LA Angels Tuesday News Crash – Crashing the Pearly Gates

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

Great win. This team is rolling right now.

Have to imagine Austin Gordon in game 2.

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Turk's Teeth

17 minutes ago

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Rocket City has all the momentum end of season.

Missed Arjun’s tater because I had to run down to my venue to start a show, but nice to see him ante in and make it a laugher at the end there.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

Light that Trash Can Up!

Pandas Win!

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Jeff Joiner

59 minutes ago

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Sounds like something an Astros affiliate would do.

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

Nimmala’s power is legit.

I interviewed Yovan here years ago.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

Gone! Big Fly Arjun Nimmala!

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

3 Hits!

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

Let’s go Cortez!

I openly root for guys who give me interviews.

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

Cam Minacci a big leaguer, TT?

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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He’s someone I’ve been watching – decent middle relief potential.

The Panda I’m waiting to see debut in the MLB is Pinazzi, who I imagine we’ll see in this game. Dude is F-U-N-K-Y.

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Texan44

1 hour ago

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This appears to be a AA ball umpire. So inconsistent.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

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So MLBer next season?

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

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He would deserve an invite to the last several years of spring training.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

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Showing up in the Best shape of his life!

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RexFregosi

1 hour ago

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I’ve seen in camp since he was drafted. He was the closer at Wake Forest and should be close.

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Turk's Teeth

10 minutes ago

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Collecting SEC/ACC closers had been a hallmark of the McIlvaine era. Collected two more from Georgia and Auburn in this year’s draft.

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Texan44

1 hour ago

Eddie Micheletti Jr = 3 run homer. They will sing songs about him soon.

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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That was fun. He was ice cold after the trade, but has really heated up in the past two weeks.

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

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That was awesome.

He’s a big boy.

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RexFregosi

1 hour ago

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With Minacci, The Italian Pandas 🇮🇹

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

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Style Pandas?
Mob Pandas?
Pizza Pandas?
Trash Stallions?

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Jeff Joiner

2 hours ago

Anybody else watching the Pandas?

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RexFregosi

2 hours ago

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Yep. Good game and Bremner can field his position

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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I am. The Pandas are still being pretty conservative with Bremner, capping him at 80 pitches again.

Agree with Rex – that was some mean fielding in the third inning. Kid is still hanging sliders though, which was responsible for the second run surrendered.

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

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Yeah, he got two lightning quick outs then couldn’t shut the door.

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Texan44

2 hours ago

This is an interesting list. The TOP MLB Prospect each year. Some good ones, a couple meh’s, and a couple “who is that.” (And one who is still going to court.)

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/prospects/

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RexFregosi

2 hours ago

Angels In the AFL 2026
Fall League includes:⚾ InfieldersArjun Nimmala (SS)Jake Munroe (INF) – Led the organization with a 142 wRC+ while hitting his way to Double-A.Ryland Zaborowski (INF) [1] (https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arizona-fall-league-rosters-2026-162910431.html), [2] (https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/2026-arizona-fall-league-rosters?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage), [3] (https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-mlb-announces-2026-arizona-fall-league-rosters)投 PitchersTrey Gregory-Alford (RHP) – Signed as an 11th-round pick out of high school.Peyton Olejnik (RHP)Kyle Robinson (RHP)Sam Tookoian (RHP)Yeferson Vargas (RHP)Najer Victor (RHP)

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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I was a bit surprised that Munroe was announced earlier today, given he’s played a full season and is still in postseason action. Nimmala makes sense given he missed a month and a half due to injury earlier this year.

I don’t see TGA listed in any of the official rosters as you note here.

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RexFregosi

2 hours ago

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The internet *could* be wrong lol. Yeah I think teams only get six spots. Go Solar Sox!

Your official list is more accurate.

My main point is as you note – full rosters were announced today

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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No problem – I’m glad someone shared them.

I’m just riffing on your comment. Munroe was a surprise, and I wondered if TGA was a late add, or a late scratch.

Honestly expected your boy Shores to be on the roster, given he didn’t even pitch 65 innings this season.

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RexFregosi

1 hour ago

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Yeah a shorter season made me think he would be a candidate- he’s had a curious year. I could have seen him also move to AA with Bremner too

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

4 hours ago

Here, I commented this after the game last night. If yall are board you can think on who teams should give us for Detmers….

Or remember how incredibly good Jose Offerman and powerful Luis Medina were supposed to be…

Clearly Kade Anderson is a bust. Stupid Jer Jer.

Oh prospects. So much sizzle, so little steak. I love the draft and the MiLB and farming. But I will also never forget the first few “can’t miss” prospects I was aware of. They were Steve Avery, Ken Griffey Jr, Jose Offerman, Luis Medina, Frank Thomas, Todd Van Poppel and Roger Salkeld.

Chances are, after all the incredibly knowledgeable wank and squabble we are six years away from finding out the best player taken in the first round of the 2025 draft is someone like Marek Houston.

