Mike Trout Named Minor League Player of the Year. Halolinks!
by Rev Halofan on Sep 7, 2011 5:01 AM PDT
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Angels FYI: Mike Trout is minor league player of the year
Well lookie there, we got a pretty good baseball player on our hands!
1st Round of the 2009 MLB June Amateur Draft
Look back at the first round of the 2009 draft - the Angels drafted Trout and Garrett Richards, who pitched a scoreless inning last night. They also took Tyler Skaggs, who was traded for Dan Haren. So this is the draft that keeps on giving and Tyler Kehrer and Randall Grichuk are still working their ways through the minor leagues. All that came courtesy of Mark Teixeira and Frankie signing with the New York teams.
"NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS" -Han Solo
Angels have a 4.6% chance of winning the division.
James at True Grich encourages you to believe that 4.6 could be 99.9.
Don Kirkwood kicked the Royals' asses. They used to be in our division.
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As long as he doesn't reach 130 At Bats he will be eligible for ROY next year.
So fr he is at 84 with 15 starts left. If he does start 15 he will just go over so we shall see.
Bring on the OREO Line!
by angelskid2210 on Sep 7, 2011 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions
As for starting even close to all 15...
not with the Sothster at the helm, apparently.
So he should be ok for next year then.
He could "start" all the games...
Doesn’t mean he has to play the entire game in all of them. The 18-4 record just says that it’s when he “starts”.
2014 first ever four time world series mbps.
by Halos in DE on Sep 7, 2011 9:00 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Why not make it five?
hula dula da dominoes rula.
by DanishThunder on Sep 7, 2011 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Why can't they buy me some peanuts AND crackerjack?
Heck, I wouldn’t care if I never get back!
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Can I get "Mr. J's Quilted Down Filled Parka"?
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Mike Trout is the next Tim Salmon, who was the preceded by little known L.A. Angel Earnest T. Bass. TrAdition.
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
No one rec'd your literary pun?
:(
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 7, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I hated that play
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
by RexTookMyStash on Sep 7, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
The Angels 35 years ago
Thanks for this article. Look at those standings. Now, those were the BAD old days.
In 1976, Bobby Bonds led the team with 10 HRs
Yeah, those were dark times.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
1976, the year I offiicially became an Angels fan
good memories and that team got better as the year went on
Angels in 2011!
Have you ever asked yourself why the Angels traded for Vernon Wells if they knew
Trout was this close to breaking in to the big leagues?
"It's our money," owner Arte Moreno said.
I don't think they knew
Heck, they only brought him up when it was clear he was the best option after Bourjos got hurt. I don’t believe they had any idea he was this close, and probably planned to bring him up either at the beginning of next season or sometime in June of next year.
The question still remains: Why trade for Wells when you have a guy who’s going to be ready next year?
Defending maligned chants since 2009
I suspect he was going to be a September callup for roster expansion, but when Fleet Pete got hurt, the process accelerated
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
I try not to ask questions that lead me down the path "The Angels are run by an imbecile."
I'd like to DFA Reagins
by hauldog on Sep 7, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
When you have the opportunity to acquire an All-Star proven veteran power hitter under club control for 4 years in exchange for your worthless malcontents, you don't think twice about it.
Or even once if you’re Tony Reagins.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
Read the Baseball America write-ups on Trout today
Lots of great background information. Free!
I love how he’s called ‘’Michael’, as in the Arch Angel
Are you telling me to read it or that you read it?
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
Arch Angel ... Yes
along with WTY and the rest of our top players.
that article made me feel really fuzzy :D
go long with extenze...i do
by angelsownredsux on Sep 7, 2011 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone
Else notice how much Trout’s stance has changed since being called up the first time. I’m not necessarily complaining, but it seems Hatcher has a thing for lowering the hands of young players (i.e. Brandon Wood). I remember hearing Hatcher say that he was told not to mess with Trout, but I have a hard time imagining Trout changed his stance on his own.
He said in an interview about a week ago
He had been working with Hatcher to lower his stance to better cover the bottom half of the strike zone
I play music for your entertainment
Hatcher needs to put it on his resume
Maybe he will be the next to leave the Angels to become a manager somewhere.
I saw grichuk a few nights ago
Like all angels prospects/ players, he had no eye and got fooled by anything down and away. Then he crushed a ball just foul that must have gone close to 400 feet down the line.
by Balls and Strikes on Sep 7, 2011 1:02 PM PDT reply actions
Well, I like what Trout has shown he can do with down and away
(Pulled two balls over the fence and went the opposite way with another that was just foul of triple-land)
Texas just lost!
Let’s get back to 2.5 tonight.
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
Good job Tampa Bay!
Naps went off again: 4-5, 24th HR; slash line: .302 .398 .597
I’m glad he’s not worthy to displace our PREMIUM catching option…..
Here is hoping he goes on one us his awful stretches where he is Jeff Mathis for a little bit.
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 7, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
even if he did
he has the highest BA of anone in the AL since the AS break
we sure could’ve used that kind of production during our pennant race
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 8, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe we could trade for him? I've heard all kinds of good stuff about this Napoli guy.
I wonder where he played before Texas?
Could we point out that Newport Beach has hotter babes than Dallas?
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
I think he came up in the Bluejays' system
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 8, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
That Napoli guy might be nice to have. Maybe we could trade for him?
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
What's with the 4.6%?
I’m assuming that site factors more than just the number of games remaining to come up with it’s odds of a team winning. I don’t know anything about that site, but I saw that it mentioned simulations. So, is it saying based on a bunch of simulations, the Angel’s chances of winning the division are only 4.6%? That seems pretty low. I wonder what it would’ve said our chances of winning in 1995 were?
Trust the Deception
I think the low percentage also has a lot to do with expected performance
Based on run differentials, for example, it’s much more likely that Texas plays well down the stretch than the Angels. If the Angels and Texas had the exact same run differentials they have, but the Angels were 3 games up on Texas, Texas’ chances of making the playoffs would probably be a lot higher than 4.6%.
Did that make sense?
Defending maligned chants since 2009
I am not sure today's run differential directly correlates with tomorrow's performance.
I'd like to DFA Reagins
You're not? Why aren't you?
A team that has scored a lot of runs for five months and given up relatively few is much more likely to do the same tomorrow than a team that has scored less and given up more. Anything can happen, of course, but this largely holds true, except for Scioscia’s magic pixie dust.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
It does not take into account who they are going to play. September call ups etc
I'd like to DFA Reagins
If the Angels win the division they did not pull off a 46 out of 1000 situation
Not buying it
I'd like to DFA Reagins
Too bad you can't get a 1-20 bet on the Angels winning the division anywhere
I’d put money on that in a heartbeat.
Good that you can't
As soon as you did the Halos would crash and burn.
by Halowitz on Sep 7, 2011 4:32 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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