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  • ettin

    2022 Angelswin.com Primer Series: Strategy

    By ettin

    Los Angeles Angels General Manager Perry Minasian (Source: OCRegister.com) Just like Moreno’s looming financial decision, GM Perry Minasian also faces a series of challenges of his own to answer this offseason. First on his list is solving the riddle of the starting pitching staff, which has been an elusive target in past seasons. Using every draft pick in the 2021 Rule 4 Draft on pitching was a start, but one that will probably not bring immediate returns. Making an early strike to si
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  • Chuck

    Taking stock as we approach spring training (and my take on the Perry Minasian Plan, v. 2024)

    By Chuck

    By Jonathon Northrop, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer So its February 5th and pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks. Let's take stock of Perry's moves and where the Angels might go from here. Perry's made no major acquisitions - no starting pitchers, no positions players, only bench and bullpen guys. The team as it stands looks to be something like this (with likely 26-man roster in bold and potential first call-ups in parentheses): C - O'Hoppe, Thaiss (Mejia, Wallach)
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  • ryanmfalla

    The Angels must sell on Hunter Renfroe while he has value

    By ryanmfalla

    The last two weeks in Angels land has seen the team run through an absurdly horrendous stretch in which they have dropped 12 of their last 16 in a schedule littered with struggling teams. I don't need to recount the specifics of this awful stretch as we've been properly immersed in the existentiality of it all, but given the circumstances there are pressing questions that need answers soon. A crossroads awaits where the Angels have to decide whether they will go all in on the hunt for playoffs o
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  • ettin

    2021 Angelswin.com Trade Deadline Series: Keepers, Assets, and Targets

    By ettin

    By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer So now that we have performed some basic analysis to understand where the Angels are strong and weak and which teams are likely sellers, buyers, or somewhere in-between, we can make more knowledgeable guesses about how the Angels might generally upgrade, whom they might sell, and the probable, more specific target areas of improvement. The first step is to determine who the Halos plan to build the team around moving forward into the fut
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  • ettin

    2021 Angelswin.com Trade Deadline Series: Playoff-Bound or Not?

    By ettin

    Author’s Note: Angelswin.com would like to welcome all of the new people who have joined the site! New blood and fresh faces, opinions, and commenters make this Angel fan community stronger, thank you for joining and please feel free to participate in the conversations, as well! Also, for the remainder of this Trade Deadline series we will utilize FanGraphs.com, a premier data-driven baseball website for all of our projected and factual information. Any additional, outlying information used will
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Minor League Musings

Here are just a few recent developments going on in the Angels farm 1. Right after writing about how ridiculous it was the Jesus Castillo was still in A Ball, the Angels promoted him to Inland Empire.  In his first start: 5 IP 2 H 1 ER 0 BB 4 K’s.  A fantastic beginning to his tenure there and proof that the Angels definitely are reading this….. 2. This offseason, there was quite a lot of debate within the AngelsWin prospect team surrounding Connor Justus.  We opted to put him in the honorable

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Last Week in Angels Baseball – The “Welcome Back” Edition

(Not really me) I know the first questions will be “where the hell have you been for the last three weeks, you lazy bum?”  That’s a fair question and all I can say is, None of your business.  I’m back, that’s all.  Let’s get it on!  I’m doing a slightly different format this year and as always, I appreciate the feedback.  I’ll probably ignore it, but I still appreciate it. The Team.  6-1 for the week with wins against three different teams, including two in that hole in Arlington and a sweep o

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Prospect Stock: May Edition

By @Scotty@AW, AngelsWin.com Staff Writer  The Top 30 Prospect lists we here at AngelsWin put out are a snapshot in time.  Every top prospect list ever made is in fa ct, a snap shot in time.  But in order to provide readers with some degree of a “live feed” on these prospects, we’ll be releasing monthly updates to let you know if our view of this prospect has changed at all and why. 30. IF Sherman Johnson – Stock Rising – We already thought highly of Johnson, and the fact that he’s now

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The Angels surprisingly good bullpen

Coming into the 2017 season, the Angels were projected to have one of the worst bullpens in baseball by many measures. Fangraphs depth charts had the Angels unit with the 26th projected best cumulative Wins Above Replacement(WAR) among MLB bullpens. After finishing with the 3rd lowest WAR(0.3), the 5th lowest K-BB%(10.7%) and the 10th worst ground ball rate(44.1%) in 2016, there didn’t appear to be any hopes for optimism with the 2017 unit. Billy Eppler and the Angels did very little in free age

