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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENTOwnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole & Arte MorenoChairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis KuhlPresident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John CarpinoChief Financial Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill BeverageSVP, Finance and Administration . . . . . . . . . Molly JollyVice President, Communications . . . . . . . . . . Tim MeadVice President, Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil Viserto

BASEBALL OPERATIONSGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy EpplerAssistant General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . Steve MartoneAssistant General Manager . . . . . . . Jonathan StrangioSpecial Assistants to GM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bud Black, Eric Chavez, Tim Huff, Marcel Lachemann, Bobby ScalesSenior Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill StonemanDirector, Pro Scouting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hal MorrisDirector, Amateur Scouting . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ric WilsonDirector, Player Personnel . . . . . . . . . . Justin HollanderDirector, Player Development . . . . . . . . . Mike GallegoDirector, Minor League Operations . . . . Mike LaCassaDirector, International Scouting . . . . . . . Carlos GomezDirector, Quantitative Analysis . . . . . Jonathan LumanAssistant Director, Amateur Scouting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nate HorowitzSpecial Assignment Scout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tim SchmidtPlayer Development Assistant . . . . . . . . Andrew MackBaseball Information Analyst . . . . . Richard AndersonBaseball Systems Developer. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan BaileyBaseball Systems Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth GlantzBaseball Administration Coordinator . . . . . . Adam CaliTraveling Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom TaylorMajor League Video Coordinator . . . . . . . Diego LopezVideo Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruben Montano Jr.Equipment Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keith TarterAssistant Clubhouse Manager . . . . . . . Shane DemmittVisiting Clubhouse Manager . . . Brian “Bubba” HarkinsClubhouse Staff . . . . . . Geoff Bennett, Cristian Barron, Kris Constanti, T.J. Jara, Eric Jimenez, Angel Miranda, Hector Vazquez, Vince Willet

MEDICAL STAFFTeam Physician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Milhouse, M.D.Team Orthopedic Physicians . . . Robert Grumet, M.D.; Michael Shepard, M.D.Head Certified Athletic Trainer . . . . . . . . Adam NevalaCertified Athletic Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rick SmithStrength and Conditioning Coach . . . . .T.J. HarringtonPhysical Therapist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernard LiMassage Therapist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yoichi TeradaEmployee Assistance Program. . . . . . . Erik Abell, PhD.Dietitian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Becci Twombley

COMMUNICATIONS & COMMUNITY RELATIONSDirector, Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric KayMedia Relations Representative . . . . . . . Adam ChodzkoAdministrative Assistant, Communications . . . Matt BirchSenior Director, Community Relations . . . . . Jenny PriceCommunity Relations Coordinator . . . . . Chrissy Vaughn

ADMINISTRATION & LEGALDirector, Legal Affairs and Risk Management . . . Alex WinsbergDirector, Human Resources . . . . . . . . . Deborah JohnstonHuman Resources Generalist . . . . . . . . . Brittany JohnsonBenefits Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cecilia SchneiderHuman Resources Representative. . . . . . . . Mayra CastroStaffing Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kendra Rodriguez

FINANCEController . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cristina LacostePayroll Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lorelei SchlitzFinancial Analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer JeanblancAccountants . . . . . . Kylie McManus, Jennifer WhynottAccounts Payable Specialist . . . . . . . Sarah TalamontePayroll Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alison Kelso

INFORMATION SERVICESDirector, Information Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . Al CastroSenior Network Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil FarissTechnology Integration Specialist . . . Paramjit “Tiny” SinghSenior Customer Support Analyst . . . . . . . . David YunHelp Desk Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Gallant

MARKETINGSr. Manager, Ticket Marketing . . . . . . . . . . Ryan VanceMarketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanessa VegaGraphic Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff LeeGraphic Design Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . Erin GoforthMarketing Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex TinyoClub Photographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt BrownPhoto Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert HuskeySocial Media Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . Tara NicodemoMarketing Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean Donlan

SALESDirector, Ticket Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim PanettaDirector, Ticket Operations and Service . . .Tom DeTempleManager, Ticket Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh HunhoffManager, Client Services . . . . . . . . . . Justin HallenbeckManager, Premium Sales and Service . . . Kyle HaygoodPremium Seating Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . Cierra LaneSenior Account Executive, Ticket Sales . . . . Jeff LeuenbergerSenior Account Executives, Group Sales . . . Mike Abraham, Angel Rodriguez, Nick ShorrAccount Executives, Premium Sales . . . . . Jared Florin, Jasmin Matthews, Greg MundweilAccount Executives, Group Sales . . . . Andrew Abarca, Taylor Gach, Garryn Laws, Tim RavenstahlAccount Executive, Ticket Sales . . . . . . . James McGeeClient Services Representatives . . . . . . . . Spenser Ishii, Shawn Meyer, Alisa Mitry, Adriana RyanTicket Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . Julie Henrick

TICKETINGSenior Manager, Ticket Operations . . . . Sheila BrazeltonManager, Ticket Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan WeissTicketing Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Armando ReynaTicketing Representatives . . . . . . . . . . Clancy Holligan, Lisa Martinez, Mario Ramirez, Karla Davenport, Ellen Crooks, Patti Heltzel

ENTERTAINMENT Director, Entertainment & Production . . . . Peter BullEntertainment Coordinator . . . Samantha AndersenProducer, Video & Scoreboard Operations . . . . David TsurudaAssociate Producer, Video & Scoreboard Operations . . . . . . . Danny PittsPublic Address Announcer . . . . . . . . Michael Araujo

CORPORATE SALESSenior Director, Business Development . . . . Mike FachSenior Manager, Partner Services . . . Bobby KowanSenior Corporate Account Executives . . . . Rick Turner, Nicole ProvansalCorporate Account Executive . . . . . . . . Drew ZinserSponsorship Services Coordinators . . . . Erin Morey, Andie Mitsuda, Adam Overgaard, Ashley Fleck

STADIUM FACILITIESDirector, Stadium Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . Mike McKayPurchasing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne PetersManager, Facility Maintenance . . . . . . Steve PrestonFacilities Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jose PadillaAsset Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel AnguloFacilities Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cathy ValdezLead Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob RossElectricians . . . . Patrick Byrnes, Robert MacciavelloMaintenance Painters . . . . . . . . . . . . Randy Bishopp, Andrew Rogers, David TunstallLead, Skilled Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin BrownSkilled Craftsmen . . . Alex Cervantes, Frank Stewart, Joe DyerLead HVAC Technician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony SuruorHVAC Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott CoomesEquipment Mechanic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan MendozaWarehouse Assistants . . . Sean Cameron, Luis Perez

BALLPARK OPERATIONSSenior Director, Ballpark Operations . . . Brian SandersDirector, Ballpark Operations . . . . . . . . . . Sam MaidaSenior Manager, Stadium Events & Operations . . . Calvin ChingEvent Sales & Service Manager . . . Courtney WallaceGuest Experience Manager . . . . . . . . . Travis RobertsSecurity Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark MaciasSecurity Hosts . . . . . . Jose Andrade, James Haskins, Gabe Rivera, Richard SchlippClubhouse & Lobby Security . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Cogan, Sean Hussain, Alfred NunezPolice Department Representative . . . . . . Jerry BlairHousekeeping Operations Manager . . . Nathan BautistaHousekeeping Supervisors . . . Pedro Del Castillo, Ray NellsField/Ground Maintenance Manager . . . Barney LopasAssistant Groundskeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg LaeschReceptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margie WalshGame Day Receptionists . . . Anna Garcia, Marty Valles

INTERNSBenjamin Ahn; Cindy Alamillo, Brandon Cosio; Brianna Davoren; Julius Evans; Tyler Hadfield; Kelsey Hayes; Casey Murr; Christopher Mosch; Colin Quirk; Anissa Retana; Nolan Rogers; Mike Schwartz; Aaron Smirnoff; Art Torres; Veronica Vazquez

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Q. WHAT IS MIKE MORIN LIKE OFF THE FIELD? A. During the season, I am pretty low maintenance and pretty low key. I just try to get my eight hours of sleep and be ready for the next day. Usually, it just involves watching a movie or a Netflix show. During the o�season, there is a little more freedom. But at the same time, I lift weights Monday through Friday. I like to golf. Golf is definitely one of my favorite things to do along with a little bit of travel. Usually I try to go to Hawaii to get away from the game for a little bit. The pitcher is a little di�erent. When you get into the game, you develop that mentality of trying to be dominant and confident. So it is definitely high energy and you cannot live that way 24/7 once adrenaline kicks in and you turn into somebody else.

