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Who pitches opening day for Angels?

mysportsrumors posted 3/27/2008 from mysportsrumors.com

With pitchers John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar both out indefinitely, who starts Opening Day for the Angels . Manager Mike Scioscia still hasn’t announced his starting rotation members or the order of the players. But if you look at the Angels current spring rotation, you can easily break it down and figure which young gun it is. So who is it?

THT Live: Angels may have to trade for starting pitching

The Hardball Times found this 3/27/2008 on www.hardballtimes.com

Seems like rumor-mongering by the LA Times to me, as the actual Mike Scioscia quote is as follows: "We're still confident that, in house, we have enough depth on the pitching side," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "The short-term answers are in-house. If we lose guys for longer, the answers might have to come from the outside, but we're not at that point yet." Nonetheless, the article tosses ...

Angels may have to trade for starting pitching

The Hardball Times found this 3/27/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

With Kelvim Escobar out indefinitely and long reliever Dustin Moseley probably moving to the rotation, the Los Angeles Angels might look to sign or trade for a starter or reliever from outside the organization the Los Angeles Times reported. Among the ...

Stat of the Week Looks at Spring Training Stats

Clo posted 3/27/2008 from blog.baseballdigestdaily.com

John Dewan's latest stat of the week looks at prediction from Spring Training stats.

Wrapping it up from Boss Field

yankeesdaily.com found this 3/27/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com

Jeff Karstens has a groin strain on his right side and was taken for an MRI. Take him off the list. It looks like Darrell Rasner will be the long man. Nick Green hasn’t been officially sent down. But Joe Girardi did say that Wilson Betemit is ...