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    AngelsWin.com's Exclusive Interview with Angels LHP Prospect Ky Bush

    By Chuck

    Photo by: Cristina Byrne-Sternberg/Rocket City Trash Pandas By Chuck Richter, AngelsWin.com October 13th, 2022 What a season it has been for the Angels 2021 second-round pick. Bush was selected to the Futures Games and was selected to pitch Game One of the Southern League playoffs against the Tennessee Smokies and blanked the opposition over five scoreless innings and earned the win.  The 6-foot-6 Bush saw his fastball tick up from 88-90 mph in junior college to topping out a
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    Los Angeles Angels Prospect Prospect Hotlist (8/9-8/22)

    By Chuck

    By Tres Hefter, AngelsWin.com Columnist An infusion of pitching talent from the 2021 draft began their pro careers over the last two weeks, and a number of familiar names continued to make an impact at the higher levels on the offensive side of things. As the minor league season draws close to its final month, more attention will turn towards which prospects earn promotions to the next level, including some to the major leagues, with the Angels bolstering their youth movement and looking mo
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    27 for Number 27: 27 Amazing Trout Stats (#5 & #6)

    By Chuck

    #5: WAR PACE THROUGH OLDER AGES Here are the top five WAR leaders through the next few years: Age 28: Cobb  78.6, Hornsby 77.0, Mantle 74.8, Trout 73.4, Foxx 71.3 (Trout’s 5.2 behind) Age 29: Hornsby 87.9, Cobb 86.4, Mantle 85.1, Ruth 79.4, Rodriguez 77.7 (Trout -14.5) Age 30: Cobb 97.9, Hornsby 92.5, Mantle 91.1, Foxx 83.6, Ruth 82.9 (Trout -24.5) In other words, Trout only needs 5.3 WAR in 2020 to maintain his lead through age 28, 14.6 (or 7.3 per year)
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  • Dave Saltzer

    Closing Time on the Pujols Era with the Angels

    By Dave Saltzer

    Photo Credit: Alex Gallardo/Associated Press By David Saltzer, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer —"Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” Semisonic In life, we all will face the point where we will be replaced. It’s never easy. If we are lucky, it’s on our own terms and we can retire when we want to. At other times, life dictates the ending. Whether it’s a business closing, an illness affecting us, a life event happening to someone else, a global pande
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  • Chuck

    Shohei Ohtani's Historic 2022 Season

    By Chuck

    SHOHEI OHTANI – MAKING HISTORY The 28-year-old reigning A.L. MVP and 2018 A.L. Rookie of the Year has completed his 2022 season with a 15-9 record with a 2.33 ERA (166 IP – 43 ER) and 219 strikeouts in 28 pitching starts, while holding opponents to a .203 average (124/610). As a hitter, he had 90 runs scored, 30 doubles, six triples, 34 home runs, 95 RBI, 72 walks, 11 stolen bases and a .875 OPS. Below are some additional accomplishments this season: FIRST PLAYER EVER… Is t
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Andrew Heaney’s encouraging start to 2017

Andrew Heaney has a 5.63 ERA and 7.81 FIP in his first 3 starts of 2017. That may make you question the title of this piece but a deeper look into his numbers bring up some cause for optimism. On Monday night, Andrew Heaney toed the rubber for his 3rd MLB start of the 2017 season. His previous 2 starts were not good strictly from a run prevention stand point. In those first 2 starts since returning from Tommy John surgery, Heaney allowed 15 hits and 9 runs in 10 innings, including 7 home runs.
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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “And the Bottom Drops Out” Edition

By Glen McKee, Assistant Nostalgiac to AO Wow, what a lousy week it was, and what the heck is 90s Charlize Theron doing at the top of the article, not that anyone is complaining?  Glad you asked, voice in my head as I’m writing this.  Last week for the Angels the bottom dropped out (although not completely out, as will be discussed shortly), and that reminded me of the Angels teams from the 90s, and this song from the 90s in particular: I’ve seen better days With that in mind, this misery-fil
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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “So You’re Telling Me…There’s a Chance” Edition

By Glen McKee, Dumber Every week with this team is a roller coaster.  Sometimes, it’s one of those crappy old roller coasters the theme park keeps around until they can find a way to replace it, like the Gold Rush at Magic Mountain: old, rickety, rough, and at the end, you swear you’ll never ride it again. Other times, it’s like the Guardians of the Galaxy ride at Disneyland: new, smooth, fun, and as soon as you’re done you want to get back in line and ride it again.  Last week was a Guardians
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Exploring an Angels-Giancarlo Stanton trade

