The Angels have agreed to a minor league contract with first baseman/outfielder Trey Mancini, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Presumably, the Frontline client will be in big league camp as a non-roster invitee next month.
A focal point in the Orioles’ offense from 2017-21, Mancini was once a consistent 20-homer threat who topped out with 35 round-trippers in 2019’s juiced-ball season. His career — and life — were thrown into chaos when he was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer prior to the 2020 season. Mancini announced nine months later that he’d wrapped up a chemotherapy regimen and was cancer-free. He made an inspirational return to the diamond in 2021 and hit .255/.326/.432 with 21 home runs during the 2021 season.
Mancini’s 2022 season was split between Baltimore and Houston, who acquired him at the trade deadline. His rate stats slipped to .239/.319/.391, but his track record was still enough to net him a two-year deal in free agency. That deal with the Cubs didn’t pan out. Mancini was cut loose after hitting .234/.299/.336 in 79 games in 2023, and he hasn’t played in the majors since.
Out of baseball entirely in 2024, Mancini returned to the game on a minor league deal with Arizona last year. He slashed .308/.373/.522 (110 wRC+) in 335 plate appearances with the D-backs’ Triple-A affiliate in Reno before opting out of the contract in June. A big league offer didn’t materialize, and Mancini did not return to the field in 2025.
As Rosenthal explores at length in a full column, the Angels deal reunites Mancini with former Orioles slugger and VP of baseball operations Brady Anderson, who accepted his first major league coaching gig this offseason when he agreed to become the hitting coach in Anaheim. For part of a deep dive into Anderson’s history and next chapter, Rosenthal chatted with Mancini, who credits Anderson with keeping his career going. Mancini tells Rosenthal that he was “at peace being done” after being cut from a minor league deal with the Reds during spring training last year. Anderson, however, invited Mancini to come hit with him and got him back on track before that minor league deal with the Diamondbacks.
Mancini will be 34 in March and hasn’t taken a major league plate appearance in nearly 30 months. He’ll obviously be a long shot to break camp on the Angels’ roster or even to be called to the majors at any point this coming season. Last year’s run in Reno shows that he still has some life in his bat, however, and the Angels’ lineup is hardly lacking in opportunity.
First baseman Nolan Schanuel has been a hit-over-power first baseman with below-average defensive grades since being rushed to the majors just two months after his selection as a first-rounder in 2023. Oft-injured Mike Trout and rebound hopeful Jorge Soler will be splitting time between designated hitter and the outfield corners. Bench options for new manager Kurt Suzuki include out-of-options infielders Oswald Peraza and Vaughn Grissom, waiver addition Wade Meckler, and outfielders Kyren Paris, Matthew Lugo and Bryce Teodosio. Paris and Lugo both fanned in more than one-third of their major league plate appearances last year. Teodosio is a 26-year-old former undrafted free agent who hit .203/.248/.304 in 50 games as a rookie last year.
Approaching mid-30s, hasn’t played in MLB the past two seasons. Angels. Yep, checks out.
@nukeg. My guess is he won’t make the team, and will retire.
Can’t be too sure, because Angels. They might make him their starting RF.
Another addition to what seems like their 80 man roster of mostly minor league signings. some of you in this comment section probably getting an ML offer from them shortly.
I have been waiting by the phone. I admit that gravity has more influence over my curveball than spin rate now adays but I just consider myself a crafty lefty veteran. I need to make sure they have my correct number.
They called me and I agreed to play with them for about 25 to 30 games a year. They didn’t like it and said.” what the hell kind of a contract is that?” and I said the same one you gave Anthony Rendon. They hung up.
My knuckle ball and split finger knuckle ball are always ready to go.
I’ll stand at the plate with a bat and watch pitches go by.
The Mary Anne Faithful approach.
Give a Rickey Henderson crouch and hope that the pitcher’s command is off.
Or try the Bartolo Colon approach and swing at everything.
Good luck to him!
Trey is a great guy to have around your organization. I doubt he makes big league contributions but he ought to have a career in baseball after he decides to call it quits.
