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Halo Headlines - 6/22/09
- Like the rest of us, Steve Bisheff wants to know how long Mike Scioscia plans to bat Vlad Guerrero fourth while he continues to display zero power and grounding into double plays every other at-bat.
- PUFF PIECE ALERT: Credit Juan Rivera's recent success to his quick hands. Personally, I think his spleen is getting ignored in this whole situation.
- Speculation has already begun that Matt Holliday would make a nice free agent acquisition for the Angels this off-season. If they mean that the Angels would like to add another underachieving former slugger, then yes, he is a perfect fit. However, with Scott Boras as his agent there is zero chance of this happening after how much he upset Arte Moreno in the Mark Teixeira negotiations this last winter.
- The Angels have created two new awards in the honor of Nick Adenhart and Preston Gomez. The Adenhart award will go to the top major league Angel pitcher as voted by the players and the Gomez award will go to the top minor league manager.
- Kobe Bryant and his dad were at the Dodgers-Angels game on Sunday.
- The Angels scouted Pedro Martinez in a workout this weekend but declared that they would pass on making an offer to the former ace. There's little reason for the Angels to sign Pedro now, so it makes sense that they passed, but knowing that they even scouted him is a bit curious unless they just want to research insurance policies.
- Torii Hunter has been declared the top baseball player in Los Angeles... until Manny comes back from his suspension and the Dodger apologists reignite Manny Mania.
- FutureAngels.com profiles the top Angels prospects thus far in 2009.
- The Angels have signed their top pick Randal Grichuk and he is expected to start his minor league career with the Orem Owlz (Rookie).
- INJURY UPDATE: Ervin Santana threw well over the weekend, putting him on track to start on Tuesday.
- INJURY UPDATE: Kelvim Escobar has had his return pushed back to the coming weekend "at the earliest" for precautionary reasons. Escobar insists that he feels fine though, then again we have heard that from him several times before.
- MUST READ: CBS Sports takes a look at how Mike Scioscia's leadership skills have been put to the test this season.
- Deadspin continues their profile of less than stellar sports stadiums by taking a look at our very own Angel Stadium.
