Corey Seager is going to a back specialist. There is not yet much detail as to what is wrong or how long he has been dealing with the issue. Jose Altuve is now on the injured list with an oblique strain. Cal Raleigh hit the injured list with “general soreness” in his side.
Keston Hiura signed with the Kiwoom Heroes for the remainder of 2026. The Cubs just claimed right-hander Christian Roa. The Orioles claimed Michael Siani off waivers from the Dodgers. They designated right-hander Jose Espada for assignment.
Gio Urshela announced his retirement. Royals lefty Kris Bubic is on the IL with left elbow soreness.
I know some of you are avidly watching the college stats as we approach the draft. This is “Draft Stock Watch.”
Here is a fantasy article about starting pitchers gainers and decliners. Jack Kochanowicz is a gainer.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
And now back to losing
SS – Neto
CF – Trout
3B – Grissom
DH – Soler
RF – Adell
2B – Peraza
1B – Nolan
C – O’Hoppe
LF – Siri
Reid “Mediocre” Detmers is starting.
Moncada and Lowe on the bench today.
Lost in this it’s kinda wild the A’s left Ginn in after the no-hitter attempt was broken up. He was at 102 pitches, so what was the plan? Were they gonna let him go 110+ pitches to finish the game facing the lineup a 4th time through the order?
Suzuki level dummm.
He got through the line-up 3-times. Why not give him a chance for history? I applaud pushing back on the pitch count nerds. Breath of fresh air.
It’s the part where they left him in after the first hit.
Oh, I see. Did the A’s have someone ready to come in? I don’t recall.
Frazier hit a ball out of the strike zone at a Gubi reported 102 MPH, not exactly screaming meltdown alert. Hindsight. .
I don’t, either, but they should have. The top of the 9th took quite a while, the game was 1-0, and Ginn was at a career high in pitches.
Once Frazier got his hit it flipped the lineup over for Neto and Trout.
That was a perfect time to hand the ball to your closer.
He still had a chance for a CG shutout. Until that Neto swing, the Angles demonstrated little ability to anything offensively.
He was already beyond his career high in pitches. The shutout isn’t important enough to risk the game. Had it been 4-0 sure but once Frazier got his hit the win was in jeopardy. Maybe the A’s pen is like ours and the alternative would be worse than a tired starter
Thing is, he got hit hard in the 8th and was more lucky than good at that point. Once he gave up the hit, he should have been replaced and not doing so was Suzukiesque.
Classic case of the Angels sucking so bad lulled them into a sense of comfort. If that were the Doyers or Yankees or almost any other team they would have had a fresh arm heated and ready to go. Since we suck so much the perceived threat level was low so we got Ginn on fumes trying to get history on our sorry asses.It backfired for once.
Exactly. I applaud the decision to give him a chance at the no hitter.
But once that was off the table the team still had a 1-0 game to win.
Twins optioned their former #1 pick Royce Lewis to the minors.
Angels continue to start Lowe and Moncada.
These were the big moves for Minassian in the off-season. Do you think there’s any way that he is willing to accept the fact that he’s an idiot and made the moves?
Testify! I keep saying this. No way Perry lets Suzuki bench his higher dollar contracts for actual talent/skill.
When Moncada was signed, there were really no viable alternatives out there. We now have evidence that both Grissom and Peraza represent better options. The situation has changed!
When Moncada was resigned, there was a lot of cheering in this site. There was some other alternatives but not that great. Urias was one and he is sucking hard too.
But Moncada still has a .935 fielding percentage. How he can do that, I don’t know. 😂 😂
Seems high. I figure every ball hit to Moncada is a 50-50 proposition!
50-50? Seems high. LOL
On the same list, Detmers is among the greatest decliners.
We need a screen shot of this as a photo for a post.
https://x.com/bsbls885/status/2056592034228842994?s=20
What’s great about this is they are probably guys Arte gave free tickets to.
Speaking of Bobby Witt Jr and defense – who saw this play?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwBrL6r1UU
Walbert Urena (22 years old) —
33.1 IP (6 starts, 2 relief appearances)
2.70 ERA
1.35 WHIP
156 ERA+
0.3 WAR
Walbert in May —
22 IP (4 starts)
1.64 ERA
0.91 WHIP
I think we have something extremely special with Wally. Winning Rookie of the Year would net us a very valuable 2027 compensation pick that comes after the 1st round. It will be an uphill battle with McGonigle (Tigers) and Murakami (White Sox) lighting it up, but who knows.