Great story coming back from cancer and contributing to the Stros WS. You can’t dislike Mancini.
@Baltimore. Wouldn’t surprise me if he retires, and sticks around as a triple A coach. Everyone is under a one year deal. So they should have openings.
Good lort! The franchise is an embarrassment to baseball!
because they signed a great clubhouse guy to a minor league deal and let him come to spring training? Oh the horror!
Oh ffs!
Probably need talent before they need a good clubhouse guy. That’s like buying a really fancy set of chairs for a shack with holes in the roof ,not gonna matter much in the end and not gonna save the situation.
you’re acting like he is going to make the roster.
It’s a minor league deal. The Angels know he likely won’t make it. Mancini knows it’s a longshot. What’s the harm in having a good dude around the young guys for a month? Would probably be a pretty darn good coach too
The actually talented players don’t want to go anywhere near that dumpster fire of an organization.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
There’s no embarrassment associated with this signing.
The embarrassment comes from the offseason as a whole, and the last 20plus years of crap.
You were commenting on an article about Try Mancini being signed to a minor league contract.
*Trey
Oh thanks for letting me know.
Nothing lost by signing a class act.
Mancini signing isn’t one. The rest of the options the Angels have for OF/DH/1B are.
Get this man back to the big leagues he mashed in Reno last year and somehow still didn’t find a big league job. I really hope he gets another chance great guy and I believe still a good ballplayer.
It’s Reno. I could hit 25 playing half my games in Reno
It’s just a signing relax. I know everyone likes dump on the Halo’s
They’re making it really easy right now
That’s because the Angels are dump-worthy. Every offseason it’s the same exercise in the acquisition of bounce back hopefuls who were never really good at their peak to begin with. Then Moreno sends the GM du jour out with the same script that reads “we are comfortable with the team we’ve assembled this offseason but we’re always open to opportunities as they come up”. That’s why we dump.
@prov356. Probably the future DH, when soler and trout get hurt.
Like I said it’s just a signing.
Yes, but you also added that everyone likes to dump on the Angels. That’s the portion I responded to. Because you are right, it is just a signing.
When they make it so easy too. We are not dumping. We are outraged disappointed upset We don’t want to lose we want a fighting chance to compete. We can dump when we know our season is pretty much over by Memorial Day. We dump when we know half these signings will be DFA’ed by the all star break. We dump when we see the A’s and Pirates spend more money than we do. We dump when our pathetic excuse for a GM tries to spin all this as competitive moves and thinks the fans are gonna fall for it. We dump when we see a once proud and winning organization just 15 years ago being ran into the ground
Thank you for catching that unassisted in-between rocket @ 1B by Schwarber in G5 of the 2022 WS <3
All the guys who didn’t get those big league deals are taking what work they can get now. Happens every year.
“and the Angels’ lineup is hardly lacking in opportunity”
The raw, unadulterated, truth…
Why haven’t they signed as many pitchers on minor league contracts as possible since it is obvious they have no money or desire to improve the big league(Haha!) team?
Zero risk. Angels have nothing but holes so if he has anything left at all he has a chance.
Most likely is he retires but so what?! Nothing lost by giving him a chance.
@Weasel3-Exactly.
Yep, another hope and a prayer.
Let’s add the latest moves to our review the Angels and Perry MORONassian ‘s absolutely pathetic off season. Can we all say it is a carbon copy of the last three
✅ Trade an established major league hitter with 37 home runs for a pitcher that was a top prospect at one time coming off major arm injuries the last two years and is a huge question mark
✅ Sign a pitcher that was fantastic two years ago. Then forgot how to pitch had major arm injuries and is on his third team in 6 months
✅ Sign a one time highly touted prospect with ties to the braves who cannot hit major league pitching
✅ Sing two pitchers for the bullpen that were both great 6 years ago that will both he DFA candidates by the all star break
✅ Sing a pitcher who is out of options who only has 56 innings of mlb experience and walks to many hitters
✅ Sing a pitcher who was very good before the pandemic then had arm issues and was so bad in the minor he was forced to pitch overseas and wait for it with ties to the Braves
✅ Trade for a middle infielder who at one time could hit but injuries set in and he has not hit above .190 in three years. And guess what. With ties to the braves
✅ Sing a 39 year old reliever who watched his era balloon over five and has hardly pitched due to arm and back problems.
