The May 26, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes the team adding some versatility and bench depth, Tyler Skaggs possibly starting a rehab assignment this weekend, and more… The Story: Tyler Skaggs could begin minor-league rehab assignment this weekend MWAH Says: It all hinges on how he feels today following his Wednesday bullpen session. If […]

The Angels’ strange struggles against left-handed starters continued Tuesday night. Martin Perez held the Halos offense to just five hits—all singles—and no runs in six innings, striking out six. His gem was already the 10th quality start (out of 16 chances) a southpaw has tossed against Angels this season, and it lowered the lineup’s OPS vs LHPs to […]

The Wednesday, May 25, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes a pair of relievers dropping off the roster but staying in the organization, Andrelton Simmons resuming baseball activities, and more… The Story: Andrelton Simmons resuming baseball activities MWAH Says: Simmons is back to hitting, fielding, and throwing, but it’ll be a while still before he’s cleared […]

With each start, Nick Tropeano makes it harder and harder to fathom how he began the 2016 season in the minors. The right-hander tossed his second straight gem Monday, holding the Rangers to just four hits in 6⅔ innings, and now boasts eight starts this season (out of nine total) of three runs allowed or fewer. He’s easily […]

The Tuesday, May 24, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes Craig Gentry remaining out for undisclosed reasons, Josh Hamilton needing yet another knee surgery, and more… The Story: Josh Hamilton will have surgery, miss all of 2016 MWAH Says: The decision to unload Hamilton last April continues to look better and better. No matter how well […]

The Angels’ offense has really come alive in the last two weeks, averaging six runs and 11 or so hits a game since May 12. As the Halos are armed with one of the more unbalanced lineups (i.e. RHH-heavy) in the game, one would think that facing the Texas Rangers, who have the most lefty-heavy rotation in the […]

The Angels emerged victorious in only one of the final three games of their Freeway Series-shortened homestand, but there were still far more positives than negatives to take from their weekend set against the Orioles. A non-exhaustive list of the pros from the series: 1) Matt Shoemaker pitched the best game of his life, racking […]

Carlos Perez fared so poorly at the plate in April that he lost his starting gig by the end of the month, and things didn’t get much better for Carlos in backup duty through the first half of May. By the time Geovany Soto hit the DL with a torn meniscus on May 18, Perez was batting […]

Matt Shoemaker cobbled together easily the best (and perhaps most important) start of his career Saturday night against the Orioles, striking out a career-high 12 and allowing just three hits in 7⅓ innings of shutout ball. The plus-plus splitter that had all but abandoned him since the end of 2014 was back with a vengeance, inducing a […]

The frustration of surrendering three home runs in less than three innings must be great. But veterans like Hector Santiago aren’t supposed to let that kind of thing get to their heads, especially not to an extent that gets them ejected and saddles the already taxed Angels bullpen with six-plus innings of work. There’s no […]

The Angels welcome the Baltimore Orioles into town riding an offensive high, having scored 52 runs (6.5 per game) in their last eight contests. The recent surge has been a nice reprieve from the constant flow of injuries, but if the Halos want to stay competitive against the high-powered O’s they’re going to have to keep […]

It seems we were a little hasty in our decision to eulogize the Angels last week—there may be life in this team yet. Since getting swept by the Rays and Cardinals last week the Angels have won six of seven, their only defeat this week coming at the hands of the somehow-still-improving Clayton Kershaw. The driving force […]

It would be easy (and reasonable) to make Mike Trout‘s three-RBI night or the return of Johnny Giavotella‘s magic clutch powers the story of Thursday’s series-clinching win over the Dodgers, but I feel the that Angels bullpen, which held LA hitless over the final 4⅔ innings, deserves some love. Everyone rags on relievers when things are […]

The Friday, May 20, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes Tim Lincecum officially joining the team, an old friend returning to the organization, and more… The Story: Tim Lincecum passes physical, will get $2 million base salary MWAH Says: It was initially reported as a minor-league deal, but with that kind of money involved it’s […]

If you put enough people on base, eventually good things are bound to happen. Sometimes those good things are dingers, sometimes they’re broken-bat singles, and other times they’re seeing-eye hits. The Angels got a whole lot of the latter Wednesday night, including a particularly fun stretch in the fifth inning that resulted in four runs: On […]

The Thursday, May 19, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes yet another integral player going on the disabled list, a far less integral player becoming a free agent, and more… The Story: LHP Neal Cotts granted his release MWAH Says: Not surprising. The Angels simply didn’t have room for him in the bullpen right now. […]

The first two games in Freeway Series featured legitimate pitching matchup intrigue. Clayton Kershaw is always must-watch (provided you’re a Time Warner customer) and he showed why last night in his evisceration of the Angels. But the other three starting pitchers involved were intriguing in their own way. Angel fans got their first intimate look at […]

Welcome to Part III of our rebuild series: The Fire Sale. In Part I, we examined what a Slight Retooling of the Angels roster could look like over the coming year. Then in Part II, we looked into what a New Direction might mean for the Angels, which involved trading assets like Yunel Escobar, Hector Santiago, […]

The Angels had the rare chance to get to Clayton Kershaw early Tuesday night. The best pitcher on the planet found himself momentarily rattled in the second inning following a balk call and gave up three straight hard-hit balls, one of which went for an RBI single. Unfortunately for the Halos the next two batters were Jered […]

The Wednesday, May 18, 2016 edition of Los Angeles Angels news includes two more players joining an already crowded disabled list, the team adding another lefty arm to the Triple-A roster, and more… The Story: Daniel Nava and Cory Rasmus placed on DL with groin strains MWAH Says: That’s now nine Angels on the major league disabled list, which […]