The the Angels Angels of Anaheim of 2013

Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan
Josh Hamilton thru 31 games in 2012: .402/.457/.877, 18 HR, 41 RBI. Same # games in '13: .208/.255/.296, 2 HR, 9 RBI. http://yhoo.it/119Wbw4

Qualifying OPS
174 Pedro Alvarez .563
175 Josh Hamilton .551
176 Juan Pierre .541

angels saw 77 pitches through 8 innings against the astros tonight, 93 total

lose later today, only 1/2 game ahead of hOUSTON

Josh Hamilton said he has changed sinus medication and is scheduled to be tested for allergies, but he wanted to make one thing about his weakened condition perfectly clear.

"This has absolutely nothing to do with my .200 batting average," he said.

The Angels limited Hamilton to designated hitter Tuesday, one day after the right fielder came out of a game with what Manager Mike Scioscia called dizziness. Hamilton said he has had sinus and throat discomfort for about 10 days and said he hoped a change in medication would help.

He also said he has arranged for a visit to an allergist, recalling that respiratory issues would flare when he played for the Texas Rangers and that team visited its American League West rivals.

"Every time I'd come to the West Coast, it would get worse," he said.

Hamilton said his current medical issues were not related to his condition last September, when he missed five games because of dryness and blurring in his eyes. The condition was traced to excessive use of caffeine and energy drinks.

"Last September was a caffeine issue," he said. "This is an actual sickness."

Hamilton, signed for five years and $125 million, entered play Tuesday batting .212 with four home runs. His batting average, .261 on-base percentage and .605 OPS ranked among the bottom 10 in the AL.

this guy

He also said he has arranged for a visit to an allergist, recalling that respiratory issues would flare when he played for the Texas Rangers and that team visited its American League West rivals.

"Every time I'd come to the West Coast, it would get worse," he said.

good vetting there, arte

job hamilton

http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/5/31/4383614/mike-trout-center-field-left-field-mike-scioscia

Astros 6, Angels 3
Astros 2, Angels 0
Astros 5, Angels 1
Astros 2, Angels 1

In Anaheim no less.

Figured Hamilton's allergies neutralized the field advantage.

albert pujols quietly having an impressively worse season than last year

has there been any discussion of the marine layer?

that was quite a win, eh? Trout on his way to having a better year than Miggy, AGAIN.

M Kory at BP:

"Joe Blanton: five innings, six runs, three walks, three strikeouts, four homers allowed, one and a half years left on his contract."

this is why the angels going into the season were paper tigers. that rotation is dog shit.

if you like wins, blanton is 2-11.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/9516293/albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-put-dl

Pujols has a partially torn plantar fascia, an injury that has bothered him most of the season. He aggravated it while running out a single in the ninth inning of Friday's 6-4 loss to Oakland.

"This is something that, talking to Albert, has been going on for six or seven years," Scioscia said before the Angels' game against Athletics. "It's been going on for a long time and he's managed it. This is a big blow to our team right now."

ffs

Pujols' foot is really bothering him, and he's limited to DH duty as a result, the LA Times reports. "I'm dying," Pujols said Sunday. "It's hurting real bad." The team hopes to have him play through his plantar fasciitis until he cannot tolerate the discomfort.

foolproof plan

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Signed through 2021.

‏@based_ball 5m
Josh Hamilton all season: 121 times on base. Mike Trout since June 3: 122 times on base

dang

1-0 angels in the third, one out, man on third, soriano at the plate

scoscia brings the infield in

is cj wilson vs. phil hughes really a one-run game?

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/scott-miller/23286878/broken-angels-tense-atmosphere-nearly-included-pujols-hunter-fight-in-2012

The two-year downhill toboggan run of owner Arte Moreno's broken franchise has created a suffocatingly tense atmosphere throughout the organization best illustrated by a team meeting last August, in which All-Star Torii Hunter had to be physically restrained from punching out $240 million man Albert Pujols.

whoa

I didn't know about the Hunter-Morneau fight. Anyway, the story seems out of character for Pujols (and very much in character for Hunter) so I'm not how much of it to believe.

some players were unhappy when the emotional ace threw up his arms in disgust when one of the infielders dove for a ground ball and failed to make the play.

