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    AngelsWin.com Interviews Angels Play-by-Play Announcer Daron Sutton

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    Interview Conducted by David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer There’s no doubt that the Angels this year will hit a lot of homeruns this year. With Trout, Rendon, Ohtani, Upton, and Pujols in the lineup, the potential for a lot of offense is clearly established. But the biggest homerun the Angels may hit this year is in bringing back Daron Sutton to help with the Play-By-Play announcing for the Angels broadcasts. Along with Matt Vasgersian, Sutton will form part of the broadcast te
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    Prospect Hotlist: Los Angeles Angels Hottest Prospects (5/30/21)

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    By Tres Hefter, AngelsWin.com Columnist The past two weeks have seen some big moments from Angels top prospects with Jo Adell climbing to the top of the minor league HR leaders and Reid Detmers posting three starts, and sure enough, this edition of the Angels Prospect Hotlist features a Salt Lake City outfielders and first-rounders, but maybe with a few unexpected names. Aside from the red-hot Salt Lake offense, the other side of the ball has seen the Angels lower-level pitching continuing 
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    2020 Angelswin.com Primer Series: Catcher

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    By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer Out of all of the positions of need the Angels might punt on this off-season, catcher seems the most likely out of the group. This is not because the Angels would not like to place the best catcher they can find in the position but rather more a resource allocation issue, due to the higher payroll priority need in the rotation. Realistically, catchers are, at most, in a 70%/30% split, typically leaning more toward 60%/40%, nominall
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    AngelsWin.com's Midseason Top-30 Los Angeles Angels Prospects

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    By The AngelsWin.com Prospect Posse Welcome to our updated 2021 prospects list. After the tragedy that was a lost minor league season in 2020, we were very excited to see our minor leaguers in action. The big surprise this year is the veritable explosion of pitching, from strong performances by top prospects Reid Detmers and Chris Rodriguez, to the emergence of lesser-known guys like Davis Daniel and Robinson Pina, as well as many fringe guys all of a sudden becoming legitimate major league
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    A case for Michael Lorenzen

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    By @Inside Pitch, AngelsWin.com Senior Analyst Most people here will likely want to skip this, it's stat nerd heavy, but if you are interested in stuff like that you'd be well served to read this excellent article at FG... https://library.fangraphs.com/pitching/stuff-location-and-pitching-primer/ This post leans heavily on the information in this article but for anyone not wanting to read the long form or that doesn't want to have to look at a bunch of graphs you can basically foc
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Here's how ridiculous Shohei Ohtani's recent offensive rampage has been

We all love it when there’s an opportunity to use the #PitchersWhoRake hashtag, but Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani has brought a whole other meaning to it during the 2018 season. Sure, he’s only appeared as a pitcher once since the beginning of June and is now potentially facing a long road back to the mound via Tommy John surgery, but that hasn’t stopped him from raking at the plate. He showed us the kind of focus he has on the day it was announced he may need to go under the

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Look: Mike Trout poses with Lombardi trophy before Falcons game

Angels slugger Mike Trout was born and raised in New Jersey, but he’s always been an Eagles fan. Trout has made it very clear during interviews, and has also been spotted at a few Eagles games. He apparently attended Thursday’s season-opener at Lincoln Financial Field between the Falcons and Eagles, as he was able to snap a photo holding the Lombardi Trophy. His squad earned it after defeating the Patriots in Super Bowl LII, and Trout reaped the benefits. Given the mediocrity that surrou

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Shohei Ohtani's Offensive Upside

By Jonathan Northrop, AngelsWin.com Columnist I wrote a post several weeks back about Ohtani’s overall upside, positing that as good of a hitter as he is, his pitching upside is just greater. Whereas he could turn into a top 20 hitter, he could be a top 5 pitcher – his stuff is just that good. Of course the problem is volatility. A hitter’s peak value is generally only eroded by chronic injuries, while a pitcher’s entire career can be put into jeopardy by a single injury. Anyhow, I wanted to t

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So, You Want to Make a Trade? Part 1—It’s a Lot More Complicated Than You Think

By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer In Part 1 of this 2-part series, I’ll discuss some of the complicating factors involved in making a trade. I’ll share some insights into all those involved in the process and how they all work together to make a trade happen or how they can each individually prevent a trade from occurring. It’s the July trade deadline, and baseball fans are in fever pitch about making trades. On any given day right now, fans are logging millions of visits on sites

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2018 Angelswin.com Trade Deadline Series: Potential Trade Assets

