ANAHEIM - Some of the Angels packed their belongings at Angel Stadium on Monday, none with his future up in the air of Hideki Matsui.
The batter 36-year-old is a free agent designated this offseason, and while looking outside as Matsui does not come in 2011, plans halos, manager Mike Scioscia and general manager Tony Reagins said it was possible that cold again.
Reagins nor Scioscia said the chance was strong, however.
"That's all that we will be talking in the next three months or less," Reagins said. "We will assess your condition as free agents as we will see others who are available and then make a decision. Can I say it is completely out of the possibility that he will be back?" I can not say at this time. Never know, this game is a strange game. "
"I honestly do not know," Matsui said of next year, after asking jokingly told a reporter that the reporter thought the land. "I have no answer for that."
A couple dozen fans waited in the rain in the parking lot of downtown parking area yesterday morning as some players, but not all, dragging his feet inches Bobby Wilson was an early arriver. Mark Trumbo, fresh from his first experience in the majors, was also there, like Brandon Wood, Jeff Mathis, Mike Napoli and Maicer Izturis.
A day after the Angels completed a sub-500 final (80-82) for the first time since 2003 with a 6-2 victory over the Rangers, the feeling was unanimous: 2010 was a disappointment. As it has done often, Scioscia said he just wants an adjustment.
"Sometimes in the season they were playing floor was actually a reflection of our offensive struggles," Scioscia said. "I think the difference was so big for us a bridge to get back to where we expect as an elite team in our league ... I think there are a lot of heads that are here for next year is not a desire and a t prayer, you know what I mean? "
For Naples, it was claimed on waivers in late August, but was withheld, was not impossible that Monday would be his last visit to the Angels' clubhouse. Turning 29 later this month, eligible for arbitration and trapped between the receiver and first base, without a full time position. Said he was not worried about him.
"I think we'll see. I hope to be here next year," said Napoli. "If the business did not succeed, I still work on my season, doing everything that I have to do to prepare for another season."
There was perhaps no single most disappointing season Wood. The 25-year-old former first-round pick hit .146 with four homers and 14 RBIs in 81 games. He is called to play in the Arizona Fall League, where he hopes to find just the swing.
"You can not hide behind the numbers or anything," said Wood. "You have to take a step back and realize what you got here ... everything that could have gone wrong went wrong on a personal level."
Scioscia was not definitive about the other question marks about the team. It was the company that Scott Kazmir has his work cut out for him to improve an ERA of 5.94 and 9.15 record since his first full season in Anaheim. Kazmir is still only 26, but Scioscia Kazmir agreed that there would at least partially, to reinvent itself to be successful again.
Kazmir strikeout rate this season was reduced to 5.58 per nine innings, a strikeout of nearly two per nine drop a season ago. Averaged over 10 strikeouts per nine in 2004-07, and according to FanGraphs.com, average speed straight Kazmir has declined each year since 2007. Put Kazmir in the bullpen, "Scioscia said, not make things easier.
"You keep going back to a ghost that will not be there, I'll go back," Scioscia said. "It is as if a 93 [mph] and is now 85 ... we are talking about a guy who has plenty of life on his fastball."
Offensively, Scioscia reiterated that the return of a healthy Izturis Kendry Morales and produce a rebound. Dominican shortstop Erick Aybar average fell from .312 to .253 this season, but the real Aybar could be in the middle.
Scioscia would not commit to Fernando Rodney as their most entering spring training. Rodney, 33, a former full-time closer, had a tough month of September in place of Brian Fuentes, making three saves and two losses in the month. His ERA in 14 games - most of which were released in a calendar month of the season - was 4.72. That seems to have left the door open.
"I think it's safe to say that when you have arms like [Michael] Kohn, [Jordan] Walden [Kevin] Jepsen, Fernando Rodney, there is talk of some power arms," Scioscia said. "However, it appears, we will all be important. And if Fernando is launching the ninth or eighth next year ... we'll see how it plays."
When asked about what areas the team will look to improve in the off season, Scioscia spoke of the impact rookie Pedro Bourj 'defense in center field. With Bobby Abreu and Juan Rivera in the garden corner points most of the year, the range was a problem until the arrival Bourj. The Angels were informed that a top suitor for free agent Rays outfielder Carl Crawford.
When asked whether the aid was a garden area of the club was targeting, Reagins was not binding.
Not to be overlooked, there is a pillar of other angels in the air - Ron Roenicke, who is in his fifth year as bench coach and 11 of the organization. The 54-year-old has interviewed for the Cleveland and Seattle in management in recent years and could leave a vacancy in the offseason.
"I can not really say much about it," Roenicke said when asked if the Angels have given permission to talk to other clubs. "I wanted to be a director when I was driving in the minor leagues. When I got to the big leagues I was hoping to get a job, whether it was right or out of it or a few years. It's been a couple of years."
