Before people speculate on what happened with Tyler Skaggs, let’s just stick with the facts of what happened when Tyler Skaggs died. Here’s what we know. Skaggs was found dead at age 27 in his hotel room in Southlake, Texas, on July 1, the day the Angels were to begin a three-game series against the Rangers in Arlington. This resulted …
With the Angels now a whopping 13.5 games out of a playoff spot, the focus is now on 2020. Griffin Canning has already been shut down for the season and the Angels are ranked #12 in the 2020 draft order. We’ll look at which Angels minor leaguers could play a big role in 2020. We’ll also look at who will …
The Angels hired Billy Eppler on October 4, 2015. We will investigate how his transaction decisions have fared year-by-year in a series of four articles starting with the 2016 season and ending with the current season (2019), the Brad Ausmus era. We’ll focus on his trades and free agent signings, but we will not focus on waiver pickups since those …
The Angels signed one-year contracts to Matt Harvey ($11 million) Trevor Cahill ($9 million), Cody Allen ($8,500,000), Jonathan Lucroy ($3,350,000), and Justin Bour ($2,500,000). The bad news is that the Angels released four of them because of poor performance and are still paying them through the end of the year while the only one left (Cahill) is in the bullpen …
The Angels relied on pitchers during this stretch that they wouldn’t have used this season if free-agent signees Trevor Cahill and Matt Harvey had performed to their capabilities. Rookie Jose Suarez went 4.1 and gave up two runs and threw 80 pitches in a 10-8 16-inning marathon loss to Baltimore on July 25. Unproven Nick Tropeano gave up seven runs …
The Angels and Dodgers have been playing in the Freeway Series throughout their entire history during Spring Training. But the games started to count when the Freeway Series became part of the regular season in 1997. In its inaugural season, the Dodgers swept the season series, 4-0. However, since then the Freeway Series has pretty much been dominated by the …
After another poor start by Matt Harvey, the Angels have finally given up hope that Matt Harvey would return to the Dark Knight days. He walked five and struck out one against the Astros on July 17, got swinging strikes on just three of 92 pitches and none of his 52 fastballs to fall to 3-5 with a 7.09 ERA …
Here’s the million-dollar question “When the July 31 trade deadline approaches, will the Angels be good enough to make a run to add a piece to their team or will they be out of the race and start making trades?” Here’s my simple answer. They will be buyers. This team has endured a lot already and it will help them. …
Is Trevor Cahill on his way out? He had already been demoted to the bullpen. In his first game as a reliever against the Reds on June 26 at home, he pitched two scoreless innings while giving up two hits and a walk. Since then he has pitched in three games and in 6.2 innings, he has given up 6 …
For the first time this season, the Angels offense is what management was dreaming it would turn out to be. Justin Upton made his 2019 debut on June 16 after missing two and a half months due to turf toe (sprained toe). On the very first pitch, he homered off of Edwin Jackson. And in 10 games, he has shown …