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer Entering the 2018 Trade Deadline the Angels unfortunately have little to offer the buyer market. Garrett Richards, who would have been a viable piece, is having Tommy John Surgery. Matt Shoemaker would have been a potential target, but he too got injured earlier in the season. Kole Calhoun might have been on the table, but despite his recent performance his value is wildly depressed. Beyond that group you do have valuable chips such as LHP Tyl

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2018 Angelswin.com Trade Deadline Series: Methodology

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” – A Tale of Two Cities  It was the 13-3 start, it was the 36-46 record since, it was another potential Trout MVP season, it was a galore of injuries to match. The Angels had a lot of promise heading into 2018. And despite the fact some of that potential was realized, the team’s inability to find a consistent rhythm and create steady

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How Tyler Skaggs has emerged to be the Angels ace

By Steve Zavala, AngelsWin.com Columnist When the season began, the Angels starting rotation was much of an unknown filled with questions and concerns. Andrew Heaney, Garrett Richards and Nick Tropeano were all coming off three straight injury-riddled seasons. Prized prospect Shohei Ohtani was coming over from Japan with high expectations. Alex Meyer and J.C Ramirez hurt the Angels depth early on with season-ending injuries. The team had several promising pitching prospects in the minors but di

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Four More Moves The Los Angeles Angels Need to Make: 2018 Midseason Edition

By Tres Hefter, AngelsWin.com Contributor Piggybacking off this thread from the winter…with so many threads jumping up each day on different bullpen trade ideas, I thought it might be a good time to create one centralized “What would you do?” thread for all to post their ideas in. We’re still 6 weeks out from the trade deadline, but signs point to an earlier than usual trade market developing this year, and the Angels certainly are in a position where they may need to move sooner rather than l

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Why Mike Trout Might Be the Most Dominant Player Ever

By Jonathan Northrop, AngelsWin.com Contributor What I’m about to share with you is so mind-blowing that it is worth its own thread outside of the Troutstanding one. Let me take you for a journey… I went through every seven-year span in baseball history, from 1871-77 to the current one, 2012-18, and looked at WAR leaders over those seven year stretches. Why seven years? Because that is how long Trout has been a major league regular, so it encapsulates the fullness of his career thus far. I the

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Mid Season Angels All-Star Minor League Team

Here’s a quick look at the Angels top minor league players at the midway point of the season. Congratulations to Jose Miguel Fernandez on graduating to the majors, while collecting his first major league hit in his first at bat against the Twins this past weekend. Fernandez is hitting a cool .444 with two doubles across three games for the Halos thus far. Hermosillo was also recalled a few weeks back after Kole Calhoun went on the DL, but I wanted to make sure we gave him some love for his acc

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Los Angeles Angels Midseason Minor League Update

Here’s a midseason snapshot of what the Angels prospects and minor league depth have done to this point of the season. STARTING PITCHERS Jose Suarez (20, LHP, A+/AA/AAA): 11 GS, 47.1 IP, 46 H, only 1 HR allowed, 15 walks, 75 strikeouts (14.3 K/9!), 1.29 WHIP, 2.85 ERA Griffin Canning (21, RHP, A+/AA): 10 GS, 44.2 IP, only 20 hits allowed, 2 HR allowed, 21 walks, 51 strikeouts, 0.92 WHIP, 1.21 ERA – 2018 AA All-Star John Lamb (27, LHP, AAA): 12 GS, 46 IP, 46 hits allowed, 12 walks, 51 stri

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Angels OF Prospect Brandon Marsh Talks with AngelsWin.com

Interview Conducted by David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer There’s no doubt that the Angels organization is resurgent. As we approach the 2018 draft, the Angels have rebounded from their nadir two years ago, and are on a path to a much higher organizational ranking. One of the many emerging players in the Angels organization is Brandon Marsh, a left-handed outfielder with the Inland Empire 66ers. Drafted in the 2nd round of the 2017 draft, Marsh has the tools that make scouts drool and

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Check out this AMAZING Mike Trout 2014 MVP Word Art

Dan Duffy from Philadelphia is both an amazing artist of word art, but also a huge sports fan. Specifically a fan of the greatest baseball player in the game, Mike Trout. “First off, he’s going to be one of the greatest to ever play the game, so I knew I was always going to do a Mike Trout piece. The image is handwritten with his batting stats (Date, Team, Hits, At Bats, HRs, Walks) from every game of his 2014 MVP season, the first season his greatness was *officially* recognized by the league.