Q. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES? A. I would say golf. I usually take two to three weeks o� from throwing and lifting once the season ends and try to get in some golf, but it gets cold in Kansas City kind of quickly. So I get a good amount of golf in right after the season and then when I go to Arizona for spring training. I go

a little early. Golf is definitely my only hobby. I love baseball but there was no NBA team, no NHL team and everybody loved Kansas University basketball. I grew up a huge college basketball fan. Obviously a KU fan, so it was a little di�erent going to North Carolina. It was funny because I always said that I would root for UNC unless they played each other. In my sophomore year, we played each other in the Elite Eight and I wore my KU stu� to the house party in Chapel Hill and it didn’t go over too well, especially since KU won.

Q. CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT THIS JOURNEY TO THE BIG LEAGUES IS LIKE FOR YOU?A. I was very fortunate when I first got drafted. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t have a good experience in Rookie Ball. Just having come from a great program at UNC and you show up and you are in Orem, Utah. So it was definitely humbling. I went through some downs that first half season and after that I just got rest, hit the weight room and started just trying to get people out. I was never a high prospect but I just continued to get people out. It was a very progressive transition. If you pitch well, you advanced. I was fortunate enough to do well with my opportunity and got here pretty quickly.

Q. WHEN DID YOU START TO REALIZE THAT THE GIFTS IN YOUR RIGHT ARM MIGHT BRING YOU TO THIS POINT?A. The true realization probably came game during my freshman summer of college. I was drafted out of high school, so you actually think you might be able to be a professional baseball player. But in terms of being able to compete at a high level going to the Cape Cod League for summer ball, it was kind of like when you are facing the best of the best and getting those guys out that you develop an inner confidence. That was the moment I thought I was going to be able to compete at a high level.

Q. DID ALL OF THIS HAPPEN FASTER THAN YOU EXPECTED IT TO?A. Absolutely. The ascent to the big leagues was definitely expedited. I got drafted in 2012 and debuted in April of 2014. I don’t really think you can expect that to happen. I was very fortunate in the situation that I got drafted into. But then to be able to stick when I got here originally and throw the ball well in ‘14 was life changing.

Q. DESCRIBE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE IN A GAME WITH EVERYTHING ON THE LINE?A. It is what I live for — that moment of being in control of such a high leverage situation not only between the two teams,

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but the fans, everyone on the edge of their seats and you are in control. That is what I look forward to.

Q. ARE YOU NERVOUS OR WERE YOU EVER NERVOUS?A. You could define it as nervousness. But I think it is excitement, that element of the unknown of what is going to happen. So you start playing games in your head, like scenarios of when you are going to pitch. There is definitely a level of nervousness and anxiety just naturally. So you have to find ways to manage that whether it is stretching or keeping yourself preoccupied and not get too far inside your head, but I think you should use the excitement that you are feeling to your advantage.

Q. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE PRESSURE OF BEING A SETUP MAN?A. I don’t like to think of it that way. I like to think that everything I do before I get on the mound and in the game makes me prepared. So there is a sense of excitement and that just comes through the process of preparation, knowing that I have done everything that I can to get ready for that moment. That is important because you feel ready. That’s what you been working for. Now, it’s time to do it.

Q. HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO HAVE A DEFINED ROLE IN THE BULLPEN? A. We all are just trying to help the team win. But there are two sides to that question. The preparation process is important to me. So if you know when you are going to pitch you can plan accordingly. That’s just who I am. I like to plan things out and get regimented so I’m ready to go in and have peak performance. It is a little easier when you know when you are going to throw. I think that’s important. At the same time, there are seven of us down there and some of us have roles and some of us don’t and sometimes roles change. We are all one unit and whatever the situation is we are just trying to throw up a zero.

Q. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT COMING INTO A GAME LATE AND BRIDGING THAT GAP BETWEEN YOU AND A CLOSER?A. At this point in my career, it is like a save to me. That is what I’m trying to accomplish. I’m trying to get holds and get the ball to the guys who get paid the big bucks to get the saves and hopefully one day that is me. But for now, that seventh or eighth inning, those high leverage situations, that is my opportunity to shine. That is my save.

Q. IS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL TO BE A CLOSER SOME DAY?A. Right now, the role that I have is when I pitch in those situations. It is to help the team win and that is all I can ask for. Yeah, I’m obviously working towards becoming a closer no doubt. That is what I want to be. Right now though we have a really good closer and a really good eighth inning guy. They have worked their way up and it is their time. I am going to continue to work my way up and one day it will be my time.

Q. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE STRUGGLES OF BEING A RELIEVER, ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE ARE A LOT OF UPS AND DOWNS IN THIS GAME?A. That is one thing I am grateful for what happened to me last year. In years past, I thought I knew how to handle adversity. You are going to

have a bad outing once in a while. But when you have three or four good outings in a row and a lot of good ones in between the bad ones, you are not really learning how to handle adversity. When you consistently underperform that is when you realize that you can overcome it. But you have to go through it in order to understand how to get out of it. That is why I’m grateful for what happened to me last year. I never really had gone through something like that and it made me a better person. Having to come in every day and put a smile on was tough. I never had to do that before. But I think I did a good job of doing that as tough as it was going. I never really let my guard down. So I am proud of that and I’m glad that it happened.

Q. WHAT DOES THIS GREAT GAME OF BASEBALL MEAN TO YOU AND HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING ABLE TO PUT ON THE UNIFORM EVERY DAY?A. It is special. When you were growing up, there was University of Kansas basketball and there was baseball. All of my buddies and my best friends for life, there was a solid group of seven or eight of us who grew up together and from coach pitch all the way through high school and all summer we all played baseball together. We loved it and developed a passion for it. So the fact that I am able to play this game at the highest level is kind of indescribable. It is motivating because so many people are watching (the games) my buddies included, especially against the Royals, the team that we grew up loving. It is surreal and puts into perspective how special this time in my life is.

Q. WHERE DO YOU HOPE THIS GAME TAKES YOU IN THE NEAR FUTURE?A. I am just worried about performing and doing it at a high level. Everything else will take care of itself. I think it is good to have dreams and goals but they are only going to come if you continue to perform. I try not to think about the long term because someone higher has the plan and it doesn’t do any good hoping that this or that happens. It is about living in this moment and trying to get better each day.

Q. HOW HARD WILL IT BE TO ULTIMATELY LEAVE THE GAME? A. I think it will be one of my hardest days, unless I am able to go out on my own terms. I try not to think about it because you never know when your last pitch is going to be. I just try and appreciate each and every day.

Angel Magazine contributor Kurt Loe has covered more than 2,500 Angel games.

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PITCHING INWhen the Angels signed free agents Cli� Pennington and Craig

Gentry, they were acquiring two versatile, veteran performers.

And it just so happens that their versatility extends to the mound

as well.

Both Pennington (infielder) — in the playo�s no less — and Gentry

(outfielder) in a pinch have taken over pitching duties for their

respective teams.

Chili Davis, meanwhile, was the last Angels position player to pitch and

did it on June 17, 1993 versus Texas (2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 SO, 1 HBP).

Gentry pitched for Texas on June 4, 2012 at Oakland (1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER,

1 BB, 0 SO). Pennington became the first position player to ever pitch

in a postseason game last season. His lone career pitching appearance

came for Toronto on Oct. 20, 2015 in Game 4 of the ALCS versus

Kansas City (0.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, allowed both of his two inherited runners

to score).

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CHILI DAVIS

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MEET

DANIEL NAVA

BY PETE DONOVAN

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Attention Undersized High School Students: If you want to

be a professional baseball player and believe you might be too

small, do not give up!

Are you under 5 feet tall, weigh less than 80 pounds? Repeat,

do not give up.

Even if you could grow to 5-5 and weigh 150 pounds, you

might think you are too small. But do not give up.

Daniel Nava was just such a high school squirt. 4-8 and only

70 pounds as a freshman; 5-5 and 150 pounds as a senior. What

chance could he have?

Well, it turns out perseverance and hard work, plus a few

more pounds, proved to make the di�erence.

Today Nava is a 5-11, 200-pound Major League outfielder in

his first season with the Angels, who signed him as a free agent

this past o�season.

The journey from a scrawny high schooler to a place in

the Angel outfield was rarely smooth, but dotted with belief,

determination and hope.

Following high school (St. Francis in Mountain View), Nava

tried out for the collegiate baseball team at Santa Clara

University. Cut by the team, he stuck around as the equipment

manager, lining the field, cleaning spikes, washing the uniforms.

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After countless hours in the weight room, he began to fill out and

in batting practice he was rocketing balls o� the outfield wall. “I hit

a million balls, o� the tee, in the cage, wherever I could,” he said

recently, sitting in the Angel dugout. “But there were no scholarships

available at Santa Clara.

“I thought I was done playing and I was OK with

that. I had pursued the game as best I could.

“I ran into a friend, Chris Mezzavilla, at the gym one

day,” Nava continued. “And he told me about a junior

college he was attending. I figured I’d give it a shot.

The one thing that always stuck with me was I didn’t

want to look back when I was 65 and regret that I

didn’t try everything, I didn’t give it my all. I knew there

was a short window if I was going to be a ballplayer.”