✅ Rendon well SMH LOL 🤮 good riddance. Sums that one up
✅ Hire your fourth manager in five seasons who has not managed a game in little league let alone the minors or the show and give him a one year deal.
✅ Be alleged in on Okamoto a player that said naw I’m good I am gonna sing with a team that is worse than yours because they actually have a direction and are improving
✅ allegedly be in on Nolan Arenado a third baseman that was good four years ago and cannot hit now and his current team is so desperate to get rid of the money. He would be this years Jorge Soler
✅Miss out on another player from Japan who said no I think I will go play third for a team that just came off a World Series appearance
✅ Sing a left handed reliever who was good at one time and then in typical Angel player requirement got hurt and had his career completely implode
✅Claim an outfielder off waivers who has 69 plate in four plus seasons of pro ball and hit .232 at the mlb level but it’s a hand me down from Moronnassian’s brother
✅ Sign another former highly touted prospect who is on his third team in two seasons. The kid can actually make contact and not strike out but in typical Angels fashion coming of a major injury
✅ Sign a reliever who has never had an era under 4.00 and has bounced between triple A and the majors. His velocity is down and walked 12% of his hitters. Shock in true Angels fashion coming off major knee issues
✅ Trade one of the better young relief arms for a corner outfielder coming off a .220 season and struck out 106 times in 396 at bats. And get this. Has a long history of injuries He is Taylor Ward with less power and is always hurt.
✅ Re-sign a third baseman who missed more than half the season in Angels fashion due to injuries and has a long track record of being hurt He only hit .236 and strikes out 28% of his plate appearances. Oh and he needs to sit if there is a lefty on the mound
✅ Sing a once good power hitter six years ago who is now 34 and has not played in a MLB game in 2 1/2 years to a minor league deal. (I am rooting for him) who plays a position we are already set He put up numbers in the second most hitter friendly park in all of triple A
✅ lose your local tv contract (not your fault) so now MLB and ESPN can price gouge us to watch games Remember in the before time when all the games were on KTLA.
To quote a recent ESPN article a clueless GM making signings that would’ve been all great moves in 2022. Moronassian could run the Angels into the ground in franchise mode on MLB the Show on Xbox
Yet still have not filled the holes of CF,3B( sort of) back of the rotation, closer and anyone that can hit above .230
The quest for 100 losses in in full effect
Sing song sung
They didn’t lose the TV contract. They along with several other teams opted out. I don’t believe any MLB team has Free OTA games.
@dolemite. Also I dont think it was on ktla. It was KCal channel 9 that was before fox sports west. Also was before Rex was the play by play guy talking about and x-mo high as a kite.
Trust me they were in KTLA in the 80s and Joe Torre was the color guy
When they were on KTLA. Gene Autry actually owned the station
Soccer is right they were on KTLA as Angel Owner Gene Autry owned the station. I believe they went to KHJ-9 when they were sold to Disney.
@soccer_ref. I was born in the 80’s. Yeah that’s before my time, but they were on KCAL. Figured you got them mixed up. Yeah I heard about torre being the color guy, just never saw.
They opted out of a contract with a company that hasn’t paid multiple other teams and likely couldn’t pay them.
It isn’t like they wanted to opt out of the deal and found a way to greener pastures. The contract they had simply wasn’t likely to pay them.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a big round of applause for the Los Angeles at Anaheim Singers.
I think they might be better singers than baseball players
Holy!
Spell check can be your best friend.
Spellcheck isn’t going to flag sing over sign
I fixed all sing to sign. Good catch
maybe grammarly.
With all that singing, maybe they could entertain the fans with their choir.
