Friday, August 26, 2011 |
Vin Scully To Return For 63rd Season In 2012
Labels: dodgers
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
Loyalty, Playing At Home Meant Weaver Left $30M On The Table
Monday, August 22, 2011 |
Angels Sign Jered Weaver To A 5-Year/$85M Deal
Update: This is a pretty good deal for a guy I thought might be a third starter. LOL.
Labels: angels
Friday, August 19, 2011 |
Angels Dare Season Ticket Holders To Quit In Droves, Move Up Renewal Date
Labels: angels, stupid ideas
Angels Option Horacio Ramirez, Call Vernon Wells To Closed-Door Meeting
Mike Trout took early batting practice, and the Register's Sam Miller got (shaky) video.
Labels: angels, transactions
Cubs Fire GM Jim Hendry
I do wonder if Tony Reagins' head will be next. An expensive, bad team should be a fireable offense.
Labels: cubs, firings, front office
Angels Call Up Mike Trout
Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
Angels Salvage A Meaningless Game: Angels 2, Rangers 1
The Angels are done for the season, give or take a game. If you lose a four-game set at home to your chief rival, you get what you deserve.
(Parenthetical note: I see that after a Halos Heaven beatdown of Lyle Spencer, MLB.com has seen fit to send someone named David Ely to handle the late Angels recap. Meh.)
Labels: angels, rangers, recaps
Rearranging Deck Chairs: Conger Up, Chatwood Down
Labels: angels, transactions
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
Angels Call Up Jerome Williams, Send Trevor Bell Back To Salt Lake
Update: Here's a nice backgrounder on Williams, who was once a top-flight pitching prospect with the Giants in the early part of the last decade. Along with Jesse Foppert and Kurt Ainsworth, the trio was expected to anchor San Francisco's rotation for years, but none of them paid off.
Labels: angels, transactions
Mark Saxon Lays It Out For Scioscia
Scioscia got a little testy when I phrased the question about Conger, "How could you not try his bat after what you've gotten from your other catchers?"A slam on Conger? An open acknowledgment that he has lost whatever ability to judge catching talent he may once have had? Overdosing on cannelloni? Whatever it is, Mike Scioscia has lost it."How could we not? We could catch Trout. How would that play defensively?" he asked.
The rest of Saxon's column is a call for a youth movement, which, hear, hear.
Via Halos Heaven, the comments section thereof being quite interesting. I think everyone is sick of Scioscia's love affair with Jeff Mathis' incomprehensibly, historically bad offense and adequate-not-great glove.
Labels: angels, stupid ideas
Let Their Heads Roll: Rangers 7, Angels 3
Oh, yeah, and Tyler Chatwood left in the third last night. Whatever. It's about time somebody rubbed Scioscia's nose in the fact that pitching can't win if the team can't score runs.
Labels: angels, rangers, recaps, stupid ideas, suck
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 |
Snapping Bats Stopped By Freezing
MLB Announces Day-Off-Free Postseason Schedule
Labels: postseason, yankees
Pickoff Moves: Catching Up Edition
Bobby Abreu Did What? Angels 6, Yankees 4
Twitter being this high-speed, low-signal-to-noise medium that it is, I don't now recall who mentioned this, but Abreu had hit one home run per month up until yesterday — at which point he got a pair in a single game, one of them off Mo Rivera. Whether that qualifies as a miracle or not depends on how good you think Rivera is at this stage of his career. He carried a 1.87 ERA into yesterday's game, so you can scarcely complain if you're a Yankees fan.The most hilaripus part was the ending: with Mark Teixeira at the place, Curtis Granderson erased himself trying to steal second, which sounds like the kind of mistake Mike Scioscia would make. It's what I love about this game: every day, there's something else weird.
Dan Haren pitched well through six, but got into trouble in the seventh that Fernando Rodney predictably amplified by allowing all his inherited baserunners to score, foreclosing on a win for Haren, who surely deserved better.
Bryan Stow Beating Suspects Plead "Not Guilty"; Stow's Condition Improves
Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood pled not guilty to charges they beat Bryan Stow, according AP reports.In related news, Stow is moving his arm and kissed his sister, according to a press release from his family. Prosecutors in the case say Sanchez and Norwood made 'admissions' regarding the events of the day.