Nava enrolled at College of San Mateo where, in two

years, he became a Junior College All-American while

hitting .400.

So it was back to Santa Clara for his senior year.

There, Nava hit .395 to lead the West Coast Conference

in hitting. Still, he was not drafted by any Major

League team.

Nava tried out for the Chico Outlaws of the Golden

Baseball League, an independent team made up of

below-the-radar prospects. Again, he was cut. He also

tried out for the Long Beach Armada, but was not

o�ered a contract.

But an injury opened a spot on the Outlaws for

Nava and in 72 games he hit .371 with 23 doubles, 12

home runs and 18 stolen bases. He was named Most

Valuable Player in the league. The improbable journey

was back on track.

The Red Sox o�ered to sign Nava’s for $1 with another

$1,499 due if he made the Majors in 2008 and he was,

at last, a professional, albeit hardly a wealthy one.

His torrid hitting continued in the minors — .341 in

Lancaster, .339 in Salem (Virginia), .364 in Portland

and .289 in Pawtucket (Rhode Island). The Red Sox

called him up to Boston.

Upon making it to the big leagues, Nava was so

excited he said: “I’ll do whatever. I’ll be the water boy.

I’ve already washed uniforms [in college].

“I’m grateful I have this chance, I really am,” Nava said

at the time. “So I don’t take it lightly one bit, especially considering all

the things I was doing before I got this point. For every player it means

something di�erent. If you get a big signing bonus, you’re fortunate

and it’s not as much of a big deal. But being that I didn’t have a big



signing bonus, to have this opportunity, to me it means a lot to have

this opportunity. It means I was fortunate to be in the league for

three years and I honestly didn’t know if I was ever going to

have a chance to be in the league this long.”

A role player his first two seasons, Nava had a

breakthrough in 2013, hitting .303 with 12 homers and 29 doubles as

the Red Sox won the World Series.

And, in Boston, he became a folk hero, a modern day Horatio Alger.

On the very first pitch he ever saw, he hit a grand-slam home run, only

the second player in baseball history to accomplish that. Then,

following the Boston Marathon bombings, in the first game

at Fenway, Nava hit a three-run home run to win the game.

It was indeed an electric, emotional moment.

“Knowing everything that went into the day for the city,

for us to get the win, it came in a special way, a special

fashion,” he said after his eighth-inning homer put the Sox

ahead for good. “It made it all that more important.”

The stories out of Boston all had heroic headlines: “The

Greatest Story Ever Told”, “A True American Success Story,”

“A Classic Underdog Story” and, of course, “Rags to Riches.”

In the middle of last season, however, he was waived by the

Red Sox and claimed by Tampa Bay.

On his Twitter account, he wrote: “To the fans and Red Sox

nation, you will always hold a special place in my heart. From the

first day until the last, I’ll never forget how you made each day

special coming to the yard. Thank you for the memories of 2013.

Your support, passion and love for your Sox is something special.

When no one else gave me a shot, you did. Thank you.”

This past winter he signed a free agent contract with the Angels

and has seen playing time in a left field platoon with the right-

handed hitting Craig Gentry, though injuries landed both players on

the disabled list early in the campaign (Nava again encountered

more bad luck when su�ered a strained left groin in mid-May

and made a return trip to the DL). Still Nava, now 33, will make

$1.375 million in 2016 and is anxious to prove his worth to

his new team.

“I love it here,” he said. “A great bunch of guys. We’re

tough and we’ll play hard all season. We won’t quit.”

Certainly Daniel Nava has proven that! His Twitter

account reads: “Love my God, my wife, my daughter.

Never count us out!”

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THE ANGELS R.B.I. LEAGUE In April, the Angels R.B.I. (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) league

welcomed over 300 R.B.I. participants to the Big A for a fun filled day

of baseball. Players rotated through seven instructional stations lead by

infielder Cliff Pennington, pitchers Matt Shoemaker and Cory Rasmus

and bullpen catcher Tom Gergorio. These stations focused on developing

their fielding, batting, speed, agility, sliding and pitching skills. After an

educational morning at the ballpark all participants enjoyed a healthy lunch

provided by Jersey Mike’s Subs and Body Armor.

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G.R.I.P. PROGRAMIn an ongoing effort to keep children out of gangs, the Los Angeles

Angels of Anaheim (Angels) opened their gates Tuesday, April 23, 2016, for

the eighth consecutive year to over 1,300 at-risk students as a reward for

improved behavior and for staying out of gangs. This marked the largest

number of students to participate and succeed in the challenge for the

Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership (OC GRIP).

MLB HONORARY BAT GIRLThe Angels were privileged to welcome “Honorary Bat Girl” Patty Raburn

and her family to the ballpark for Major League Baseball’s Breast Cancer

Awareness Day. Patty, no stranger to overcoming adversity as she has

battled with a plethora of lifelong health issues and currently is undergoing

treatment for breast cancer, let her strength shine through as she threw out

the ceremonial first pitch.

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The Angels will honor Rod Carew on

June 14 as part of that night’s Angels-

Minnesota contest. Team members will wear

a special patch pregame in honor of Carew

— who continues his strong fight back

from the massive heart attack he su�ered

last September — as part of the evening.

The Angels-Twins game of course features

the two clubs the Hall of Famer played

for over the course of his brilliant 19-year

playing career.

Join Carew’s Crew at Heart.org/Heartof29

and — don’t forget — his advice to fans of all

ages: “I would like to see men and women

go get checked. They can go to any imaging

place and make sure they are OK. That is

what is important to me right now. Even if I

don’t live another day, if they can hear those

words and go out and do it so they can live

longer, that is all I care about.”

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KCANCER TEAMJason Motte is a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. A veteran of nearly

400 games pitched, he is a World Series champion who has saved as

many as 42 games in a season.

He has also racked-up more than his fair share of strikeouts on the

mound and now — o� the field — he helps power the Jason Motte

Foundation, which provides comfort and care where there is a need for

those a�ected, either directly or indirectly, by cancers of all kinds.

The Foundation is also integral in the 2016 KCancer Team, which is

made up of Major League Baseball Players Association members from

all 30 MLB teams.

Angels lefty Hector Santiago is one of the many big

leaguers who is participating, and part of the raised

proceeds benefit Friends of Karen, an organization

that supports critically-ill children and their

families.

Santiago supports Friends of Karen…and

he supports the KCancer Team by wearing a

specially-designed t-shirt.

JASONMOTTE

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FORE!Serving as one of the biggest fundraising events for

the Pujols Family Foundation — to provide the necessary resources to directly benefit programs in Southern California, nationally, and internationally — the celebrity golf tournament featured professional athletes, sports personalities, and entertainers, teamed with foursomes

made up of corporate executives and community leaders. Held at Pelican Hill Golf Club in Newport Beach,

proceeds raised benefit individuals with Down syndrome in addition to extensive humanitarian and medical assistance to those living in poverty in the Dominican Republic.

THE 14TH ANNUAL ALBERT PUJOLS

CELEBRITY GOLF CLASSIC WAS A GREAT SUCCESS.

GREG MAHLE

HECTOR SANTIAGO

ALBERT PUJOLSPUJOLS WITH GUESTS

VIP GOLF CART

SILENT AUCTION ITEMS

HUSTON STREET AND JERED WEAVER

ALBERT PUJOLS

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IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

Pechanga Resort & Casino is excited to partner with Angels

Baseball for the 12th season. The relationship helps give casino

customers the unparalleled experiences they come to know and

love from their favorite resort. Pechanga guests have been able

to attend batting practice before home games, receive access

to the Pechanga dugout suite, run the bases on the field and

much more.

Our partnership has also a�orded Pechanga an even

greater opportunity to give back to those in need in Southern

California. Last year, Pechanga hosted a special bus trip for

underprivileged Riverside County youth to Angel Stadium.

There the children received new clothes for school during

the Angels’ back-to-school giveaway for more than 400 kids.

We were also honored to provide a group of six Temecula-area

foster children a personalized meet & greet experience with

Angels pitcher Garrett Richards.

As Pechanga and the Angels consistently strive to better

the community, the Pechanga Tribe has recently taken great

measures to drastically improve their resort/casino for its loyal

and new guests. In December 2015, the Tribe broke ground

on its $285 million resort expansion. We expect the project

to be complete by end of 2017. When it’s done, Pechanga will

o�er a 4-acre resort-style pool complex, a 568-room and suite

hotel wing, a 2-story luxury spa, two new restaurants and

nearly 70,000 sq. ft. of additional event space. This will be on

top of the existing 200,000 sq. ft. casino, 517-room and suite

hotel tower, 11 restaurants, nightclub, theater, comedy club and

on-site golf course.

The Angels partnership helps us look for new ways to reach

out and give back to fans. Exciting o�ers for tickets and

giveaways can often be found on the Pechanga Facebook page.

