Reid Detmers was good today. He two hit the Mariners through six although he gave up three walks. Unfortunately, the Mariners held the Angels to one hit and one walk in the same span. It was a very uneventful game. Detmers came out to pitch the seventh inning and gave up another walk to J.P. Crawford. Luckily, Crawford got picked off before Victor Robles singled. Chase Silseth came in to replace Detmers after 6.2 innings and a 0-0 tie.
Silseth was able to strike out Cole Young to end the top of the seventh inning. The Angels went three up three down in their half of the seventh inning. Drew Pomeranz came in to pitch the eighth inning. He got one out but then gave up a walk and a single to put a Mariner in scoring position. Josh Naylor popped out to second and the runners did not advance. Randy Arozarena grounded back to the mound for the third out.
Jordan Romano pitched the ninth. He struck out two and got the third batter to line out to Zach Neto. The Angels all struck out to send the game into extra innings. Brent Suter came in to pitch. Cole Young tripled to drive in the ghost runner (of course). 1-0 Mariners. Suter threw a two out wild pitch but somehow Cole Young was unable to score. Josh Naylor singled, though, and both of the baserunners scored. 3-0 Mariners. Randy Arozarena also singled. Suter finally got the third out from Leo Rivas.
Mike Trout did score on a sacrifice fly by Jorge Soler so the Angels wouldn’t be shutout. Yoan Moncada then struck out to end the ball game. The Angels lost 3-1.
I finally got the girl I’ve been dating to watch a Halo’s game with me. She was a trooper and feigned interest up through the end of the 6th inning. At that point, I finally changed the channel.
It was already too late though. And no, I didn’t get laid.
Just a reminder that today is Tyler Bremner’s pro debut for the High-A Dust Devils. 6:30pm start time.
Five first round arms from the 2025 draft debuted yesterday. Kade Anderson, Seth Hernandez, and Gage Wood all had magnificent outings, and Jamie Arnold was very good outside of a walk + HR in his fourth inning of work. Otherwise, all pitched to expectations. The one guy that struggled was Kyson Witherspoon, who wasn’t missing many bats in Greenville.
https://www.milb.com/tri-city-dust-devils for updates
Was their any actual baseball-related reason for taking him over all those pitchers you just identified?
You’ve asked me this question several times since drafting, and I’ve always given you a thorough response. I just don’t think you want to hear it.
Going into the 2025 college season, Bremner was the consensus top college RHP in the draft, and was mocked to the Angels at #2 in March, less than four months before the actual draft. In the final staff draft at Baseball America, one week before the draft, he was still going in the top six picks. The Mariners were rumored to have him top of their board at #3 if the Angels had selected Kade.
The MLB Pipeline ranking of Bremner in the mid-teens did not reflect the estimation of Bremner by many team draft rooms. He would have been selected in the top ten anyway had the Angels passed on him.
And just to follow on, Bremner just completed his first outing. They gave him three innings. He struck out six, five swinging, and only surrendered a single, and kept the pitch count under 50.
Seems like there are some “baseball-related” skills there.
As a conscious non-subscriber to televised Angel games, did Detmers brushback a Mariner after Trout got plunked last night? Man, I sure hope so.
He did. Julio Rodriguez.
Patty O nearly soiled himself in the postgame discussing it.
Always have liked Detmers, now even more.
Reid is a 😈
Reid Detmers on his fastball that went behind Julio Rodriguez:
“He called fastball in, and I just yanked it.”
https://x.com/i/status/2040305325782544726
Good job, Reid!
4/3 Farm Report
Let’s focus on the pitchers:
Trey Gregory-Alford (Low A) ⭐⭐⭐
5 innings
0 ER
2 hits
0 walks
2 strikeouts
FB reached 101 mph
Chris Cortez (High A) ⭐
4 innings
2 ER
2 hits
4 walks
2 strikeouts
Najer Victor (AA) ⭐⭐⭐
2 innings
0 ER
0 hits
1 walls
5 strikeouts
Walbert Urena (AAA) ⭐
3.1 innings
2 ER
2 hits
4 walks
5 strikeouts
Doing a rehab on one of my homes in Upland, gives me good reason to drop in and watch TGA, Jordan, Alvarez, Ramirez and the gang. Thank goodness the Angels fled San Berdoo to Cucamonga.
Not sure what I’m more envious of — your multiples homes or you being close enough to check out our best minor league team haha.
Minor league prices are nice. ~$20 ticket, $6 park and cheap concessions depending on the day of the week. Sounds like the old Anaheim days.
Could be worse. Could be raining. We pitched really well and so did they. We just ran out of effective pitching bullets, and unfortunately, we are also out of effective starting pitchers for the next 2 games.
Trading Ward was the right thing to do. Trading him for a guy who’s rarely been healthy was the wrong thing to do.
I hate that I’m contemplating selling off the team. Trading Soriano and Detmers could transcend the state of the farm.
Do we trust Perry to make those decisions? Of course not, and King Arte wouldn’t greenlight it anyway
I know.
