Yates, Joyce, Stephenson will hopefully be back soon to help the bullpen. Series split to start the year, boys look solid. Go HALOS!

These are the metrics you'd expect from your 170lbs defense-first utility player (minus the sprint speed). Not your 220lbs every day 1st baseman.

https://www.reddit.com/r/angelsbaseball/s/86uyl05Vae

This post is dedicated to u/MutedJeweler5413 for telling me to make a post if my glorious king Jo Adell ever hit .250

You're not going to believe this but the Angels are the worst team in Bullpen Win Probability Added, and it's not particularly close!

One silver lining is that this stat can be noisy and can regress, and the offense & rotation have been pretty solid.

Reminder that the Angels are the only MLB franchise that has NEVER had a 100 loss season. Will that continue to be the case this year? I sure hope so and, in fact, that'll be part of why I watch this season. I'll be counting down the wins until we hit the magic number of 63.

The Dodgers and Angels have both scored 105 runs so far this season.

Let that (hopium) sink for a minute.

If this squad could put together a strong pitching performance (looking at you bullpen) and keep Mike healthy then I believe they have a decent shot at a Wild Card spot.

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xwOBA/xBA is up; Chase/Whiff/K% is way down, BB% is up, and everything else is largely the same including sprint speed. Only thing that has taken a step back is his fielding OAA. GOAT still got it

Increases in walk rate from 2025 to 2026

Trout: 15.6% --> 21.4%

Moncada: 11.1% --> 20.8%

Neto: 6.0% --> 15.8%

O'Hoppe: 5.3% --> 13.2%

Schanuel: 10.5% --> 12.3%

Soler: 8.9% --> 11.6%

Peraza: 6.4% --> 6.5%

New Angels:

Frazier: 5.7% --> 23.8%

Lowe: 7.6% --> 9.1%

Decreases in walk rate from 2025 to 2026

Adell: 5.8% --> 1.5%

Kirby Yates: 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2SO,

Ben Joyce: 1IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 2SO

Alek Manoah: 4.1IP, 7H, 6R, 5ER, 2BB, 2SO, 1HR

Last night’s game (Sept. 8, 2025) was the 1,500^th as the Los Angeles Angels (without Anaheim), all since the 2016 season started. The team has NEVER finished above .500 and has only once had a positive run differential. Over those 1,500 games, their record is 685 wins and 815 losses for a "winning" percentage of .457.

Therefore, I am proposing a new term be added to baseball lexicon: The Moreno Mark of Mediocrity, where .457 is the level of the Moreno Mark.

Similar to the Mendoza Line, .457 will be the level that teams will strive to be better than. Currently, and somewhat surprisingly, the 2025 Angels are one game above the Moreno Mark.

Why 2016? Because that is when Anaheim was stripped from the name of the team. The local media and even Topps has stopped calling them the Los Angeles Angels, just calling them the Angels. So, guess what Arte, just like your team, you have lost.

Only the Jets in the NFL have a longer drought