Groups looking for an exciting Angels experience can rent the

Pechanga Party Suite accommodating up to 36 people.

For more on Pechanga Resort & Casino, visit Pechanga.com.

Go Angels!

- Lee Torres, Chief Marketing Ocer

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WHAT IS THE BEST CONCERT YOU HAVE EVER ATTENDED? The Eagles

WHAT IS THE BEST SHOW ON TV? Walking Dead

WHAT IS THE BEST MEAL YOU CAN MAKE? Veal Parmesian

WHAT IS THE BEST SPORT OTHER THAN BASEBALL? College Football

WHAT IS THE BEST WEBSITE? Reddit

WHAT IS THE BEST CANDY TO EAT AT THE MOVIE THEATRE? Sour Patch Kids

WHAT IS THE BEST AMUSEMENT PARK TO VISIT? Any Disney one

WHAT IS THE BEST EXERCISE TO STAY IN SHAPE DURING THE SEASON? Squats

WHAT IS THE BEST ALBUM YOU HAVE EVER BOUGHT? Chief by Eric Church

WHAT IS THE BEST MOVIE YOU HAVE EVER SEEN? Good Will Hunting

WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT? Hunting conservation

WHAT IS THE BEST SPOT FOR A VACATION? British Virgin Islands

WHAT IS THE BEST DRINK TO HAVE WITH A MEAL? Sweet tea

WHAT IS THE BEST ANIMAL TO HAVE AS A PET? A cat!!!

WHAT WAS THE BEST SUBJECT FOR YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL? Social Studies

WHAT IS THE BEST APP ON YOUR PHONE? Google Maps

AWAY FROM THE FIELD

CAM BEDROSIAN

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• Nicholas Paul Tropeano• Pronounced troh-pee-AH-noh• Attended West Islip HS (NY) and led West Islip to a Suffolk Class AA championship in 2008 after going 8-1 with a 1.50 ERA• Attended Stony Brook University (NY) and named America East Conference Pitcher of the Year at Stony Brook in 2011 during junior season; ranked fifth in nation in strikeouts (119) and seventh in victories (12) — both school records; third Stony Brook alumnus to pitch in the Major Leagues (Joe Nathan and Tom Koehler)

• Was Angels #3 prospect according to Baseball America in 2015• In 2012 was tabbed by Baseball America as having the best changeup in the South Atlantic League• Pitched in Arizona Fall League following the 2012 offseason, going 0-0 with a 3.00 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 11 games for Mesa• Originally selected by Houston in fifth round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft• On Twitter: @PaPaTropeano

SPOTLIGHT

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FACETIME

JOSE ALVAREZPITCHER

JETT BANDY CATCHER

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CAM BEDROSIANPITCHER

68

KOLE CALHOUNOUTFIELDER

56 51

C.J. CRONINFIELDER

24

YUNEL ESCOBARINFIELDER

6

CRAIG GENTRYOUTFIELDER

3

JOHNNY GIAVOTELLAINFIELDER

12

LUCAS LUETGEPITCHER

44

ANDREW HEANEYPITCHER

28

DEOLIS GUERRAPITCHER

54

RAFAEL ORTEGAOUTFIELDER

39

MIKE MORINPITCHER

64

DANIEL NAVAOUTFIELDER

25

GREGORIO PETITINFIELDER

8

JHOULYS CHACINPITCHER

49

CLIFF PENNINGTONINFIELDER

7

CARLOS PEREZCATCHER

58

ALBERT PUJOLSINFIELDER

5

CORY RASMUSPITCHER

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GARRETT RICHARDSPITCHER

43

BRENDAN RYANINFIELDER

23

GREG MAHLEPITCHER

65

FERNANDO SALASPITCHER

59

SHANE ROBINSONOUTFIELDER

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GEOVANY SOTOCATCHER

18

HUSTON STREETPITCHER

16

NICK TROPEANOPITCHER

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MIKE TROUTOUTFIELDER

27

JERED WEAVERPITCHER

36

C.J. WILSONPITCHER

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FACETIME

MIKE SCIOSCIAMANAGER

14

DAVE HANSENHITTING COACH

31

CHARLES NAGYPITCHING COACH

41

RON ROENICKETHIRD BASE COACH

10

PAUL SORRENTOASSISTANT HITTING COACH

55

GARY DISARCINAFIRST BASE COACH

9

DINO EBEL BENCH COACH

21

ALFREDO GRIFFININFIELD COACH

4

TOM GREGORIOBULLPEN CATCHER

70

SCOTT RADINSKYBULLPEN COACH

63

STEVE SOLIZINFORMATION COACH

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COACHING STAFF

MATT SHOEMAKERPITCHER

52

ANDRELTON SIMMONSINFIELDER

2

HECTOR SANTIAGOPITCHER

53

ANEL DE LOS SANTOSBULLPEN CATCHER

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PITCHERS

COACHING STAFF

BY POSITIONCATCHERS

NO. NAME B-T47 Jett Bandy R-R58 Carlos Perez R-R18 Geovany Soto R-R

NO. NAME POSITION14 Mike Scioscia Manager21 Dino Ebel Bench Coach31 Dave Hansen Hitting Coach41 Charles Nagy Pitching Coach9 Gary DiSarcina 1st Base Coach10 Ron Roenicke 3rd Base Coach55 Paul Sorrento Assistant Hitting Coach61 Steve Soliz Information Coach4 Alfredo Gri�n Infield Coach63 Scott Radinsky Bullpen Coach92 Anel De Los Santos Bullpen Catcher70 Tom Gregorio Bullpen Catcher

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T56 Kole Calhoun L-L3 Craig Gentry R-R25 Daniel Nava S-L39 Rafael Ortega L-R17 Shane Robinson R-R27 Mike Trout R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T22 Kaleb Cowart S-R24 C.J. Cron R-R6 Yunel Escobar R-R12 Johnny Giavotella R-R7 Cli� Pennington S-R8 Gregorio Petit R-R5 Albert Pujols R-R2 Andrelton Simmons R-R

NO. NAME B-T

48 Jose Alvarez L-L

68 Cam Bedrosian R-R

49 Jhoulys Chacin R-R

54 Deolis Guerra R-R

28 Andrew Heaney L-L

44 Lucas Luetge L-L

65 Greg Mahle L-L

64 Mike Morin R-R

46 Cory Rasmus R-R

43 Garrett Richards R-R

59 Fernando Salas R-R

53 Hector Santiago R-L

52 Matt Shoemaker R-R

38 Joe Smith R-R

16 Huston Street R-R

35 Nick Tropeano R-R

36 Jered Weaver R-R

33 C.J. Wilson L-L

NO. NAME B-T

2 Andrelton Simmons R-R

3 Craig Gentry R-R

5 Albert Pujols R-R

6 Yunel Escobar R-R

7 Cli� Pennington S-R

8 Gregorio Petit R-R

12 Johnny Giavotella R-R

16 Huston Street R-R

17 Shane Robinson R-R

18 Geovany Soto R-R

23 Brendan Ryan R-R

24 C.J. Cron R-R

25 Daniel Nava S-L

27 Mike Trout R-R

28 Andrew Heaney L-L

33 C.J. Wilson L-L

35 Nick Tropeano R-R

36 Jered Weaver R-R

38 Joe Smith R-R

39 Rafael Ortega L-R

43 Garrett Richards R-R

44 Lucas Luetge L-L

46 Cory Rasmus R-R

47 Jett Bandy R-R

48 Jose Alvarez L-L

49 Jhoulys Chacin R-R

52 Matt Shoemaker R-R

53 Hector Santiago R-L

54 Deolis Guerra R-R

56 Kole Calhoun L-L

58 Carlos Perez R-R

59 Fernando Salas R-R

64 Mike Morin R-R

65 Greg Mahle L-L

68 Cam Bedrosian R-R

NUMERICAL

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VISITORPLAYERS No

Pos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 AB R H RBI

TOTALS RH

PITCHERS W/L/S IP H R ER BB SO TOTALSDOUBLE PLAYSDOUBLESTRIPLESHOME RUNSERRORS

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TOTALS RH

PITCHERS W/L/S IP H R ER BB SO TOTALSDOUBLE PLAYSDOUBLESTRIPLESHOME RUNSERRORS

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OPPONENT ROSTERSOAKLANDA’SPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T70 Raul Alcantara R-R37 Henderson Alvarez R-R30 R.J. Alvarez R-R61 John Axford R-R40 Chris Bassitt R-R57 Daniel Coulombe L-L62 Sean Doolittle L-L53 Felix Doubront L-L66 Ryan Dull R-R49 Kendall Graveman R-R54 Sonny Gray R-R32 Jesse Hahn R-R31 Liam Hendriks R-R18 Rich Hill L-L44 Ryan Madson L-R55 Sean Manaea L-L58 Zach Neal R-R11 Jarrod Parker R-R33 Fernando Rodriguez R-R35 Marc Rzepczynski L-L48 Eric Surkamp L-L60 Andrew Triggs R-R64 J.B. Wendelken R-RCATCHERSNO. NAME B-T29 Matt McBride R-R19 Josh Phegley R-R21 Stephen Vogt L-RINFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T17 Yonder Alonso L-R20 Mark Canha R-R3 Chris Coghlan L-R25 Tyler Ladendorf R-R8 Jed Lowrie S-R12 Max Muncy L-R56 Renato Nunez R-R46 Rangel Ravelo R-R10 Marcus Semien R-R28 Eric Sogard L-R26 Danny Valencia R-R52 Joey Wendle L-ROUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T1 Billy Burns S-R4 Coco Crisp S-R2 Khris Davis R-R23 Sam Fuld L-L15 Andrew Lambo L-L22 Josh Reddick L-R5 Jake Smolinski R-RDESIGNATED HITTERNO. NAME B-T16 Billy Butler R-R

CLEVELANDINDIANSPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T49 Austin Adams R-R37 Cody Allen R-R56 Cody Anderson R-R51 Shawn Armstrong R-R71 Dylan Baker R-R47 Trevor Bauer R-R59 Carlos Carrasco R-R62 Joba Chamberlain R-R52 Mike Clevinger R-R57 Kyle Crockett L-L58 TJ House R-L48 Tommy Hunter R-R28 Corey Kluber R-R53 Je� Manship R-R34 Zach McAllister R-R54 Ryan Merritt L-L74 Shawn Morimando L-L61 Dan Otero R-R31 Danny Salazar L-R27 Bryan Shaw S-R43 Josh Tomlin R-RCATCHERSNO. NAME B-T38 Chris Gimenez R-R10 Yan Gomes R-R55 Roberto Perez R-RINFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T36 Jesus Aguilar R-R78 Erik Gonzalez R-R22 Jason Kipnis L-R12 Francisco Lindor S-R1 Michael Martinez S-R26 Mike Napoli R-R11 Jose Ramirez S-R4 Juan Uribe R-R39 Giovanny Urshela R-ROUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T35 Abraham Almonte S-R23 Michael Brantley L-L24 Joey Butler R-R6 Marlon Byrd R-R8 Lonnie Chisenhall L-R7 Collin Cowgill R-L20 Rajai Davis R-R30 Tyler Naquin L-RDESIGNATED HITTERNO. NAME B-T41 Carlos Santana S-R

JU

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MINNESOTATWINSPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T58 Fernando Abad L-L17 Jose Berrios R-R62 Buddy Boshers L-L60 J.T. Chargois S-R64 Pat Dean L-L56 Tyler Du�ey R-R44 Kyle Gibson R-R45 Phil Hughes R-R49 Kevin Jepsen R-R27 Brandon Kintzler R-R81 Yorman Landa R-R65 Trevor May R-R74 Mason Melotakis R-L51 Alex Meyer R-R33 Tommy Milone L-L47 Ricky Nolasco R-R15 Glen Perkins L-L57 Ryan Pressly R-R55 Taylor Rogers L-L76 Randy Rosario L-L54 Ervin Santana R-R59 Michael Tonkin R-R

CATCHERSNO. NAME B-T37 Juan Centeno L-R12 John Ryan Murphy R-R8 Kurt Suzuki R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T2 Brian Dozier R-R5 Eduardo Escobar S-R7 Joe Mauer L-R9 Eduardo Nunez R-R24 Trevor Plou�e R-R11 Jorge Polanco S-R19 Kennys Vargas S-R

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T31 Oswaldo Arcia L-R25 Byron Buxton R-R26 Max Kepler L-L21 Darin Mastroianni R-R20 Eddie Rosario L-R22 Miguel Sano R-R39 Danny Santana S-R73 Adam Walker R-RDESIGNATED HITTERNO. NAME B-T52 Byung Ho Park R-R

JU

NE

13-1

5

JU

NE

23-2

6

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OPPONENT ROSTERSCHICAGOWHITE SOXPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T34 Matt Albers L-R54 Chris Beck R-R63 Brandon Brennan R-R67 Scott Carroll R-R33 Zach Duke L-L58 Miguel Gonzalez R-R43 Dan Jennings L-L45 Erik Johnson R-R65 Nate Jones R-R48 Tommy Kahnle R-R38 Mat Latos R-R52 Jake Petricka R-R64 Matt Purke L-L57 Zach Putnam R-R62 Jose Quintana R-L30 David Robertson R-R55 Carlos Rodon L-L49 Chris Sale L-L40 Daniel Webb R-R66 Michael Ynoa R-R

CATCHERSNO. NAME B-T31 Alex Avila L-R27 Dioner Navarro S-R61 Kevan Smith R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T79 Jose Abreu R-R22 Matt Davidson R-R21 Todd Frazier R-R28 Leury Garcia S-R15 Brett Lawrie R-R7 Jimmy Rollins S-R18 Tyler Saladino R-R5 Carlos Sanchez S-R

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T53 Melky Cabrera S-L1 Adam Eaton L-L60 Daniel Fields L-R10 Austin Jackson R-R20 J.B. Shuck L-LDESIGNATED HITTERNO. NAME B-T26 Avisail Garcia R-R41 Jerry Sands R-R

HOUSTONASTROSPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T50 Kevin Chapman L-L47 Chris Devenski R-R46 Scott Feldman L-R45 Michael Feliz R-R35 Josh Fields R-R54 Mike Fiers R-R58 Doug Fister L-R53 Ken Giles R-R44 Luke Gregerson L-R67 Jandel Gustave R-R36 Will Harris R-R60 Dallas Keuchel L-L43 Lance McCullers L-R31 Collin McHugh R-R62 Juan Minaya R-R68 Joe Musgrove R-R37 Pat Neshek S-R71 David Paulino R-R41 Brad Peacock R-R29 Tony Sipp L-L

CATCHERSNO. NAME B-T15 Jason Castro L-R11 Evan Gattis R-R74 Alfredo Gonzalez R-R12 Max Stassi R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T27 Jose Altuve R-R1 Carlos Correa R-R19 Matt Du�y R-R76 Nolan Fontana L-R9 Marwin Gonzalez S-R16 Tony Kemp L-R8 Colin Moran L-R21 Jon Singelton L-L18 Luis Valbuena L-R13 Tyler White R-R

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T77 Andrew Aplin L-L30 Carlos Gomez R-R6 Jake Marisnick R-R28 Colby Rasmus L-L4 George Springer R-R

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OPPONENT ROSTERSBOSTONRED SOXPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T68 Matt Barnes R-R11 Clay Buchholz L-R63 William Cuevas R-R29 Roenis Elias L-L37 Heath Hembree R-R76 Williams Jerez L-L61 Brian Johnson L-L56 Joe Kelly R-R46 Craig Kimbrel R-R59 Tommy Layne L-L65 Pat Light R-R60 Henry Owens L-L22 Rick Porcello R-R24 David Price L-L66 Noe Ramirez R-R52 Eduardo Rodriguez L-L28 Robbie Ross Jr. L-L39 Carson Smith R-R36 Junichi Tazawa R-R19 Koji Uehara R-R67 Brandon Workman R-R35 Steven Wright R-R

CATCHERSNO. NAME B-T10 Ryan Hanigan R-R23 Blake Swihart S-R7 Christian Vazquez R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T2 Xander Bogaerts R-R80 Sean Coyle R-R41 Marco Hernandez L-R16 Deven Marrero R-R15 Dustin Pedroia R-R13 Hanley Ramirez R-R32 Josh Rutledge R-R48 Pablo Sandoval S-R47 Travis Shaw L-R

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T50 Mookie Betts R-R25 Jackie Bradley Jr. L-R64 Bryce Brentz R-R38 Rusney Castillo R-R12 Brock Holt L-R30 Chris Young R-R

DESIGNATED HITTERNO. NAME B-T34 David Ortiz L-L

TEXASRANGERSPITCHERSNO. NAME B-T43 Tony Barnette R-R58 Alex Claudio L-L11 Yu Darvish R-R41 Jake Diekman L-L47 Sam Dyson R-R56 Andrew Faulkner R-L21 Chi Chi Gonzalez R-R64 A.J. Gri�n R-R35 Cole Hamels L-L45 Derek Holland S-L77 Luke Jackson R-R50 Keone Kela R-R31 Phil Klein R-R-- Jose Leclerc R-R48 Colby Lewis R-R22 Nick Martinez L-R65 Yohander Mendez L-L33 Martin Perez L-L55 Cesar Ramos L-L53 Anthony Ranaudo R-R59 Connor Sadzeck R-R52 Tanner Scheppers R-R37 Shawn Tolleson R-R54 Tom Wilhelmsen R-R

