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Biggest DB in baseball.

I'm probably making it up that CJ had family problems. But I could have sworn I read an article right before he went on the DL for his ankle that he was having some personal problems. Maybe I dreamed it.

CJs issues are all mental. He has family problems and is overthinking his mechanics. Pick up the damn ball, throw strikes and see what happens. It can't be much worse than what all your over preparing is doing for you!

We should get Blanton just for this game to offset Williams.

Would this board implode if the list had Pujols and Hamilton?

Grab him Dipoto!

CJ would be the ace on that rotation.

Let's trade him to the A's. That would end well. Maybe we can get Sam Fuld?

World.Series.Lock.

This lineup is 8 runs minimum.

A bit off topic but what would our rotation look like had we not traded Trumbo?  Scary thought...

Perhaps temper the euphoria over playing sub 500 teams with the performance last night against a very sub 500 pitcher.  They have done well against these teams, but that's no guarantee going forward.  Short of Richards and Weav, starting pitching is not exactly overwhelming at this point.

But we hit the best pitcher in baseball fairly well so let's be optimistic.  

Street 1 IP, 0 ER

I moved to Southern California in 2007 and became an Angels fan in 2009. I grew up in Illinois and was a white sox fan. I started going to Angels game when I moved here and really started liking them. I really hated the direction the white sox were going and being that southern california is my new home for the next 30 years at least, I became an angels fan. 

(yes I liked the ChiSox in 2005 during the infamous AJ P game, please don't hold it against me)

I'm convinced Mark Mulder is the answer.

He is noticeably thinner than when he was on the Rangers. Any time I see Ranger highlights I can't believe how much bigger he looks

Maybe Trout should take him out to wherever he goes for dinner?

Maybe we should give Blanton CJs spot since everyone wants to get rid of him?

From baseball prospectus:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/potential-free-agents-for-2015/

The following players have contracts expiring or should have the six years of service necessary to become free agents after the 2014 season. 

(* – player whose current contract includes 2015 option.)

First Basemen
Billy Butler *
Adam Dunn
Michael Cuddyer
Corey Hart
Paul Konerko
Adam LaRoche *
Adam Lind *
Victor Martinez 
Mike Morse
Carlos Pena

Second Basemen
Emilio Bonifacio
Alexi Casilla
Mark Ellis 
Rafael Furcal
Kelly Johnson
Nick Punto *
Brian Roberts
Ramon Santiago
Rickie Weeks *
Ben Zobrist * 


Shortstops
Mike Aviles *
Asdrubal Cabrera
Alex Gonzalez 
J.J. Hardy 
Jed Lowrie
John McDonald
Hiroyuki Nakajima *
Hanley Ramirez
Jimmy Rollins * 


Third Basemen
Wilson Betemit 
Alberto Callaspo 
Eric Chavez 
Jack Hannahan *
Chase Headley 
Casey McGehee
Donnie Murphy
Nick Punto * 
Aramis Ramirez *
Pablo Sandoval
Ty Wigginton


Catchers
John Buck
Ryan Doumit 
Nick Hundley * 
Gerald Laird
Russell Martin
Jeff Mathis *
Wil Nieves
Ronny Paulino
A.J. Pierzynski
David Ross
Geovany Soto


Outfielders
Norichika Aoki 
Emilio Bonifacio 
Melky Cabrera
Nelson Cruz
Michael Cuddyer 
Rajai Davis
Chris Denorfia
Jeff Francoeur 
Jonny Gomes 
Franklin Gutierrez
Tony Gwynn Jr.
Scott Hairston 
Torii Hunter 
Raul Ibanez
Reed Johnson 
Ryan Lukwick * 
Nick Markakis *
Darnell McDonald 
Mike Morse
Colby Rasmus 
Alex Rios * 
Nate Schierholtz
Grady Sizemore
Seth Smith 
Alfonso Soriano
Denard Span * 
Ichiro Suzuki 
Ryan Sweeney 
Josh Willingham 
Chris Young 
Delmon Young 