I’m pretty sure that almost NONE of the real menz of baseball on this site could have kept from woofing and poofing if Todd Van Poppel refused to sign with us if we picked him first in the draft. They would have been all bitter and butt hurt about being stuck with Chipper Jones, clearly not the most talented guy in the draft. Then they would have piss juju sprayed him till his career fizzled in a flurry of injuries and missed off speed pitches till he fell out of the system as a Quad A player.

Detmers continues to increase his trade value. My dream would be that some team decides to overpay for him over the winter because they are tired of getting bumped in the play offs. Maybe the Rays will be tempted into overpaying and sending us Theo Gillen, Ty Johnson and Tatin Gray. Or the Brewers really want a two headed monster with the Miz and send us Josh Adamczewski, Braylon Payne and Bishop Letson. MOAR KIDZ!

I woke up this morning and realized. I still hate the Dodgers

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Pineapple12

3 hours ago

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Yea, you pull the trigger on that Rays package all day everyday. With their new owner, TB assumably would be willing to pay and extend Detmers.

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HalosFanForLife

3 hours ago

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What about a straight trade – Grady Emerson (47.1 BTV) for Detmers (56.9). I’m simply talking in theory – we’d surely try to get another 10 points in BTV to make it equal – but the core concept is Emerson for Detmers. Rays have so many 10+ BTV minors guys – it’s crazy.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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It’s an awfully speculative trade for an 18 year old. I’d want both quantity and quality for Detmers, personally.

The more jawdropping 1:1 exchange would be Detmers for Josue de Paula, though I think Neto for de Paula is the more obvious trade.

The Dodgers could spare him, given their ridiculous OF pipeline, but they’re far less deep in the middle infield on their farm.

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FungoAle

2 hours ago

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Agree, Detmers would need to bring me back an OF ready to break in the bigs and a high rated prospect. The Dodger angle seems sound to me for either Reid or Neto.

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

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Getting annoyed at these Kade bust narratives, when he’s literally the only 2025 prospect in the MLB, probably shouldn’t even be there yet, and has pitched more this year than he ever has in his short (just 22) life.

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WallyChuckChili

2 hours ago

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But Tim Salmon and Mike Trout came out running from the gate.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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And Tarik Skubal, man. That southpaw was untouchable in his age 23 and 24 seasons.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

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Don’t get me started on Nolan Ryan as a Met!

Sure Fire HOF stuff there!

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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Wish we had better radar back then.

Skubal is an interesting comp, imo, because his fastball was sitting 94-95 in 2021 in his age 24 season, and then sitting 97-98 in 2025 at age 28.

Those who are burying Anderson this week are doing it primarily because of his FB (currently sitting 93-94 at the end of a long season for him).

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Pineapple12

6 hours ago

AA Playoffs start today. Bremner on the mound, Nimmala leading off.

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Jeff Joiner

4 hours ago

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Stoked for this one.

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

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They’re also playing against several of the prospects who were frequent trade targets in Detmers-to-Cubs deadline scenarios: Caple, Kepley, Hartshorn.

Hartshorn was prominently featured in my 2025 draft sim, so I continue to muse about what might have been. 🙂

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FungoAle

2 hours ago

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With Eddie Micheletti in the line-up, I like our chances. A great baseball name that rolls off ythe tongue. When I was a kid, felt the same with Aurelio Rodriguez, a 3rd baseman who could pick it.

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WallyChuckChili

2 hours ago

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Eddie, Cozart and Arjun deadline pickups.

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WallyChuckChili

1 hour ago

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Add Eddie go’s Deep!

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

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Yes! Eddie Micheletti….gone

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Pineapple12

6 hours ago

Zach Neto
4.6 bWAR (T-5th for SS, T-21 for position players)
3.6 fWAR (7th for SS, T-37 for position players)

I cannot overstate how ridiculous the hate for Neto is. He’s an extremely talented and productive baseball player.

Reid Detmers
4.0 bWAR (T-15th for SP)
4.6 fWAR (T-8th for SP)

I’d prefer to keep both players long-term, but my mind is open to what we can get back in trades.

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WallyChuckChili

6 hours ago

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If the new owner is going for it, I’d keep them both.

If he is going to go along with the rebuild, I’d trade them both.

Leadership is not a strong point on the Angels. Trout is not a vocal leader. Some say leader by example, but his locker room antics say otherwise. We were looking to rookies to lead (Ohop, Neto Schanny) which isn’t ideal.

I’d love a valuable Vet (not on his last leg) (3yr contract) to come in and lead the team. Some respected coaches to lead the team. Tired of I want to be your friend coaching

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cookmeister

6 hours ago

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locker room antics?

Wtf are you talking about

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WallyChuckChili

5 hours ago

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I don’t know.

But how much $ would it take to eat a pimple from my back.

