Angels vs Reds – Crashing the Pearly Gates

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Trouty is rounding into form and Peraza continues to be en fuego

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Eric_in_Portland

1 month ago

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my wish for him this year is .280 with 35 HRs.

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Charles Sutton

1 month ago

Grand slam Josh Lowe. What a game for him!
He’s above the Mendoza Line.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

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Bubble wrap him for the rest of spring 😂!

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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I think Lowe’s return – should health persist over the next week – sends Chris Taylor to Salt Lake.

Since Frazier can also play the OF, I think Frazier, Peraza, Grissom and Candelario make the club. Only an IL stint by Grissom might alter that, and I think he has a short leash in any case.

Madrigal and Taylor to the Bees.

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Charles Sutton

1 month ago

Suter coughed up a couple of homers in just an inning. Yikes.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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Command lefty in his late 30s with an 86 mph fastball.

One day the magic is going to end. Either he snaps back into place when the season starts, or the day the magic died comes, and the “slowest unicorn” lays down and finds its final pasture.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Double Angels action today, A’s off. No video feeds anywhere, alas.

Koch, Johnson and Klassen making that fifth starter decision tough on the Halos.

But the solution feels pretty obvious: Koch opens the season in the rotation, and is given a month to swim or fail. Johnson to the AA rotation with Bremner. Klassen either to Salt Lake or to the MLB bullpen, ready to step in with bulk innings if Rodriguez or Koch wobble early.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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If I’m guessing MiLB rotations, I think it’d be:

AAA – Manoah, Aldegheri, Dana, Klassen, Hurtado
AA – Bremner, Johnson, Urena, Cortez, Gordon (maybe Vargas or Costieu)

Urena has a cup of coffee at Salt Lake last year, but if it were up to me, I’d send him back to Arkansas to continue working on length and command.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

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Ferris and Mederos to the pen?

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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Farris is probably the sixth arm at Salt Lake.

Maybe the front office still has some shine for Mederos – he’s been offered 3-5 opportunities with the big club for three seasons running, and the results have been just short of disastrous. Personally, I think he could use a change of scenery. He’ll be 25 in June.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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Generally, I’d put Farris and Mederos into the same bucket as Kerry and Costeiu – non-prospects who are organizational soldiers and occasional taxi squad candidates that you only summon when the IL is full to the brim.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

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I gotchu. I forget exactly what went into my decision in developing a crush on Mederos (pretty sure it was he throws hard and farm pickings were slim in 2023).

Now that we have some legitimate pitching prospects it’s about time to drop Cuban Vic. Or at least put him on the Silseth path and see what he can do as a reliever for his last hurrah

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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The Angels PR machine has revved him up in spring a couple seasons running due to velocity and decent stuff, and he had a decent two month stretch at Salt Lake last season.

But at some point you have to perform in the MLB – I don’t know if he gets a fourth chance to do so this season. Almost every projection system suggests a ~7 ERA in the bigs if they do.

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