Question of the Day, 7/14 …
Assuming that Ervin Santana doesn’t find out how to be effective, how do you think Jerry Dipoto should behave at the Deadline? — @alansmafra I think these next couple weeks are going to be very telling...
View ArticleMark Trumbo slugs into rare Angels company …
Mark Trumbo sometimes gets a bad rap by the sabermetric community, and he’s always hard on himself. But he’s already one of the top home-run hitters in Angels history. And that’s a fact. On Friday...
View ArticleAngels’ competition getting tougher …
The American League West didn’t necessarily, well, impress last year. Here’s how it stacked up in combined wins … AL East: 433 NL Central: 421 AL Central: 400 NL West: 399 NL East: 391 AL West: 387 And...
View ArticleClearing out the Winter Meetings notebook …
Below is a Q&A with new pitcher Hector Santiago, and after that are plenty of other notes and links pertaining to the hectic four-day event that’s prone to make a lot of things fly under the radar....
View ArticleDo the Angels need another starter? …
OK look, before you freak out by the headline, just keep in mind the Angels probably will get another starting pitcher. If they can’t get Masahiro Tanaka, or they can’t fit Matt Garza into the budget,...
View ArticleAngels fall short (OK, way short) on Tanaka …
The Masahiro Tanaka sweepstakes are over, and after all the speculation and all the anticipation, he wound up with the team that seemed to make the most sense from the onset: The Yankees, who badly...
View ArticleMoreno talks 2014, Trout, the CBT & Anaheim
On the offseason search for pitching … We didn’t feel like there was a guy out there that we wanted to give up a first-rounder. And the early numbers that they were talking about were big numbers; they...
View ArticleMatt Garza: On vacation at the wrong time? …
Shortly after the Winter Meetings, the Angels offered Matt Garza a four-year, $52 million contract, but — true to owner Arte Moreno‘s negotiating style — the offer was only good for short amount of...
View ArticleST Game 14: Angels 12, Brewers 2 (SS) …
Most important thing: It didn’t happen at home, but Joe Blanton was lights out while playing with the other half of the team in Surprise, Ariz., limiting the Rangers to one lonesome hit in five...
View ArticleWhere does Hector Santiago stand? …
Mike Scioscia knows who his starters will be on Saturday and Sunday, but won’t announce them until Friday, probably because a corresponding roster move is involved. One of the games will be started by...
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