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Are The Angels Ready To Contend In The American League In 2018?

Few teams have improved more than Los Angeles Angels during the current offseason. The LA-based franchise has a generational talent in Mike Trout, but they haven’t been able to surround him with adequate talent in recent years. Albert Pujols is not the player he once was, and the rest of the lineup in recent years… Continue reading Are The Angels Ready To Contend In The American League In 2018?

The AL West Is Already Won

Predictions are a crap shoot. Well, that isn’t an entirely accurate cliche since craps is one of the more player-friendly games at a casino. Predictions more often than not leave the predictor with egg on their face. They are more like a game of roulette. Throw a guess ball into the wheel and hope you… Continue reading The AL West Is Already Won

The Mike Trout Conundrum

There is a time in every generation of baseball that a player comes through and wows everybody. They are a phenom in whatever position they play and their statistics immediately rank among the finest the sport has produced. Mike Trout is one of those players. But at the moment, his talents are being squandered on… Continue reading The Mike Trout Conundrum

2016 Breakout Candidates: American League

We are just a month away from meaningful baseball and I don’t know about you but I am ecstatic. Spring Training always ushers in an air of renewed expectations, whether those be good or bad. One begins to comb their team’s 40 man roster looking for that next contributor from the farm system. They do… Continue reading 2016 Breakout Candidates: American League