CATCHERSNO. NAME B-T61 Robinson Chirinos R-R38 Chris Gimenez R-R8 Bryan Holaday R-R

INFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T2 Hanser Alberto R-R1 Elvis Andrus R-R29 Adrian Beltre R-R20 Ian Desmond R-R84 Prince Fielder L-R13 Joey Gallo L-R67 Patrick Kivlehan R-R18 Mitch Moreland L-L12 Rougned Odor L-R19 Jurickson Profar S-R

OUTFIELDERSNO. NAME B-T17 Shin-Soo Choo L-L3 Delino DeShields R-R32 Josh Hamilton L-L30 Nomar Mazara L-L16 Ryan Rua R-R

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MINNESOTATWINS

JU

NE

13-1

5

BRIAN DOZIER

JOE MAUER

GLEN PERKINS

TREVOR PLOUFFE

BILLY BUTLER

SEANDOOLITTLE

SONNY GRAY

JOSH REDDICK

CLEVELANDINDIANS

JU

NE

10-1

2

JASON KIPNIS

COREYKLUBER

DANNYSALAZAR

CARLOS SANTANA

JU

NE

23-2

6

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HOUSTONASTROS

A

PRIL

4-5

A

PRIL 7-10

JON LESTER

YU DARVISH

COLE HAMELS

ADRIAN BELTRE

JU

NE

27-2

9

JULY 15-17

JOSE ALTUVE

LUKE GREGERSON

DALLAS KUECHEL

CARLOS CORREA

JOSEABREU

TODDFRAZIER

DAVID ROBERTSON

CHRISSALE

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THE VISITORS – STARS TO WATCHBOSTONRED SOX

TEXASRANGERS

A

PRIL

4-5

A

PRIL 7-10

JULY

18-2

0

JULY 28-31

PRINCE FIELDER

DEREK HOLLAND

COLE HAMELS

DUSTIN PEDROIA

RICK PORCELLO

DAVIDPRICE

HANLEY RAMIREZ

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DAVID ORTIZ, WHO AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON ANNOUNCED THE 2016 CAMPAIGN WOULD BE HIS LAST, MAKES HIS FINAL REGULAR SEASON VISIT TO ANGEL STADIUM FROM JULY 28-31.

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2016 ANGELS TICKET INFORMATION

TICKETSBOX OFFICELocated on Orangewood Ave., west of the 57 freeway. Ticket Window Hours: Mon. - Fri. 10am – 6pm Sat. 10am – 3pm Sun. 10am – 3pm (Only on Sunday home games)

OUTLETSSelect locations in Walmart and La Curacao stores throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area or by calling (800) 745-3000.

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THE BIG

The 2016 season will see the Halos celebrate the 50th anniversary of

Angel Stadium. After spending their first five years of existence playing

at Wrigley Field and Chavez Ravine, the Angels landed in their new

home in Orange County. Since opening the doors for its first exhibition

game April 9, 1966, Angel Stadium has played host to some of the Club’s

memorable events including seven Western Division clinching games

(1979, 1982, 1986, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2014), three All-Star Games

(1967, 1989 and 2010) and the 2002 World Series, including the Angels

Game 7 victory over the San Francisco Giants to clinch the franchise’s

first championship. Angel Stadium has also seen several individual Halos

leave their indelible marks on the game of baseball. Whether it be the

four Angels no-hitters, Rod Carew’s 3,000th hit, Reggie Jackson’s 500th

home run or Don Sutton’s 300th win, Angel Stadium has played host

to some of Major League Baseball’s most prestigious accomplishments.

Presently, Angel Stadium sits as baseball’s fourth oldest ballpark,

trailing only Boston’s Fenway Park, Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Los

Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. A�ectionately known as “The Big A”, Angel

Stadium has seen over 110 million fans pass through its gates since 1966,

including a current stretch of 13 consecutive seasons of three million fans,

a streak only the Angels, Dodgers and Yankees have achieved since 2003.

After an Aug. 31, 1964 groundbreaking ceremony, Anaheim Stadium,

as it was originally known, was completed in 1966 at a cost of $24 million.

The facility’s centerpiece was a giant A-frame scoreboard standing 230

feet high and was the source of the stadium’s nickname.

With a seating capacity of 43,250, Anaheim Stadium was built with

“Convenience, Comfort and Courtesy” in mind. Narrow foul territory

areas and quickly rising decks gave fans an up-close view of the action.

Gradually inclined ramps, escalators, wide aisles and helpful ushers as

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well as three surrounding freeways, 26 entrance lanes and 28 exit lanes

added to the Big A’s accessibility.

Anaheim Stadium underwent construction to enclose the stadium in

1979 for additional seating to accommodate the football Rams. Seating

capacity was increased to 64,593 for baseball and more than 70,000

for football. A total of 108 executive style boxes were added to surround

the rear of the Club Level. In addition to the Stadium Club, there were

two other private dining areas designed for groups — the Stadium

Pavilion and the Football Press Box.

At that time, the Big A board was preserved and moved to the

edge of the parking lot adjacent to the Orange Freeway behind the

right field area.

When the Rams left for St. Louis, Anaheim Stadium’s primary tenant

remained the Angels, who originally signed a 35-year contract (through

2001). Renovations began Oct. 1, 1996, to revert the 30-year old structure

back to a baseball only facility and the ballpark was renamed Edison

International Field. The total cost for the stadium renovation was

estimated at $100 million and the project was completed in time for the

Angels Opening Day, April 1, 1998. New features were added all around

the ballpark but perhaps the most noticeable is the center field waterfalls

and rock formation that come together to form an “A”. Settled inside the

waterfall’s rapids are water geysers that originally shot water into the air

whenever an Angels player hit a home run.

Other unique features of Angel Stadium include terraced bullpens

in the outfield, widened concourses, new restroom and concession

areas, family-oriented seating sections, state-of-the-art club-level

and dugout-level suites, a youth-oriented interactive game area and

landscaped courtyards (with statues in rememberance of Gene Autry

and Michelle Carew). In addition, Angel Stadium includes two full-

service restaurants: Shock Top Brew Pub (a sports bar located at the

club level down the right field line) and The Lexus Diamond Club (an

upscale restaurant with outdoor seating on the field level behind home

plate). In 2014, the newest luxury seating area was added to the ballpark

with the opening of the Ketel One Club — featuring globally inspired

dining and an airy lounge atmosphere.

The following organizations were involved in implementing the transition

of Anaheim Stadium into Angel Stadium: Walt Disney Imagineering,

which served as the manager of the design and construction; HOK

Sports Facilities Group and Robert A.M. Stern Architects, which were

responsible for the architectural planning, design and renovation; and

Turner Construction, which directed and provided construction services.

THE BIG

STADIUM QUICK FACTS BOX:LOCATION SITE: 2000 Gene Autry Way, Anaheim, CA (off State College Blvd., between Orangewood Blvd. & Katella Ave., west of 57 freeway)DESIGN: Three-level structureSEATING CAPACITY: 45,493PARKING CAPACITY: Approximately 15,000 automo-bilesSTADIUM AREA: 140 acresFOUL LINES: 330 feetLEFT FIELD: 347 feetLEFT FIELD POWER ALLEY: 389 feetCENTER FIELD: 396 feetRIGHT FIELD POWER ALLEY: 365 feet*RIGHT FIELD: 348 feet*OUTFIELD FENCE HEIGHT: Left field to right-center: 8 feet RIGHT-CENTER TO RIGHT FIELD: 18 feet* Right Field and Right Field Power Alley fence raised from 8’ to 18’ in 1998.

CONSTRUCTION: Started Aug. 31, 1964. Completed April 8, 1966RENOVATIONS: Started Oct. 1, 1996. Completed March 27, 1998FIRST GAME: California Angels vs. San Francisco Giants, April 9, 1966

FIRST REGULAR SEASON GAME: California Angels vs. Chicago White Sox, April 19, 1966TOTAL REGULAR SEASON GAMES PLAYED (ENTERING 2016): 4,403TOTAL POSTSEASON SEASON GAMES PLAYED (ENTERING 2016): 34FIRST REGULAR SEASON NFL GAME: Los Angeles Rams vs. Detroit Lions, Sept. 7, 1980LAST REGULAR SEASON NFL GAME: Los Angeles Rams vs. Washington Redskins, Dec. 24, 1994

STADIUM POLICIES:In order to provide a safe and enjoyable atmosphere for our guests, the following will be enforced at all Angels baseball games:

INSIDE ANGEL STADIUM• Guests are prohibited from bringing any alcoholic beverages into the ballpark.• Guests are prohibited from carrying cans, bottles, thermoses, ice chests, glass containers, or any other container or object that is deemed to be unsafe, hazardous, or posing a threat of injury to guests, participants, officials, or individuals employed at the ballpark.