GIancarlo Stanton has taken the baseball world by storm the past few weeks by putting on one of the most impressive power displays in baseball history. Power has always been the 27 year old’s main calling card but even this recent stretch has been impressive for his standards. In a stretch of 35 games, Stanton pounded out 23 long balls, claiming the attention as the game’s premier slugger that Yankees rookie Aaron Judge tried to take away earlier this year. Stanton slugged a healthy .731 in the
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Parker Bridwell on MLB Network’s “MLB Central”

Leading up to yesterday’s day game, Parker Bridwell joined MLB Network via Ballpark Cam to discuss the following items with MLB Central’s Mark DeRosa, Matt Vasgersian and Hall of Famer John Smoltz: Here’s some highlights of the segment with Parker Didwell. On what works for him, Bridwell responded, “Primarily I’d say executing fastball command, being down in the zone early, and when guys are hacking it really works in your favor and helps you be more efficient. If I can get an out in two pitch
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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “!!!” Edition

By Glen McKee, Staff Writer Believe it not, there isn’t a whole lot of preparation for writing this column.  I give it a bit of thought during the games throughout the week.  Then, on Monday morning when I take my dogs for a walk I try to solidify it and see what sticks in my head, in between finding dead bodies, loose cash, tools, and golf balls.  Usually, that Monday morning walk is long because I’m trying to pick nuggets of silver out of a week filled with mediocrity.  Today, however…sorry,
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Mike Trout’s 2017 MVP Case

By @Brent Maguire, AngelsWin.com Staff Writer Mike Trout missed 39 games in the middle of this season due to a torn ligament in his thumb from sliding into 2nd base. At the time of the injury, it presumably knocked him out of the American League MVP picture, which seemed fair given the precedent set by previous MVP winners. Fangraphs very own Craig Edwards examined this exact precedent earlier this week and, based on his data, Trout would end up receiving the 2nd lowest amount of plate appe
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AngelsWin.com Covers The Mike Trout Big Brothers-Big Sister Event

By Ellen Bell, AngelsWin.com Staff Reporter Today, I attended an event for the Boys and Girls Club of Orange County in Anaheim. Matched pairs of kids and mentors came to spend some time in the batting cages and get to meet an Angel superstar. In my opinion, heroes were everywhere in the room. The following is my take on what happened when the baseball hero arrived. We are waiting. Big kids. Little Kids. All baseball fans. Soon it will be ShowTime. But first, it’s time for batting practice I
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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “Loss of Optimism and Return of Boobs” Edition

By Glen McKee, Realist I’ve often (or occasionally, or maybe just once or twice) said that optimism doesn’t cost you anything.  You can be hopeful, but the key is that you have to be realistic as well.  For example, going into this season I was optimistic that the Angels would do reasonably well, but realistically I knew they were a sub-.500 team.  Last week, the optimism was crushed by the realism and here we are, four games under .500 and without a realistic shot at the wild card.  Since my o
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Five reasons why Mike Trout will be an Angel for life

By Jason Sinner, AngelsWin.com Contributor 5. Most baseball players don’t run home to mommy – There is quite a bit of hoopla around Trout being from the east coast. So what. Most players are on a team that isn’t close to their home town. Even after they’ve hit free agency. Especially superstars. A lot of them chase the money. But otherwise they chase wins. The distraction of being at ‘home’ can actually be a detriment. For a superstar like Trout, it certainly seems like it could be. 4. The Ang
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Angels Most Underrated Prospects

The Angels suddenly have a system flush with fringe major leaguers and upside after Eppler started his career as Angels GM with two spectacular drafts and one impressive foray into the international market.  As a system, they still aren’t in the upper echelon because the majority of their top prospects are lower than AA, but in a year or two, with another solid draft and international class, as well as the inevitable promotions, we should see the Angels become a very well regarded system. But e
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2017 Trade Deadline Series: Final Thoughts

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer Starting now at the 2017 Trade Deadline and for the next three years that follow the Angels primary, perhaps even their only, goal should be to build a contending team around the once-in-a-generation-talent that is Mike Trout. Nothing else matters. Money doesn’t matter. The farm system doesn’t matter. Only winning a World Series Championship with the best player in baseball, nay, perhaps one of the greatest players ever, matters, period. Now
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AngelsWin.com Interviews Outfielder Brennon Lund

The Angels desperately need some more left-handed bats in their lineup. And they can always use another table-setter hitting in front of Trout. Luckily, they have a player who fits that bill exactly–outfielder Brennon Lund. Drafted in the 11th round of the June, 2016 draft out of Brigham Young University, Brennon has shown a remarkable consistency in his hitting in his first two seasons of professional baseball. In 2016, he slashed .307/.360/.406 combined in Orem and Burlington. And, in 2017, h
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The Angels Top Prospect is….

