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If you landed here due to a Google search on an old blog article, we're glad that you did. But we want to let you know that most of our content moved over to our new & improved website which has a blog of its own back in 2013. Here is our Complete Website index. The Internet Home for Angels fans Worldwide! Unraveling Angels Baseball... One Thread at a Time. Homepage: https://angelswin.com Community: https://angelswin.com/forums/ Blog: https://angelswin.com/blogs/ Podcasts: https://angelswin.com/podcast/ History: https://angelswin.com/blogs/entry/3061-top-50-greatest-moments-in-angels-baseball/… Top Prospects: https://angelswin.com/future-angels/ About Us: https://angelswin.com/about-us/ Staff: https://angelswin.com/angelswin-staff/… Store: https://tinyurl.com/2b4ub3js YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2tv4c6pj Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/angelswin Facebook: https://facebook.com/angelswincom Gallery:...

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AngelsWin.com has joined The Sports Daily network

Dear Angels fans: This will be our last post from Blogger, so from this point forward all of our articles will be published on AngelsWin.com. If you had our blog bookmarked, please just bookmark http://angelswin.com/ or http://thesportsdaily.com/angels-win/. Both will bring you to the same place and it's where you can find all of our content going forward. We will not fully sunset this blog, though all of our past articles have been moved over to our new website.  We're excited about this move as The Sports Daily blog network has talented authors who provide quality content on a daily basis. This also expands our content to the east coast as NESN, the popular New England based network owns the network we now call home.  Our forum URL has not changed and can always be found here if you do not have it bookmarked. Still today, AngelsWin.com boasts the largest Angels...

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Is C.J. Cron on the Trading Block?

By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer -  “Don’t be fooled by the rock pile that I’ve got! I’m still, I’m still C.J. on the block!” – Alternative J-Lo Lyrics On January 19th, 2017, news broke out of Caracas, Venezuela, via Efrain Zavarce on Twitter, that free agent infielder Luis Valbuena was on the verge of signing with the Angels on a multi-year deal. Days passed before the signing was officially confirmed with the two sides agreeing to a 2-year, $14.5M deal with a mutual option, per Jeff Fletcher, worth an additional $8.5M-$10M (based on PA’s) for a potential total contract of 3 years, $23M. It was initially thought that Valbuena would act as a platoon partner to hitters like Danny Espinosa and Yunel Escobar but shortly after the signing announcement GM Billy Eppler dropped a small bombshell, declaring that Luis would receive bats at 1B in 2017. Scene:...

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Angelswin.com 2017 Season Primer Part XIII: Right Field

By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer -  Author’s Note: If you missed the previous installments you can find Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, Part VI here, Part VII here, Part VIII here, Part IX here, Part X here, Part XI here, and Part XII here. Let me pose a question to you the fans: Did the disaster of the 2016 season give you digestive problems such as nausea, loss of appetite, motion sickness, or even pain? If you said yes, please let me recommend, for you and the Angels, a healthy dose of ginger in the 2017 season. Our favorite redheaded right fielder will return for another season of Gold Glove-caliber defense and an incrementally improved offensive profile to hit in the middle of Mike Scioscia’s lineup. Kole, in 2017, will be entering his fourth year of team control and his second year of arbitration control as...

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A Hypothetical Case for Matt Wieters

By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer -  I will preface this article by stating that, in the past, I have not been a fan of signing the Orioles former rising star, he just seemed to be missing key components, such as pitch framing ability, good career offensive numbers against RHP, and the previous Tommy John Surgery on his throwing arm gave me concerns about his durability. However if you look deeper at his numbers and his performances in 2015 and 2016, you see the possible makings of a trend that may be enticing to Billy Eppler and the 2017 Angels squad. First let us examine Matt’s defensive numbers as seen in the table below: There are a couple of interesting items to talk about here. Matt’s pitch framing was actually good earlier in his career (2010-2012) but fell off in recent years. It is possible that he could work on this part of his game and...

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A Hypothetical Case for Jose Bautista

By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Senior Writer - First of all let me start off by saying that the odds of the Angels interest level in Jose Bautista, much less signing him, are pretty low. This is simply a test case to identify any possible advantages and disadvantages his signing would bring to the Halos. To start the conversation Billy Eppler would have to find a positional home for Bautista. The Angels are almost certainly not going to move a premier defender like Kole Calhoun out of right field and, based on Eppler’s early offseason strike in the trade market, Maybin seems set in left field and is likely to become our leadoff hitter. Jose has not played third base in a long time and frankly Escobar’s bat is also valuable at the top of the lineup (likely the 2-hole) so the Angels probably do not want to downgrade even more defensively at third base despite the value of...

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