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Eppler has changed the way we view relievers

Admit it, you never thought we’d be here. An Angels bullpen, one of the best in baseball? The Angels’ relief pitching has been somewhere between “ok” and “terrible” for several years now, and coming into the year, I was among those who felt the bullpen would be absolutely horrendous in 2017. But that was the old me. The one that that bullpen roles should be fairly structured, that receivers needed to throw 94+ with a wipeout slider and grown from the minor leagues. That’s what bullpens have

May 16, 2017

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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “Assumption of Mediocrity” Edition

By Glen McKee, Staff Writer Last week was, by definition, another mediocre week. Mediocre: of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate. There were some things to get excited about, some things to be bummed about, but on the whole, the week was a giant slice of meh. The team. The Angels went 3-4 against two teams that are on the same level as them. Mediocre! Mike Trout too a couple of days off with a tight hamstring, and while we were crapping our pants wor

May 15, 2017

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Chasing Upside

The draft is a little less than month away, and Billy Eppler has been universally applauded for his work on the Angels minor league system to date. His predecessor, Jerry Dipoto’s drafting, international approach, free agency and general team building philosophy left the Angels system completely bare. We’re talking about a General Manager that managed to trade away Jordan Walden, Andrew Romine, Tyler Chatwood, Will Smith, John Hellweg, Ariel Pena, Alexi Amarista, Taylor Lindsey, Jose Rondon, D

May 15, 2017

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Angels Minor League Update 5/13

The minor league baseball season is now far enough in that we can start making some impressions of certain minor league performances, good or bad. The Angels farm system has shown incremental improvements since Billy Eppler was brought on board as general manager. There’s still a big shortage of talent throughout the system but there are finally signs of potential MLB players starting to surface across different levels. Here is an update on the 4 affiliates that are 30+ games into their season(R

May 13, 2017

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Angels still have more than enough pitching depth

The Angels don’t look so hot lately. It seems that late game magic is still here, because they’re still making comebacks, but they’re also finding ways to cough up that comeback lead. And with the injuries they’ve encountered, the Angels will need some help from their prospects again this year, namely, their pitching prospects. First, let’s start with who has been promoted. RHP Keynan Middleton (#6 prospect) – This is one I think everyone and their grandma saw coming a mile away. Middleton

May 11, 2017

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Return of the Point/Counterpoint Mailbox! Huzzah!

By Nate (Statler) Trop and Glen (Waldorf) McKee, Staff Writers Hey folks, guess what? It’s early May and the Angels are once again mired in mediocracy, mostly due to injuries. We’re still in second place in the AL West though! Today is a day game against the As, sure to feature another wacky Scioscia getaway-day lineup, so what better time to answer your imaginary questions? Let’s get to it! With Tyler Skaggs on the DL, is it time to sign Fister? – T. Can, Pinon Hills, CA Glen: Absolutely

May 10, 2017

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66ers lose series opener against Visalia

The Inland Empire 66ers and Visalia Rawhide kicked off their 3 game series on on a cold Tuesday night as Visalia claimed the 1st game of the series. After splitting the series in Rancho Cucamonga, the 66ers had a chance to move into sole possession of 2nd place with a win but they were unable to do so, despite another strong outing from Jaime Barria. The Rawhide shutout Inland Empire 4-0 thanks to some strong pitching and timely hitting. “We’re fine right now,” said Inland Empire 66ers manager

May 10, 2017

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The tragic downfall of Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols is 5 home runs away from reaching the prestigious 600 home run mark, a number only 8 other players in MLB history have reached. His 3,000th hit is in sight to be reached possibly next season. It should be a time for celebration for Albert Pujols and the illustrious Hall of Fame numbers he’s accumulated. Yet, there is still a huge feeling of dissatisfaction among the Angels fan base and, presumably, the Angels organization. The feeling of wanting just a bit more from “The Machine” h

May 9, 2017

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Last Week in Angels Baseball – The “Fine Line” Edition

By Glen McKee, Staff Writer Baseball is a game of lines: stat lines, foul lines, lines for the bathroom at the stadium if you’re a woman. Some of the lines are very fine, and no exception to that is my line for if the Angels had a good week. For last week, it came down to one game. One game made the difference between having a good week and a bad week. It was actually two games, the two losses to Houston. Had the Angels won either of those (and they could have) it would have been a good we

May 8, 2017

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66ers-Quakes: Cinco De Mayo edition

4,622 fans swarmed to LoanMart Field on Friday night for Cinco De Mayo festivities, which included a matchup between the Inland Empire 66ers and Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and a Julio Urias bobble head giveaway to the first 1,500 fans in attendance. Dennis Santana, the former shortstop now turned pitcher, got the nod for the Quakes as he faced off against 66ers starter Luis Pena. The Quakes came out in front on Friday night in the 2nd game of the series, as they used 2 separate 3 run innings to pul

May 6, 2017

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The life of a baseball “stringer”

The development of tracking baseball on applications, such as MLB Gameday, for phones and computers would not be possible if not for particular people who attend each game. With the upbringing of Pitch/FX, Trackman and Statcast, the need for able workers to track each pitch and play has been a necessity to keep baseball up to date with informing its’ fans. Some of these workers are known as stringers, who are now not only tracking Major League Baseball but Minor League Baseball and even some Col

May 2, 2017

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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

May 2, 2017

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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

May 1, 2017

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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

May 1, 2017

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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

April 29, 2017

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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

April 25, 2017

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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

April 24, 2017

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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

April 21, 2017

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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

April 21, 2017

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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

April 19, 2017

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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/.

April 17, 2017

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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

April 17, 2017

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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

April 16, 2017

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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

April 14, 2017

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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

April 12, 2017

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