Doesn't Weaver do this pretty much all the time, though?

During a 10-8 implosion the next night in which starter C.J. Wilson was cuffed for seven earned runs in 4 2/3 innings, some players grew weary of Wilson's chirping in the dugout – especially when he began giving advice to hitters. Hunter sharply told him to pipe down and the two had words in the dugout.

Immediately following that game, veteran reliever LaTroy Hawkins called for a players' only meeting. Word of the Hunter-Wilson altercation had reached the Angels' bullpen by the late innings, and Hawkins, a respected veteran then in his 18th season in the majors and now with the Mets, could identify major problems when he saw them.

In a glimpse into how fractured the Angels had become, they could not even agree on a meeting format. Hawkins called for a players-only meeting. Pujols, insisting that manager Mike Scioscia and the coaches attend, wound up co-opting the meeting.

laaaaaaaaame

Couple coaches fired, Scioscia and DiPoto keeps jobs

(I didn't want to pull an A-Rod and start a hot stove thread)

Fundamentally I think the Angels' biggest problem is Arte Moreno, not his lieutenants.

Is it time for a rolling hot stove thred?

I think so -- the offseason is at least as interesting as the playoffs, imo.

damn, u crazee lad

(or just eliminated)

probably both, gramps

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm60BJYCQAAD3OD.jpg

anyone else want to flip that table?

I'd like to see a JFL-style magic foul ball hit all 4 in the head

ppl so lazy about creating team threads this year

(JFK)

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#Angels are 19-6 in last 25 games, going from four games behind #Athletics in the AL West to seven games ahead. Stunning reversal.

best team in MLB can't even get an annual thread tho

best record

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WOOPS

@MikeDiGiovanna
Josh Hamilton says "no doubt" he's ready for playoffs. Said #Angels MGR Mike Scioscia: "I'm not that confident."

RJ Anderson at BP:

The problems start at the top, with club owner Arte Moreno. He has a reputation for meddling and for engineering the Angels' biggest deals on his own. By backing Scioscia, Moreno has explicitly named his manager the second-most-powerful person in the organization. Perhaps that was the case already, yet this public act will impact the Angels' pursuit of their next general manager in a negative way. The job will get filled, no doubt—it's one of 30 in the world, after all—but expect the candidate pool to be shallower than it should be, given the Angels' financial might and roster.

Further complicating matters is the potential that Scioscia has a big say in who the next GM is, if it's not himself or a handpicked toady. Even if Scioscia's input in the search is limited, the next GM will inherit an outdated manager who clashes with his players and coworkers and either will not or cannot implement statistical information for his team's benefit, an act that is increasingly required in order to coach professionally, let alone manage in the majors. How lovely.

Mike Scioscia says Josh Hamilton should apologize to Angels owner Arte Moreno

watching the Angels right now, and I realized they are probably the AL team have been watching the most this year. I keep wanting them to lose because of Scioscia, i keep wanting them to win because of Trout.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COqBf7LUwAATRtD.jpg

Positively Huston Street

Street relieved Smith. 0 3
Villar flied out to left. 0 3
Valbuena hit for Conger. 0 3
Valbuena struck out swinging. 0 3
Tucker homered to right. 1 3
Springer tripled to deep right. 1 3
Altuve singled to center, Springer scored. 2 3
Correa reached on infield single to second, Altuve to second. 2 3
Lowrie hit for Gattis. 2 3
Lowrie homered to right, Altuve and Correa scored. 5 3

i watched that rally just now and it's silly to crucify either Street, or Calhoun for not catching a HR in the 2nd row. Altuve has a bloopy doopy fall in and then Featherston gets the last out stuck in his glove.

Baseball is a funny game as Joe Garagiola claimed.

pujols looks like toast again, BA down to .239, OBP about to drop under .300.

RIP

that loss 3 weeks ago was killer

Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia is expected to step down at the end of this season, according to a report Saturday night by The Athletic.

Scioscia is in the final year of a 10-year contract, and the decision not to seek a new contract is his alone, according to the report, which cited major league sources.

Mike sez "poppycock"

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/8/9/17666160/kole-calhoun-los-angeles-angels-cold-start-hot-hitting

lots of details on kole calhoun's historic bounce-back through this season