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Scoured the internet and forums on Yoslan Herrera. During his last stint in the majors (2008) he was a starter who only topped out at the mid-high 80s with a good breaking ball. http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/blogs.detail/display/5994/Remember-Yoslan-Herrera--Believe-it-or-not--he-s-back-in-the-majors.html "Herrera always had a sharp curveball during his Curve days, but with a fastball only in the mid- to upper-80s, the right-hander couldn't get by much on that and had to rely heavily on his offspeed stuff. That's almost always a bad sign for a minor league pitcher, and it was especially bad for the Pirates, who had given him a three-year contract worth $1.9 million but never got much in return." As the article stated, Herrera couldn't get it done by just throwing the breaking ball to cover up his lack of velocity. Well in his debut with the Angels he topped out at 97 miles per hour and continued to show a sharp breaking ball. Maybe the increased velocity can be the ingredient that gets his career on track. Just trying to be an optimist.

Thanks a lot Chuck!

Had no idea Stewart was a 1st round draft pick. He was the number 10 pick of the draft! Does anyone happen to have a scouting report of Stewart back then? Really curious to see what scouts saw in him for him to be a top 10 pick, obviously other than his power.

We gotta hope the three-headed monster keeps putting up strong numbers to force the Angels hands: So far.. Morin (AA) 5.0 IP 6 SO 0.00 ERA 0.60 WHIP Alvarez (AA) 3.1 IP 6 SO 0.00 ERA 0.90 WHIP Bedrosian (A+) 4.2 IP 12 SO 0.00 ERA 0.71 WHIP I don't know why Bedrosian was sent to High-A. He had a good showing at the AFL and followed it with a strong Spring Training. Also another idea, what about Brandon Sisk? He was the pitcher we received for Ervin Santana who missed all last year with Tommy John. With Burnett being Burnett and Moran on the DL, we could really use him as the lefty in the pen. He has done nothing but pitch exceptionally well in the minors and it looks like the injury hasn't affected him. (Though a small sample size post-Tommy John injury) Sisk (AA) 3.0 IP 5 SO 0.00 ERA 0.00 WHIP

Ya it was hilarious.

Yay we won.

JB should be batting behind Pujols. HAHA

Jeez he's a butcher on that field.

Injuries are accustomed to this pen anyways so why not? Madson 2.0

Any word on if De La Rosa is being activated for today's game?

Cam Bedrosian So far his line in IE (3 games): 3.2 IP 1 H 2 BB 10 K .083 AVG

Walk-Off Homer: http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=31938419&topic_id=&sid=t561&tcid=vpp_copy_31938419&v=3 Grand Slam: http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=31968577&topic_id=&sid=t561&tcid=vpp_copy_31968577&v=3

With all these huge injuries in baseball it was only a matter of time before the Angels were hit by one.

I don't want Shuck on this roster.

Batting .321 along with 5 doubles as well. He needs to crush the PCL.

Cron with his first homer of the year. A walk-off shot in the 12th inning.

Lindsey with his first homer of the year.

Joe Blanton.

RJ Alvarez and Mike Morin each pitched scoreless innings tonight. RJ Alvarez gave up no hits, walking 1 and striking out 2. Morin followed by pitching a perfect 8th while striking out the side.

Cal Towey has reached base all 7 times so far this season. He is 5-6 with a walk while reaching once on an error. He just smoked an RBI double off Taijuan Walker.

Salt Lake, Arkansas, IE & Burlington all got the W's today.

Rondon just missed a home-run. Burlington's Mike Fish went 3-5 with two doubles and 2 rbi's batting from the 3-spot.

Cal Towey is DH'ing for IE right now and is 2-2. A double a walk and an rbi. Rondon has reached base every at-bat. 1-1 with 2 walks and 3 runs scored. Update : Cowart with another single. He's now 5-6.