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The Eddie Bane Archives (2006-2010)

Eddie Bane the Angels’ former scouting director top pitching prospect himself as a standout pitcher for the Sun Devils from 1971-73, Eddie anchored two College World Series runner-up teams, in 1972 and 1973. His college accolades read like a laundry list of virtually every honor possible: A first-team All American, an All-College World Series selection, the 1973 Sporting News Player of the Year — and later, a first-round draft pick. More specifically, Eddie led the ASU pitching staff to the tune

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AngelsWin.com’s 2017 Top-30 Los Angeles Angels Prospects

Following Angels prospects requires an unhealthy obsession with uncertain possibilities, an unjustifiable optimism in a brighter future, a unnatural curiosity and an eye to see things that may or may not be there.  And so of course, only a few Angel fans are actually crazy enough to undertake this mission.  From myself (going on seven years in a row), DocHalo’s memory of obscure details, Inside Pitch’s calculations, Dave’s traveling to different minor league parks and interviewing guys other peo

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Angels pitching and the case of Homer-itis

The Angels just completed the 3rd week of the 2017 season and the results have not been pretty. After starting the season 6-2, which included 2 miraculous comeback wins, the team has totally stalled out, going 2-10 in their last 12 games. Recently, the Angels offense has been the problem, struggling to receive any production beyond Mike Trout, Andrelton Simmons and Yunel Escobar. To start the year, the starting pitching could barely get the team through the 5th inning and put up bad results in t

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Simba’s roaring offensive start: Is it real?

Here’s your first warning and disclaimer that the 2017 MLB season is not even a month old so proceed with caution with these small sample sizes(SSS). With that out of the way, there’s one Angels player who is showing an encouraging trend early: Andrelton Simmons. Yes, his defense has been superb so far as it’s always been but that’s not the only area where Simmons is excelling. He’s doing some excellent work at the plate that might not just be random noise. Through 63 plate appearances, Andrelt

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There’s a lot riding on Alex Meyer

Baseball is already a hard enough game without all the pressure that comes along with it.  And fair or not, there seems to be a ton on Alex Meyer and the Angels right now.  First we need to understand that the team is currently in a tailspin, and it’s awfully early to be crashing and burning.  Oddly enough, it has very little to do with what most skeptics thought, pitching.  Sure, the starting pitchers scuffled to start the year, but the bullpen more than made up for this deficit and the offense

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66ers stay hot with 4th straight win

The Inland Empire 66ers won their 4th straight ballgame Tuesday night at home vs the Lake Elsinore Storm, pulling off the extra innings win in the 11th inning. With the go ahead run standing at 3rd base in a 2-2 tie, 66ers center fielder Jared Foster lofted a blooper into right field, scoring the winning run and securing another big win. After winning in extra innings on Saturday in Visalia, the 66ers used a 6 run 8th inning Monday night to pull off another big win, then won once again in extras

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Los Angeles Angels Prospect Hotlist (Games through 4/16/17)

1. Kaleb Cowart (3B) – The Angels top 3B prospect has filled up the stat sheet over his first 11 games of 2017 minor league season posting an impressive .341/.438/.537 slash line to go along with a league leading 5 stolen bases. Cowart has also walked seven times already and has clubbed a couple bombs. 2. Michael Hermosillo (CF) – The only thing Hermosillo hasn’t done yet is hit a home run, though he’s clubbed 4 doubles across 9 games. The Angels outfield prospect was impressive slashing .395/.

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Angels Prospects: Who I’m watching

Writing about prospects is an interesting concept.  It’s sort of like trying to communicate to someone in a different language,  If I’m to talk to someone about the Angels, there’s a common ground to start from.  We both know Mike Trout and thus can discuss (and that is the point of my writing, to discuss with you) his accomplishments.  But when I’m writing about prospects, I’m writing about a group of kids the reader has vaguely heard of.  Furthermore, I’m writing about a group o kids, many of

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Entire Angels Rotation in a “Make or Break” Year

Baseball changes very quickly.  This time two years ago, the Angels were coming off a 98 win season and had the building blocks in place to assemble one of the best rotations in Major League Baseball.  Garrett Richards was an ace and Cy Young candidate, Andrew Heaney was a young lefty that projected into the top of the rotation, Nick Tropeano was a steady mid-rotation starter in his mid-20’s and had yet to post an ERA above 4.00.  Tyler Skaggs was on the med but still bore some of the shine from

