PITTSBURGH -- It’s nights like Tuesday night that keep Kevin Pillar going. Even when other teams have passed on him. Even when teams who haven’t passed on him have limited his at-bats. As important as the two homers and career-high six RBIs in the Angels’ 9-0 victory over the Pirates

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PITTSBURGH -- Cole Tucker tries to not look ahead. He keeps the MLB and Minor League calendars to the side. But when he was called up to the Angels on April 29, he couldn’t help but notice that a special team was on the docket a week later. Tucker, a

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CLEVELAND -- It was the best start of right-hander Griffin Canning’s season so far, but it was marred by just one pitch. Canning threw a season-high six strong innings against the Guardians, but gave up a two-run homer to José Ramírez with one out in the sixth that proved to

CLEVELAND -- Through his first four starts of the season, lefty Reid Detmers looked like an ace and it appeared he was starting to reach his immense potential. But Detmers has scuffled in three straight outings since then, getting hurt by three homers in his latest start in a 7-1

CLEVELAND -- It was exactly the type of outing the Angels envisioned from right-hander José Soriano after he was moved back to the rotation this season on the heels of a breakout rookie year in relief. After turning in the shortest start of his young career in his last outing

ANAHEIM -- Angels superstar Mike Trout had trouble holding back his tears on Tuesday as he described yet another injury that is expected to keep him out for an extended period of time. Trout, a three-time AL MVP and 11-time All-Star, suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee in

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Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

ANAHEIM -- After going 1-4 with a 6.33 ERA through his first six starts despite earning the honor of being the Angels' Opening Day starter this season, left-hander Patrick Sandoval vowed to bring a different mentality into his outing against the Phillies on Wednesday afternoon. Sandoval wanted to be more

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

Whenever a Draft list is updated for the first time since December, there are bound to be a lot of changes up and down the rankings. This year's new Draft Top 150 takes that to an extreme, speaking to the volatility and uncertainty of the class outside of the top

ANAHEIM -- After getting swept in an ugly series against the Twins over the weekend, Angels manager Ron Washington called a team meeting after Sunday’s loss to express his disappointment with the way his team was playing. The Angels, who had lost nine of 10, responded promptly to Washington’s message,

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ANAHEIM -- Some things are bigger than baseball. But Angels right-hander Zac Kristofak knows how the power of baseball can heal. He's used it as his platform since going through an unthinkable tragedy in 2012, when his father murdered his mother outside Atlanta when he was only 15 years old.

There's a longtime scout who likes to say, "The Draft is hard." The 2014 Draft was very hard. It's just one of three Drafts where the No. 1 overall pick finished his career without reaching the Majors, and the only one where neither of the top two selections made it.

ANAHEIM -- It wasn't a banner night for Angels pitchers named José on Saturday and it could lead to a roster shakeup on Sunday. Right-hander José Soriano turned in the worst start of his young career, while relievers José Suarez and José Cisnero struggled in a 16-5 loss to the

ANAHEIM -- It was a tough day for the Angels on Friday. Third baseman Anthony Rendon met with reporters before Friday’s 5-3 loss to the Twins at Angels Stadium and said he was diagnosed with a high-grade partial tear in his left hamstring. He said there is no timetable for

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ANAHEIM -- The move to get Mike Trout atop the lineup has worked out for the slugger in the early going, as he homered in a second consecutive game on Wednesday afternoon. With a solo blast in the sixth, Trout became the first player in the Majors to reach 10

Three years ago, Charlie Condon attracted zero interest from pro scouts or NCAA Division I baseball programs. He wound up at Georgia as a preferred walk-on and redshirted during his first season in Athens. Now he's the best prospect in the 2024 Draft and sits atop MLB Pipeline's updated and