours ago

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I don’t know how others classify these things, but Dana is mentioned as a graduate of prospect lists on fangraphs. He’s still only 22 with some time to figure something out.

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Jeff Joiner

13 hours ago

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And I keep harping on this: Ballesteros was a top 50 prospect just four months ago before getting called up.

As far as Dana goes, he does still have plenty of time. Would be nice to see him develop into a rotation regular.

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jco

9 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Yep. In general, I think we should be looking at players with 5+ years of team control when thinking about farm systems. Knowing what we know about him now, where would the Angels system rank if Urena were considered a prospect still?

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19 hours ago

Hey Arte. Did you see what that LA basketball team sold for? You should put the team back on the market. #Tarpsoff

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ryanfea

21 hours ago

The improved farm rankings are also despite the fact they’ve seemingly soured on Klassen as a prospect. Though he’s starting to look legit to me.

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https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ANA/los-angeles-angels-salaries-and-contracts.shtml

18 hours ago

Reply to ryanfea

I remember when you were the young buck joining HH, then Rahul, and now the next generation. Time flies.

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ryanfea

17 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Haha for sure. I was 18 when I joined HH in 2009. Now I’m mid 30s and I earn a new gray hair each day!

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WallyChuckChili

12 hours ago

Reply to ryanfea

Have you learned to catch?

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ryanfea

5 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

😬

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steelgolf

12 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

But wasn’t he banned? 🤣

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55yearsangelsfan

21 hours ago

If the graphic on game day is anywhere close to accurate, Kikuchi got screwed. The umpire walked the lead off hitter, not Kikuchi. And another hitter later that disastrous first inning.

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smithy610

22 hours ago

17. Los Angeles Angels
2026 preseason rank: 28
2025 midseason rank: 27
2025 preseason rank: 30
2024 midseason rank: 29

Top 100 prospects: Arjun Nimmala, SS (No. 38); Tyler Bremner, RHP (No. 46)

This is the highest the Angels have ever been since we started doing full farm system rankings in 2020. It’s not just because of the addition of Nimmala in the José Soriano deal with the Blue Jays or that Bremner made it to Double-A in his first full season despite missing some time early. Some of the young talent not (yet) on the Top 100 have really performed like Hayden Alvarez at the plate and Johnny Slawinski on the mound in the complex league. Solid performances at a variety of levels have given the Halos the deepest top 30 they’ve had in a long time.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to smithy610

So as much as we all dislike Perry, and I’m at the top of that list, he actually did a lot of things that are yet to show up and should get credit for. I’m glad he was fired as he had huge flaws but he was a very mixed bag and did not really start laying the groundwork for improvement until the last few years. Also many of the things Moz is being allowed to do, are things that Perry may not have been allowed to do, we just don’t know.

But his flaws were killers, chief among them being his poor assessment of talent be it the draft, the minor leagues, or the major leagues. The talent thing pretty much overcomes anything he did on the positive.

And although transparency is not a necessary requirement, it certainly helps when the results of what you’re doing are not yet tangible. Perry’s lack of transparency definitely did not help him.

We have a long way to go but we’re slowly moving in a positive direction.

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Texan44

20 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

It is interesting to scroll down the page and look at how the current roster was acquired.

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20 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Yes – but a stopped clock is right twice a day. Look at all these young guys the Cardinals are building to see what real development can look like and how fast things can shift. They still have a chance to sneak into the Wild Card when they were left for dead at the beginning of the season by all the prognosticators.

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Fansince1971

19 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

I’m not sure the lack of development of prospects is on Perry. That’s an Organizational flaw.

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19 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

It will be interesting to see the new names in the org in the scouting and development department once next season unfolds with Moz guiding the ship. Some of the High A, AA and Coordinators might change.

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milehigh

19 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

I’ve never seen the names who work in scouting. Where have you looked? Most teams don’t publish that info.

Arte tore down everything in 2020. I’m not sure we know how much has been rebuilt.

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17 hours ago

Reply to milehigh

It’s in the Baseball America directory

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https://medium.com/@burgossantiagovictor/fixing-hitting-at-the-mlb-level-why-its-time-to-get-back-to-the-foundation-382814589e35

17 hours ago

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Here you go:

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Texan44

17 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

I was watching Rocket City the other night and noticed Tony Jaramillo was listed as hitting coach. The reason I looked it up was from the camera angle it looked like someone had that team swinging more in line with the flight of the ball and not the upper cut we see in the Angels and Salt Lake City. Again, it may have been the camera angle.

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Roy Hobbs

17 hours ago

Reply to Texan44

Interesting article that includes his hitting philosophy which sounds far superior to what’s happening now at the major league level.

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16 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Rudy is legendary. I’ve talked to so many MLB guys that credit him for being their most influential hitting coach.

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16 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I think this point in that article is spot on and pretty widespread in most organizations. I’m guessing it’s definitely in ours:

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The Lack of a Unified Hitting CultureMost MLB orgs don’t have a real hitting system.

– Rookie ball teaches one thing
– Double-A another
– Big league coaches spend spring undoing it all

That’s not development — that’s dysfunction.
Pitching departments have structure. Hitting needs it too.

