The Official 2021 Los Angeles Angels Spring Training News & Notes Thread

[ScottT]

Personal spring training news and notes:

Tickets secured for March 5th vs Oakland A's.   Hotel booked. 

[BTH]

Has anyone seen the Angels full Spring Training roster (with jersey numbers) somewhere?

The Angels website has the list of players, but no numbers. That's unfortunate because in the ST photos and videos, you can only see players numbers on the jerseys, as they don't have names on the ST jerseys.

So in some of the videos you can't even tell who it is because it's #85, yet they don't have a #85 listed on the roster.

[ScottT]

I don't know where you can find a full list, but...

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

19 hours ago, Billy_Ball said:

Walsh is here!

With the exclamation point you made there, it makes me nostalgic for the day we drafter him. And dipoto and company were high 5'ing while everyone else was speechless. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

15 hours ago, Billy_Ball said:

This picture reminds me of the crazy guy from The Thin Red Line.

"I want to sink my teeth into your liver."

[BTH]

2 hours ago, ScottT said:

I don't know where you can find a full list, but...

 

All of those except for Walsh are already on the website. It's more so the non-roster invitees who I'm uncertain of.

[Docwaukee]

2 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

This picture reminds me of the crazy guy from The Thin Red Line.

"I want to sink my teeth into your liver."

f'n Terrence Malick.  

[ThisismineScios]

3 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm guessing the casual Angeltards were flipping out about this on Twitter?

I don't envy Fletcher.

I actually think a lot of the writers unnecessarily phrased it as "topped out at 90". Not to say they were trying to mislead, but there are better ways to provide context. Like that Fletcher got Haren, Gubi and Braden to respond. Most fans know the first time your throw in Spring Training you don't care about your mph. And in the video he's clearly not working very hard. 

Also nobody would care if Gungho Joe hadn't gushed about him hitting 95. 

[Tank]

if you're worried that in his very first bullpen session Ohtani is only throwing 90 mph, then you're probably the kind of person that wakes up at 5:00am to vacuum or saves every cardboard box from amazon because "some day" you just might need it.

[Vlad27Trout27]

I'm not really worried about Velo for any of our starters, until the last 3 starts.I'm more looking forwards to seeing there command and control!

[Angels 1961]

If Angels use a 6 man rotation that would be 27 starts each. So we know they all will not stay healthy the whole year. Give each 25 starts some more some less. Average of 6 inn a start that would be only 150 inn. Many adjustments will be made during season but the 6 starters we have now I think will keep them healthy. 

[jsnpritchett]

5 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

If Angels use a 6 man rotation that would be 27 starts each. So we know they all will not stay healthy the whole year. Give each 25 starts some more some less. Average of 6 inn a start that would be only 150 inn. Many adjustments will be made during season but the 6 starters we have now I think will keep them healthy. 

A 6-man rotation doesn't mean that the starts will be divided equally--especially given that Ohtani is one of them. 

[Angels 1961]

18 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

A 6-man rotation doesn't mean that the starts will be divided equally--especially given that Ohtani is one of them. 

I know that just an average. I thought Angels would bring Ohtani along slowly and he would not take mound until mid May. What I hear early on from Maddon is Ohtani may start season in rotation.

[Docwaukee]

5 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

This picture reminds me of the crazy guy from The Thin Red Line.

"I want to sink my teeth into your liver."

who wants the 2hrs of their life back from watching Days of Heaven? 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Just now, Dochalo said:

who wants the 2hrs of their life back from watching Days of Heaven? 

Had to google that.

 

 

So you wouldnt recommend is what youre saying?

[Docwaukee]

3 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Had to google that.

 

 

So you wouldnt recommend is what youre saying?

re-watch days of thunder instead (I know you've seen that).  

Thin Red Line was great btw.  

you should watch it (Days of Heaven) and let me know what you think.  

[jsnpritchett]

14 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

re-watch days of thunder instead (I know you've seen that).  

Thin Red Line was great btw.  

you should watch it (Days of Heaven) and let me know what you think.  

Days of Heaven is only 95 minutes...

Love Thin Red Line.  That was the first movie premiere I got to go to (I was working as an assistant at Fox at the time).  The after party was in a parking lot in Westwood...

I'm a big fan of Malick's early work, but think most of what he's done post-The New World has been borderline unwatchable.

[jsnpritchett]

Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere, but I didn't see it:

https://www.mlb.com/angels/news/dylan-bundy-not-focused-on-free-agency

No extension talks yet.

[Taylor]

Has anyone been able to get Spring Training tickets? They were supposed to be available at 9 AM for anyone with an angels.mlb account.

EDIT: Nevermind, found it: https://www.mlb.com/angels/tickets/spring-training/presale

[Stradling]

23 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Has anyone been able to get Spring Training tickets? They were supposed to be available at 9 AM for anyone with an angels.mlb account.

EDIT: Nevermind, found it: https://www.mlb.com/angels/tickets/spring-training/presale

Yea, I had to go through the email they sent.  

[ScottT]

Got tickets for the 4th - 7th.  Had to get a little creative to get four actual seats instead of metal benches.   Two orders.  Two seats in same section separated by a row.  They wouldn't let you get four in a lot of Field MVP in one order.  Got good ones for Diamondbacks and A's. 

[Chuck]

Is anyone interested in going to the game on March 28th against the Dodgers? I'm going to be in town that weekend (26th-28th) and would love to catch a game, if they're opening it up in California. 

[ScottT]

6 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Is anyone interested in going to the game on March 28th against the Dodgers? I'm going to be in town that weekend (26th-28th) and would love to catch a game, if they're opening it up in California. 

I'd be shocked if they are allowing fans then. 

[ThisismineScios]

There is optimism they will allow some fans in stadiums in CA by opening day according to Boob Nightengale. Which probably means they will ban fans the entire year. 

It's a State decision, unfortunately. If it was up to the city/county, they'd likely allow limited capacity. But the governor is going to do anything possible to make people happy the next few months so I could see him allowing it. 

[eligrba]

18 hours ago, ThisismineScios said:

I actually think a lot of the writers unnecessarily phrased it as "topped out at 90". Not to say they were trying to mislead, but there are better ways to provide context. Like that Fletcher got Haren, Gubi and Braden to respond. Most fans know the first time your throw in Spring Training you don't care about your mph. And in the video he's clearly not working very hard. 

Also nobody would care if Gungho Joe hadn't gushed about him hitting 95. 

If I remember Ohtani’s last spring training, he takes it really easy and doesn’t do too much or show any interest in the outcomes. Not worried at all about Ohtani.  I plan to start worrying on the first official game he pitches.