LA Angels Monday News Crash: Solers Back – Crashing the Pearly Gates

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1 hour ago

Coastal’s coach/manager Schnall continued to gripe and complain. He, maybe accidentally, admits to what he was ejected for. Part of his statement: “When I came out, I got told it was a warning issued for arguing balls and strikes, and I said it was because you missed three”. So yeah, he was warned. He says so. And then continued to argue. He says so. Got tossed. Then complained. Sore losers don’t have my respect.

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2pints

18 minutes ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

didn’t he get tossed for “contact with the ump” only after the ump tripped and fell?

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Cowboy26

7 minutes ago

Reply to 2pints

I thought he got tossed before that when he was still in the dugout.

I think the incident regarding contact would have garnered a 2 game suspension until reality showed otherwise

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Fansince1971

2 hours ago

Okay….so is it possible that the Angels will finally, maybe, potentially get Bruce Bochy to manage them….Not saying he is on the hot seat but if Texas does not re-sign him after 2025 and Washington retires, maybe, just maybe?

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milehigh

1 hour ago

Reply to Fansince1971

That would assume Bochy would want to work for Arte and Arte would be smart enough to allow someone like Bochy to work for him. Bochy may just be to smart for this.

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Cowboy26

1 hour ago

Reply to milehigh

It’s Albert or Torii and my moneys on Albert since he really wants to manage in the Bigs and Arte still owes him $7 million for the next 7 years so theres probably a deal to be made.

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Cowboy26

1 hour ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Bochy’s not coming back if he gets shitcanned. His wife is already pissed at him for taking the job in the first place. He had promised the family he wouldn’t manage anymore when he took the Rangers job.

My Buddy’s daughter is his next door neighbor in Tennessee so I think the source is pretty reliable.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

Soler’s back was likely injured swinging at balls a foot off the plate. Dude simply can’t lay off a sweeper to save his life.

Hope Washington is able to enjoy life with family and friends. Health is far more important than baseball.

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Pineapple12

3 hours ago

Zach Neto ranks amongst all MLB shortstops:

.270 BA = 11th
.312 OBP = 17th
.793 OPS = 9th
2.5 WAR = T-6th

Nolan Schanuel ranks amongst all MLB 1st baseman:

.283 BA = 6th
.372 OBP = 5th
.784 OPS = 13th
1.3 WAR = 9th

Jo Adell’s .777 OPS is 6th amongst all centerfielders.

Logan O’Hoppe’s 17 HRs are 2nd most amongst all catchers.

Please remember that the Angels’ farm system doesn’t produce talent. They never do and never will.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Those guys aren’t GREAT but they are what we have not had for forever…. a pile of solid players who do a good job. If we can add maybe two more guys like that to our every day line up we’d be a pretty solid team.

Add a goodish Trout. Even better.

At that point it maybe makes some sense to take some Arte bucks and trade prospects for an impending FA hitter who will need a big contract and make a big push.

Also, pure hopium, there is nothing that 100% prevents guys like this from getting better. Get a couple more OPS up towards .850 and you’re cooking with gas baby.

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Pineapple12

1 hour ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

Are the “Core 4” great? Ok, maybe not. Are they pretty damn good? Me thinks so.

17 (qualified) hitters in the entire sport had an .850+ OPS in 2024. I cant fathom the amount of hopium I’d vomit on this site if we can 1 guy doing that, let alone multiple lol.

Trout and CMo make it 6. Until the draft happens, I will continue to bang the Arquette drum.

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

This is an accurate assessment. They are good to very good, solid everyday major league players but they are not stars. They have great cost controlled value right now and as you say, if we can add 2-3 more players, we’ll have a team worth adding a star or 2 too.

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angelslogic

3 hours ago

For 2002 heaven:

Schanuel stats: 3 for 5, 3-run homer, a double, single, 4 rbi’s, and scored a run

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Cowboy26

3 hours ago

Reply to angelslogic

https://x.com/TJStats/status/1937151207241371732

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angelslogic

3 hours ago

Reply to Cowboy26

Nice. Schanny looking good.

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MarineLayer

4 hours ago

Washington’s health concerns are his private business and I wish him well.

In terms of the team, if he is truly done, I wish they would begin a search for a real manager to replace him and the bottom end of his staff.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Wait. You want to replace Washington? I had no idea.

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smithy610

7 hours ago

Trout assesses his game yesterday:

“I’ve been feeling great, but today I was just a little antsy and jumpy,” Trout said. “I felt like that a little bit last night, but my last at-bat I felt good. Sometimes you try to do too much and get out of your swing, but that last one, they just caught it.”

Antsy and jumpy. You would think antsy and jumpy would have had him swinging at those two meatballs pitched to him in dead center instead of just watching it pass by. Then compounded with the horrible decision of swinging outside the zone because he had to protect since he’s behind.

If there was anyone that needed rest yesterday, it should have been Trout, considering his aversion to day games also. DH Neto and you would still have him at lead-off, (instead of Aybar Jr.,) and his bat on the lineup, while giving his body a rest from the field.

