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Would Adrian Beltre Improve the Angels?

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:02:52 +0000

It’s kind of strange to me that the question is even asked, but I know there are some out there that thing the additions he would bring to this team would be minimal, at best, and not worth the amount of money the Angels would be paying to them were they to sign him. The short answer is that Beltre would significantly improve the Angels at 3B over the production they saw last season, on both sides of the ball. But of course, no one that disagrees will take the short answer, so let’s look at things a little more in-depth after the jump.

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Angels at the Break Part 3 – Defense

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:16:32 +0000

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Although we’re a little past the break now, due to some technical problems beyond my control, I still wanted to finish up our look at where the Angels stand in the three facets of the game – pitching, offense, and defense – at the All-Star Break. If you’re feeling down about our recent losses, despite the Haren acquisition, then I hope reading this won’t push you over the edge. Consider yourself warned, and I’ll see you after the jump.

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Slip Slidin’ Away

Fri, 07 May 2010 06:29:25 +0000

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If you’ve been reading Halo Hangout for any real length of time, it’s probably pretty clear that I’m a statistics guy. I love the mountains of data that can be unearthed in a single play, a single game, and single season, and multiples of all of those. Things like WAR and UZR and wOBA and OOZ and even OBP and SLG can tell you so much about what’s happening during the course of a season or a player’s career, and most times tell you so much more than the so-called “traditional” stats ever could.

With that said, this post will contain no stats. Traditional or saber, you won’t find them here.

Instead, I just have a feeling. Watching the Angels, watching them get leads and then piss them away, watching them go into games and series they should win and coming up with a goose egg at the end, I just have a feeling that we’re watching the 2010 season slipping away before our eyes. Sure, there are plenty of games left to play, there are literally months of baseball left, but where is the improvement going to come from? Our pitching sucks. Forget the stats for the moment. It just sucks. There cannot be a realistic Angels fan that has any confidence when the game is turned over to any single person in that pen. Fernando Rodney has been okay, but it’s only a matter of time before his meltdown comes. Kevin Jepsen, who had been solid, was very much responsible for the meltdown against Boston Wednesday night. Even the rotation has been shaky at best, with Weaver the only dependable starter of the five of them. Every single one of them has lost in spectacular fashion at least once. It’s probably safe to say there is more to come.

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