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1 hour ago, Chico said:

I "wonder" if Stephen A. Smith was inferring to any nefarious cause with his rant against Trout...hmmm...

https://www.si.com/mlb/2024/05/02/mike-trout-injury-stephen-a-smith-rant-blasted-baseball-fans

The guy I've always compared to Trout is Mickey Mantle. Trout even physically resembles the Mick, who also blasted so many homers, was a speed demon in the OF, won tons of awards and unfortunately, had an injury-riddled career. A big difference was that Mantle was a 7x World Series champion. The Yankees ownership surrounded Mantle with an all-star lineup. Arte surrounded Trout with maybe a handpicked star or two, who never worked out as a long-term Angel. The shame of it all, Trout's Angels have never won a post-season series. It's all on Moreno who has got to sell one of these years. He's the worst owner in MLB.

Fans of the Oakland A's would disagree. 

Why couldn’t we get a player in return?  Herget was pitching well in AAA, and he has ML experience.  Maybe a SS from low A, or something.

I'd like to see Rada on this train wreck, and soon.  He could be the next Rod Carew, or the next Tony Gwynn, or the first Nelson Rada as far as I'm concerned.  We have too many guys on our Major League roster that should be playing  indy ball, for crying out loud.  

Oh well, three dollar tickets on StubHub coming soon. 

47 minutes ago, Docwaukee said:

When he makes a bad play, it's so bad that it really stands out.  Overall though, he's good enough to be out there.  He's never going to be great because he's really not all that coordinated as odd as that sounds.  Reminds me of Upton in a way where he'd just fly to a ball getting to places that others couldn't but when it came time to move his hands and arms in a way to catch the ball it looked like he just got them.  

The awkwardness is never going to fully go away.  But he's fine and this team should have it's focus on improving in way more spots.  He needs to play every.single.day for the rest of the year.  

I think that the awkwardness will eventually disappear.  Worse OF’s have already been mentioned in this thread, and others.  And, no one, myself included, would have predicted that Jo Adell would be leading the team in batting average and OPS at the end of the first month of the season.

Didn’t RW say that we would be better defensively?  
I’m not seeing it.  We are White Sox terrible on defense.  And, why does the pitching staff fold, as a group, at the least sign of adversity, instead of buckling down, hitting that location, and getting the next hitters out?  

I’m surprised someone hasn’t noted that Paris is due for a hot streak.  J/K.

Cisnero and Suarez both need to go.  They can option Soriano, if they want to.  I’d like to see them do that, then bring him back in 15 days as a reliever.  He hasn’t been consistent as a starter, but he’s dominant as a reliever.  

Bottom line, it’s up to the player.  It would also help if the team had the top bid.

He might become similar to a couple of former Angels pitchers, Rudy May and Andy Hassler.  Decent players with us, but pitched better after a change of environment.  

Rengifo’s fielding leaves something to be desired.  Maybe we do need to draft a 2B?

1 hour ago, jsnpritchett said:

Over/under on how long it takes before someone suggests signing him to give Schanuel time to develop? 

How about right now?

It would be nice if Rendon & Sano would start driving the ball, a couple of HR’s would be helpful.

Probably the second biggest mistake this franchise has made was to let Herzog get away.  The number one mistake was trying to replace Nolan Ryan with two 8-7 pitchers. 

Fulmer did a great job.  The offense had a couple of chances to put up a crooked number in the 11th, 12th and 13th innings and didn't get the job done.

Oh well.  It's a long season, probably best to put this one in the rear view mirror. 

Between Eddings and Angel Hernandez, those two are calling strikes that are three to six inches off of the strike zone, the black, whatever you want to call it.  

In the days of instant replay, where an individual pitch can be replayed in seconds, there is really no excuse for this poor umpiring.  Maybe those two can be sent back to umpire college to tighten up their strike zones, and to be reminded that the fans do not come out to see umpires, but to see the talent on the field. 

Oh well, at least we have some options for the pen.  We can always move Soriano back down there, I think he's better in the pen, anyhow.  

There is always Ben Joyce, and Kenyon Yovan is throwing well in SLC.  

The poor baserunning play was bad, no excuse for it.  However, Adell seems to be making more consistent contact with the bat, and the ball jumps off of his bat.  

We need to see whether or not the bat continues to play.  If it does, then it means less time for Hicks or Moniak, I don't care which.  

I also feel like the baserunning mistakes will eliminate themselves over time, if Adell gets the time.  

8 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

I mean this is a legit issue for Sandoval because his fastball is dookie. 

His fastball location is dookie.  If he keeps it down, he can get outs with it. His problem is keeping it down.  

I think we should continue our strategy of drafting as many power arms as possible.  If the organization can find a few more players like Caden Dana and Barrett Kent, they could actually trade from an area of strength, as young, controllable pitching is MLB gold these days.  

If you have it, you can trade for players that you like, that may make your team a championship caliber team. 

I know it’s still early, but this team looks different than last year’s squad.  In a good way.  

Now, if we can get Rendon to join the party, we may be able to contend.

1 hour ago, mmc said:

This is probably the best thing that we, as Angels fans, can do.  Rendon knows he’s not contributing right now, Wash feels that he brings something positive to the team, so for as long as the team is winning, they can carry his lack of success.  
 

Just a comp from ancient baseball history, but Willie Mays was 0 for his first 20 mlb at bats, and he turned out OK.  That last part was in hopes of making some of you laugh.

Great game pitched by Anderson.  Just enough offense to win.  Sandoval keeps it going tomorrow!

So, we must have, at some point, released Pomeranz.  Figures he'd sign with the Dodgers. 

He'll pitch for ML minimum wage, and right now, he's better than our opening day starter.  I fail to see a problem here.  

Arte and Perry, what are you waiting for?  

It is very cool that the Angels open up on the road, against a 101 win team in2023, and against the NL Cy Young award winner, while the other team in town opened up at home against a 71-win team in 2023.  

Why does it seem like the Angels start on the road every season?