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Daily Distractions: How bad is the Angels’ pitching?
Spot starter Jerome Williams allowed two home runs in the Angels’ 8-4 loss Sunday. (Associated Press photo) “Terrible” and “absolutely awful” are two ways to describe the Angels’ pitching staff. And...
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Daily Distractions: Ernesto Frieri’s tweet heard ’round the world.
It had 137 retweets and 57 favorites as of this writing. It was painful, accurate and popular. It was not the first instance of an Angels player speaking from the heart, but it was presented without...
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Daily Distractions: Going to WAR over the Angels’ pitching woes.
Like you really needed WAR to tell you the Angels’ pitching is awful after Mike Scioscia did so Sunday? Here it is anyway: FanGraphs recently calculated the WAR (wins above replacement) for every team...
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Daily Distractions: A tale of two cities; quarter-by-quarter records; is Mike...
Angel Stadium has seen declining attendance in May. (photo by J.P. Hoornstra) Both the Angels and Dodgers are off to poor starts this season, but the Dodgers have something important that the Angels do...
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Daily Distractions: More on Billy Buckner, Jose Guillen, Ian Kinsler, replay...
Billy Buckner is a good story, beyond his name. When the Angels added him to their 40-man roster and flew him in from Triple-A Salt Lake on Thursday, it was Buckner’s first major-league opportunity in...
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Daily Distractions: Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols juxtaposed; rekindling...
Albert Pujols’ running can be painful to watch; lately his batting average has been suffering too. (Associated Press photo) A visiting beat writer at Sunday’s game watched one of Albert Pujols‘ three...
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Daily Distractions: Apparent blown call revisited; Angels’ initial budget was...
Did the blown call at first base in yesterday’s game matter? It’s a valid enough question to be debating it today. Albert Pujols, who had three hits in the game, was on deck. He’s batted four times in...
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Daily Distractions: Jered Weaver was better than even he expected.
Jered Weaver threw harder Wednesday than he did in either of his two starts in April (Will Lester/ Staff Photographer) Of all the positives the Angels could take from Jered Weaver‘s performance last...
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Daily Distractions: No international draft as MLB chooses to preserve the...
Major League Baseball has decided against holding an international draft in 2014. The league issued a statement earlier today: “The Office of the Commissioner and the Players Association have discussed...
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Daily Distractions: Miguel Cabrera 2, Mike Trout 0.
American League All-Star vote totals were released today. While not unkind to Mike Trout, he was staring up at a familiar face in the balloting. Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera was the...
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