The the Angels Angels of Anaheim of 2013

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

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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 Even if Scioscia's input in the search is limited, the next GM will inherit an outdated manager who clashes with his players and coworkers and either will not or cannot implement statistical information for his team's benefit, an act that is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