The California Angels of Anaheim - Los Angeles now featuring Albert Pujols - 2012 Angels thread

FOX Sports West is moving two Lakers games to Prime Ticket to make room for Angles broadcast instead. Games include this Friday's game and another game on April 17.

Albet Pujols really does make that much of a difference. to bump the Lakers in Los Angeles is almost impossible.

you and your angles

slip of the hand

the addition of a healthy kendrys is really putting this team over the top.. however lol at trumbo at 3B. his 'defense' is awful.

Callaspo is the starting 3B. Trumbo is a utility DH.

what i read had Trumbo the elephant playing 3rd 40-50 games. but who knows where the season will take you.

kendrys 4/4 on #9 pitches seen

When Torii Hunter first arrived to Southern California five years ago, former Angels outfielder Garrett Anderson warned him about how the thick marine layer of left field can take away home runs at night.

Hunter brushed it off -- until he realized how much of a factor it really was.

Now the same is happening with Albert Pujols.

wut

the fuck is a marine layer?!

nighttime so cal humidity, basically

so basically like the whole east coast all summer?

poor aging right-handed power hitters -- guess it'll take its toll on kemp soon enough rip

except it's cold, so it's dense

at night.

Isn't St. Louis basically 40 degrees and muggy every day in July-August? Does that explain why it's so hard to hit HRs there?

40 degrees, u wacky Canadians

vw - .242/.485/.739
aj - .222./.319/.601

ap, rather

1m Ken Rosenthal ‏ @Ken_Rosenthal
#Angels’ OBPs: Morales .291, Aybar, .286, Pujols .282, Kendrick .282, Abreu .259, Wells .250. Again, those are OBPs, not BAs.

albert on the road: .176/.200/.206

"marine layer"

t/s - worse bullpen red sox or angels

don't really know the American League but since i'm in so cal that Angels bullpen is brittle.

Downs is doing a'ight.

http://i.imgur.com/cTKQb.jpg

lol

the Angels bullpen just blew another lead for their starter and lose to the Indians.

Abreu released, Trout up.

Trout up to sit on Scioscia's bench, obv.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/scott-miller/18913186/pujols-unhappy-angels-coach-hatcher-reveals-hitters-meeting-details

Marine layers, Mickey Hatcher, and other hazards: 2012 Angels -- amirite?

great job Weaver, though it was talked about in that other thread.

tacos to celebrate

@JonHeymanCBS
not to be negative so early in the morning, but albert pujols is 181st out of 185 players in ops (.505). #240M

@Buster_ESPN
From ESPN Stats/Info: Albert Pujols's previous career-low in RBI after 27 games was 17, in 2007. He's got five so far this year.

booed friday, benched saturday.

our long orange county nightmare is over

http://pics.livejournal.com/jessicaverday/pic/0000k49r/s640x480

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/5/11/3014916/albert-pujols-angels-home-run-stats

whoa trumbo

no tacos tonight

Albert Pujols now has the lowest WAR in the league (-1.0) among qualified batters

at this point i'm either watching every AB live or going back ondemand and watching them, because damn

the thing that has really struck me is that, at least in the ABs i've seen in the last few weeks, it seems like he's getting ahead in the count in a good number of at bats. i feel like i've seen a number of at bats where he gets ahead 2-0 and still ends up grounding out two pitches later. it's very weird.

definitely his swing has gone all the way to hell

Brandon Wood's Revenge

yeah - he looks off-balance and wobbly, not at all the way he looked even last year. he's not really walking either. even his one HR just barely made it over the fence. if I was the Angels front office I'd be freaking the hell out right now - his contract is certainly bad as it is, but if he doesn't produce during the first couple of years, it's going to look much, much worse

yeah, well i'm sure they are freaking the hell out

also it's important to note that even Adam Dunn had 4 HRs at this point last year

yeah -- it's also not helping that the entire offense is basically the worst in baseball right now aside from like the twins

@JonHeymanCBS
albert's not done. but he is Dunn. thru 35 gs in 2011 dunn was .197/.322/.362. 2012 albert is .197/.235/.275

@LookoutLanding
@JonHeymanCBS those aren't close

the breakout game for albert everyone's been waiting for:

3 for 3, 2 RBI

Bot 3rd: LA Angels

- A. Callaspo doubled to right, M. Trout scored
- A. Pujols singled to shallow left center, A. Callaspo scored

Bot 5th: LA Angels

- A. Pujols singled to shortstop, M. Trout scored

Mickey Hatcher has been fired.

yeah, because it's all *his* fault

Apparently he was a little too loose-lipped about a closed-door team meeting a while back and Albert said "I'll have to talk to Mickey about that."

ts: mickey hatcher/marine layer/well-paid dude with -1 war

Above the Mendoza line!