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PedroCerrano

5 hours ago

Reply to smithy610

That at bat by Trout earlier in the game with RISP was huge. He got two pitches in his preferred swing path and just didn’t swing. It was hard to watch for me.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

4 hours ago

Reply to PedroCerrano

Bad game plan and scouting. Most of the players hit hr or look completely lost striking out. One is happening alot more than the other.

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Cowboy26

4 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Bad Game Plan Man. Bad F’n Plan.

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toad2065

3 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

It’s not just Trout, either. Schanuel is one of the few players who actually performs as a situational hitter anymore. Coaches and Managers may preach situational hitting, but chicks and GM’s dig the long ball to the exclusion of good baseball. I miss well-played baseball!

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MarineLayer

5 hours ago

Reply to smithy610

We all know he has degraded physically. Now we are seeing it mentally as well.

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GrandpaBaseball

10 hours ago

Day games at the Big A can be explosive because of the heat makes baseballs look like missile shots. Trout has always said that he dislikes day games at the Big A, why was he in the line up? Why no Neato? Just resting him to PH? He said he feels great at 24 and told the team he wants to play. He and Schanny propel the team, not Renny and Schanny. The young guys need to play, not the cast offs or older guys who take up space.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

9 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

I’m asking because maybe you read something that I haven’t seen….

So after the game Neto stated he felt great and didn’t know why he wasn’t in the starting lineup?

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steelgolf

8 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

TrAdition

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HaloLew

3 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

He said he felt great during an in-game interview.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

Reply to HaloLew

I’m still waiting for the day that players who aren’t on the 60 Day come out and say “I’m beat to shit and exhausted.”. I derman tranparentcee

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Pineapple12

7 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

You are making a big deal out of one game.

Guys are going to get a day off here and there. Turn the page and move on.

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SchofieldsWalkoff

7 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Especially when the player in getting a break has a stat line of
.195/.267/.268/.535 over the prior 10 games.

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Pineapple12

7 hours ago

Reply to SchofieldsWalkoff

Who has been taking a beating with HBPs, foul balls off his body and I’m pretty sure something else from fielding/running lol.

Of course Neto will say he can play. His bat is heating back up a little and he got a some rest.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

5 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

“You are making a big deal out of one game.”

Someone please launch the whole thing about how CtPG isn’t full of huffing mouth breathers but is in fact full of real baseball guys who are FANS which is short for fanatic and thus they actually own a .0001% stake in the team and should thus be expected to not use any common sense or keep their emotional briefs clean and it’s because they care more and Arte owes them an apology here.

Yes, P12. Neto’s played a lot lately. He got a HBP yesterday. He probably said he’s fine, which is what players say even when their brain is showing through a headwound. It made perfect sense to rest him. Why aren’t you mad? This was, after all, a game against the first place Astros in June for none of the marbles.

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LanaBanana

5 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

This is what we have been talking about at my house all morning. Player’s are coddled way too much these days. No one expects them to strive for Cal Ripkin Jr.’s record, but come on…..and like you said, Neto is only 24 years old

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Roy Hobbs

4 hours ago

Reply to LanaBanana

When I was growing up, Players regularly played 150+ games a year as long as they were healthy.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

4 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

In my village, when I was a kid, we put all the children in a pit and made them fight for food. In the snow. Both ways. It’s not there anymore. Turns out a village that is 97% men and a couple women who are able to fight off enough boys to eat their food isn’t sustainable.

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Roy Hobbs

4 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

You really do lose your mind sometimes and make absolutely no logical sense but we still love you.

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PedroCerrano

4 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

We only dreamed of having actual food to fight over!

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RexFregosi

4 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

yes this sounds exactly the horror I faced growing up in my village in both 1970 and 1971.

Yet Sandy F’n Alomar played every inning of every game and led the League in at-bats two straight years.

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Cowboy26

4 hours ago

Reply to RexFregosi

Sandy F’n Alomar

Comment of the day Rex

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2002heaven

4 hours ago

Reply to RexFregosi

I wuz too busy watching Jaws the first summer 🌞 blockbuster movie evuh!

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Cowboy26

3 hours ago

Reply to 2002heaven

https://x.com/TJStats/status/1937151207241371732

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

Reply to RexFregosi

A BAT! Luxury. In my village they made us hit with a lit stick of dynamite. Talk about developing a sense of grit and urgency. Players today have all their limbs and everything. Soft cheese all of em.

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max

21 seconds ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I’ll bet you swung at the 1st pitch a lot

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Eric_in_Portland

2 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

and the season was only 154 games long!

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SchofieldsWalkoff

3 hours ago

Reply to LanaBanana

Did you forget he had shoulder surgery in the offseason?

This was his 2nd “off day” (he PH both days he didn’t start) since he returned in the teams 19th game. He would be on pace for 150+ starts if it wasn’t for the late start.

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Cowboy26

4 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

Yet ironically this year Trout has been much better in Days than night games ( .820 OPS in Day games vs .738 in Night Games) then again Trouts OPS at Home this year (.709) is much worse than his road OPS (.798)

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

Neto had fouled several balls off his shins and feet in the previous games. They probably wanted him to get a day off playing SS.

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