#Mike Trout

Fans enjoying hot dogs and cold brews on a weekday afternoon. The familiar cracking sound of the ball meeting the bat before flying out of sight. Classic pinstripes, lived-in dugouts and 7th-inning stretches. Baseball is back. And while enjoying the game from a fan perspective is easy like a Sunday morning double-header, betting on baseball and…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The Los Angeles Angels played three miserable months without getting on the type of roll they've hit over the past week. The surge is probably too late to save the Halos' season, but any chance to shine means the world to Tucker Davidson and the other Angels playing for their futures. Davidson pitched six innings of four-hit…

Well, Angels fans. I guess there is some hope after all. MLB.com writer Will Leitch decided to have some fun, and predict who would win the next 10 World Series. And, what was probably a surprise to many, the Angels did in fact make the list. Not even just as a World Series participant, but as a winner. And the best news of all, it's before Mike…

The New York Yankees struck out on a Luis Castillo trade, leaving Brian Cashman to focus his attention on acquiring Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Frankie Montas. Castillo, the best starting pitcher available at the MLB trade deadline, came off the board Friday night when the Seattle Mariners acquired him for a prospect package headlined by…

Los Angeles has lost 13 games in a row but the most recent came at a greater cost, with Mike Trout suffering an injury in Tuesday's loss to Boston. Our MLB betting picks don't expect the banged-up Angels to challenge the Red Sox. The Los Angeles Angels were so close to snapping their 12-game losing streak on Tuesday, but the Boston Red Sox scored…

The Los Angeles Angles will host their AL West rivals in the Seattle Mariners to wrap up the last game of this three-game series. The Mariners won the first two games of the series with a 6-2 victory in game one and an 8-2 victory in game two. Can they get a sweep tonight? It's time to continue our MLB odds series with a Mariners-Angels prediction…

We are less than two weeks into the 2023 calendar year, but we've got bold predictions of a litany of things that will go down in Major League Baseball over the course of the next 11.5 months. Most of our predictions are about things that will happen during the 2023 MLB season, of course. A breakout rookie. An unlikely MVP. A surprise AL West…

The Los Angeles Angels signed Brett Phillips to be the Opening Day fourth outfielder. Whether that'll end up being a good signing or not remains to be seen, but it does tell us one thing. Jo Adell and Mickey Moniak will almost certainly barring injury not be on the Opening Day roster. This could mean one of two things. Either one or both of them…

MLB.com writer Will Leitch used his crystal ball to predict the next ten World Series champions. It's a very strange list comprised of ten different World Series winners. It's a list that could bring some laughs and tears of joy to Los Angeles Angels fans. In 2023 he has the Dodgers somehow winning the World Series defeating the Blue Jays. The same…

This past summer, both Aaron Judge and Rafael Devers signed hefty contracts with their respective organizations. As a result, everything is in place for both men to be crucial components of their respective teams in 2023. In 2022, Aaron Judge broke a well-known single-season home run record. He bettered Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs in a…

Off the top of your head, see if you can name the teams that won the World Series every year of the last 10 seasons, in order. You ready? No peeking. The answers are, of course: 2013: Red Sox over Cardinals 2014: Giants over Royals 2015: Royals over Mets 2016: Cubs over Indians 2017: Astros over Dodgers 2018: Red Sox over Dodgers 2019: Nationals…

Major League Baseball's offseason has officially crossed the halfway point. All but five of our top 50 free agents are off the board. The trade market is still open, of course, but the biggest story on that front this offseason has concerned who hasn't been moved rather than who has. Coming into the offseason, the expectation was that the Los…

In a fun development for fans at Target Field (weather permitting), tonight's scheduled Angels starter is the one and only Shohei Ohtani. He of the 34 dongs, 25 pitching starts, and a tie for the MLB lead in wild pitches. (Tied with Detroit's Alex Lange, who isn't even a starter.) His Twins counterpart will be North St. Paul's own Louie Varland,…

With just under three months until Opening Day, MLB fans are starting to feel the buzz. Free agents have signed, trades have been completed, and rosters are starting to take shape. Fans have already started to squabble over starting rotations, batting lineups, and which pitchers deserve to start on Opening Day. In a recent tweet by MLB Network,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jose Ramirez said he wanted to spend his entire career with the Guardians. Owner Paul Dolan granted him that wish by giving the switch-hitter a seven-year, $141 million contract extension. Ramirez is happy about that, but what about the Guardians' fans? Right now this team is a one-man show. It's all Jose all the time. This isn't…

Tuesday is opening day at Angel Stadium, the beginning of another hugely hyped, All-Star-studded, high-payroll and high-expectations season for the hometown Angels. Angels fans are thinking World Series for the club that hasn't made the playoffs since 2009 and won its only crown in 2002. Here are nine things every Angels fan should know going into…

