One Bad Inning: The Jered Weaver Story Repeats

9 bad innings for the lineup. I’m so over it.

or does Napoli strike out every at bat?

We’ll only be older and slower next year.

Kendry will help, but I don’t know, it looks like this team needs a complete overhaul.

Not just him alone, all our new bullpen additions aren’t failing miserably. Kohn, Rodriguez and Walden all give us something for the future we’ve desperately needed for a while, a deep and steady bullpen. On top of which, our rotation for 2011 is set.

No matter how you calculate it, the Angels probably have around 10 million to play with before reaching this year’s salary, and we all know how it’s going to be spent, on OFFENSE.

Now 10 million isn’t enough to secure any great offensive players, however, if Reagins does what I think he will do, we should have more money to play with, through less arb eligible players and less contractually obligated money. Some of this may come as a shock, some, may not.

 The Angels have soured on Juan Rivera, and given the fact that he’s reasonably priced, I’m willing to bet the Angels will ship him to free up about 4 million dollars, and maybe land a mediocre AA pitcher. DH will be used to rest Abreu and Hunter’s legs.

The Angels also don’t need three catchers. Right now, the price on Mathis and Wilson would be minimal, we’d get nothing in return. I think the Angels will deal Mike Napoli for perhaps a corner infield prospect down on the farm. This should free up about 3 million in arbitration.

With between 15-20 million to spend, and a fully armed bullpen and rotation, Reagins will set his sites on offense. Morales will be returning, so that adds significant power, next up, all the Angels need is speed. Either we’ll stick with Willits/Pettit/Trumbo in LF and have a payroll around 110-115 million, or Reagins will do what every “expert” expects him to do and try to bring in Crawford and have a payroll between 125-130 million.

This steak doesn’t need to be thrown away, we just need to cut the fat and use the right blend of herbs and spices, she can still be Filet Mignon yet!

Offense sucked.

Time to sweep the Rays. You know, that Elvis song: “It’s Now or Never.” Tomorrow might be too late, it’s now or never, HIT THE FREAKING BALL.

this is only Torii’s 2nd year with the Angels. Thanks for the contract extension, John! I can’t stand listening to these ESPN charlatans pretending like they know the teams they’re talking about.

And how about Joe Morgan giving up half way through a sentence because he just couldn’t pronounce the word he was fishing for! Not to mention that the jackass still hasn’t learned that it’s Howie KendRICK not Kendrix. And his newest name to buthcer? Alberto Callaspo pronounced with an ‘l’ and not a ‘y.’ How does that guy even have a job in broadcasting?

I’d take Steve Physioc any day over Joe Morgan. I hate how he repeats himself two or even three times on the same point! “Just because Weaver isn’t a sinker ball pitcher doesn’t mean he can’t get a ground ball. A guy can hit still hit a ground ball. He could still get a ground ball.” Is it because he’s afraid of dead air? Is he full of himself and loves the sound of his own voice? Or is he just so stupid that he needs to repeat himself to make sure he said what he wanted to say?

  Let’s keep it up boys, a nice top draft pick will help ease the pain.

wow only 20 comments…. things are looking glum around Halo’s heaven….
Lets get those good picks boys! keep up the lack of hitting and poor bullpen!

The team is going no where; he’s not going to win the Cy Young or league MVP this year. Weaver is 3-6 with an ERA of 3.86 over the past 10 games. Let him skip a turn in the rotation and take a break.

I really hope our offense can turn it around next year, not only for our sake as fans, but for Weaver’s sake. Lackey bitched about no run support, but he had a better offense behind him almost every year compared to what Weaver is getting this year. Weaver may not be as much of an ass, but he is every bit as competitive as Lackey. He won’t stick around forever if the Angels can’t assure him that they will be truly competitive, and give him a chance for a ring.

On the simple theory that Joe Morgan totally sucks, even worse than our offense.

is Arte’s wallet.

How much does this guy want to win… obviously Tony Reagins will do his best to spend Arte’s money on the superfluous. Maybe we can all get lucky and see the angels lock up a decent FA that will help put runs on the board.

i get to see them on tv and they suck really bad

Jered can only do so much for so long.

We need a guy who hits with enough authority, and either power or base running skills, to make it a big deal when he shifts positions.

Baring getting a truly scary hitter somehow, I really want to see some Trumbo. If he can provide any sort of reliable power it will lift at least some of our desperate need, even if he only hits 250…. like all our “contact” hitters this year. If he’s even a little dangerous, ie high strike outs but plenty of power, it makes getting through a Morales, Hunter, Napoli, Trumbo chunk of the order a lot more nerve racking than what we have now.