I’m calling these crazy suggestions, because they’re things I’ve only been thinking about for a couple hours, and I don’t know how willing the front office will be to do most, if any of them. Still, at least at the moment, I think they’re a few moves we could make that could go some distance towards improving the team. Some of it will be contingent on the front office opening their wallets, which they haven’t always been willing to do, and some of it will demand a little creative thinking on the part of Scioscia and the front office, but [...]

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Welcome to the second of three parts looking at the state of the Angels at the All-Star Break. Today we’ll be taking a look at their offense, naming names and showing who on the team has been good, bad, and ugly. Much like with our pitching, I suspect there is little suspense as to who will end up in the last category.

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Hopefully you’re able to read this through the tears. With a swing and a jump, the Angels season may have broken as badly as Morales’ leg did yesterday. As of this morning, Morales was second on the team in both wOBA and WAR behind only Mike Napoli, and lead the team in AVG, HR, and RBI (among players with at least 100 PA). In short, he was a huge piece of our offense, and it’s hard to imagine he’s not out for the season now.
Unfortunately, this may have a big impact on 2011 as well. It depends on [...]

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This may be the Player Preview I’m dreading the most, simply because it may be the hardest. Almost everyone else that I’ll be looking at has some sort of MLB track record, even if it’s as small as Kendry Morales’ 279 games. Brandon Wood is an entirely different case, entering 2010 without even 1/3rd of the games played at the Major League level, and so we don’t have much of a history at this level to look at.
His minor league history, of course, is quite well-known among Angels fans, at one point rating as high as Baseball America’s [...]

Lyle Spencer, the mlb.com reporter for the Angels, has a blog post up discussing the comparisons people are making when it comes to Brandon Wood. Apparently, many “fans and insiders” keep comparing him to Dallas McPherson, and Mr. Spencer believes Troy Glaus is the more appropriate comparison. Why we’re comparing either of them to a person with only 236 PA in his major league career is beyond me, but let’s go with it for the moment.
Comparing Glaus and Wood physically, as Spencer does in his post, seems a bit of a stretch to me. While Glaus is only two inches [...]

Things are fairly quiet around Angelopolis right now, with everything sort of in a holding pattern until Spring Training (15 days until the first Spring Training game!). That said, there have at least been a couple of transactions recently worth at least noting, though neither are likely to have much of an impact on anything.