The April 22nd, 2015 edition of Los Angeles Angels news including Angels have comeback plan for Hamilton, Bedrosian called up, Navarro demoted and much more…
The Story: The Angels have a comeback plan for Josh Hamilton.
The Monkey Says: This isn’t a comeback plan. This is an exit plan. For any of you that work at a semi-big company, you’ve seen these yourself. This is the plan that they give a struggling employ that they want to fire. On the surface, it looks like a plan to help the employee but really it is a plan designed so that the employee doesn’t meet the steps set out for him, thus giving the employer cause to terminate the employee. There are no obvious failure points in this plan, but they also haven’t revealed the details yet. At a minimum, this plan allows the Angels to demonstrate that they tried to allow him to play again if/when litigation over exercising the out clauses in his contract happens.
The Story: Josh Hamilton will report to extended spring training in Arizona sooner rather than later.
The Monkey Says: This is basically the same story with a few additions, including the fact that the Angels admit that they haven’t really shared this plan with Josh yet. Sure, it is on the team’s website and on every other major media outlet, but they didn’t feel the need to actually communicate it to Josh. I hope the communicate it to him soon because apparently some think he will report to camp this week.
The Story: Cam Bedrosian was called up with Efren Navarro being demoted.
The Monkey Says: Alvarez worked long relief two nights in a row and Morin pitched three consecutive days, so the Halos need some reinforcements. Navarro drew the short straw and got demoted, but it is possible that the Halos could call up a different hitter once the bullpen gets rested. They need to inject some life into the offense, so giving someone like Grant Green, Kyle Kubitza, Marc Krauss or Roger Kieschnick. Green and Kubitza are the only one actually hitting in Salt Lake though, for whatever that is worth.
The Story: Mike Morin and Mike Scioscia are not really into bullpen roles.
The Monkey Says: That’s a misleading title. Scioscia is in to bullpen roles. However, he says that when you just don’t have enough talent, you have to go based on match-ups more. Basically, he came to the right conclusion but his process of getting there isn’t the best. I guess that’ll work though.
The Story: Tyler Skaggs is inclined to follow the same Tommy John recovery schedule as Matt Harvey.
The Monkey Says: Which means he is going to take a little extra time off. He should still be in line to pitching again by Opening Day 2016, but not really much before that. Ironically, Harvey didn’t even want to follow his schedule but was restrained from being too aggressive by the Mets.
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