Shea Hillenbrand DFA

Shea Haters, despite Shea's ineptness at the plate, the Halos are in first place in their division and have the best record in baseball.    The Angels were just swept at home by the Royals without Shea in the lineup.  

The biggest point I think everyone of the Shea haters is missing is that our biggest concern with him when he was signed was his attitude problems, and those never panned out, so despite his hitting struggles, he never had any play either way into the Angels successes up to this point in the season.

Best Case Scenario is that the money which is freed up (if there can be any by this move), will be used to get us the player we need to get us over the hump.  And that whoever fills the role of DH who happens not to be a "Veteran" does not cost us in any important games because then all we will hear is "what if we still had....."

Forget who's coming!

WHO'S GOING?

It's been said that Speier won't return until after the All-Star break.

I don't think Anderson will, either, because........why?  They'll keep him on the DL until after.......Too many other floating parts.

Izturis........He, in my mind, is the most logical to return soon.....est. Aybar has done a great job in Istu's absense.  It's as if we didn't miss MiceT.  (Sorry about that, Maicir).  We have to show that he is healthy for the trade that ultimately...... is a forgone conclusion.

Age......
Accomplishments.....
Whatever someone else wants/needs.....

He's proven himself, he's still young, and he's got to be attractive to somebody.  

If someone wants Aybar instead, I don't think Stoneman will balk. Aybar's still a younger, less expensive, and less predictive question mark, but so far, he's encouraging.

Anyway, I predict Izturis comes back first.