Dodgers To Lose $29M In Attendance Revenue
Wow.Happy Garret Richards Day!
A fun post in the Register by Sam Miller about what to expect from newbie Garret Richards, lately hauled up from AA Arkansas.Eddie Bane Speaks Out
He said, she said. I disagree with Sam Miller when he says, "I wouldn’t be surprised if the Bane firing hangs over his head more than any player move he has made. More than Kazmir, more than Wells." That's because Bane drafts weren't that great, and the team wasted picks on some players who clearly weren't going to sign.Labels: angels, bryan stow, dodgers, recaps, yankees
Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
Angels To Call Up Garret Richards From AA Arkansas Wednesday
Labels: angels, transactions
Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
Rubby De La Rosa To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
Grant Brisbee, F'ing Genius
13. Los Angeles Angels Kansas City Royals
Tony Reagins: Look, I gotta be honest with you, the Vernon Wells trade didn't work out like we had hoped. Now Bourjos is hurt ... it's a mess. What are you looking to get in return for Francoeur and Melky?
Dayton Moore: Not for sale!
Tony Reagins: Oh, come on. Just one of them. We have prospects. There's this 20-year-old kid who was just up. Fast as the wind. Name is Mike Tr ...
Dayton Moore: Not for sale! Nosiree! Can't do it! They're really, really good!
Tony Reagins: I wasn't saying our prospects for both of those guys. What about just one of them, you pick which one?
Dayton Moore: Not for sale! Can't do it!
Tony Reagins: Look, anything you want! Look over the rosters! Anything!
Dayton Moore: Not for sale! Well, unless you have a catcher to trade. Jeff Mathis? What about Jeff Mathis?
Tony Reagins: Now you're just mocking me. Forget it. I thought we could work something out, and you're being an ass.
Dayton Moore: Next time don't call up and ask for my best players, and I won't ask for yours!
Weaver Expected To Draw 6-Game Suspension
Finally, I Can Write About A Real-Life 6-4-2 Double Play
Monday, August 01, 2011 |
Lew Wolff Goes On Record Asking Frank McCourt To Sell
"For the good of baseball, I sense that all of us would like to get the Dodger situation behind us for everybody's benefit," Wolff said in a phone interview with the AP on Monday. "I was prompted to do this because of the attorney accusing Bud Selig of taking more money. Bud has been a friend of mine for 50 years. It's just not fair. I was just upset."I cannot remember any figure so polarizing in or out of baseball since Marge Schott.
Angels Demote Mike Trout, Call Up Alexi Amarista
Trading Deadline And Other Thoughts
- The Rockies shipped Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland for a package of four minor leaguers, right-handed pitchers Alex White and Joe Gardner, and 1B Matt McBride. LHP Drew Pomerantz is also expected to be traded once his signing anniversary of August 16 is past (players can't be traded within the first year of signing).
- As announced Friday, Rafael Furcal's Dodger career came to an end with a trade to St. Louis. Vinny waxed poetic during Saturday's broadcast, something I have never heard him do previously. It was a sweet moment for a player who really had a very mixed bag of success and injury with the Dodgers.
- The M's shipped Eric Bedard to Boston in a three-team deal involving the Dodgers that ended up with Trayvon Robinson going to Seattle. Robinson hit 26 homers in his first pass at AAA this year as a 23-year-old, so this is at best a head-scratcher; MSTI called it a swap for "organizational depth", and it strikes me that this should be a deal that calls directly and unequivocally Ned Colletti's competence.
- A lot has gone on in my late vacation from blogging; Ervin Santana pitched a no-hitter against Cleveland (as my friend Kelly observed, the one thing the Tribe needs is a bat, so they go out and get... a dodgy starter?). Texas hasn't stumbled, the Angels have done well but not overly so, and so two games out will have to tell the difference. That's competitive, anyway, which is better than I thought they'd do.
Labels: dodgers, indians, mariners, red sox, rockies, trades, transactions
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