We're just about a week into the new MLB season and there is certainly no shortage of bets to choose from. We've looked through the market, so continue reading to find baseball's best betting MLB player props for today's slate. We got a jam-packed MLB schedule today with things kicking off at noon and going to 7:10 p.m ET. With all this action,…

Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros square off against Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels at Minute Maid Park on Friday at 8:10 PM ET, in the first game of a three-game series. The Astros are fifth in MLB play with 176 home runs. They average 1.3 per game. The Angels have pitched to a 3.79 ERA this season, which ranks ninth in baseball. Prepare…

The MLB offseason is winding down as we are getting closer and closer to pitchers and catchers reporting to start another full baseball season. We have seen some big moves made across the board this offseason, as playoff teams tooled up their rosters to make another series push at a title in 2023. Here are the early World Series odds with a little…

Who is the best player on the Los Angeles Angels? On a team that features Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, we're lucky that we can have serious debates on the subject and have nobody be wrong. Mike Trout is one of the best players of all time and is a future first-ballot Hall of Famer. Shohei Ohtani is doing things we've never seen before on the mound…

For MLB fans waiting with bated breath for the new season, there is some good news. The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is returning in 2023 and will feature a slurry of prime MLB talent. The 2023 World Baseball Classic will be played between March 8th and March 21st, 2023, at stadiums around the USA, Japan, and Taiwan. It is carefully planned to take…

With the 2022 MLB All-Star festivities in the books, it's time for a quick round of bold predictions before the second half of the season gets underway on Thursday. What follows are 10 bold predictions for the remainder of the 2022 season, focusing mostly on individual players rather than teams since there will be plenty of postseason predictions…

Everything about Shohei Ohtani as a Major League Baseball player is historic. He's accomplished things on the field we haven't seen since the days of Babe Ruth. The 2021 American League MVP has even accomplished things Ruth wasn't able to do during his own Hall of Fame career. With the Los Angeles Angels being, well, the Angels, Ohtani has found…

Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout hasn't played in a game since July 12 because of what was originally diagnosed as back spasms. He was later placed on the injured list with a stated diagnosis of rib cage inflammation. Although more than a week have passed since, there's no greater clarity on when he'll return to the lineup. The Angels do,…

The Los Angeles Angels try for their seventh win in a row as they meet the Chicago White Sox in a showdown on the Southside. It's time to continue our MLB odds series with an Angels-White Sox prediction and pick. The Angels defeated the White Sox 5-1 in a muggy opener in Chicago. Taylor Ward got the Angels off to a great start when he drove an 0-1…

After a largely lackluster showing in the free agent market the last few months, the Boston Red Sox offseason is likely going to revolve around the trade market for the rest of the winter, and that's not just according to me. Chaim Bloom himself has indicated as such and while getting a long-term deal for Rafael Devers should be a priority as well…

Who's ready for some west coast action? The Oakland Athletics will travel to Anaheim to battle it out with the Los Angeles Angels. It is time to take a sneak peek at our MLB odds series, where our Athletics-Angels prediction and pick will be revealed. Standing with a record of 56-97 entering the final week of the regular season, the A's are eager…

The New Year, Volume 2023 is upon us, and that means a dual occasion to reflect upon our misfires of the year prior and look forward to our derelictions of the year to come. As it turns out, this grim ritual of inventory can also be applied to the clubs that play This, Our Baseball. The Royal We shall now do such a thing. Resolution: At least…

The Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Los Angeles Angels. Check out our MLB odds series for our Dodgers Angels prediction and pick. Clayton Kershaw goes to the hill for the Dodgers, while Patrick Sandoval takes the ball for the Angels. Clayton Kershaw has a 2.40 ERA. Despite the aging process and a constant flow of injuries, Kershaw has found ways to…

The rebuild in Baltimore has entered its fourth year under new management, although 2020 felt like a waste with the minor league season canceled due to COVID-19. The Orioles aren't any closer to contending as they wait to make the first overall selection in the amateur draft. They're undermanned in baseball's toughest division, especially in the…

Even with Shohei Ohtani on the mound for the Angels, our MLB betting picks have some qualms about backing them as -250 favorites. As such, we're targeting the value with the underdog Rangers with some help from Jonah Heim's bat. The Los Angeles Angels return home after a six-game to Atlanta and Kansas City where they went 3-3. Now, they host the…

The only way the Cleveland Guardians (73-65, 33-30 home) are making the playoffs this season is if they win the AL Central. Cleveland took another big step towards accomplishing that goal, by sweeping the Minnesota Twins over the weekend. The Guardians begin a new week on Monday with a 2.5-game lead atop the division, and will look to pad that…

ANAHEIM - When the MLB trade deadline passed and Shohei Ohtani remained in the Angels' clubhouse, it signaled that the club has no intention of rebuilding in 2023. And one of the moves they did make - trading closer Raisel Iglesias and the $51 million remaining on his contract - left no doubt that they are creating space to reload for another run…