Next they will sign Tony Danza, Matthew McConaughey, and Neal McDonough and name Danny Glover Manager…
If they name Danny Glover manager I will flap my wings in the stands
And why not? Glover has th exact same amount of managerial experience as our current manager
Danny Glover never played professional baseball. Kurt Suzuki has.
Maybe soccer is your strong suit. Stick to that.
Angels, Nick Sandlin Agree To Minor League Deal
January 26th, 2026 at 2:27pm CST • By Steve Adams
The Angels and reliever Nick Sandlin are in agreement on a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training, reports Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. The right-hander is represented by the Ballengee Group.
Sandlin, 29, has pitched in parts of four big league seasons, primarily suiting up for the Guardians. Cleveland shipped him to Toronto as part of last offseason’s Andrés Giménez swap, however. Sandlin wound up pitching only 16 1/3 innings with the Jays, as a lat strain and elbow inflammation led him to spend the bulk of the season on the injured list. Toronto designated him for assignment following the season — effectively non-tendering him — rather than paying a projected $2MM in arbitration (courtesy of MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz).
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Prior to that injury-marred Jays run, Sandlin was a quality member of the Cleveland bullpen. From 2021-24, he pitched 195 1/3 innings with a tidy 3.27 earned run average, a 27.7% strikeout rate, 11.4% walk rate and a 43.6% ground-ball rate. That walk rate is well north of league-average, but Sandlin’s strikeout rate was strong and his grounder rate was a hair better than par.
Sandlin has never been a hard thrower, but the 91.4 mph he averaged on his four-seamer last year and the 91.8 mph he averaged on his sinker were both career-low marks. That’s not necessarily surprising, given that a pair of arm injuries creates a pretty good chance he wasn’t pitching at 100% (or all that close to it) when he did take the mound. Sandlin’s huge 14.8% swinging-strike rate from 2025 (again, small-sample caveats apply) was also outstanding.
Sandllin has 4.157 years of major league service time. If he spends even 15 days on the Angels’ major league roster or injured list, he’ll reach five years of service. That’s still not enough to become a free agent — unless he’s non-tendered — so if he pitches well, the Angels will have control over him for not only the 2026 season but also the 2027 campaign.
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There should be room in the Anaheim bullpen for Sandlin to grab a spot if he pitches well during spring training or perhaps early in the season with Triple-A Salt Lake. Robert Stephenson, Kirby Yates, Drew Pomeranz and Jordan Romano are all locked into spots, and out-of-options righty Chase Silseth probably has a place locked down as well. That’d leave three spots for some combination of Ryan Zeferjahn, Jose Fermin, Cody Laweryson, Sam Bachman and a handful of veteran non-roster invitees (Sandlin, Miguel Castro, Angel Perdomo, Tayler Saucedo). The Halos will probably add some more arms to the spring competition before long, but Sandlin gives them another talented arm on which to roll the dice.
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HopefulTwinsFan
January 26, 2026
Good get for LAA. Sandlin should have been a Twins target.
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mp9
January 26, 2026
YES! you beat me to it
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radhippo
January 26, 2026
Another hope and prayer signing.
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Astros71
January 26, 2026
Good job. Counting on depth to win. Hope it works for the Halos.
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radhippo
January 26, 2026
It’s been a 20-year experiment, but maybe this is the year!
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CKinSTL
January 26, 2026
Good signing. I wish the Guards could have brought him back.
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Angels2WS
January 26, 2026
While the Halos may not compete for the WS this year, there’s going to be a great competition in Spring Training to make the roster!
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gold masters
January 26, 2026
Sandlin good.
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Dumpster Divin Theo
January 26, 2026
Hopefully Happy Gilmore Sandlin and not Little Nicky Sandlin or Jack and Jill
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Dumpster Divin Theo
January 26, 2026
Walk in music as the bullpen door opens and out emerges this lad: Enter Sandlin. Do it Angels!!
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aragon
January 26, 2026
Good.