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16 hours ago

Reply to Texan44

I know Tony. He’s an awesome guy. He’s Rudy Jaramillo’s nephew and very good. Used to work with my son. This was at Angels Spring training in ’23. Can’t believe how much bigger my son is now. 6′ 188 – Wow they grow fast.

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Jeff Joiner

11 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

That’s cool.

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https://x.com/mamedina8/status/1211319134258118657?s=46

10 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Speaking of Tony – this hit my feed today.

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Roy Hobbs

10 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

He needs to spend some time with Neto.

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9 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Neto also needs to spend time with Nate Trosky in the off season. Like Bobby Witt and Michael Massey have done for three years.

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14 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

DUDE! YES! I seriously have been asking to see something like this for years and never found it.

Man. Just look at how nobody works there for the Angels.

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8 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

Some teams like the Yankees and Astros have scouting departments that look twice as big. It’s quite fascinating. Some teams have huge player development teams.

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14 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

I would love to just see the names in the scouting and development department…. someday. Any day. Just show me who works there. I have never actually seen just a list of name + jobs in most teams scouting and dev departments.

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18 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

Lots of people were wrong. Look how pathetic the AL west is. All I’ve been hearing about the mariners and A’s the last 5 years is they were on the rise and the opposite has happened. Dipoto should be gone after this year.

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Texan44

17 hours ago

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Before Dipoto goes I expect him to trade his mother-in-law for a milk cow.

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Turk's Teeth

17 hours ago

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I’m gonna stick up for the Athletics here a bit, as their underperformance this year has been nearly all due to shitty luck, and lots of it.

Six of their starting nine are on the IL, including all of their big boppers – Kurtz, Langaliers, Rooker, Soderstrom. Clarke and Wilson much of the season. Three of their SP starting five done for the season. Mostly fluke injuries – hard to put any of it down to systemic issues or bad conditioning. They were first in the division in spring until the cascade of bad juju came pouring in.

Their recent drafts have been smart, they’re building a solid pitching pipeline, and they have a good train of usable bats marching up to the MLB club. But when your entire core is out of service and on the mend, the baseball gods are just cruelly laughing. It wasn’t the front office or the prognosticators who were at fault this year when it comes to West Sac.

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15 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

The angels have those same issues every year as well. Shit, the angels are still paying an injured player who isn’t even in baseball anymore.

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Turk's Teeth

13 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Eh, the comparable case would be if Trout, Neto, Detmers and Schanuel were all on the IL, and Adell and Soriano had been before they were traded.

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14 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Oh no. Nope. See, we have both been here long enough to know. It doesn’t matter if every plus .700 OPS bat in your every day line up is out for the season injured. REAL baseball mans with POBO power have depth waiting in the wings and shit. Every team suffers injuries. Real men eat the injured to gain strength and then carry on to greatness or some shit.

CtPG Guy logic applies to the A’ss just as rough and hard as it did the Angels when Ohtani, Trout, Rendon and Upton (or pick other names) were all out hurt at the same time all the time.

The A’s have a had crap luck. They will likely kick our ass next year. But true baseball men know that you have to plan for bad luck to happen all the time every time… somehow.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

19 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I think Perry will ultimately fall into the category of what social psychologists actually call the “closing time effect”.

His performance is going to look “attractive” as the more we lower standards and “dim bar lights” (the passage of time). If Bremner turns into an ace, hell he might look like Sydney Sweeney.

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RexFregosi

19 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Granted his draft classes yet to be evaluated in full, but you are what your record says you are, and these have been the worst-ever Angel teams. I blame Arte’s budget as much as anything but he can’t out run that.

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Fansince1971

18 hours ago

Reply to RexFregosi

No draft can make up for crappy player development. Conversely great player development can make an average draft class much better. So there are Organizational issues as much as any one person.

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18 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

They didn’t even bother with developing their players during Perry’s tenure. They brought them up the same year.

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FungoAle

18 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

It’s a Venn diagram, a guy needs to come equipped with projectable abilities

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Fansince1971

15 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

Of course – you can’t draft a slug and expect it to become a swallow. However, you can draft projectable abilities and if you do not have a system designed to maximize those, a lot of potential can be lost.

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MarineLayer

14 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

He could’ve just done the smarter thing and taken Kade Anderson or Seth Hernandez in the first place than unnecessarily tried to fill an inside straight with his odd pick.

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Eric_in_Portland

14 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Kade Anderson had a “rough” outing Friday night, going 5 2/3, giving up 2 hits, whiffing 7, walking 1, zero runs, lowering his ERA to 1.06 in 93 innings, 135 Ks, 13 walks. “Rough” because he got a no decision so is stuck with his 10-1 record.

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MarineLayer

12 hours ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Seattle must’ve laughed from Minasian picked Bremner instead.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

10 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Their draft room was cheering just like our guys were when Taylor Ward was available in 2015….

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FungoAle

18 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

“Moz is being allowed to do, are things that Perry may not have been allowed to do, we just don’t know.”

Since we don’t know, we just need to look at the results.

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MarineLayer

14 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

And with good reason. Moz is an experienced guy with a good track record, and Minasian was an intern who was brought in to fetch coffee and keep the seat warm.

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