Archive for the 'Angels' Category

According to TMZ, Angels’ starter Nick Adenhart was killed in an automobile accident this morning: TMZ has learned Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a felony hit-and-run car accident in Fullerton, California early this morning — hours after he pitched in a game last night. Cops say someone driving a minivan […]

Writing from the future — November of this year to be exact — The OC Register’s Sam Miller has fun with the 90th percentile of the PECOTA projections for the Angels: Nobody would have ever believed the Angels would win 120 games – a new Major League record – but with no holes in the […]

Look, Daddy! Teacher says, “every time a pitcher’s bell is rung, the Angels get us wings!” That’s right! That’s right! There could be a shortage of chicken wings in the greater Phoenix area. The Angels have a promotional tie-in with Claim Jumper, the restaurant offering a free order of “Angel wings” to fans holding ticket […]

A pair of 22-year-old rookies have landed in the fourth slots of the Angels’ and Nationals’ rotations.

In the West, the A’s are better, the Angels aren’t

The Angels’ blog Three Days of Cryin’ has a lengthy interview with former Red Sox and Angels shortstop Rick Burleson. I always knew who Burleson was, of course, but before this interview I really couldn’t tell you much about his career beyond the highlights and lowlights of the teams on which he played, so this […]

Those of us who are both (a) familiar with the concept of Pythagorean record; and (b) kind of glib and lazy about our use of sabermetric terminology, have often, at least subconsciously, used it as a synonym for luck. But is it really? Sam Miller at the OC Register isn’t so sure. A block quote […]

Spring training is finally here! Now we get six weeks of watching pitchers throw gently off a mound and the scrubs get face time on the television networks. While there are still plenty of quality free agents unsigned, they’re starting to concede the economic climate as we’ve seen with Adam Dunn and Braden Looper signing deals.

It appears as though Bobby Abreu is going to be a Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim: The Angels are nearing a one-year deal with free agent Bobby Abreu that will pay the former Yankees outfielder between $5 million and $7 million, according to a baseball source . . . He was believed to be seeking […]

Forget Joe Torre. His tell-all isn’t even the most interesting one to come to light this week: On the greatest day of his life, Matt McCarthy took a call from a Major League baseball scout named Byron, who told him he had been drafted to play baseball for the Angels. “Now, you went to Yale,” […]