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M Palmer's allowed 3 HRs in his MLB career

wumbug — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:55:26 -0000

M Palmer's allowed 3 HRs in his MLB career

Two of those were by Wladimir Balentien.......if we can believe the info provided by MLB.com. Click on the "Preview" section for the info as the link doesn't seen to want to go there directly.

King Felix has given up HRs to Mathis, GMJr, Morales, and Napoli.

Great New MiLB Info Link

wumbug — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:35:54 -0000

Great New MiLB Info Link

From the official Angels website, click the ROSTER drop-down menu. Click MINOR LEAGUE AFFILIATES. You will see the DAILY ROUNDUP giving results and boxscores of the previous evening's minor league games......plus the affiliates information, just as before. This makes it so much easier to follow our guys' performances.

Minor League Rosters Fairly Fascinating:

wumbug — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:27:19 -0000

Minor League Rosters Fairly Fascinating:

We have so many good guys getting close.

SLC's roster has all of our Willits, Wood, Brown, X-Rod's, and Coon, Evans, & Pettit,. Thompson, Ortega, Davidson, too.

O'Sullivan, Walden, Bell, and Herndon pitch to Conger in AA. Trumbo, Mount, Statia, and Bourjos retrieve.

Escobar, Lackey, and Santana will pitch for Rancho Cucamonga. Incredible!

Accident or Conspiracy?

wumbug — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:01:51 -0000

Accident or Conspiracy?

Brandon Wood, all of a sudden has a .000 batting average. I would have thought it an accident except that his name and numbers no longer exist on the team's Spring Training Stats Page.

CWS need a CF/Lead-off hitter

wumbug — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:42:30 -0000

CWS need a CF/Lead-off hitter

Anybody seen one?

GA down for a week?

wumbug — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:58:31 -0000

GA down for a week?

Second game into his season.

My Markakis fantasy is over.

wumbug — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:39:49 -0000

My Markakis fantasy is over.

Funny!. At 2:00 A.M on 1/18/09, I find this line on Cot's:

Nick Markakis of
6 years (2009-14)
signed extension with Baltimore 1/20/09

The dates didn't match. The Baltimore Sun article says it will probably be announced on Tuesday......which is 1/20/09.

The Angels are from LA

wumbug — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:56:53 -0000

The Angels are from LA

Angels win lawsuit

Regins must have done this already

wumbug — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:22:33 -0000

I would have to believe that Regins has at least had a roundabout conversation with the principles in Baltimore regarding Nick Markakis. Stoneman tried to pry him loose from there when he was officially calling the shots. I understand the inevitable comment that "This is not the type of player that a team would trade", however almost everyone has a price…………and someone has to dream.

Markakis and his agent have been playing cat and mouse with Oriole’s ownership for a while now. Markakis, a possibly budding superstar, is eligible for arbitration, and the two parties have been dancing around the maypole for weeks, and months. I seem to remember squabbling last season before they finally re-newed him just before the season started for little more than league minimum, so there is a history of contentiousness there.

It’s reported everywhere that Baltimore wants/needs a long-term solution at SS in a bad way. There have been recent reports of their interest in Felix Pie (although I personally think they can do better). Additionally, everybody goes "Gah-Gah" over young starting pitching.

Although I am not one to throw around the names of our young talent as useless trading chips (or someone else’s money) as many here are want to do, I must admit that I have given a lot of thought to this scenario:

One of Aybar/Izturis

One of TEvans/Willits

The KICKER……Nick Adenhart (another Maryland native).......for Nick Markakis.

Peter Angelos has a history of making, and then not making, strange deals over the years. Little more than two years ago, he backed out of a supposed deal with Stoneman for Santana and Aybar for Miguel Tejada (I can’t remember if we didn’t offer another in that package, too). If he doesn’t land Teixeira, it’s speculated that he’ll also find a way to move Brian Roberts, so conceivably we could add another player for George Sherrill….but I digress.

Markakis has abundant numbers. He does well batting 2nd. He bats left handed. He has a rifle arm,…..and he just turned 25 years old.

He plays RF, but I’m sure he could be persuaded to play LF for a while until his future permant home in RF becomes available..........Markakis is offense and defense for now…………..and for the FUTURE.

Mark Teixeira, from SI.com

wumbug — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:59:49 -0000

Lee Jenkins wrote this article that has to stiffen the spine of any one of us hoping that fate falls our way regarding the possible resigning of Mark Teixeira for the next 6-7-8-? years. Although I, as much as anyone, strongly dislike Boras' tactics in negotiations for "our" players, I have to give him credit for being the best at what he does...

...sometimes more for himself than for his players. Regardless, this article gives me a few chills. Read, and enjoy.