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cookmeister

5 hours ago

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so one weird thing from 10 years ago = locker room antics. Got it.

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WallyChuckChili

2 hours ago

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More than one. More than two. More than…

But you can’t believe everything you read. Court testimony is unreliable bc person could be lying. Sometimes the sky isn’t blue and now I’m doubting if water is actually wet.

Trout could be a liar, I don’t personally know him.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

4 hours ago

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WTF would the Stank be “going for” next year? Or even 2028? There aren’t even enough good FAs for him to buy on the market to make this team a goer of things.

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WallyChuckChili

2 hours ago

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New owner, new outlook, wants to make a statement by signing some expensive pitcher. Signjng some players that gets the team to .500 is a statement that work for some. And in our division .500 could even make the playoffs with deadline additions or… he could just be going out for a good burger.

Wonder if he’s an In-n-Out or Five Guys man?

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Aww_Yeah

8 hours ago

This would be one of the greatest punkings in history:

Last home game of the season, the 7th inning stretch…
The jumbotron shows the message “Sale of Angels team canceled by Arte Moreno”. Then the screen zooms in on Arte standing in the top deck in the outfield in a t-shirt. He pulls it off and starts whirling it above his head dancing to the “together forever” chorus of Rick Astley’s song blasting over the speakers.

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2pints

8 hours ago

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change the song to be Buttercup

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WallyChuckChili

8 hours ago

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Standing there with new broadcast team of Daron Sutton and Trent Rush!

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TrojanBoiler

6 hours ago

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I actually loved Daron Sutton but seemingly I am in the minority on that.

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WallyChuckChili

6 hours ago

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Sutton wore my ears out. Trent wasn’t to bad when he would do a few spot features. But he is everywhere now and should be banned from the booth. Langers does a better job on Angels Weekly and I’d take Mota back over Trent in the booth. The wine in his voice is just to much for me. Bring Victor back or a least back on Fridays and when needed.

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Jeff Joiner

4 hours ago

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Had dinner with Trent last night. Definitely a great dude but I agree he is too many places right now.

Pregame, post game, on TV a couple days a week, and he does several of the features both on TV and online. Then you add in the fact he does over half of the commercials on the pregame and postgame shows and it goes from his voice to simply his voice.

Can’t fault him for being a hard worker who loves what he does, but that is a fast way for the Angels to burn him out and burn the fans out on him.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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Sounds EXACTLY like Patty O. The Kings know how to use him: pre-game/post game, between periods ONLY and he’s great at it. Trent should be same same.

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WallyChuckChili

2 hours ago

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Yes. Liked him at the start. Fresh face, knowledgeable and seemed down to earth. But like Bobby V. Over exposure is a thing.

And I like Bobby V.

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TrojanBoiler

6 hours ago

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

4 hours ago

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THIS WOULD BE INCREDIBLE!

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YOUknowulovetheIE

8 hours ago

Watching some old Scot Shields highlights and man that dude has some filthy stuff. I wish the angels would bring him and ramon ortiz into camp to work with their pitchers.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

4 hours ago

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Ramon Ortiz? The Angels pitchers already know how to not finish off an inning.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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Ramon is only one of four dudes that have won a World Series game for the Angels.

He should get a statue amigo

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YOUknowulovetheIE

1 hour ago

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He threw a nasty 2 seamer, angel ws champ, why not? 6.7 war for his 6 years here isn’t great, but it isn’t horrible enough to keep away.

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Texan44

8 hours ago

As one that didn’t follow the Angels draft, I almost posted “Wow, look at this guy, his FB is low 90’s. The Angels are beating him to death.” I am glad I didn’t show my ignorance. 😎

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Texan44

8 hours ago

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Also, not showing my ignorance as one jumping to conclusions, Sunday my thoughts were “DFA the entire 40 man roster.”

Then last night it was “maybe one outfielder and one relief pitcher and next season the Angels could be in the World Series.” I am known for my moderation.

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Jeff Joiner

11 hours ago

Had a great time covering the game last night. There was a vastly different vibe than there had been in months if not years.

I found the fans and optimism to be a bigger story than the game.

https://www.si.com/mlb/angels/onsi/angels-fans-celebrate-team-sale-announcement-at-first-home-stand-01m2hf5ad0dy

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TrojanBoiler

9 hours ago

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Love this article! Rejoice!

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Jeff Joiner

8 hours ago

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Thank you.

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smithy610

12 hours ago

I can’t believe the Mariners are still in playoff contention 11 games under .500.

It would be really funny and a big middle finger to the league if someone from the AL West wins this whole thing.

If only the Angels was less worse than last year we would still be in the playoff hunt this September.

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DowningDude

12 hours ago

Magic number is 4 to clinch one of the top 3 draft order spots … any combo of KC Royals wins and Angel losses adding up to 4 and we’ve locked our place. Remember – the top 3 all have the same chance to pull the top pick (19.10%).

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