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I'd like a sweep please.

 

Really excited to see what Adrianza can contribute. He may only have a .659 OPS in 1550 career ABs, but he's just 34 years old. This might be the year he unlocks another gear.

“Top of the order Aaron Hicks up next” 
 
lol.  Lmao. 

This game summarizes my thoughts on Rendon, Sandy, and Rengifo. 

Yes it is

This became shite pretty quick

He's been over 100 with every batted ball put into play today.  People are going to start asking what's wrong with him then he's going to get lucky with a bunch of soft hit BS and they will say he's back.

Adell has to be ready to swing in that situation.
Now we get Neto oh jeez

He's this generation's Aybar. 

Adell, totally redeem yourself, etc

Criticism of the angels because of the injury is not grounded in reality. Look around the league and count the injuries. If you think spending on a RP was dumb, that might be fair. 

Criticism of the angels because of the injury is not grounded in reality. Look around the league and count the injuries. If you think spending on a RP was dumb, that might be fair. 

Cimber and Strik grinded out 4 innings. Super important

Cimber and Strik grinded out 4 innings. Super important

Please post anything and send everything related to the 2024 amateur draft in here. Anything from mock draft picks for the Angels and scouting reports to draft strategies and signing bonuses. 
Personally, with our first oick, we can draft JJ Wetherholt to be a lefthanded 2B to go with our young core. I think he could zip through our system, ev n with the time he's missed with a hamstring issue (hell, the fact that he's had a hamstring issue already makes him fit in with us already! Just kidding). 
Here's a profile on JJ:
https://www.mlb.com/prospects/draft/jj-wetherholt-802139
My strategy for the draft would be to focus on a finished college hitter with our first pick and then with our supplemental picks and in the second and third rounds, go after some high school players. 
This draft is considered to be generally weak, especially with college pitching and high school players in general. However, there are some good finds there, and with a few players moving up the boards a bit, I think that a polished college bat should be available to us. At worst, one of the better college arms should be available for us to take. 
After getting a more polished college player with our first pick with our supplemental picks and 2nd and 3rd round, I'd go after HS players to add a new layer of development for us. 
One player that I'm keeping an eye on is Slade Caldwell for our Shohei pick. He's a bit undersized, so he could fall to us in a supplemental round. 
Here's a profile on him. 
https://www.mlb.com/prospects/draft/slade-caldwell-815154

Send Schanuel down, have Thaiss play 1B and call Wallach up to be backup catcher? 

I want Schanuel to get his ABs but I can’t stand Thaiss behind the plate but I think last year showed he can be a serviceable bat (his bat started to slow down when he was being asked to also catch every single day). Wonder if taking catching duties away from him lets him focus more on hitting and we see those numbers increase. It’s clear the staff wants to work Ohoppe like a dog behind the plate so why not find a way to get Thaiss and his bat in there more often. Can’t be any worse than what Schanuel is showing rn as much as I love his patience at the plate 

With Sano hitting the way he his schanuel needs to go dude offers nothing right now. My 14 year old son can hit the ball further than schanuel can

Any day the Halos win is a good day!
Nice day for Rendon, Trout and Ward!
Let's start winning again boys!
Light it!

It most assuredly will affect his PT. Wash is about as old school as they come. He expects grown men and professionals to be aware and know their fundamentals. He was already po'd by his last second-base blunder.

BTW if you guys have MLB.TV or can listen to the Rays TV feed I'd suggest giving it a shot. 
The 2 guys they have are some of my favorite commentators.

Except they didn’t sign him fairly quickly. They signed him in January about three weeks before spring training started. 

This signing will forever baffle me. That $11 mill could have been used in so many different ways. Im assuming he’ll need TJ and won’t pitch for another year +… so we’ll still have what another 1.5 years left of control when he comes back? For a 11mill a year reliever with only a 4 month good track record. Yikes