66ers ready for Affiliation Celebration
Inland Empire to welcome Angels dignitaries February 10th

Angels Manager Mike Scoscia will join General Manager Tony Reagins and Director of Player Development Abe Flores at Arrowhead Credit Union Park on February 10th.

San Bernardino, CA – With Spring Training right around the corner, the Inland Empire 66ers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will celebrate the teams’ new affiliation agreement with the fans of the Inland …

66ers ready for Affiliation CelebrationInland Empire to welcome Angels dignitaries February 10th

Angels Manager Mike Scoscia will join General Manager Tony Reagins and Director of Player Development Abe Flores at Arrowhead Credit Union Park on February 10th.
San Bernardino, CA – With Spring Training right around the corner, the Inland Empire 66ers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will celebrate the teams’ new affiliation agreement with the fans of the Inland …

Daily Links for the LA Angels including Vlad signs with the Orioles, Yanks considered trading for Kazmir, Young demands a trade from the Rangers and much more…
The Story: Vladimir Guerrero agrees to sign with the Baltimore Orioles.
The Monkey Says: And so ends the speculation of the Halos bringing back Super Vlad and I couldn’t be happier.  The last thing I wanted was to see Bourjos back in Triple-A …

I am in the process of moving my blog to WordPress. It has been tedious, as I’ve had to manually transfer each entry to save the permalink. So, I apologize for posts like “Rangers Interested in Oswalt” appearing as new. I’ll eventually get this figured out!

I’m wicked good in Canada

Based on a little back and forth over at the Facebook  page I had with some readers, I thought it was high time we took a look at Michael Saunders and just what we might expect from him in 2011.
First, the good:  Michael Saunders has a really quite impressive resume when it comes to hitting in the minor leagues.  Over six seasons in the minor leagues, …

My practice swings are impeccable

We are stockpiling left handed Spring invitees apparently to try the “scared straight” technique on Michael Saunders.
The M’s have picked up Gabe Gross on a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training. 
Where Jody Gerut was somewhat ho-hum, Gabe Gross is, well, eh… his Mother thinks he’s damn handsome!
There was something to write about Jody Gerut other than being a pretty good outfielder.  Gabe Gross …

Ah yes, late-January and early-February, the traditional time of year when everyone and their mother releases their top prospect lists and the fans respond with completely disproportionate levels of anger/excitement/confusion.  Yep, there is nothing like seeing random fans freak out because one of their team’s prospects ranked in the top 75 but not the top 50 or because one prospect rated with only three stars instead of four.  It is …

Hi everyone. I am in the process of moving Chicken Fried Baseball to WordPress, so I apologize for any downtime that may occur.

2011 INDIVIDUAL REGULAR SEASON GAME TICKETS ON SALE FEBRUARY 26th
For Immediate Release

ANAHEIM, CA – The Angels announced today that individual game tickets for the 50th Anniversary season in 2011 will go on sale Saturday, February 26th, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the Angel Stadium Ticket Office (located at the Home Plate Gate), online, by telephone and at various Ticketmaster outlets throughout Southern California.

Tickets for all regular season games will …

Ah yes, late-January and early-February, the traditional time of year when everyone and their mother releases their top prospect lists and the fans respond with completely disproportionate levels of anger/excitement/confusion.  Yep, there is nothing like seeing random fans freak out because one of their team’s prospects ranked in the top 75 but not the top 50 or because one prospect rated with only three stars instead of four.  It is …

I linked to it earlier this morning, but I think it merits further discussion and investigation.  Could Mike Scioscia someday be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager?  So many fans and experts alike consider Scioscia to be amongst the elite bench bosses in the game today, but with only 17 managers ever being elected to Cooperstown, Scioscia is going to have to end his career with …

News is so thin that you get a post on Jody Gerut!
In what seems to be the “throw spaghetti on the ceiling and see what sticks” approach to left field, the M’s went out and picked up Jody Gerut on a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring Training.  The curious thing about Gerut is he very well could be the starter in left field on opening day or …

Daily Links for the LA Angels including the Angels could have traded for Beltran instead, the 2002 Angels are part of a Hall of Fame fluke, a welcome celebration for the Inland Empire 66ers and much more…
The Story: The Angels supposedly turned down a deal for Carlos Beltran before trading for Vernon Wells.
The Monkey Says: If true, this kind of hurts.  Beltran is owed over $18 million this …

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  As the bitter winter cold takes over most of the country and the poor folks down-under in Australia get slammed by more devastating weather, my mind is starting to dream of Spring Training in Peoria Arizona. I told myself last season that I was not going back to Peoria this year after the awful results from 2010. And with all the anguish in the world, especially in Egypt where …

OK, I’m going to try something new.  I’ve been looking to add a special feature for each day of the week and thus far haven’t come up with anything for Wednesday, until now.  I’m calling this “What If Wednesday” a weekly piece in which I will simply throw out a hypothetical for everyone to consider.  No analysis or pontificating on my part, just thinking out loud and hopefully generating some …

OK, I’m going to try something new.  I’ve been looking to add a special feature for each day of the week and thus far haven’t come up with anything for Wednesday, until now.  I’m calling this “What If Wednesday” a weekly piece in which I will simply throw out a hypothetical for everyone to consider.  No analysis or pontificating on my part, just thinking out loud and hopefully generating some …

OK, I’m going to try something new.  I’ve been looking to add a special feature for each day of the week and thus far haven’t come up with anything for Wednesday, until now.  I’m calling this “What If Wednesday” a weekly piece in which I will simply throw out a hypothetical for everyone to consider.  No analysis or pontificating on my part, just thinking out loud and hopefully generating some …

I know the Vernon Wells trade only happened less than two weeks ago, but somehow the Angel newscycle feels as if it is now completely and totally dead.  Try as I might, I can’t think of anything compelling to pontificate about right now and you know what that means…  time for another installment of Monkeying Around!  I think this is actually the first Monkeying Around (aka a collection of random, …

I know the Vernon Wells trade only happened less than two weeks ago, but somehow the Angel newscycle feels as if it is now completely and totally dead.  Try as I might, I can’t think of anything compelling to pontificate about right now and you know what that means…  time for another installment of Monkeying Around!  I think this is actually the first Monkeying Around (aka a collection of random, …