#1 draft lottery odds + a comp pick would be a nice welcome present for our next GM.
I worry he can keep it going without really having another pitch. He’s throwing the changeup like 45% of the time and pretty much everything else is a fastball. Not sure if the 4-seamer and the sinker are different enough to keep hitters on their toes.
I think he has a bright future though. I’ve been impressed with his mental makeup and how calm he appears to be out on the mound.
This is where Maddux could help him.
His sinker and changeup are both plus pitches. Gotta hone that sweeper.
Agreed on his mental makeup. Mad impressive
I hate to be the bearer of bad news:
Urena winning ROY would not give the Angels a comp pick
I see — well this is bullshit lol. Urena is ineligible because the prospect lists couldn’t recognize his immense talent /s. Thanks for the fact check!
How does one become PPI-eligible?
Eligibility is based on the preseason rankings. Eligible prospects have to appear on at least two of the three Top 100 Prospect rankings released by MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and ESPN. Those players must be rookie-eligible and have fewer than 60 days of prior MLB service, which is also the stipulation MLB Pipeline makes in crafting its Top 100 rankings. MLB Pipeline unveiled its new Top 100 in late January. Baseball America and ESPN have also released theirs to fill out the field from which PPI eligibility will be granted.
https://www.mlb.com/news/prospect-performance-incentive-ppi-eligible-players
-Has to be on the opening day roster, or accrue a year service time (so called up early, or a holdover from the previous year.
-Has to be on 2/3 of preseason top 100 lists (which he is not)
Why the F would this be a requirement? I cannot understand the justification here…
it’s a way for teams to stop holding their high ranked prospects that might be ready in the minors for extra service time. Example: Kris Bryant
and to be fair, it was agreed on by the MLBPA
I am failing to see how a consensus top-100 prospect ranking as a prerequisite for PPI would have any impact on how long players would stay in the minors.
If anything it seems like it would force teams to hold players in the minors longer. If someone is a top 100 prospect in BA but not the other two, you would be inclined to hold them in the minors until they show up on additional lists so that they are eligible.
the logic in the rules is flawed forsure.
the likelihood of winning ROY is low regardless of when someone is called up.
This is to push some of those teams with uber prospects to get them up early.
Fringe top 100 guys are not really in consideration for ROY, let alone being called up early (often times in low minors)
What happened to these former Cal State Fullerton Players who have become MLB managers. Nevin, Suzuki, Kotsay, they’re all bad. It was fine leaving the pitcher in for one hit with the no hitter going but to not have someone ready after the hit was absolutely inexcusable. I went to Fullerton when Garrido was there. He was very knowledgable and knew what he was doing. He was way ahead of his time. I’m just glad he’s not alive to watch this.
Sacramento’s manager Suzukied his guy.
The Dodgers are in big need of starting pitching due to their growing list of injuries. Wonder what they would give for a young potential all star starting pitcher? Turks Teeth can let us know how good the Doyers farm system is.
Doyers clubbed the Anaheim rag tags for 31 runs in 3 games, and get one run in SD last night.
Olf friend Griffin Canning starts for the 1st place Padres tonight.
IIRC, when farm rankings were released earlier this year the Dodgers slipped to 14.
With the current brain trust FO I’m not sure I want to see any trades right now. I don’t want to see more Burke for Lowe type trades.
They are strong with outfield prospects.
He got worked his last outing
That pointless double-pump on the infield single last night speaks volumes about Moncada. Dude is a walking insult to team baseball. Time to DFA his ass.
Way past time IMO
We want Guzman!
MinASSian will not allow it as it was his big off season move.
Eh. He was a desperation signing. $4 million, right? I don’t think Perry has anything prideful invested in him.
The Angels are not a very exciting team playing at home, but at some point, maybe a 2 a day batting practice sessions would be a good idea.
What a fun ending to an otherwise nightmare game last night. Having Kent French pre and post-game was refreshing.
We had to break up a no hitter and throw a near shutout to actually win a game.
French is a moron. Wish he just stayed with the Ducks and didn’t soil the Halo broadcasts. Now, not only do I have to dismiss the Halo pregame, I have to mute French and Weston while they speak during games. I miss PON.
What’s the reason you dislike him so much? So far I feel like he is 5x more palatable than Patrick was.
His voice inflection, inane content and whiny nature annoy me.
It’s a personal choice. I’d take PON over French any day of the week.
They’re all Quad A level guys.
I was not even aware PON was employed by the Angels. He would not be the first guy I would fire but he’s right up there.