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Johnny Bravo
January 26, 2026
I did some research on Nick Sandlin
29-year-old sidearmer with a funky delivery, not a lot of velocity,but has a nasty sinker, and a sweeping slider that eats up righties.
But did have some arm issues, if he’s healthy, this could be a sneaky good move.
And one more thing Arte Moreno, don’t bother showing up to Tempe or Anaheim unless you’re ready to act like an owner who wants to win. We’re tired of the Bull-💩 Tired of the silence. The Angels fans are watching you
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kellin
January 26, 2026
After he was at one opener a few years ago and got booed by the fans, he hasn’t been back.. so I dont think anyone has to worry about him showing up any time soon.
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DolemiteisMyname
January 26, 2026
He was at SP last season. Sits by the dugout.
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Rexhudler86
January 26, 2026
@johnny bravo. Yeah I think sandlin soften s the blow from losing burke. He’s had decent numbers could be a bounce back candidate. I like a different flavor coming out of the pen.
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GoogleMe
January 26, 2026
A welcomed addition. Hopefully he can still healthy. He has been sub 4 ERA in every season. Both lefties and righties have a sub 200 average, but he has a high walk rate for his career.
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mrkinsm
January 26, 2026
This a good signing, I was hoping my Reds would have made this move. We could use the experienced depth at AAA.
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soccer_ref
January 26, 2026
Let’s add the latest moves to our review the Angels and Perry MORONassian ‘s absolutely pathetic off season. Can we all say it is a carbon copy of the last three
✅ Trade an established major league hitter with 37 home runs for a pitcher that was a top prospect at one time coming off major arm injuries the last two years and is a huge question mark
✅ Sign a pitcher that was fantastic two years ago. Then forgot how to pitch had major arm injuries and is on his third team in 6 months
✅ Sign a one time highly touted prospect with ties to the braves who cannot hit major league pitching
✅ Sign two pitchers for the bullpen that were both great 6 years ago that will both he DFA candidates by the all star break
✅ Sign a pitcher who is out of options who only has 56 innings of mlb experience and walks to many hitters
✅ Sign a pitcher who was very good before the pandemic then had arm issues and was so bad in the minor he was forced to pitch overseas and wait for it with ties to the Braves
✅ Trade for a middle infielder who at one time could hit but injuries set in and he has not hit above .190 in three years. And guess what. With ties to the braves
✅ Sign a 39 year old reliever who watched his era balloon over five and has hardly pitched due to arm and back problems.
✅ Rendon well SMH LOL 🤮 good riddance. Sums that one up
✅ Hire your fourth manager in five seasons who has not managed a game in little league let alone the minors or the show and give him a one year deal.
✅ Be alleged in on Okamoto a player that said naw I’m good I am gonna sing with a team that is worse than yours because they actually have a direction and are improving
✅ allegedly be in on Nolan Arenado a third baseman that was good four years ago and cannot hit now and his current team is so desperate to get rid of the money. He would be this years Jorge Soler
✅Miss out on another player from Japan who said no I think I will go play third for a team that just came off a World Series appearance
✅ Sign a left handed reliever who was good at one time and then in typical Angel player requirement got hurt and had his career completely implode
✅Claim an outfielder off waivers who has 69 plate in four plus seasons of pro ball and hit .232 at the mlb level but it’s a hand me down from Moronnassian’s brother
✅ Sign another former highly touted prospect who is on his third team in two seasons. The kid can actually make contact and not strike out but in typical Angels fashion coming of a major injury
✅ Sign a reliever who has never had an era under 4.00 and has bounced between triple A and the majors. His velocity is down and walked 12% of his hitters. Shock in true Angels fashion coming off major knee issues
✅ Trade one of the better young relief arms for a corner outfielder coming off a .220 season and struck out 106 times in 396 at bats. And get this. Has a long history of injuries He is Taylor Ward with less power and is always hurt.
