Lee Smith and Harold Baines are headed to Cooperstown. The Today's Game Era Committee -- a 16-member Hall of Fame Board-appointed electorate -- voted Baines and Smith into the National Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2019 on Sunday at the Winter Meetings..
As the Angels’ contingent joins the baseball industry at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas for the annual winter meetings beginning Monday, expect GM Billy Eppler to remain active in the pitching and catching markets.
Feeling the need for speed
The Angels will be looking to supplement their starting rotation and bullpen. They also could benefit from getting another catcher. The last three years, GM Billy Eppler has come away from the wint…
With the MLB free agency conversations focused on Manny Machado, Bryce Harper, and a handful of pitchers, several outstanding players have been under the r...
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When Shohei Ohtani was posted by his Japanese club last winter, no one gave the LA Angels a chance to sign him. Now, one year after his decision was made p...
Baseball's annual Winter Meetings are set to begin on Monday in Las Vegas, and that means Hot Stove season is about to really kick into high gear. There have already been some big moves this offseason -- the Yankees' trade for James Paxton, the Mets'...
By Robert Cunningham, Angelswin.com Senior Writer As you can see from the chart above Billy Eppler clearly emphasized team defense and run prevention over batter’s box production last year. H…
The Los Angeles Angels are in need of reliable starting pitching this offseason and are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The Los Angeles Angels bigg...
At the end of October, I posted a contest for you all to decide who gets canned not invited back from the Angels coaching staff. Now that we have the new coaching staff announced, I can reveal who...
The Tampa Bay Rays have money to spend and an uncharacteristic willingness to entertain higher profile free agents like designated …
In this thrilling Hot Stove season, let's remember to spare some sympathy for the D-backs. Their trade of Paul Goldschmidt to the Cardinals was a good one, a smart, prudent move for a franchise in transition, one that brought back an impressive haul...
When you’re tasked to stand and watch, to reach conclusions that can’t be proved but to draw them anyway, to be curious, to wonder who they really are behind the routines and the failures and the uniforms, you begin to believe in Luis Valbuena.
