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LA Angels Monday News Crash:

April 13, 2026

Here are some fun clips from the game last Friday.

As for Sunday, Jose Soriano is historically good. That’s obviously better than historically bad. The Angels selected the contract of right-hander Nick Sandlin and optioned George Klassen to Triple-A Salt Lake. They reinstated Vaughn Grissom from the IL and DFAd Jeimer Candelario. Joey Lucchesi didn’t get away altogether as the Angels re-signed him to a minor league deal.

In other baseball news, the Mets will select Tommy Pham. The Braves DFAd Martin Perez.

Nick Pivetta has elbow stiffness. Christian Yelich has a hamstring injury. Tyler O’Neill is on the concussion related IL. Hunter Harvey went on the 15 day IL with right triceps inflammation. George Springer is on the IL with a broken toe.

Former big ;league manager Phil Garner passed away at the age of 76.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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JackFrost

43 minutes ago

If we are looking for positives and reasons to feel hopeful about this team, we need look no further than our newly formed “Ace,” Jose Soriano. Not only does he lead the League in W’s with 4, but he leads all of Major League baseball in both ERA (at 0.33) AND in strikeouts (with 31). I swear, if Arte lets this guy walk I won’t watch another game until Arte sells the team or is dead, whichever comes first !

Another positive is that we lead the entire Major Leagues in walks !! Hooray ! Now, if we could just cut down on the strikeouts and improve the contact and runs generated off of singles and doubles… Yesterday was a move in the right direction as far as that is concerned.

2026 MLB Team Batting Stat Leaders – ESPN

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MarineLayer

9 minutes ago

Reply to JackFrost

For me, this team is Neto, Adell, and now Soriano and a bunch of filler until the team is sold and competent management is brought in.

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JackFrost

3 hours ago

To the person who thought I was being “miserable” for my reaction to the bullpen meltdown yesterday… Why direct that accusation just at me ? You should be calling multiple people “miserable” based upon yesterday’s gamethread ….. Here :

You enjoyed watching the bullpen implode and turn what should have been a comfortable and uneventful final three innings into a nailbiter and stress filled experience ?? Is that your idea of fun ?
A couple of other posters, like me, did NOT enjoy the Kurt Suzuki bullpen experience. To the point where one felt compelled to turn off the game — from “tanana40”

We are up 9-3 and I had to turn the game off

And further from tanana :

I could not take it anymore.

We also have MH252525 who was inspired to profanity based on Suzuki :

….And how the hell do you let a guy walk 3 guys with a 9 run lead when the bullpen is more than fresh. F’ing idiotic

So, Simba, are tanana40 and MH2525 “miserable” or is that designation only reserved for me ????

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HalosFanForLife

3 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

Don’t worry JF – I’ve been called a lot worse than miserable here. Just passionate debate. I’d have a beer with anyone here. Well almost anyone. 😂 (But seriously, with anyone.)

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HalosFanForLife

3 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

Speaking of – has anyone heard from Gitcho? I’m seriously concerned. Maybe I’ve missed seeing him – but it’s not like him to not be around.

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Charles Sutton

1 hour ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

He’s probably following the Pirates or the Reds.

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Angels2020Champs

32 minutes ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

Who?

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tanana40

2 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

It wasn’t just the bullpen; it was also the bad fielding. The reality is that I know the Angels are not going to compete for a pennant this year, but I still want them to win. I cannot help myself from wanting them to win games.

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JackFrost

1 hour ago

Reply to tanana40

I am right there with you tanana. That is why when people justify the suckitude by saying “What do you expect?” , or saying “You should just be happy with a victory”, you and I don’t buy it. Because we want to see winning baseball !

The Braves got up 9-0 on the Guardians last night….Did their bullpen give up 6 runs in the last two innings and put the outcome in jeopardy ? No. And the Twins were up 8-1 after 6 innings and only gave up a single run the rest of the way against the Jays. Those teams did not implode.

We should not be doing that either…

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MarineLayer

5 minutes ago

Reply to JackFrost

I agree as well. Nothing strong about this team except our three good players.

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clover_black

1 hour ago

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lol

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MarineLayer

6 minutes ago

Reply to JackFrost

I sign on to the narrative that this bullpen sucks and no lead is safe. It barely survived a nine run lead, what will happen in closer games. It doesn’t really matter this year as the team isn’t built to win.

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2pints

1 minute ago

Reply to JackFrost

Comment of the season, so far.

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Angels2020Champs

3 hours ago

Thought this was funny

Baseball called like golf

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HalosFanForLife

2 hours ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

Pure awesomeness!!!!!

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Born_in_59

3 hours ago

As surprised as I’ve been at times this season, the team isn’t performing any better than in the recent past. Looking at the first 16 games for the past 3 seasons, we have:
Year RS RA W L
2026 73 78 8 8
2025 75 78 9 7
2024 74 79 8 8

A record of 72-90 still looks more likely than something closer to 81-81.

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JackFrost

4 hours ago

For that small group of people who are pushing to trade Soriano …. I have two words for you guys :

Ummm. NO.

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steelgolf

3 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

That is one way to look at it. Then when he leaves during free agency, and heads over to the LA Deferrals, we will still not have the ace pitcher or any top prospect yutes in the system to fill the void. A conundrum.

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JackFrost

3 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

You know the way to avoid that? You give him his props now and pay him. You pay your respects with $$, the same way the Royals did with Witt Jr. You don’t let the guy even get to Free Agency….and in the process you save yourself tons of money. Rendon is coming off the books, so if you are Perry that is how you present this to Arte.. If a small market team like the Royals can keep their stud then we can too !!

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HalosFanForLife

2 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

With what Skubal got in arbitration – this boy is going to be under no pressure to sign. But hey – we’ve got great parking.

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DaveChalk

1 hour ago

Reply to JackFrost

Bingo. The proven strategy is to pay them early when you can lock them down for an amount of money both sides can live with. You let Soriano and Neto turn into bona fide stars their agents are going to now demand market rates and extension gets that much harder. You let them walk away for nothing then yeah, you got some good years from them but probably didn’t do the smartest thing from a long term compete perspective (even if it sucks for the fans, looking at you TB)

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Born_in_59

3 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

Ryan, Finley, Lackey and Ohtani all walked; its a tradition at this point.

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JackFrost

3 hours ago

Reply to Born_in_59

If Perry has even earned the slightest amount of pull then this is the time to use it. This is the card that he has to play with Arte.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

2 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

I don’t think whoever runs the angels wants perry around next year.

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JackFrost

2 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Well, next year likely being a strike year further complicates the matter…

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YOUknowulovetheIE

2 hours ago

Reply to JackFrost

Yes, that adds into the complications of extending Soriano and neto as well.

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JackFrost

1 hour ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

I wonder if a “strike clause” could be built into a contract for either or both those guys ? I am not a contract attorney so don’t know if that is possible…