✅ Re-sign a third baseman who missed more than half the season in Angels fashion due to injuries and has a long track record of being hurt He only hit .236 and strikes out 28% of his plate appearances. Oh and he needs to sit if there is a lefty on the mound
✅ Sign a once good power hitter six years ago who is now 34 and has not played in a MLB game in 2 1/2 years to a minor league deal. (I am rooting for him) who plays a position we are already set He put up numbers in the second most hitter friendly park in all of triple A
✅ Sign a soft tossing reliever who was decent up until 2024 then in true Angles fashion is coming of a long stint on the IL with arm problems and was DFA’ed off the roster
✅ lose your local tv contract (not your fault) so now MLB and ESPN can price gouge us to watch games Remember in the before time when all the games were on KTLA.
To quote a recent ESPN article a clueless GM making signings that would’ve been all great moves in 2022. Moronassian could run the Angels into the ground in franchise mode on MLB the Show on Xbox
Yet still have not filled the holes of CF,3B( sort of) back of the rotation, closer and anyone that can hit above .230
With the two moves today I am going to up our loss totals
The quest for 105 losses in in full effect
Can’t wait to wear my paper bag over my head at home games
Operation extreme redundancy is almost complete
Love ya Perry and Artie
Signed
An extremely satisfied fan
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Steinbrenner2728
January 26, 2026
Your comment is nearly a carbon copy of the one you posted on Trey Mancini’s article.
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soccer_ref
January 26, 2026
Yes it is with this player added
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GoogleMe
January 26, 2026
I think the Angels are counting on Mike Maddux and Brady Anderson to be miracle workers.
They don’t have a TV contract so they are not spending any money. There is some uncertainty with the rotation and bullpen. The rotation can be as good as it has been in a long time or it can be a disaster. Same with the bullpen.
The offense was bad last year and with Ward gone, it seems much worse. Ward was pretty clutch. The only players I see that are capable of stepping up are Logan O Hoppe and Moore. O Hoppe always starts off the season strong then drops off. 2 years ago, it was at the mid point of the season, last year it was after 2 months.
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bkbk
January 26, 2026
Dog, the ward trade was aces and Ward was my favorite player. Honestly, these moves are fine if arte isnt gonna compete, the bigger problem hisotrically is they buy lottery tickets and then when the deadline comes they dont trade them for prospects, leading to needing more tickets. Its a perpetual fail and now we have a GM and manager with a 1 year deal, so why on earth would they ever invest for the future. Arte has destroyed hope.
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Troutahni
January 26, 2026
Huh? The Blue Jays are worse than the Angels? The team was one away from beating the Dodgers to win the World Series. Okimoto was signed by the Blue Jays. Everybody knows that Minaasian loves former Braves, but a few times you reference a Player’s former connection to Atlanta, but you you find 3 or 4 negative points about the one player, but your post, filled with Red Herrings, states multiple bullet points about the player and you refer to the Braves in order to dupe people who are dumb enough like me to read your Scheiss, thinking you are writing about different players in each bullet, which is the main reason you don’t use actual Player’s names, so as to confuse us and actually believe you know what you are talking about.
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Troutahni
January 26, 2026
Just to get this right, we should believe what you are writing is accurate? Halfway through your post you state in with certainty that Okamoto was signed by a team worse than the Angels. I found two fundamental mistakes in your declaration. First there aren’t any teams in baseball worse than the Angels. Secondly, Kazuma Okamoto was signed by the AL Champions, the Toronto Blue Jays. They are the opposite to worse, they are years better than the Angels, who are perpetually stuck in Rebuilding, but never publicly claim they are and they let the best player in baseball since Babe Ruth, empty-handed, which tells me that the Angels Owner, Artie Moreno, is not serious about building a contending ball club.
Huh? The Blue Jays are worse than the Angels? The team was one away from beating the Dodgers to win the World Series. Okimoto was signed by the Blue Jays. Everybody knows that Minaasian loves former Braves, but a few times you reference a Player’s former connection to Atlanta, but you you find 3 or 4 negative points about the one player, but your post, filled with Red Herrings, states multiple bullet points about the player and you refer to the Braves in order to dupe people who are dumb enough like me to read your Scheiss, thinking you are writing about different players in each bullet, which is the main reason you don’t use actual Player’s names, so as to confuse us and actually believe you know what you are talking about.
