Angels Official Website: Blanton pitches 2 1/3 innings with increased deception

[AngelsWin.com]

Joe Blanton's wide-ranging mechanical tweaks over the offseason and into the spring have centered mostly on re-establishing his deception, which is why Mike Scioscia called a rough first outing on Sunday "a step forward" nonetheless.

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[Guest]

How much more deceptive can blanton be? He already deceived the Angels into signing him for $15M

[ELEVEN]

He's wearing a moustache and a wig?

[Docwaukee]

he's was deceptively subpar.  

 

as opposed to awful. 

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Lol. Alden, you and Scioscia aren't fooling us with this fluff article.

[mancini79]

Apparently in Sosh's eyes, Blanton's last season was a HUGE step forward.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Blanton, with $8.5 million left on his contract and an uncertain future with the team, gave up a single to Jed Lowrie, a single to Josh Donaldson and a two-run double to Yoenis Cespedes to start his outing in the fifth. But the 33-year-old right-hander retired seven of the next eight batters he faced, walking one and striking out two to finish on a positive note.

 

I haven't looked at the box score, but isn't the time of Blanton's renaissance about the time when teams pull everyone who played above Class A ball the season before?

[mancini79]

Blanton, with $8.5 million left on his contract and an uncertain future with the team, gave up a single to Jed Lowrie, a single to Josh Donaldson and a two-run double to Yoenis Cespedes to start his outing in the fifth. But the 33-year-old right-hander retired seven of the next eight batters he faced, walking one and striking out two to finish on a positive note.

 

I haven't looked at the box score, but isn't the time of Blanton's renaissance about the time when teams pull everyone who played above Class A ball the season before?

 

Nah, Lowrie, Donaldson and Cespedes did the damage.

[Troll Daddy]

I was pleased with his performance today. You guys need to let last year go for now.

[jshep]

lol

[ukyah]

Blanton, with $8.5 million left on his contract and an uncertain future with the team, gave up a single to Jed Lowrie, a single to Josh Donaldson and a two-run double to Yoenis Cespedes to start his outing in the fifth. But the 33-year-old right-hander retired seven of the next eight batters he faced, walking one and striking out two to finish on a positive note.

 

I haven't looked at the box score, but isn't the time of Blanton's renaissance about the time when teams pull everyone who played above Class A ball the season before?

 

 

Nah, Lowrie, Donaldson and Cespedes did the damage.

 

 

isn't that the opposite of what he asked? he's talking about the next eight.

[Brent Maguire]

I was pleased with his performance today. You guys need to let last year go for now.

What was exactly "pleasing" about his performance? He got shellacked in his first inning.

[Redondo]

The only ones getting deceived here is us fans. MS sounds like he will be giving Blanton lots of playing time.

 

The only way to keep MS from using him is to trade him away.

[Stradling]

These articles aren't written for fans like us, they are written for the casual fan. Secondly why get all bent out of shape over what Mike says? He has made a career of not really saying anything of interest to the media. If you read that and came away with Mike is going to give Blanton a bunch of starts when the season starts then you either are gullible or you thought that before Mike opened his mouth.

As for his performance yesterday, I didn't see it, but he will be given multiple opportunities in spring it's as simple as that.

[Blarg]

Ibanez was stellar in left field the first inning Blanton pitched. Always makes sense to play shallow against a right handed batter when you have his wheels. Did any of you see how quickly he got to that ball that bounced in front of the wall? Definitely kept that from being an inside the park home run.

[Marsaka]

I was pleased with his performance today. You guys need to let last year go for now.

 

Apparently mike scioscia does lurk the forums.

[Stradling]

It's Spring Training, Blanton will be pitching for his career, either here or somewhere else when we trade/release him.

[Troll Daddy]

It's Dipoto who's behind Blanton getting playing time more so than MS.

[Stradling]

It's Dipoto who's behind Blanton getting playing time more so than MS.

You may be right, but how can you possibly know this to be a fact?

[Troll Daddy]

You may be right, but how can you possibly know this to be a fact?

I can only think of 15 million reasons why.

Sorry

[Troll Daddy]

If Blanton has a season that Dipoto imagined it may validate his signing ... if the Angels make it to post season.

Imagine this ... Blanton your game seven starter in the WS.,

[nate]

Blanton pitching well enough this spring is pretty much the worst possible thing that could happen to this team.  Only way it could work is if they trade him before the season starts.

 

He sucks and has sucked for quite a while now.  Keep him the hell away from this team.

[19HALO71]

In order to be traded, he needs opportunities to show some value. I would rather he gets his starts during ST.

[nate]

Nobody will trade for him.  Once he gets DFA'd he will end up with a minor league contract somewhere.

 

Pitching well this spring won't do anything to replace the stank of his last three seasons.  Scouts and teams aren't that stupid.

 

BY FAR, Dipoto's worst move.

[Quinlanforthewin]

Ibanez was stellar in left field the first inning Blanton pitched. Always makes sense to play shallow against a right handed batter when you have his wheels. Did any of you see how quickly he got to that ball that bounced in front of the wall? Definitely kept that from being an inside the park home run.

 

It's almost as if 41 year olds shouldn't be playing the OF