LA Angels Thursday News Crash: New Edgar Suit

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.