Midweek game with the kids back in school = cheap tickets and plenty of ability to move closer.
Angels vs. Twins Game 2 Gamethread
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Legend
20 hours ago
Jansen does well in these situations
Super Member
20 hours ago
Okay Trout, are we waking up?
Super Member
20 hours ago
It was only an easy out to LF. He’s not back.
Legend
20 hours ago
and he won’t be but we’ll take what we can get and a sac fly to go ahead at this point is a good thing….because it wasn’t a K which would have left us still 3-3
Super Member
20 hours ago
Yay
Trusted Member
20 hours ago
Nice triple by Teo!!
I enjoy watching him play.
Rengifo? Not at all
Super Member
20 hours ago
Outman? More like Notcaughtman.
Super Member
20 hours ago
He could’ve made It home.
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Legend
20 hours ago
Finally a close game. I’m on post game.
Super Member
20 hours ago
Gotta have the worst outfielders in the league.
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Super Member
21 hours ago
Remain a little baffled that they keep running out Fermin and Peralta over legit prospects like Bachman and Silseth, or interesting newcomers like Natera Jr and Southard.
Trusted Member
20 hours ago
When the Angels love you (Jose Suarez), they will keep playing you until you no longer can play in MLB.
Your performance is irrelevant.
Rengifo is Angels’ current love interest
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Super Member
20 hours ago
Well, Rengifo hit .261/.358/.420 last month, so there’s at least some performance data justifying the usage, and not much of a pipeline to replace him, unless they want to test Guzman.
The bullpen is just a case where they have a ton of homegrown replacements – all in AAA – ready to be tested in an MLB environment. And the late season stakes are low, so it’s an ideal time to test them and see what the team has for next year.
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Legend
20 hours ago
It is like the organization is allergic to getting any value out of this season.
Trusted Member
21 hours ago
Man on 3rd, <2 outs.
Angels can't score.
Trusted Member
21 hours ago
Great Vermin blows it 🐀
Super Member
21 hours ago
Oh Fermin!!
Super Member
21 hours ago
The Halos need to tie up Neto long-term, but I can’t even begin to imagine how Arte’s going to entirely **** that up.
Member
21 hours ago
I have a sincere question as I haven’t been able to be on the blog regularly this season.
Why is it that seemingly every mlb team has at least one promising young pitcher they have drafted and developed? Meanwhile Ferris looks promising but he was drafted and developed by the Braves (who happen to be good at that sort of thing).
With all of the high picks the Halos have had in the last decade, you would think there would be one pitcher with a high upside. Detmers was a top ten pick iirc, and as usual, has topped out as a reliever. There was the one draft where they drafted a pitcher in every round. This seems extraordinary. I wonder if the problem is that guy in the photo who is pointing right at me (Perry) or a mediocre scouting system, or having to save slot money by drafting a player rated between 12 and 18 with the No. 2 overall pick. Is that just ‘the Angels being the Angels’?
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Super Member
21 hours ago
It irks me that they try every year to get cute with the slot money. Pick good players for cryin’ out loud! Yeah they cost money. You get what you pay for.
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Super Member
20 hours ago
But they really aren’t penny-pinching in the draft. They consistently spend all of their draft pool, and outspend other teams. And they often spend full slot on relievers like Chase Shores. Meanwhile, they spend crazy overslot on prep arms.
It’s not about getting cute at the top – most teams do that. It’s about who they select with the money they’ve got. They prioritize expensive prep pitching and relievers, largely avoid polished starter profiles and outside of a first rounder here and there, cut deals on low probability college bats (or steer clear of them entirely).
Last edited 20 hours ago by Turk's Teeth
Legend
20 hours ago
What was theory this year with the very low ranked guy they drafted in the first?
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Super Member
19 hours ago
I did my level best to answer this question when you asked it yesterday:
https://crashingthepearlygates.com/2025/09/09/la-angels-tuesday-news-crash-adell-pow/#comment-440864
Short answer: he wasn’t a “low ranked guy” – he was a very highly ranked guy who came in to the season as the best pitcher in college ball according to many outlets (BA, D1, Perfect Game), and then was ranked as one of the top five arms in college ball going into draft day.
So you either dock him for 3-4 poor outings at the beginning of the season while his mother was dying, or you look at the longer track record, and value him on that. The Angels did the latter, and more than one source suggests the Mariners were looking to grab him at #3 had the Angels selected Anderson first.
Member
19 hours ago
Thanks Turk! Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me, even though we clearly both agree with it. It’s sad to see players like Neto, Schanuel and Adell have to be put in a position whereby, unlike other teams…. most of whom have at least one ace that can lock down a game to eliminate long slumps.
I appreciate your explanation.
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Super Member
18 hours ago
No problem.
And to drive this home further – of the first 20 draft picks in the 2025 draft, 14 were signed for amounts under the allotted slot value.
It’s not unusual to do so – and in fact, in this draft, it was status quo. First round slot values have grown very high, and the top of this draft wasn’t viewed as having the ceiling of other drafts.
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Super Member
21 hours ago
I can’t actually watch the game. What set Ryan Goins off? Balls and strikes?
Trusted Member
21 hours ago
Yes.
Multiple missed calls. Including a strike where entire baseball was in zone and called a ball
Last edited 21 hours ago by Phil
Trusted Member
21 hours ago
Rengifo doing what he does best, hurting the angels.
And they reward him by continually putting him in lineup.
Mutual self assured destruction
Last edited 21 hours ago by Phil
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Super Member
21 hours ago
Rengifblows
Trusted Member
21 hours ago
Ur-anus ready to blow it open.
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Super Member
21 hours ago
Urena loves him some two out walks.
Trusted Member
22 hours ago
I like this lineup with trout batting 1st.
3 straight games with a hit!
