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He seems to be a bit extra-inspired when Trout has as many home runs as he does. Seems almost like a friendly competition between them. I'll bet one of them at least breaks Anderson's record for home runs before the All Star break.

Thanks YK. I still see the relief that he's off the hook and the admiration watching the fly. Just leading into this you can see his head move watching the hit leave the yard. But I'm likely reading my own thoughts into it. For all I know he has gas.

To me, his eyes look big and he's knows he's now off the hook. I don't see "ho hum" at all.

I wish I was smart enough to capture it. But he looked up from the dugout with the look that says, "sure glad he's on my team." Shoe, so am I!

I'm really not much of a saber metrics person. But here's what I do see. Iannetta has a terrible throwing arm. Even if it gets to second base, his throw is not likely to be where the second baseman or shortstop needs it to be in order to tag out the runner. Iannetta is not great at catching the ball and is prone to passed balls or wild pitches getting by him. It's not true that he has improved since May 10. He was bad in April, better in May, poor in June, and good so far in July.April hits-5, average-.093, and OBP-.206. May hits-14, average-.264, and OBP-.328. June hits-8, average-.190, and OBP-.327. OBP and average by months last year, .403 and .250 4/14, .386 and .286 in 5/14, and .311 and .244 in June. Thus, Iannetta's best month this year is more on par with his worst in the first three months of last year. It just looks good compared to his other bad months. Now, if he stays really hot in July, that might help. Looking at the rest of his season, though, it might be a few good days in a row, as he had in June. I hope for the best.

I don't care who it is against, 47 hits and 33 runs with next to no contribution from your best player; that's pretty impressive. It may not mean much more than that, but for this last weekend, they looked great.

Angels have 47 hits and score 33 runs while Trout is 2 for 11 with 1 RBI for the three games. I actually think that is a really good sign of the team's potential.

That's a few sources that seem to say similar things about the situation. It also fits with issues from the past. Frankly, I doubt Scioscia is really over Mickey Hatcher. My guess is that it was probably Butcher getting into it with Dipoto, and Dipoto learned he couldn't fire Butcher.

That might affect that whole, Trout getting on base and Pujols driving him in thing. No one seems to be getting on base to be driven in except Trout.

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That's pretty much it. This quote from the wrap to Tuesday's win says it all. "Since May 28, the Angels' first baseman has batted .352 with four strikeouts in 100 plate appearances. The Angels have scored 108 runs in that stretch, and he and Mike Trout have driven in or scored all but 21 of them."

Okay let me state right at the top that I'm being sarcastic! I am thrilled with how well he's playing. But, if I weren't an Angels fan, watching a guy who has looked washed up suddenly on a roll like he's on, I'd probably be thinking there must be an outside reason for it. Shows how suspicious I am as a person. I also know we probably don't need yet another Pujols thread, but Criminitly Trigger, what a tear! It's like finally getting long, earth saving days of rain after years of drought. Oh, sorry, I know the rain issue is a big one for you still residing in California. Keep it up Pujols, and whether it's apple or orange, or even cranberry or carrot, keep drinking what you're drinking.

C'mon Chuck. You know a good chunk of this board doesn't actually want Pujols to play well, let alone to acknowledge that he is,

I think what was also a bitter pill is the year after he left, he hit 320 with 30 HRs and an ops of 1.045 for the Rangers in only 113 games. Wells certainly wasn't that.

I'm old fashioned in that I tend to judge players by what I can observe with my eyes rather than what I cannot always perceive that factors into advanced metrics. That's my eye test, I guess, and here is what I saw. Mathis couldn't hit a tree with his bat. Napoli was a good hitter with ++ power. Mathis had a poor throwing arm and did not always seem to know the difference between 1st and 2nd base. Pitchers seemed to like pitching to Mathis but still pitched well with Napoli. Scioscia had it bad for Mathis and had it in for Napoli.

Will we even notice that he's on the DL? He might put up his best stats of the season during that stint--from the DL of course.

That's some serious suckage. Only the Brewers are worse than the Angels .232 average. Interestingly the Astros are only batting ,233. Big difference though, Angels 25 in RBIs, Astros 7th. Angels 27 in runs scores, Astros 7th. Astros are hitting at better times than the Angels. Call'em false stats, but it seems clear that the problem is the Angels offense sucks.

Maybe he's become too much of a team player.

Since Featherstone has a .063 average that means he has actually had at least 1 hit this year, but I can't seem to remember it.

Just a thought. Trout these last few games is Iannetta April 2015 bad and Iannetta suddenly has it going again. It would be nice if more than two to three Angels a game could hit well.

Until there is a suitable replacement available to hit third, I don't think this is worth the time to debate.

I don't know why every runner on base doesn't steal on Iannetta. I'd say anyone has at least a 75% chance of making it.

Any way they give us Martin for Iannetta straight up?

Clearly Pestano is the answer.

When isn't it a high leverage situation this season?