ANAHEIM - Some of the Angels packed their belongings at Angel Stadium on Monday, none with his future up in the air of Hideki Matsui.The batter 36-year-old is a free agent designated this offseason, and while looking outside as Matsui does not come in 2011, plans halos, manager Mike Scioscia and general manager Tony Reagins said it was possible that cold again.
Reagins nor Scioscia said the chance was strong, however.
"That's all that we will be talking in the next three months or less," Reagins said. "We will assess your condition as free agents as we will see others who are available and then make a decision. Can I say it is completely out of the possibility that he will be back?" I can not say at this time. Never know, this game is a strange game. "
"I honestly do not know," Matsui said of next year, after asking jokingly told a reporter that the reporter thought the land. "I have no answer for that."
A couple dozen fans waited in the rain in the parking lot of downtown parking area yesterday morning as some players, but not all, dragging his feet inches Bobby Wilson was an early arriver. Mark Trumbo, fresh from his first experience in the majors, was also there, like Brandon Wood, Jeff Mathis, Mike Napoli and Maicer Izturis.
A day after the Angels completed a sub-500 final (80-82) for the first time since 2003 with a 6-2 victory over the Rangers, the feeling was unanimous: 2010 was a disappointment. As it has done often, Scioscia said he just wants an adjustment.
"Sometimes in the season they were playing floor was actually a reflection of our offensive struggles," Scioscia said. "I think the difference was so big for us a bridge to get back to where we expect as an elite team in our league ... I think there are a lot of heads that are here for next year is not a desire and a t prayer, you know what I mean? "
For Naples, it was claimed on waivers in late August, but was withheld, was not impossible that Monday would be his last visit to the Angels' clubhouse. Turning 29 later this month, eligible for arbitration and trapped between the receiver and first base, without a full time position. Said he was not worried about him.
"I think we'll see. I hope to be here next year," said Napoli. "If the business did not succeed, I still work on my season, doing everything that I have to do to prepare for another season."
There was perhaps no single most disappointing season Wood. The 25-year-old former first-round pick hit .146 with four homers and 14 RBIs in 81 games. He is called to play in the Arizona Fall League, where he hopes to find just the swing.
"You can not hide behind the numbers or anything," said Wood. "You have to take a step back and realize what you got here ... everything that could have gone wrong went wrong on a personal level."
Scioscia was not definitive about the other question marks about the team. It was the company that Scott Kazmir has his work cut out for him to improve an ERA of 5.94 and 9.15 record since his first full season in Anaheim. Kazmir is still only 26, but Scioscia Kazmir agreed that there would at least partially, to reinvent itself to be successful again.
Kazmir strikeout rate this season was reduced to 5.58 per nine innings, a strikeout of nearly two per nine drop a season ago. Averaged over 10 strikeouts per nine in 2004-07, and according to FanGraphs.com, average speed straight Kazmir has declined each year since 2007. Put Kazmir in the bullpen, "Scioscia said, not make things easier.
"You keep going back to a ghost that will not be there, I'll go back," Scioscia said. "It is as if a 93 [mph] and is now 85 ... we are talking about a guy who has plenty of life on his fastball."
Offensively, Scioscia reiterated that the return of a healthy Izturis Kendry Morales and produce a rebound. Dominican shortstop Erick Aybar average fell from .312 to .253 this season, but the real Aybar could be in the middle.
Scioscia would not commit to Fernando Rodney as their most entering spring training. Rodney, 33, a former full-time closer, had a tough month of September in place of Brian Fuentes, making three saves and two losses in the month. His ERA in 14 games - most of which were released in a calendar month of the season - was 4.72. That seems to have left the door open.
"I think it's safe to say that when you have arms like [Michael] Kohn, [Jordan] Walden [Kevin] Jepsen, Fernando Rodney, there is talk of some power arms," Scioscia said. "However, it appears, we will all be important. And if Fernando is launching the ninth or eighth next year ... we'll see how it plays."
When asked about what areas the team will look to improve in the off season, Scioscia spoke of the impact rookie Pedro Bourj 'defense in center field. With Bobby Abreu and Juan Rivera in the garden corner points most of the year, the range was a problem until the arrival Bourj. The Angels were informed that a top suitor for free agent Rays outfielder Carl Crawford.
When asked whether the aid was a garden area of the club was targeting, Reagins was not binding.
Not to be overlooked, there is a pillar of other angels in the air - Ron Roenicke, who is in his fifth year as bench coach and 11 of the organization. The 54-year-old has interviewed for the Cleveland and Seattle in management in recent years and could leave a vacancy in the offseason.
"I can not really say much about it," Roenicke said when asked if the Angels have given permission to talk to other clubs. "I wanted to be a director when I was driving in the minor leagues. When I got to the big leagues I was hoping to get a job, whether it was right or out of it or a few years. It's been a couple of years."