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“Exit At Katella” Rangers vs Angels Series Recap

Check out Cory Hinkel’s new series titled “Exit at Katella”. In this week’s episode Cory discusses the 3-game series between the Angels and Rangers. You can also get to know one of our longest standing AngelsWin.com contributors in our interview with him here. Without further ado, the first episode of “Exit at Katella”…. View the full article

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66ers April 11th Recap and Michael Hermosillo Interview

The Inland Empire 66ers moved to 2-4 on the season after shutting out the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Tuesday night. After dropping 4 straight games following an Opening Night win, the 66ers pitching staff completely quieted the Quakes lineup, allowing 7 hits and no runs while striking out 9 batters and walking 3. Jaime Barria, the 66ers #1 starter, had his 2nd go around this season as he matched up against Quakes starter Adam Bray. Building off his successful Opening Day start, Barria showed ex

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Connor Justus on launch angles and swing changes

In the 5th round of the 2016 MLB Draft, the Angels selected a shortstop from the University of Georgia Tech by the name of Connor Justus(156th overall). Widely proclaimed by scouts and baseball people to be a defense first shortstop who could reach the majors based on his defense alone, many assumed his track record of not hitting much would limit his upside. However, in his junior year at Georgia Tech, he started to show life with his bat, hitting .324/.442/.446, after posting a .657 OPS in 201

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Inland Empire 66ers Opening Day Recap

By Brent Maguire, AngelsWin.com Staff Reporter The 2017 Minor League Baseball season kicked off Thursday as the Inland Empire 66ers faced off against the San Jose Giants. The 66ers roster has some familiar names from last year’s team, including Michael Hermosillo and Jake Jewell, but also brings some new faces, including 2016 draft picks Matt Thaiss and Connor Justus. The long season ahead begins as many players will continue their path towards reaching the next minor league levels and, hop

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Breakout Prospects in 2017

By Scott Allen, AngelsWin.com Staff Writer The minor leagues are brutal.  Not just because of the long bus rides, less than favorable conditions, low pay and long odds.  The fact is, as a prospect, you either get better or get lost.  If a prospect stops developing, that’s the equivalent of getting worse, because others around you are improving constantly.  Believe it or not, the Angels have prospects, and some of those prospects breakout.  Let’s give you an example from this past season

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Matt Shoemaker’s Story “105 MPH to the head”

MATT SHOEMAKER / CONTRIBUTOR 105 mph to the Head When the baseball smacked into the side of my head, it was traveling 105 miles per hour. Yet somehow I didn’t hear a sound. I never lost consciousness, so I remember everything about that moment. I can even remember the breath I took before I threw the pitch — just that long, exaggerated inhale through the nose as I focused on hitting my spot, my lungs filling up with air. Then, after a brief pause, I did wha

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2017 Season Primer Part XVI: Final Thoughts

By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer First of all, in the aggregate, Billy Eppler and the front office have done a really good job in navigating this offseason and acquiring players that have an opportunity to help the team win in 2017 and beyond. Eppler clearly stated when he first came on the job as general manager that he wanted to be defensively sound at every position around the diamond and, minus, perhaps, Escobar, he has executed on that goal. This is perhaps the fi

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2017 Season Primer Part XV: Lineup Construction

By @ettin, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer Before we dive into the projected probable lineups for 2017 it would be good to have a conversation about lineup optimization, batted ball data, balls in play, and hitter contact. In 2007, a groundbreaking baseball novel, The Book, was written by three esteemed statisticians, Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andy Dolphin. The Book took long-held baseball traditions, such as lineup optimization, platooning, and batting/pitching match ups for exampl

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Thoughts on Managing Baseball

By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer There are many reasons why I’ve been away from the keyboard lately. It’s not that I haven’t had things to say about the Angels (I have–they are improved and have more depth–I’m more optimistic about this season), it’s that I’ve really lacked the time to say them.  While my time to write about baseball has been limited, my time spent with baseball has dramatically increased. After years of being an assistant coach for both of my sons’ teams,

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The Line

By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer Over the weekend, I was talking with one of my friends, Chad, about the start of the upcoming 2017 season. And, he said to me that outside of his favorite team (the Cubs), up until a few years ago, he didn’t follow the other teams and leagues as much unless he had something vested in the game—maybe a $1 bet or so. When he got into fantasy baseball, it made more games a lot more interesting for him. Knowing that many others on AngelsWin.com might fe

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