• Guests are prohibited from bringing bulk quantities of food into the ballpark, as determined by Angel staff in its sole discretion.• Guests are prohibited from selling food or bever-ages of any kind.• Guests are prohibited from preparing food or bev-erages of any kind where such preparation necessi-tates the use of an object orpractice deemed to be unsafe, hazardous, or posing a threat of injury to guests, participants, officials, or individuals employed at the ballpark.

OUTSIDE ANGEL STADIUM• Guests are prohibited from selling food or bever-ages of any kind.• Guests are prohibited from preparing food or bev-erages of any kind where such preparation neces-sitates the use of an object or practice deemed to be unsafe, hazardous, or posing a threat of injury to guests, participants, officials, or individuals employed at the ballpark.• Tailgating is only permitted within the designated areas (as depicted by orange lines).• On-site catering is prohibited.• Only approved gas/propane barbecue units with fuel valve turn-off may be used. AMC 11.04.095

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FOX FOCUSFOX Sports West is the television destination for Angels Baseball, televising approximately 150 regional telecasts during the 2016 season.FOX Sports West is also the home for Angels Weekly, which airs every Friday throughout the regular season and is hosted by Alex Curry.Recently the program, in conjuction with Fox Sports 1, profiled several Angels players, asking them about their interests o� the field.

Each answer was accompanied by a fun cartoon describing each event.

Please enjoy this edition of FOX Focus.

Kole Calhoun – I have a little Yorkie who I absolutely love. I can do a back-

flip. I played soccer in high school and I was a goalie. I would be so bored

that when we scored a goal I would try and do a back-flip. I did one when

we scored.

Andrelton Simmons – I am a pretty good soccer player. I like to play video

games and chill. I can speak four languages — Papiamento, my home

language, Dutch and English and Spanish. I used to be able to speak French

but not anymore.

Mike Trout – I am a funny guy. I like to tell jokes. I am a sarcastic guy. I like

to golf. My golf game is getting better. It is like everything in life, the more

you practice the better you get. I also like to hunt and fish.

Jered Weaver – I play golf when I am not playing baseball. There is not a

lot else we can do, but golf is one of them. I enjoy a good barbeque and

making steaks. I am more of a charcoal guy and not gas. I think it brings out

the flavor a little bit more.

Garrett Richards – I watch a lot of movies throughout the year. I am a big

movie guy. I like ones with Tom Hardy in them. I like Mexican food and my

favorite dish is my mom’s tacos. She makes killer tacos.

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60A.J.

ACHTERPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-5

WEIGHT:

215

BORN:

AUGUST 27, 1988

IN TOLEDO, OHIO

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48JOSE

ALVAREZPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

L/L

HEIGHT:

5-11

WEIGHT:

190

BORN:

MAY 6, 1989

IN BARCELONA, VENEZUELA


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47JETT

BANDYPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-4

WEIGHT:

235

BORN:

MARCH 26, 1990

IN WEST HILLS, CALIFORNIA


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68CAM

BEDROSIANPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-0

WEIGHT:

230

BORN:

OCTOBER 2, 1991

IN SENOIA, GEORGIA


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56KOLE

CALHOUNOUTFIELDER

BATS/THROWS:

L/L

HEIGHT:

5-10

WEIGHT:

205

BORN:

OCTOBER 14, 1987

IN BUCKEYE, ARIZONA


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49JHOULYS CHACIN

PITCHERBATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-3

WEIGHT:

215

BORN:

JANUARY 7, 1988

IN MARACAIBO, ZULIA, VENEZUELA


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51JI-MAN

CHOIFIRST BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

L/R

HEIGHT:

6-1

WEIGHT:

230

BORN:

MAY 19, 1991

IN INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA


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24C.J.

CRONFIRST BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-4

WEIGHT:

235

BORN:

JANUARY 5, 1990

IN FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA


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6YUNEL

ESCOBARSHORTSTOP

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-2

WEIGHT:

215

BORN:

NOVEMBER 2, 1982

IN HAVANA, CUBA


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3CRAIG

GENTRYOUTFIELDER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-2

WEIGHT:

190

BORN:

NOVEMBER 29, 1983

IN FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS


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12JOHNNY

GIAVOTELLASECOND BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

5-8

WEIGHT:

185

BORN:

JULY 10, 1987

IN METAIRIE, LOUISIANA


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54DEOLISGUERRA

PITCHERBATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-5

WEIGHT:

245

BORN:

APRIL 17, 1989

IN SAN FELIX, VENEZUELA


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40JAVY

GUERRAPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-1

WEIGHT:

225

BORN:

OCTOBER 31, 1985

IN DENTON, TEXAS


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28ANDREWHEANEY

PITCHERBATS/THROWS:

L/L

HEIGHT:

6-2

WEIGHT:

195

BORN:

JUNE 5, 1991

IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA


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65GREG

MAHLEPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

L/L

HEIGHT:

6-2

WEIGHT:

230

BORN:

APRIL 17, 1993

IN WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA


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19JEFRY MARTETHIRD BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-1

WEIGHT:

220

BORN:

JUNE 21, 1991

IN LA ROMANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC


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64MIKE

MORINPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-4

WEIGHT:

220

BORN:

MAY 3, 1991

IN ANDOVER, MINNESOTA


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25DANIELNAVAOUTFIELDER

BATS/THROWS:

S/L

HEIGHT:

5-11

WEIGHT:

200

BORN:

FEBRUARY 22, 1983

IN REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA


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39RAFAELORTEGA

OUTFIELDERBATS/THROWS:

L/R

HEIGHT:

5-11

WEIGHT:

160

BORN:

MAY 15, 1991

IN EL TIGRE, VENEZUELA


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7CLIFF

PENNINGTONBATS/THROWS:

S/R

HEIGHT:

5-11

WEIGHT:

195

BORN:

JUNE 15, 1984

IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS

SECOND BASEMAN


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58CARLOSPEREZ

CATCHERBATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-0

WEIGHT:

210

BORN:

OCTOBER 27, 1990

IN VALENCIA, VENEZUELA


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8GREGORIO

PETIT SECOND BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

5-10

WEIGHT:

200

BORN:

DECEMBER 10, 1984

IN SANTA TERESA, VENEZUELA


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5ALBERTPUJOLSFIRST BASEMAN

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-3

WEIGHT:

240

BORN:

JANUARY 16, 1980

IN SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC


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46CORY

RASMUSPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-0

WEIGHT:

200

BORN:

NOVEMBER 6, 1987

IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA


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43GARRETTRICHARDS

PITCHERBATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-3

WEIGHT:

210

BORN:

MAY 27, 1988

IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA


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17SHANE

ROBINSONOUTFIELDER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

5-9

WEIGHT:

170

BORN:

OCTOBER 30, 1984

IN TAMPA, FLORIDA


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23BRENDAN

RYANINFIELDERBATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-1

WEIGHT:

190

BORN:

MARCH 26, 1982

IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA


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59FERNANDO

SALASPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

HEIGHT:

6-2

WEIGHT:

200

BORN:

MAY 30, 1985

IN HUATABAMPO, SONORA, MEXICO


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53HECTOR

SANTIAGOPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

L/L

HEIGHT:

6-0

WEIGHT:

215

BORN:

DECEMBER 16, 1987

IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY


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52MATT

SHOEMAKERPITCHER

BATS/THROWS:

R/R

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The Angels acquired veteran infielder Yunel Escobar during

the o�season in a trade with Washington. Escobar has been

a fixture at third base and in the lead-o� position this year for

the Angels.

Escobar appeared in 139 games for Washington in 2015, batting

.314 with 25 doubles, nine home runs and 56 RBI. Among National

League leaders, he ranked sixth in batting average, seventh in

on-base percentage (.375) and eighth with 49 multi-hit games.

Additionally, he led Major League third basemen in batting average

and on-base percentage and second among National League third

basemen in fielding percentage.

A native of La Habana, Cuba, Escobar has compiled a career batting

average of .281 with 210 doubles, 78 home runs and 449 RBI across

nine Major League seasons with the Braves (2007-10), Blue Jays (2010-

12), Rays (2013-14) and Nationals (2015). He is one of 14 players to record

at least 100 hits in each of the last nine seasons. Escobar appeared in the

2013 postseason with Tampa Bay where he batted .421. During the 2013

ALDS vs. Boston, he became the first player in Rays history with three

consecutive multi-hit games.

