Comments on: Two Months In: Anaheim Angels

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:43:03 +0000

Learn the team name. It’s Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, with Los Angeles Angels being the only acceptable substitute.

If you’d like, consider ignoring the geography and call then what everyone else does…the Angels.

By: Doug Decinces

Doug Decinces — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:39:15 +0000

Anaheim went out with an O/U of 94.5 (after Santana, Lackey and Escobar were winged). As much as I love that team, I couldn’t let that investment opportunity pass.

By: crash

crash — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:48:58 +0000

all teams and their fans tend to overvalue their own prospects
the trick is to find a buyer when their ‘overvalue’ is at a peak
the angels hang onto them too long
i don’t think kendrick is a lost cause (the next macpherson) but he’s not ready to help a team that needs major-league ready
but i’m convinced some kind of kendrick-wood-weaver package could have landed them peavy +
too late now

By: Cory M

Cory M — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:31:21 +0000

I would like to see the Angels bring up players like Wood and Sean Rodriguez and see what they can do this year.

I think trading Figgy could bring back something decent due to his versatility, ability to steal bases, and get on base. I don’t think trading Vlad right now would bring much due to his injury earlier this year and his regression, but you never know. Trading Lackey might bring back something to pitching starved teams like the Mets or Phils despite his injuries the past few years. I just don’t know what type of prospects the Mets or Phils have.

Though the Angels still have a good chance to make the playoffs, I don’t see them being able to do much in the playoffs with the team that they have. For that reason I think it would be wise to try and restock the farm system and get rid of some of your aging soon to be likely overpriced vets. I doubt that this will happen though considering the Angels haven’t been sellers under Moreno.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:28:51 +0000

Well, actually, Los Angeles was their original team name, but that was back when they were actually in LA.

By: joser

joser — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:03:20 +0000

Call me old-fashioned but. I believe we should call them by their proper name.

Ok, then they’re the California Angels. If old-fashioned is your thing.

I find their current name almost hilariously incomprehensible, especially considering their bilingual owner (and region).

Literally, they are “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim”
¿Que what?

By: Christo P. Ney

Christo P. Ney — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:41:20 +0000

Agree. They missed a perfect opportunity to sell high on Kendrick. I understand why they didn’t but the league has figured him out. Steady diet of sliders away and then jam him low and in. Works every freakin’ time.

Moving Figgins to second immediately increases his value. But that creates other problems, like finding out what to do with Kendrick and Sean Rodriguez.

Gonna be an active ten months for the Angels.

By: scatterbrian

scatterbrian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:16:40 +0000

Replace Kendrick with Wood, and shift Figgins to 2B.

By: scatterbrian

scatterbrian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:14:28 +0000

“Vladimir Guerrero, Chone Figgins, Bobby Abreu and Robb Quinlan all have expiring contracts.”

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

By: Andy S

Andy S — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:47:56 +0000

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of California of The United States of America