I do not. With Soriano and Detmers as your 1-2, you just might have pretty good starting pitching in 2028 (Assuming 2027 is a wash), with Klassen, Bremmer, and Dana? The problem of course, is they have no significant position players other than Neto. If they keep Soriano, Detmers, and Neto, what do they have to trade to get position players? Things can change, but sadly, even when I try to be really optimistic, they don’t look like they have a chance to be good even in the next 5 years. If Schanuel and Moore were Neto’s on the horizon, then they might have a path. They essentially would need 3 $40M players to go with Neto plus 5 other decent players to fill out the line up. And they would simultaneously be paying Neto, Soriano, and Detmers as well. It’s a challenge. They need some really good drafting the next few years, some big surprises from the farm, and to spend significant money when the time comes. Either that, or you trade everyone with a plan to be good in 3-5 years. If Schanuel, Moore, Rada, Guzman, and Paris, all become something they haven’t yet, then there’s a chance. I don’t mean to be negative guy but right now, it’s really hard to see a path forward.
I don’t think you are being negative at all. We are in a tough spot because we’re nowhere close to contention. Both Sori and Detmers are in their age-27 season this year, which should be the beginning of their prime, and will be FAs after the 2028 season. Let’s say 2027 is wiped out due to a lockout — what are we going to do in 2028 when they have 1 more year of control and are approaching 30? Trading them this summer when their value is at its highest just makes sense and it’s what smart orgs do.
Bring back a boatload of prospects, with an emphasis on position players, and plan on handing the keys to the 2028 rotation over to Bremner, Klassen, Johnson, Dana, Urena. Hopefully Jordan and TGA keep developing and along with the HSers from the ’25 draft.
Perry really fucked this team up. He’s accomplished nothing in his time here, absolutely nothing.
I agree with your assessment.
Disease is often fatal and it certainly can spread as it has on the Angels. Hitightiss is not curable and it starts in the eyes. Problems with eyeing fast moving objects such as thrown baseballs and progress’ to slower moving objects such as Beachballs. Next it slows the reaction time to playing sports down to slow and then very slow reaction time followed by Ooga Booga and Ooga Booga means you are disabled enough in remain on the injury list for long periods of time as AA players replace you. So, drink plenty of Whiskey with Beer chasers and you won’t understand a thing late at night and will sleep in the next day.
Symptoms included for Baseball player’s the following, watching fast pitches go by you and looking at the umpire like you can see better than him. Swing and miss followed by Playhouse 90 in acting like you can’t believe you swung and missed even though the ball hit the dirt three foot in front of the plate. Slow walking back to the dugout while looking at the pitcher pretending to say, “How dare you”. For pitchers it is just as bad because your 85-mph fastball is, well, is hittable. For GM’s it is trading perfectly good leftfielder for a broke down pitcher and hoping. that you bottom of the barrel staff can fix broken. For fans it’s worse as we collectively continue our fandom, so we end up complaining about the team rather than our choices. Take two aspirin and call for change every day. 😄
……but I’m sure it was a safe, family friendly environment at the Big A for the game last night. The final score be damned, Arte is pleased with the outcome.
Scrooge McDuck, I love it!
Now I can’t get the song out of my head. Da Da Da Danger lurks behind you.
Hall and Oates so good!
Halos pitching, until the 10th, was solid, so that’s something.
Angels have lost the last 6 home openers I’ve attended. Perhaps going to home game 2 is the play
That was….. a home opener…. sheesh
Long time no see!
Just workin so much my work has work.
After eight games the Angels have the lowest team batting average (.186) and most strikeouts in the majors.
Mother nature is healing
#EQUILIBRIUM
trAdition
One hit and the one hit was picked off.
So bad. The at bat were mostly atrocious too…
One hit?? One lousy hit??
Don’t worry, nobody’s listening.
On the opening homepage with a sale out crowd.
Home game
I know. It’s a shame. Woo is terrific so I get that part. But the bullpen was fair game.
This offense is offensive, and boring. AND somehow more disappointing than expected
Not too much of a make over from last year, Lowe has replaced Ward and Angels are on pace for lots of customary things
93 team K’s by the alleged batters in the first 8 games.
Let’s see…8 goes into 162 20.25 times. 20.25 times 93 equals a lot. A new record.
Yep. The Big A may be the BIg K again this season.
Attention Blue Light Big K shoppers, after trade deadline 3 dollar tickets!
Oof brutal…
I broke down and used the calculator. The old bean ain’t what it used to be. Anyway that’s 1883 Ks at this rate
The ineptitude is reaching levels that words can’t even express. My da explained to me that this would be painful, but we’re entering historic levels… not hyperbole at this point.
Sadly for the Angels there are no potent bats available in their system at this time to replace the product at the major league level. It’s early in the season, but the early signs look pretty ominous.
Yeah…we might get that hundo. Rock bottom is relative.
I’m positively not optimistic. See y’all tomorrow—probably the only game I’ll go to until this regime is over. As a wise man once said, “I can’t stands no more
The Taylor Ward and Brock Burke trades are looking pretty awful at this point. It’s hard to vision a potent Angels offense this year. This is not a team built for high OBP, but one that is very susceptible to striking out a great deal.
Does Minasian ever make a good move?
Bowel movement.
This is why in my IIWPTP piece I traded for teams AA and some AAA players that had high OBP and high BA. I really didn’t care about their HR numbers. I wanted high OBP and high BA, then let the RBIs come.
When Moncada came up to bat, I told my son he was going to strike out looking, and not even swing the bat for strike 3. And he didn’t disappoint…. Except for the fact that the Angels lost the game.
How many more games do we have to suffer thru Soler and Moncada?
Anyways, Reid was fabulous. See y’all for tomorrow for more torture
They got exactly as many hits as everyone not named Oswald. Either everyone sucked equally or … the Mariners pitching was pretty good.
If it was just tonight then sure. They are boat anchors in the heart of the lineup.