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A comment that I thoroughly enjoyed from the Angels message board slum that I thought I would...

neochoa — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:53:39 -0000

A comment that I thoroughly enjoyed from the Angels message board slum that I thought I would share, verbatim, logic flaws and all...

Tony Reagins should be fired. FIR HIM FIRE HIM FIRE HIM. JAKE pEAVY WANTS TO GO TO A WINNING TEAM YET THERE IS THE OPTION FOR US TO TAKE THE GAMBLE. Time to give up one of young Pitchers and along with Izturiz or Aybar, even maybe Vladdy included. Time to move on and get Gonzalez also. TONY HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT DISSAPOINTMENT. Morales is doing great and I can just Imagine Wood if he received the chance he deserves. Here we are struggling to score, getting swept and out of contention for a wild Card if we dont come in first in our division. Let Figgins play Short or 3rd, no matter as long as Wood plays, specially when we have an outfield loaded with players that can play. GONZALES AND PEAVY WOULD GIVE US THE SPARK WE NEED TONY. DO IT NOW. CALL SAN DIEGO AND START TALKING. DO NOT LET ANOTHER AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM TAKE HIM. REMEMBER HE IS A CALI KID. WE HAVE A GREAT CHANCE IF YOU MAYBE TAKE THE CHANCE. IF THERE IS NO KEY TRADE THIS YEAR YOU SHOULD BE FIRED. WE ARE NOT BETTER THAN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF TEAM ONLY AND THIS YEAR WE ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT WE WERE. WE ARE OLDER AND GETTING MORE INJURIES THAN EVER. FIRE TONY PETITION SHOULD BEGIN IF NOTHING HAPPENS.

http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090520&content_id=4839870&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=ana

Current Roster Flowchart

neochoa — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:01:18 -0000

I was over at the Mariners' SBN blog Lookout Landing when I stumbled across this interesting flowchart that tracked all of the transactions that had brought their current 25-man roster together. As an exercise I decided to do the same, although I chose to expand it to our 40-man roster.

via i2.photobucket.com

Players that the Halos drafted are in blue bubbles, while those that we signed as amateur or undrafted players are in purple. Free agents are red and players acquired in trades are in green, with an arrow connecting to the box of the player that was traded to get them.

Probably the most interesting thing to me in comparing this chart with the aforementioned Mariners one is how few of our players were acquired in trades. Also it should be noted that Robb Quinlan is such a badass that he was drafted twice.

Hopefully this amuses at least 10% of the people who view it.

[UPDATE] Fixed HK's draft position and narrowed down the sign date for Loux. Also updated the statuses of Ortega and Thompson to reflect the current roster.

Angels could bring back O'Day

neochoa — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:09:29 -0000

Angels could bring back O'Day

The Mets have DFA'd reliever Darren O'Day, and thus he must be offered back to the Angels. He's a steal at $25k and could help out our pen in its time of need.

Escobar Progressing Nicely

neochoa — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:29:20 -0000

Escobar Progressing Nicely

From Lyle Spencer's blog:

"Throwing against Giants Double-A hitters in a camp game in Scottsdale, Escobar retired the first 10 hitters he faced before walking the final man. He finished with two strikeouts, throwing a total of 40 pitches. The Giants didn't hit a ball out of the infield."

The Escobar story is a continuous source of good news with all of our other pitching problems as of late.