Last year the debate was Matt Thaiss vs. Jahmai Jones.  It was your classing prep vs college, potential vs actual, age vs refinement.  I personally chose Matt Thaiss, but did so knowing that there wasn’t a wrong answer.  Others on the staff disagreed with me, and agreed with me.  And here we are a year later, and it hasn’t gotten any easier.  In fact, it’s become much more difficult. This year, it’s Jahmai Jones vs Matt Thaiss va Jordon Adell vs Brandon Marsh vs Griffin Canning vs Jaime Barria
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AngelsWin.com Interviews Matt Thaiss

Congratulations to Angels first baseman Matt Thaiss on his promotion from the Single-A Inland Empire 66ers to the Double-A Mobile BayBears! In his first game in Double-A, Matt showed off some of what Angels fans hope to see in the future by driving in the only run of the game on a double (driving in Hermosillo for a 1-0 win). Drafted as the 16th overall pick by the Angels in the June, 2016 draft, Thaiss has transitioned from catching to first base since joining the organization. In that effort,
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AngelsWin.com Interviews Angels Outfielder Brendon Sanger

Congratulations to Angels outfielder Brendon Sanger on his promotion from the Single-A Inland Empire 66ers to the Double-A Mobile Baybears! The smooth hitting lefty outfielder earned a promotion after returning to form with his hitting  and defense this season. Originally drafted as an outfielder in the 4th round of the June, 2015 draft, the Angels tried converting him to an infielder last year. Making such a switch combined for a down year for him last year at the plate. But, after returning t
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Minor League Prospects in Need of a Promotion

The Angels have historically been ultra-conservative when it comes to promoting their promising talent.  With each new regime that comes in, comes a different approach.  While Eppler’s regime has shown to be more aggressive in its promotions than its predecessors (Reagins regime was comically bad at this, and everything else) they’ve still shown to take longer than most other organizations. First, let’s start with the players the Angels have recently promoted. 1B Matt Thaiss – Thaiss wasn’t ex
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2017 Trade Deadline Series: Angels as Buyers? (Small Splash Version)

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer Optionally, rather than go long-term as in the previous article, Eppler could focus on more temporary opportunities in the trade market that could help us now and possibly next season to fill a gap at any position of need. Some of these are a lot more expensive than others but let me touch on a few of these stop-gap possibilities: Neil Walker – Walker accepted the Mets $17.2M Qualifying Offer last season and is currently on the disabled list.
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2017 Trade Deadline Series: Angels as Buyers? (Big Splash Version)

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer We just spent a lot of time discussing the Angels as sellers (and probably rightfully so) but what if Billy Eppler does the opposite and positions the team as buyers? Or even both, as sellers and buyers? There is an argument to be made that with the probable return of Mike Trout after the All-Star break combined with the return of RHP Cam Bedrosian and the feasible reinstatement of RHP Huston Street, SP Tyler Skaggs, SP Andrew Heaney, and/or po
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Last Week in Angels Baseball: The “Heading Into the ASB Like…” Edition

By Glen McKee, Staff Writer So it’s the All-Star break now, which means a few things: first, I won’t be writing this article next week and reliving the misery, and B, the Angels will have Mike Trout back on Friday (no whammy).    It was a bad week, a very bad week, as if the Angels decided to just say “eff it” until Trout gets back.  How bad was it?  Let me count the ways. The record.  2-4 against two teams the Angels are, judging by record, in the same neighborhood.  Well, they were before t
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Mike Trout’s Rehab Assignment July 8th, 2017

Mike Trout played in his third rehab assignment with the Inland Empire 66ers on Saturday night. And, for the first time, he wasn’t limited to the DH role. He was able to take the field and resume his role in centerfield. I went out to cover the game for AngelsWin.com and to get some interviews with several of the rising prospects on the team. Of course, being Mike Trout, and an incredible class act at that, he still treated the crowd to a show prior to the game. He took time to sign autographs
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2017 Trade Deadline Series: The Leftovers

By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer Frankly when this trade deadline series started there were more trade candidates to discuss. But, oh, how a few weeks can change the landscape. In the first submission we discussed Cameron Maybin, perhaps the Angels greatest pure rental asset, and also, in the same article, we discussed how Eric Young Jr. is similar to him but with less value (particularly after he has tanked over the last two weeks). Check! The second article touched on reli
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Mike Trout’s Rehab Game Notes 7/6

Wednesday July 5th marked Mike Trout’s first professional baseball game since he tore a ligament in his left thumb sliding into second base in Miami on May 28th. Trout’s journey back to the big leagues started with the Inland Empire 66ers, the Angels High A ball affiliate, as he batted 3rd as the team’s DH Wednesday night. Trout ultimately went 0-3 but reported no pain after the game, a welcomed sign for the Angels and their premier player. Mike Trout was the 66ers DH again on Thursday night as
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