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LA Angels Tuesday News Crash:

March 24, 2026

This article is about the most important thing each team learned at camp. For the Angels it is that there are impressive young arms in the organization, including number 1 prospect Tyler Bremner (pictured above).

Daniel Robert of the Phillies threw his first bullpen session of the spring and collapsed with a cardiac event. He similarly collapsed at his final bullpen session of 2025. His implantable cardioverter defibrillator doesn’t seem to be getting the job done. In other injury news, the following players will begin the season on the IL: Gavin Lux, Seiya Suzuki, Josiah Gray, Spencer Strider.

Matt Thaiss was reassigned by the Red Sox to minor league camp.

Extensions

The Blue Jays extended Ross Atkins and John Schneider. The Phillies extended Christopher Sanchez.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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Eric_in_Portland

7 minutes ago

I don’t think this is the official prediction thread but here goes…

39-123. Worst season since the Cleveland Spiders. Anything better than 39 wins will be a cause for celebration.

Trout, .270, 30 HRs, 4 WAR
Kikuchi good, Soriano and Detmers acceptable, all other starters dreadful
The bullpen also dreadful

The draft will be another head-scratcher. But hey, if we win 40+ I’ll consider the season better than I expected!

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dontbatvlad4th

36 minutes ago

I don’t think they’ll hit 100 loses. I was thinking yesterday 68-94.

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milehigh

52 minutes ago

I have basically the same as last year, 72-90.
Some things that could improve the win total

Trout reduces his number of strikeouts by 15 to 20. His 32% rate of last year is not sustainable, imho. I used to wish Adell would reduce his strikeout rate, but he has and is 6% below Mike’s. If Trout has the same 32% rate by end of May, bench him and find someone who will hit the ball somewhere.

Silent C lowers his ERA by 1.5. His 6.81 ERA last year was disastrous. Lowering by 1.5 is still a +5 ERA, but that would be such an improvement and maybe help with bullpen wear and tear. If he looks as bad as last year after 5 or 6 starts, replace him with a kid.

Reduce team strikeout total by .05%. That is only about 80 strikeouts but baby steps. 10% would be much better. Even that would have placed this team at 3rd most strikeouts in 2025.

Moncada plays 120 games. Yeah, he hasn’t played more than 100 since 2022. But if he played 40 more games than last season in full health that would really help the offense.

A 2B with Rengifo’s 2023 offense paired with league average defense. Would love better than league average defense, but Luis’s 2023 offense was pretty good. I’d take that again. Would be such an improvement over last year.

A bullpen improvement of at least 2 ERA. The bullpen cratered last year except for Jansen. We need starters to go 6 innings to help the bullpen this year.

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Roy Hobbs

29 minutes ago

Reply to milehigh

I agree, something within a few wins of 72. Hard to see more than 75 and worse than 65 depending on what happens at the trade deadline. It’s the Charlie Brown team, just plain ole mediocre. Not any good but not absolutely horrible.

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Pineapple12

1 hour ago

My pragmatic prediction = 75 – 87. Slight YoY improvement because I don’t think the team is that bad, but the pitching could unravel quickly and make this a 90-100 loss season.

The most optimistic I can get to atm is a scenario with above average health across the roster and a throwback Trout season = 85-77, not good enough to break the postseason drought.

I have expectations for several players to take a step(s) forward — Adell, Schanuel, O’Hoppe, Soriano, Detmers, Joyce, Silseth, Bachman.

The glue of this team is gonna be Silent C, Johnson, Romano, Yates, Pomeranz, (hopefully eventually GRod). If these dudes suck we are going to bleed losses.

Regardless of how bad this team looks on paper, I am freaking pumped for 😇 baseball! I don’t blame anyone for being apathetic, but the next 6 months are always my favorite time of the year. Ducks are ending their playoff drought in a few weeks, and who knows, maybe this is the year for us too

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ErSTAN

55 minutes ago

Reply to Pineapple12

My prediction:

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Pineapple12

34 minutes ago

Reply to ErSTAN

Going out there on a limb 😂😂😂

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ErSTAN

30 minutes ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Lol. Still gonna watch everyday and end up going to 6-10 games. Addicted to the affordability and safety.

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Terry

2 hours ago

My fearless Angels fickle finger of fate 2026 predictions:

Team batting average: .233
# of strikeouts by batters: 1,497
# Team home run total: 179
# of runs scored: 688
Team ERA: 4.74
# of pitchers utilized: 27
# of walks allowed: 704
# of players out with injuries at various times: 20
# of trips to mound by Suzuki and/or pitching coach: 720
# of miles logged by relievers walking in from bullpen: 127
# of flight miles from Salt Lake to Southern California: 39, 564
# of people attending games: 2.07 million
# of people who paid in attendance: 1.86 million
# of times Terry Smith says “You can put a halo it” after an Angels win: 69

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GrandpaBaseball

2 hours ago

Will Trouty play more than 100 games if he man’s CF? O/U for games played for Mike should be 110. Can Frazier still hit at least .260? Can O’Hoppe hit .250? Can Neto move up the ladder of highly rated Shortstops with playing 150 games in a season?

I like the odds of the pitching staff holding their own with another Mike teaching them. 3 pitchers will win 10+ games with ERA of less than 4.

@ very important items that must work out, PTP must have a verty good draft and he must make a lot of trades at the deadline.

Prior to opening day 2028 Arturo will sell the team for over 30 billion.

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GrandpaBaseball

2 hours ago

You heard it here first; Schanuel will hit .290-21-77 with a .370 OBP throwing in 30 doubles. All I have to do is dream 🙃 But sometimes dreams come true.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

He needs to hit .290+ but it will be in the.260-.270 range

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Fansince1971

3 hours ago

Keep an eye on the A’s. They are going to be fun to watch.

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GrandpaBaseball

2 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Fun to watch in a Banjo Box playing field that is always a challenge to pitching staff., but I hope it works out well for them. On paper it looks like they have the power bats, but what happens when they get to Vegas? Houston still looks like they will fight off the Rangers for 2nd place as Seattle will end up at the top.

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Pineapple12

4 hours ago

Are we doing season predictions or has everyone already penciled this team in for 100 losses??

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Born_in_59

3 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I recall reading several predictions within the 65 to 75 win range, with a low of 54 wins. I’m thinking they win 72 or 73 games this season, or in line with most of the Minasian era.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

3 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I’m in at 65-97 for 2026. My perspective is that the offense will be better than advertised, but the pitching and defense will be worse.

I’m thinking this will be the last of the really bad years, and the 2028 season (2027 will be dominated by labor strife) will be the season that things are on a definite upswing.

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Roy Hobbs

21 minutes ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

I’m in agreement that the defense will likely be worse. Hard for me to see the offense being better than last year when all they really did was swap Ward for Soler. Some may improve and others may regress. I do believe though that the pitching has a chance to be better, but. couple of injuries to starters could really send the team into a tailspin.