A Pujols 3B

Jered Weaver removed from the game after three batters & one pitch w/ a right knee issue…happened after pitch to Cano. 1-0 #Yankees #Angels

apparently pretty serious

Mike Trout just single handedly beat the dodgers tonight

i saw the 8th and 9th inning.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/social/Trout-color-catch.gif

^doesnt even show how far he ran 2 get there, trout is sick

hah damnit I was coming to post this too. I love this fool but I hate the angels. #conflicted

He really had to swim upstream to get to that one.

according to BBR in 53 games he's got a WAR of 4.1, behind only brett lawrie (4.8) and votto (4.2) and in far fewer games.

as of right now, he has had the 16th-best season ever by a player 20 or younger -- with 80 games left

god trout hit a fucking bomb tonight

so there's an argument to be made that dude is the best player in baseball right now. if you're the angels, do you try to sign him to a long-term deal now? if you're trout, what do you accept?

there's basically no incentive for trout to sign for anything under $100 million imo

of course not. and they have control of him for several years, although arbitration won't make it cheap.

what about $200m/10y? takes him through 31. $20m is hardly unreasonable compared to shit going on *now*, let alone five years from now, considering how awesome he is. i dunno -- if i'm 20 years old, i might be pleased to take a guarantee of being set for life over the possibility of more. and barring injury/andruw-dom, there'll still be a further payoff in 10 years.

agree that he is one of the best players in the league right now. when i watched those three games against the Giants i kept saying what if.

can they afford to commit that kind of money right now?

have albert chip in imo

mike trout leading the AL in runs scored by about a half dozen over his closest followers (kinsler, granderson, cabrera, de aza, cano, etc) despite appearing in about twenty fewer games. 74 runs in 77 games.

mvp

The last guy I remember scoring a run a game--I had to double-check--was Henderson in '85: 143 games, 146 runs. (Not Dave, not Steve--the other one.) Bagwell came close in 2000--159 games, 152 runs--and Bonds was a little less close a couple of times, ditto Raines in '87.

A leadoff hitter slugging .600, surely that's never been done. (Rickey's high was .577.)

brady anderson in '96 had a .637 slugging percentage, wasn't he in the leadoff slot most of the year?

Forgot about him. Baseball Reference has him leading off for 102 out of 149 games (SP = .627); he batted second for 43 games (SP = .667), and 7/8/9 for another four. So I'm not sure if that'd count or not...he had slightly fewer plate appearances batting leadoff than he would have needed to qualify for the batting title. (The Orioles had Alomar batting leadoff for 48 games.)

i love trout batting leadoff, i know a lot of angels fans would probably love to see him in the 3 hole but he's awesome in the #1.

A's-Angels would be an amazing wild-card playoff -- No-Stars v All-Stars

Feel like trout was one of the main reasons pujols signed with anaheim in the first place. Dude is gonna score 100s of runs if he keeps his pace up (which is insane)

playing his 81st game of the season, up to 80 runs scored now.

well, who will be the last team to blow this game?

Highest Adjusted OPS+ Age-20 Season

1. Mike Trout 185
2. Ty Cobb 167
3. Mel Ott 165
4. Mickey Mantle 162
5. Al Kaline 162
6. Alex Rodriguez 161
7. Ted Williams 160
8. Rogers Hornsby 150
9. Jimmie Foxx 148

his current 6.3 WAR through 82 games is, according to baseball reference, equal to albert pujols' rookie season WAR (achieved in 161 games.)

Albert's monthly BA/SP this year: .217/.304, .263/.491, .326/.568, .330/.660, .400/1.100. Historically, August has been his best month.

For this, you would think the genius who drafted Trout for the Angels would have been rewarded with, what? A lifetime contract? A Lamborghini? A personal masseuse?

Instead, Eddie Bane got fired.

Then-general manager Tony Reagins summoned Bane, Angels' scouting director from 2004-2010, into his office two years ago and told him to get lost.

"Real short conversation," says Bane, who now scouts for the Detroit Tigers. "He said, 'We're not going to renew your contract.' I said, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' He said, 'I don't like your last couple of drafts.'"

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/19987414/its-not-usual-for-scouts-to-be-fired-unless-you-have-a-track-record-like-eddie-banes

welp, fat pitch to Cruz

Trumbo hackin' at strike 3 in dirt

CMON ALBERT

TORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

torii has been so good this yr

whoa, wasting no time

ok a slugfest

interesting factoid re: torii

At age 37, Hunter would be the oldest player since Baltimore's Bob Boyd in 1957 to have his first .300 season. Boyd was a veteran of the Negro Leagues.

having the angels miss the post season makes the dodgers craptacular september easier to digest