ANGELS RECORD - SO FAR.................. SO GOOD !!!

After the first ten games, the Angels find themselves at 6 and 4.

If the Halos can keep winning 6 out of 10 games for the rest of the season, their record after 160 games will be 96 wins and 64 losses. If the Angels win the last two games, that will put them at 98 wins and 64 losses. 98 wins should win the division. Of course with the team the Halos have, 98 wins would be a low estimate.

So far the offense is scoring runs and hitting home runs.

The Angels pride themselves in playing small ball. Hit and run, stealing bases,  taking the extra base. But in the American League you have to be able to hit the long ball if you want to go to the World Series. Now with the addition of Torii Hunter. the offense can count the long ball in as another weapon to score runs. Hunter won't hit 40 home runs but he might hit 30 . And after watching the Halos series with the Indians, home runs are contagious. Anderson, Kotchman, Napoli, Vlad , even Gary Matthews are more then capable of hitting 20 home runs this year. It's still very early but, the Halo offense is heading in the right direction.

So far the defense is doing fine.

Even with the injury to Howie Kendrick, Erick Aybar and Maicer Izturis are playing great so far. Aybar has such great range and such an incredable arm. Izturis is so cool and smooth, he makes playing second or shortstop look too easy. The Angels are very fortunate to have two catchers to work with the Halos pitching staff. Mike Napoli and Jeff Mathis are are both capable of starting full time. Napoli looks right now like the number one catcher. His bat seems to have come around. I don't see him look like he's going to strike out at the plate everytime he picks up a bat like he looked all too often last season .Mathis has a solid glove and a great arm. Defensively I feel Mathis is a better catcher then Napoli. Not by much though.  Napoli has the edge because of his bat. Napoli already has a grand slam  this year and looks like there are a lot of Home Runs left in his bat.

I have a lot more to say about the Halos, like the depth they have in pitching. But it's getting late and I have to go to work in the morning so I'll have to save my thoughts for another day.

It seems it was easier last yeat to find your favorite teams blogs. Hopefully the bugs will be worked out and every Angel fan will find my Blog and be able to exchange their thoughts about the Halos with me.

The Angels play a weekend series with the Seattle Mariners.

GO GET EM ANGELS !!!!    

HALO RECORD 6 WINS 4 LOSSES.