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Troutahni
January 26, 2026
Just to get this right, we should believe what you are writing is accurate? Halfway through your post you state in with certainty that Okamoto was signed by a team worse than the Angels. I found two fundamental mistakes in your declaration. First there aren’t any teams in baseball worse than the Angels. Secondly, Kazuma Okamoto was signed by the AL Champions, the Toronto Blue Jays. They are the opposite to worse, they are years better than the Angels, who are perpetually stuck in Rebuilding, but never publicly claim they are and they let the best player in baseball since Babe Ruth, empty-handed, which tells me that the Angels Owner, Artie Moreno, is not serious about building a contending ball club.
Back in the 2022 Mancini trade. The Astros got Jayden Murray and Trey Mancini, the Orioles Seth Johnson and Chayce McDermott, and the Rays getting Jose Siri. Murray is looking like a future bullpen piece while Mancini helped us win the WS, thanks.
Trey is a great guy and at one time was a bright spot on an otherwise abysmal Orioles team. People not around Baltimore may not know of Little Moe, a young boy who was stricken with terminal cancer who was a huge fan of the Orioles and the Ravens. Trey Mancini was his favorite Orioles player and there are many images of the two together.
This may be his last hurrah, a chance to prove to himself whether he’s still got it, or he’s given everything he has to baseball and it is time to move on. It might be a move by Brady to help him transition from player to a coach. If he doesn’t make the MLB roster, he would be a great guy for your minor league team to teach guys what it is like to be a MLB player, be a mentor, etc.
I wish him all the best.
I remember Trey having some big hits playing against the Angels in games that seemed like they mattered (which means before August if not earlier!)
Would love to see him return to form and contribute to the Angels this year.
Trey Mancini’s still fighting this time for a roster spot.
Mancini Beat cancer. Beat the odds. one more shot. at the major leagues.
You can’t help but root for a guy like that.
If he’s not giving up, why should we
Angels fans know what it’s like to be counted out
FIGHT
In just a week, we re-sign Moncada and a soon-to-be 34 year old minor leaguer with a great character!? The new 1-year-contract coaching staff will be cooking up some mean chicken salad using chicken poop this season!
@sealbach comber. Moancada is probably the starting 3rd. Madrigal, meckler, and Mancini are the callups when the train derails. They need to sign one more minor league reliever. It’s definitely some scraps from the chicken coup. Hard to say it’s worse, but it’s probably even from last year.
Sell the team, Arte.
Well …… maybe the prices will come down
No way. Arte has to make up for lost TV revenue….he’s already un-installing the new A/C and selling it for scrap. Cha ching! He’s a financial genius.
Really fun story for camp. And we could use a fun story.
This team is abysmal and will continue to be abysmal until Arte sells. Might as well have some guys who make it fun in the meantime.
Rooting for Trey. He’s very loved in Baltimore. I hope it works out for him.
The winter of “bargains” continues. Oof…. Can we get to next years free agency and draft already.
Mancini vs Rendon. Who is better right now?
one wants to play
Well, one has fought through injury and illness to continue his dream, while the other seemingly can’t get healthy enough but continues to get paid regardless. I get that a contract is a contract but it’s pretty obvious which player would work harder and have a team mentality.
Angels fans need to stop complaining. They’re getting a good one, and on a minor league deal there’s really no down side.
Huh?
A really good guy, I hope he makes a success of it.
Schanuel is awful. Plays terrible defense, can’t run, and only hits pull side homeruns with zero power to left and little to center. I get he’s cheap, but a sub .750 ops propped up by high obp for a 1b doesn’t help much, especially when he’s terrible on the base paths.
There are no words, and even if there were words, Troutshni used them all.
Only the Rockies are looking up at the Angels.
This feels like more of a friend/mentor getting someone who he grew close to in the door for a baseball post life. Anderson and Mancini are both to much of a class act for the Angels.