Big A was 2/3 empty, the team was being no hit thru 8 innings, and the fans were chanting “sell the team sell the team”.
Here’s what Suzuki had to say
“I didn’t hear what they were chanting, but they were waving their shirts around. I kind of have maybe a little bit of a thing what they were chanting, but yeah, I mean, I feel like for a Monday night, you know, it’s pretty electric.”
https://x.com/i/status/2056592731431211013
Jesus Christ he’s such a loser. Not a single truthful bone in his body.
I really tried to root for Suzuki, but now I’m coming over to the dark side. He should at least try to act professional. Sigh. He’s bad.
I thought he’d be a positive too. Very quickly became obvious that he has no clue what he’s doing. To boot he has the personality and intelligence of a wet plank.
I was watching some preseason interview where Trout and Adell were talking about being happy that Suzuki would give the team days to come to park when they wanted and leave when they wanted. That was a massive red blinking warning sign.
This team has done nothing to earn that type of leeway and it established a laissez faire attitude from the jump that we all see playing out on the field. I’ll keep coming back to Wash because he was trying to establish a culture and belief. A 70 year old man was showing up to ballpark before anyone else every single day, and was running drills with the players. He walked the walk, he led by example.
Suzuki is a friend of the players, he’s not a manager. The example he’s set this year is “come and go when you please, things will work out or they won’t. It’s all chill brother, Mahalo”
He is dumb as dirt. Hence my nickname, Dirt Suzuki.
Being a friend to players is the same as the parents who do that to kids. Act your age, do your job besides being MinASSian’s proxy.
My problem with Wash was that he was supposed to teach the team the fundamentals, which is truly sad in itself.
However, it was clear that the team didn’t know the fundamentals and when an situation would pop up on the field, he would throw the player under the bus.
I have no idea what Suzuki is doing to help this team. It doesn’t seem like anything.
Blaming the players was weak, but counterpoint, they deserved it.
It’s called holding players accountable and we could sure use a dose of that right now!
The longer this stuff goes on the more respect I have for Depoto. Like him or not, at least he saw what a mess this was. One of the reasons I don’t ever see Perry getting another GM job.
History has been kind to Dipoto.
Only because he was right and everything the organization has done since then has confirmed that.
I never had a problem with Jerry and he got better as time went on.
I confess that I was rooting for the no-no and would have been chanting it with them. I texted my brother BURN IT DOWN, Go A’s! in the 8th.
Crash, burn, perform required pest control and rebuild is way overdue.
Not only was I rooting for the no-no, I’m rooting for the team not to win another game all season, or, at the very least, just 1 win per month from here on out! I want to finally, historically, end the “only team in mlb not to have a 100 loss season blah, blah, blah, in a show of incredible ineptitude.
I would like to hang everything bad on Arturo and Minasian‘s scorecard.
I think he answered the question as any manager would with the leagues worst record. Why bring more focus on the obvious..
I’d like him to be honest as well, but he may not get another coaching offer from other teams if he does. He doesn’t have a coaching resume to fall back on.
Maybe I just haven’t paid attention, but I honestly don’t remember those trees in CF. I remember seeing home runes either just go to the ground or go to that expansive plain.
I wish I heard those chants. Keep it going!
The trees are part of the rat habitat that Arte is nurturing
If he really wanted to nurture that habitat, he would plant a row of Italian cypress trees there, also known as “rat Hiltons”
LOL
If Neto could fetch us a young, high potential 3rd baseman, I’d trade him in a heartbeat.
Neto is our best player and here is why. Neto boots balls that other SS can’t even get to and goes to his right better than just about every SS in the major leagues. Has field and play IQ that very few have at any position. He has speed and power, a rare commodity to have. In addition, we have no replacement currently that is anywhere near as talented. After Simba we had junk heap SS for too many seasons. Neto is a bright spot on a losing team that we need to hold on to.
Neto is a fine ballplayer but I’m not sure the numbers back up your claim that he’s an excellent defender and the eye test surely doesn’t support him having a high baseball IQ.
I’d trade him 10/10 times before handing him $200 million. He’s immature and you can tell his massive ego has been hurt by his shitty play (to the standard he’s set for himself) this year.
None of Neto, Adell, Schanuel, O’Hoppe are worth keeping around imo.
