Your underrated Angels

[Slegnaac]

Ken Berry

Bob Oilver

[Erstad Grit]

33 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Tim Salmon

Nolan Ryan

Vlad Guerrero 

Shohei Ohtani

Mike Trout

Chuck Finley

Frank Tanana

K-Rod

Shields

Percival

You think Nolan, Vlad, Ohtani, and Trout are underrated? 

[Stradling]

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

You think Nolan, Vlad, Ohtani, and Trout are underrated? 

I was being facetious 

[Jason]

3 hours ago, Erstad Grit said:

Man I admit I never appreciated HK. 

He was a solid player but our expectations of him were way too unrealistic. 

[Biergott]

Grew up a Downing fan.  Glaus was the man but not really underrated.

[TroutField]

Not sure he was underrated but Torii Hunter was underappreciated, at least by Arte Moreno… should have finished his career in Anaheim. 
 

Darren Oliver, that man was amazing. Talk about shut down reliever, never had amazing stuff but just got the job done. A 20 year MLB career for a reliever is insane. 

 

[Tyler]

John Lackey and Chone Figgins. 

[Torridd]

14 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

This guy too. 

 

Doug was great but you can't call him underrated.

[Torridd]

Can't think of the guy's name but he was a 90s hitter, I believe, who was a bench outfielder. I think he had a long last name and was a lefty. I remember he always hit well. Kudos who comes up with the name. 

[Halo in Chicago]

9 hours ago, Biergott said:

Grew up a Downing fan.  Glaus was the man but not really underrated.

Downing was one of my favorites too.

[AngeLifer]

Orlando Palmiero?

[fan_since79]

10 hours ago, Jason said:

He was a solid player but our expectations of him were way too unrealistic. 

A common prediction was multiple batting titles for Kendrick.

[happybat4]

Tim Belcher, just for getting kicked.

[m0nkey]

Brad Fullmer

[T.G.]

Fernando Salas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm kidding.

[oldguy]

16 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

This guy too. 

 

I'm still mad at him for not bringing home the winning run from 3rd with less than two outs, during game 5 1986 playoffs.

[oldguy]

15 hours ago, T.G. said:

Joe Saunders.

Bob Boone.

Bengie Molina.

 

Agree on both Bengie and Boone.  Both were clutch.  I used to always fear that Bengie would hit into a double play in a clutch situation (being as he was so slow he wouldn't even make it onto your TV screen running to first), but he kept the ball off the ground, and often just hit a rope.  Boone would choke up on the bat and put the ball in play.

[Chuck]

3 minutes ago, oldguy said:

I'm still mad at him for not bringing home the winning run from 3rd with less than two outs, during game 5 1986 playoffs.

Yeah I'm a little sour on that too, but you can't take away from his great play when on the Angels. 

When I was a kid I copied his batting stance and did quite well.

[oldguy]

2 hours ago, Torridd said:

Can't think of the guy's name but he was a 90s hitter, I believe, who was a bench outfielder. I think he had a long last name and was a lefty. I remember he always hit well. Kudos who comes up with the name. 

Orlando Palmiero?

[oldguy]

5 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Yeah I'm a little sour on that too, but you can't take away from his great play when on the Angels. 

When I was a kid I copied his batting stance and did quite well.

When I was a kid, I copied Joe Morgan's stance, and had to remind the coach that, according to the Little League constitution, I was entitled to play 3 innings.

[johndw52]

Scott Shields 

[Revad]

Don Mincher, who was a solid 1b in the beginning.

[happybat4]

59 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Fernando Salas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm kidding.

I think people actually exaggerate how bad he was. Was he great? No, but he wasn't a negative WAR pitcher. 

[Taylor]

Jarrod Washburn had some good seasons here. Career 29 bWAR.

[Taylor]

45 minutes ago, happybat4 said:

I think people actually exaggerate how bad he was. Was he great? No, but he wasn't a negative WAR pitcher. 

Same with Ernesto Frieri. Everyone remembers the 2012 ALCS performance. But if you look at his stats with the Angels, there's a reason he had the nickname Ernasty.