Starting Pitchers
Brett Anderson *
Josh Beckett  
Chad Billingsley * 
Joe Blanton *
A.J. Burnett *
Chris Capuano 
Bruce Chen *
Wei-Yin Chen *
Kevin Correia 
Johnny Cueto * 
Jorge De La Rosa
Ryan Dempster 
Scott Feldman
Gavin Floyd
Yovani Gallardo * 
Jason Hammel
J.A. Happ * 
Aaron Harang  
Dan Haren *
Roberto Hernandez
Hisashi Iwakuma 
Josh Johnson
Kyle Kendrick 
Hiroki Kuroda
John Lannan
Colby Lewis
Jon Lester 
Paul Maholm
Justin Masterson
Brandon McCarthy
Brandon Morrow *
Jeff Niemann 
Ross Ohlendorf 
Felipe Paulino * 
Jake Peavy 
Wandy Rodriguez 
Max Scherzer 
James Shields 
Carlos Villanueva 
Ryan Vogelsong  
Edinson Volquez
Jerome Williams 


Relief Pitchers
David Aardsma
Mike Adams * 
Matt Albers *
Burke Badenhop 
Ronald Belisario 
Matt Belisle 
Heath Bell
Craig Breslow *
Sean Burnett *
Jared Burton *
Tim Byrdak
Joba Chamberlain
Phil Coke
Manny Corpas
Jesse Crain
Scott Downs *
Kyle Farnsworth
Jason Frasor
Kyuji Fujikawa * 
Tom Gorzelanny 
Luke Gregerson
Jason Grilli 
LaTroy Hawkins *
Luke Hochevar
J.P. Howell 
Casey Janssen 
Jim Johnson 
Matt Lindstrom 
Brandon Lyon
Carlos Marmol 
Dustin McGowan * 
Jose Mijares
Andrew Miller
Franklin Morales
Jason Motte 
Peter Moylan
Pat Neshek
Darren O’Day * 
Juan Carlos Oviedo
Vicente Padilla
Chris Perez 
J.J. Putz 
David Robertson 
Francisco Rodriguez  
Sergio Romo 
Joakim Soria * 
Rafael Soriano * 
Huston Street *
Joe Thatcher 
Koji Uehara 
Jose Veras * 
Brian Wilson * 
Jamey Wright

Wasn't there originally rumors that his downhill slide started because of some family problem? If true maybe this is still what's going on. Sounds like he is a headcase.

Back to the DL if he does poorly today?

More Trout porn if you can get past the Kershaw and Abreu love.

That is some impressive company he might be joining.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11316089/baseball-august-history-watch

Run, run, run: In his rookie season, Trout led the AL in runs scored. In his second season, he also led the league in runs scored. And this season? Yep. He just caught Brian Dozier of the Twins to tie for the league lead again. Here's the first reason that's so cool: In the past 50 years, the only men ever to lead their league in runs three straight seasons were Pete Rose (1974-76) and Pujols (2003-05). I've heard of them. How 'bout you?

But here's the second reason it's so cool: In the past 100 years, these are the only men ever to lead the AL in runs scored three years in a row: Babe Ruth (twice), Ted Williams (1940-42) and Mickey Mantle (1956-58). Wait. Who?

.900 miles: Trout is also well on his way to his third consecutive season with an OPS over .900. (He's at .979 at the moment). In case no one had mentioned this in the last 30 seconds, he's only 22 years old (for another day, at least). Want to know the only players in history who ever ripped off at least three straight qualifying seasons with a .900-plus OPS by their age-22 season? The complete list consists of Mel Ott (four in a row, 1928-31), Williams (1939-41) and Jimmie Foxx (1928-30). More information about their exploits can be found hanging in a gallery in Cooperstown, New York.

Extra credit: All right, here's one more. Trout needs just another 12 extra-base hits to reach at least 75 for the second straight season. Once again, the list of players as young as Trout who have 75 or more extra-base hits in back-to-back seasons does not include a whole lot of Jose Vizcainos and Nick Puntos. In fact, it includes just these three names: DiMaggio, Williams and Pujols. Any minute now, Trout will pull right in alongside them.

So think of the names that have shown up next to Trout just in the last few paragraphs: Ruth, Williams, Mantle, DiMaggio, Ott, Foxx, Pujols and Rose. Should we just start carving Mike Trout's Hall of Fame plaque now -- or wait a couple of weeks?"

Is the author in Australia or Japan maybe??

Pujols 1-4, Homer

I just wish CJ would have pitched yesterday.

I stepped on a dead fish on the beach in St. Pete beach in Florida once also (I used to live there). It was this fish with spikes on it's back and sides. Those things probably went an inch into my foot and I had flesh hanging down. In addition to a nasty cut some poison was released even though it was dead. I had trouble walking for a month.

Lesson is, look down when you walk on the beach. I did it at night after a few drinks.

Also saw someone reference that he was also supplying to athletes in the Dominican as young as 12.

Hopefully he's connected to some Cuban's as well.