We all have our own takes on Zack. O’Hoppe is a lost cause, Schanuel has not progressed as I hoped for this season, but Adell is still a keeper because of his glove in RF. We do not have replacements for our players right now and have to hope for some hot streaks that may be coming, otherwise we lose 120 games. With a strike/lockout on the horizon and fast approaching it will be hard to find homes for our players at a decent return.
In terms of money paid, I am not sure at what value any player should make anymore and have the opinion that no player and especially pitchers, should be signed longer at best for more than 5 years.
I think that those biggest problem is the space between his two ears. It would help if he had a manager who could help unlock him. He was well on his way until this year.
I say three years max, Grandpa.
You are correct P12, his defense is overrated by the fans. It’s good but definitely no elite. He is a very good hitting SS but with Guzman in the wings, Neto is a valuable trade commodity.
I thought he was a plus defender his first couple of seasons. Maybe average last year. This year below average for sure.
Maybe he has been bulking up to try to hit more homers which is why the defense and base stealing have been more of a challenge for him this season?
With his regression this year it does lend some weight to Ron Washington being a defensive guru.
Their defense was pretty crappy last year too. Just not as bad as it is this year not sure how much of a ringing endorsement that is for Washington.
I don’t disagree, Just that he was good but not great. but he’s an idiot on the bases.
I 100% agree with all of this. I am growing to despise Neto.
What about his five head?! Neto could charge shÅrte advertising on that thing!
Ha ha ha ha.
However, all of that stupid eye black takes up too much space. They really shouldn’t let him talk to the media. Wow, he makes Suzuki sound smart.
Adell too?! Oh P12 what has happened to you?
I love Jo. He’s hardworking, well-spoken, affable, charismatic.
We went thru the trials and tribulations with him. From top prospect, to being a punchline, to smacking 37 HRs last season and his legendary 3 robbery game.
When you love someone you want what’s best for them and he deserves better than this shit.
“After Simba we had junk heap SS for too many seasons.” Simba’s last season was 2020 and Neto’s was 2023.
That’s only 2 years of a “junk heap.” SS has been far from the Angels’ biggest problem. Although without Neto it could quickly become another gaping void.
IMHO, we have so many holes that the team has to consider all options. I’d like to see Denzer get a real shot at SS.
We are so short on talent that if Neto could fetch us talent at a position we have none, the team has to do the deal especially since we have Denzer waiting for an opportunity.
I think if I am a GM looking to get Neto in a trade I would ask myself if Neto is coachable and will he listen and change what he does. Neto has 68 strikeouts, four off the league most strikeouts per latest B-Ref list. I think he believes he is A-Rod. “I hit a walk off HR last night and won the game. I’m A-Rod.”
No Zach, you are not. I think someone needs to say that to him and start benching him if he doesn’t hit the ball more. Want to be a clubhouse leader? Change your game to what your physique is. Hit the ball, get on base.
Imho, if he keeps playing as he is and has, he wouldn’t return a top 100 prospect. I think Denzer needs at least two more years in the minors to see if he could even be a utility player.
i’ve been a huge fan of Neto. But he’s off from previous years. He’s middle of the pack this year. 8 errors. Bobby Witt Jr has 1 and gets to balls Neto can only dream of. What does Witt do in the offseason? He works with Nate Trosky, and brings in his teammates. And Witt already got paid and could coast. Witt was the worst defensive shortstop in the league his first year – started working with him – and clearly on his own too – and now he’s a Platinum Glove winner. 8 errors in 30% of the games is unacceptable. And I’ll guarantee you this, go look at the infield singles and you’ll be surprised some were considered hits. He should have at least 10, but they are padding league averages by awarding a lot of balls that were always considered errors as hits now.
Let me give you what I totally agree with you on. Neto has great baseball IQ – and plays with an engine few can match. Love his style – but he has to clean it up.
I think this is the most accurate take. I don’t think he’s as sloppy or low IQ as some others on here. This season has been way below average for him, for sure, but I don’t think this year is indicative of his talent.
And I’m definitely not going to complain about the passion he plays with when 80% of this roster is just drifting along.
I think maybe he’s pressing because he knows the team is ass and feels like he has to do everything. Last season he kind of usurped the team leader role from Trout and he might be struggling with that. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Stop the lies! Mike Trout has never been a team leader, so there was no need to “usurp” anything. That position has been vacant for quite some time.
Can’t say I disagree.
Ok then how about the position of “most important player”
counter point:
he booted a ball that every shortstop gets to yesterday. He has I think 7 errors? None of which are due to “other balls that other SS can’t even get to.”
He’s also made a bunch of mental mistakes on the bases.