With MLB free agency winding down, the league is beginning to take shape. Some teams have drastically improved their chances of competing in 2023 based on swift offseason moves. The New York Mets just pulled off a stunner to land Carlos Correa after the shortstop had previously agreed to a deal with the San Francisco Giants. Other teams such as the…

This past offseason was long and arduous, and at times, it felt like the odds of getting Opening Day in April - if at all in 2022 - were approaching slim-to-none. The season got delayed by a week and rain has pushed the Yankees' scheduled opener back to Friday, but nonetheless, we are indeed going to get a 162-game season! Somehow, it's still MLB's…

The 2022 MLB season will undoubtedly be the season of Aaron Judge. Not only is the towering Yankees outfielder the frontrunner for AL MVP and leader on the current best team in baseball, but he's also already the focal point of the offseason rumor mill. Just as the season was beginning in April, Aaron Judge turned down a seven-year deal worth…

The Chicago Cubs front office and ownership promised to make a splash this winter in free agency. Does Cody Bellinger and Jameson Taillon count? It's a start, but many of the Cubs faithful, as well as the media, firmly believed that the team would go after one of the elite shortstops that owned the market at the beginning of December. Of Xander…

Believe it or not, the Baltimore Orioles - who previously occupied dead last as a moneymaker for bettors - returned major winning potential ahead of the MLB All-Star break. The same franchise that labored to a 254-455 record, and finished a combined 191 games behind the American League East powers from 2017-2021, would have won bettors the most…

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Zach Plesac and the Cleveland Guardians look to snap a five-game losing skid as they take on Shohei Ohtani and the Angels. Where: Angel Stadium of Anaheim, 9:38 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network. Teams: Guardians (7-10) vs. Angels (11-7). Starting pitchers: RHP…

After Aaron Judge spurned his hometown San Francisco Giants in MLB free agency, the team shifted its focus on 28-year-old shortstop Carlos Correa the former Houston Astros shortstop involved in the cheating and sign-stealing scandal that rocked the baseball world following the 2017 World Series. ESPN's Jeff Passan broke the news yesterday that the…

Mookie Betts has been one of the elite hitters in baseball since making his debut with the Boston Red Sox in 2014. The outfielder out of Nashville, Tennessee, has been the essence of a five-tool player every season, hitting for contact and power with speed on the base path. He has also been an elite defender. Now entering his tenth season in the…

In the AL East, four teams have a decent shot of winning the division, and all of them are good. In the NL East, four teams have a decent shot of winning the division, and maybe one of them is good. The Mets look good on paper, but they're, you know, the Mets (more on that later). If the AL East is a battle royale against the titans of the league,…

Really shocked at how bad my performance was yesterday. We won our first play of the day after the Cardinals beat the Royals through the first five innings. But we lost both under in the Diamondbacks vs. Marlins game. We took the NRFI, and David Peralta hit a two-run bomb to wipe that out quickly. We took the whole game under, which lost in the…

What better way to start off the 2020's than with five bold predictions for the LA Angels and their players? There is a ton of excitement around the fanbase, and these next ten years already look to be far more promising than the last ten have been. So, without further ado, my five bold predictions of the 2020's for the Halos. As of now, Mike Trout…

Happy 2021 to all. A new year calls for a new batch of entertainingly dubious and dubiously entertaining baseball predictions. Ordinarily, the difficulty of such predictions comes down to the results. But in these unusual circumstances we find ourselves in, you'd have just as much difficulty predicting whether fans will be able to attend, the…

Behind a strong night from Shohei Ohtani - both on the mound and at the plate - our MLB betting picks and predictions are expecting the Angels to take care of business and secure their third-straight victory against the visiting Guardians. It's Game 3 of a four-game homestand for the Los Angeles Angels against the visiting Cleveland Guardians. The…

Last year, the Toronto Blue Jays won 91 games, but still failed to make the playoffs out of the loaded AL East. This year, they may just be the team to beat for the American League pennant. The Blue Jays and the Houston Astros share the role of co-favorites to win the American League title this year, with DraftKings Sportsbook giving both clubs+450…

Just being able to write about the Detroit Tigers and any sort of realistic shot at making the playoffs is so refreshing, when such thoughts have been non existent for the past five years, basically since former owner Mike Ilitch passed away. But here we are, with the much heralded prospects arriving in the major leagues and the team actually…

Happy Father's Day, everyone! We need some encouragement after back-to-back terrible days. I never hide behind my losses; it's a part of the game. We are 1-5 in our last six picks, which is a complete reversal of the 5-1-1 streak we went on just a few days before. It's a season rollercoaster, and we will have more ups and downs. All I can do is…

The Toronto Blue Jays have yet to lose a series in 2022, but they've got their work cut out for them with a trip to Houston to take on the AL West favourites. The pregame narrative: Toronto faces a pitching mismatch on Friday, sending swingman Ross Stripling to the hill while the Astros counter with future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander, who's…