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Angels OF Prospect Jo Adell Talks with AngelsWin.com

Interview by David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer Over the past two years, the Angels organization has taken a giant step forward in terms of its prospect rankings. One of the many players leading to this improvement is Jo Adell, who is considered by most, including AngelsWin.com, to be the top prospect in the Angels organization. Drafted in the 1st round of the 2017 draft (10th overall), Adell has moved rapidly through the Angels organization, and recently was promoted to High-A

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Early returns on Angels GM Billy Eppler's 2018 off-season

We’re about 1/3rd of the way through the season and by most accounts, a reasonably successful one so far.   But one of extremes. A 13-3 start followed by 15-20.  Streaks of 7 wins and 5 losses. The offense went .291/.825 through those first 16 games.  .226/.694 since. 3.19 era for that 13-3 start.  3.84 era since. SP to during that early streak?   3.84 era.  Bullpen?  2.45 era.  SP since then?  3.45 era.  BP?  4.45. 12-17 at home.  16-6 on the road.  1-4 in extras.  3 walk off wins.  2 walk

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Odell Beckham Jr. Can Apparently Play Baseball, Too

New York Giants star wide receiver hit batting practice tonight in Anaheim ahead of the Angels game against the Tampa Bay Rays. OBJ sported a throwback Devil Rays jersey of current Rays pitcher Blake Snell, who brought in OBJ as his guest for the night. The roots of their relationship is unclear, but it gave OBJ the opportunity to show off his swing. It’s only batting practice; but OBJ’s one-handed catches have shown that he is a superhuman, so it may already be fair assumption to say that

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Justin Verlander nearly makes Shohei Ohtani fall down with sick pitch

Angels sensation Shohei Ohtani has been getting it done both on the mound and at the plate, but he appeared to meet his match during Wednesday’s game against the Astros. Ohtani nearly went golfing attempting to hit a slider from Justin Verlander, and it almost caused him to hit the deck as a result. He lost his balance offering at the pitch, but was able to remain upright — preventing embarrassment. In Ohtani’s defense, Verlander has done that to many other players over the years. View

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It's Time for MLB to Expand to Las Vegas

By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer In a stunning 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning states from legalizing sports betting. The decision in Murphy v. NCAA clears the way for many states to legalize and regulate the estimated $150 billion annual sports betting industry (including legal and illegal gambling). Many states are expected to rush into the process of legalizing this industry to tax a mostly underground and offshore industry (it is estimated

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Congrats to Albert Pujols on hit #3000

What a special moment for Albert Pujols, his family, friends and teammates last night at Safeco Field. Pujols has joined some exclusive company. Here’s everything you need to know about Pujols and what he has accomplished on his path to 3,000 hits. First off, in case you missed it. Albert Pujols has joined an elite group as the 32nd player all-time to log 3,000 career hits and the first since Adrián Beltré, who collected his on July 30, 2017 vs. Baltimore. Pujols also

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Who's In Your Angels Legendary Lineup?

CIRCA 1970’s: Nolan Ryan #34 of the California Angles pitches during circa mid 1970’s Major League Baseball game. Ryan played for the Angles from 1972-79. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer One of the many joys of having children is that as they grow up, you can have much deeper conversations about things, and they can understand so much more. The passions that you have can become their passions, and you can teach them about why you love the t

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The Hitting King

By Greg Bird, AngelsWin.com Staff Reporter Welcome back to Inside Edge after a very long hiatus. First I’d like to thank Chuck for pulling me back in to writing for AngelsWin after a long stint on the DL. I’d also like to thank Billy Eppler for giving an Angel fan hope again. This is not to say I didn’t like the person that was our former GM, he was a ‘good dude’ but his moves just lacked the true inspiration of Eppler’s. With my first short article this Greg Bird returns from the DL for the Ha

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Shohei Ohtani crushes 97 mph fastball from Luis Severino for home run

Angels sensation Shohei Ohtani continues to amaze. He didn’t do that from the mound in Friday’s game against the Yankees, but he did do something that is unique to him, that no other pitcher in the league could pull off. Ohtani came to the plate in the second inning of the game, and he hit a 97.1 mph fastball from Luis Severino into the stands. Wow. View the full article

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Predict Pujols' 3,000th Hit and Win an In & Out Gift Basket

By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer According to Baseball-Reference.com, as of the time of this writing, there have been a total of 19,233 players who have played in at least one of 216,072 Major League games from 1871 until the present (including the National Association as a Major League for the totals). Unfortunately, this number does not include all those who played in the Negro Leagues or the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Those two leagues alone would add thous

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