The following is a look at Escobar’s career statistics as of May 22, 2016:

MEET THE FIRST YEAR ANGEL

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards

2007 24 ATL NL 94 355 319 54 104 25 0 5 28 5 3 27 44 .326 .385 .451 .837 118 144 6 5 2 2 1 654 RoY-6

2008 25 ATL NL 136 587 514 71 148 24 2 10 60 2 5 59 62 .288 .366 .401 .766 103 206 24 5 7 2 4 *6

2009 26 ATL NL 141 604 528 89 158 26 2 14 76 5 4 57 62 .299 .377 .436 .812 115 230 21 10 7 2 3 *6 MVP-20

2010 27 TOT MLB 135 567 497 60 127 19 0 4 35 6 2 56 57 .256 .337 .318 .655 80 158 18 5 9 0 1 *6

2010 27 ATL NL 75 301 261 28 62 12 0 0 19 5 1 37 31 .238 .334 .284 .618 71 74 9 1 2 0 1 6

2010 27 TOR AL 60 266 236 32 65 7 0 4 16 1 1 19 26 .275 .340 .356 .696 89 84 9 4 7 0 0 6

2011 28 TOR AL 133 590 513 77 149 24 3 11 48 3 3 61 70 .290 .369 .413 .782 112 212 14 6 5 5 1 *6/D

2012 29 TOR AL 145 608 558 58 141 22 1 9 51 5 1 35 70 .253 .300 .344 .644 75 192 21 4 7 4 1 *6/D

2013 30 TBR AL 153 578 508 61 130 27 1 9 56 4 4 57 73 .256 .332 .366 .698 96 186 19 3 6 4 2 *6

2014 31 TBR AL 137 529 476 33 123 18 0 7 39 1 1 43 60 .258 .324 .340 .664 92 162 15 4 4 2 3 *6/7

2015 32 WSN NL 139 591 535 75 168 25 1 9 56 2 2 45 70 .314 .375 .415 .790 114 222 24 8 1 2 0 *5/D

2016 33 LAA AL 43 193 173 20 53 11 0 3 11 0 1 16 24 .306 .370 .422 .792 126 73 9 2 1 1 0 *5 10 Yrs 1256 5202 4621 598 1301 221 10 81 460 33 26 456 592 .282 .351 .386 .737 101 1785 171 52 49 24 16

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The Angels signed outfielder Rafael Ortega on

December 1 to a free agent contract. He began the 2016

season at triple-A Salt Lake with the Bees before earning

his first recall of the season on April 16 and his second one

on May 17. Upon joining the Angels he saw significant action

in left field.

Ortega’s time with the Angels this season is his first action in

the big leagues since 2012. In 2012, he appeared in two games

with the Rockies and collected his first two hits at this level.

He also then collected his first stolen base. This year with the

Angels he knocked in his first career runs and collected his first

assists in the field.

A native of El Tigre, Anzoategui, Venezuela, Ortega in recent years

has been playing the minor league systems of both the Cardinals

and Rangers. He has played in more than 700 minor league games

for nine di�erent teams, hitting at a .309 clip. He is also approaching

800 career hits and 200 career steals in the minors as well.

The following is a look at Ortega’s career statistics as of May 22, 2016:

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos

2012 21 COL NL 2 6 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .500 .667 .500 1.167 205 2 0 1 0 0 0 /8

2016 25 LAA AL 19 76 70 9 19 2 0 0 6 3 2 4 8 .271 .311 .300 .611 76 21 1 0 2 0 0 7/89

2 Yrs 21 82 74 9 21 2 0 0 6 4 2 5 10 .284 .338 .311 .648 86 23 1 1 2 0 0

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One of the more popular programs on MLB Network — and one that certainly leads to a friendly debate or two — is Top 10 Right Now.

On the show, current Major League ballplayers and managers are “ranked” by position on a variety of categories in a special countdown.

The show’s host (Brian Kenny) and an array of former players provide their individual rankings at each position, and The Shredder — a ranking that is provided by a research team using methodology and evidence and metrics — projects this season’s performance.

Here is how Angels players were ranked:

SS – ANDRELTON SIMMONS#5 – BRIAN KENNY#10 – BILL RIPKEN

#9 - THE SHREDDER

1B – ALBERT PUJOLS#10 – CARLOS PENA

CF – MIKE TROUT#1 – ERIC BYRNES#1 – BRIAN KENNY

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ALBERT PUJOLS CONTINUES TO CHASE HOME RUN HISTORY

ON THE RADAR Albert Pujols began this season with 560 career home runs, the 14th most in MLB history. Here is a look at players directly ahead of Pujols: 10. Mark McGwire - 58311. Harmon Killebrew - 57312. Rafael Palmeiro - 569 (tied on May 23)

RECENTLY SURPASSED Here is a look at players directly behind Pujols: 14. Reggie Jackson - 56315. Manny Ramirez - 55516. Mike Schmidt - 54817. Mickey Mantle - 53618. Jimmie Foxx - 534

ALBERT PUJOLS

JIMMIE FOXXMICKEY MANTLE

MIKE SCHMIDTMANNY RAMIREZ

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RAFAEL PALMEIRO

HARMON KILLEBREW

MARK MCGWIRE

DATE OPPONENT SEASON CAREER DISTANCE April 15 at MIN 1 561 365April 17 at MIN 2 562 395 April 24 SEA 3 563 431April 25 KC 4, 5 564, 565 361, 394April 30 at TEX 6 566 427May 12 STL 7 567 397May 14 at SEA 8 568 397May 23 at TEX 9 569 439

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HUSTON STREET CONTINUES TO CHASE GAMES SAVED HISTORY

ON THE RADAR Huston Street began this season with 317 career saves, the 21st most in MLB history. Here is a look at players directly ahead of Street: 14. John Wetteland – 33015. Francisco Cordero – 32916. Roberto Hernandez – 326

RECENTLY SURPASSED Here is a look at players directly behind Street:

18. Jose Mesa – 32119. Todd Jones – 31920. Rick Aguilera – 31821. Robb Nen – 31422. Tom Henke – 311

ALBERT PUJOLS

CLOSING TIME

TODD JONES

ROBERTOHERNANDEZ

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DATE OPPONENT SEASON CAREER INNINGS PITCHEDApril 10 TEX 1 318 1.0April 11 at OAK 2 319 0.1April 12 at OAK 3 320 1.0April 21 at CWS 4 321 1.0April 23 SEA 5 322 1.0

TOM HENKE ROBB NEN

RICKAGUILIERA

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HALL OF FAMEWHEN THE 2016 FIRST-TIME ELIGIBLE LIST FOR THE HALL OF FAME WAS ANNOUNCED,

ANGEL FANS SAW SOME VERY FAMILIAR — AND VERY POPULAR — FACES.

IN THE VOTE BY THE BASEBALL WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS WERE SELECTED AS THE CLASS OF 2016….AND THE CLASS OF 2016 WILL

BE HONORED IN JULY IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK: KEN GRIFFEY JR. AND MIKE PIAZZA

GARRET ANDERSON DAVID ECKSTEIN

TROY PERCIVAL TROY PERCIVAL TROY PERCIVAL JIM EDMONDS TROY GLAUS

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THE SECOND METS MIRACLEThe television crews were in the visitors’ dugout,

tiptoeing around champagne buckets to plug in their cameras. Players on the home side had begun planning flights for the o�season. A Most Valuable Player had been named.

The late Hall of Famer Yogi Berra famously said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” but a champion appeared to be crowned on the night of Oct. 25, 1986.

Of course, list that date now — 30 years later — to any die-hard Red Sox fan and his or her grimace will tell the story. Because what happened in the bottom half of the 10th inning in that game — Game 6 of the World Series — produced one of the most unpredictably joyous moments for New York Mets fans, and perhaps the most visceral moment of pain during the long-standing “Curse of the Bambino” for the Boston faithful. ALL BUT OVER

The first five games of the 1986 World Series featured a wild series of back-and-forth skirmishes. What looked to be a marquee matchup in Game 2 between the Mets’ Dwight Gooden (the NL Rookie of the Year from 1984 and the NL Cy Young Award winner from 1985) and Red Sox’ Roger Clemens (the new phenom du jour after winning the 1986 AL Cy Young Award) fizzled out in the early innings. After the road team won the first four games, Boston seemed to finally wrangle control when the Sox o�ense, led by future Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Jim Rice, defeated Gooden again in Game 5 at Fenway Park to set up a potential clincher at Shea Stadium.

Destiny seemed even more imminent for the Red Sox in the bottom of the eighth in Game 6, when manager John McNamara called upon his closer, Calvin Schiraldi to get a two-inning save with a 3-2 lead. But Lee Mazzilli singled and Lenny Dykstra reached on a bunt attempt. Then, Wally Backman successfully bunted the runners over and Schiraldi intentionally walked slugger Keith Hernandez to load the bases. Catcher Gary Carter strode up to the plate.

As one of the emotional leaders of the Mets, Carter had already played hero in the NLCS when his 12th inning walk-o� RBI single in Game 5 gave New York the series lead against the Houston Astros. This time, Carter worked Schiraldi to a 3-0 count before lining a sacrifice fly to left field to score Mazzilli. Schiradli evaded further trouble, but as he walked o� the mound the damage was done: The save was blown and the game was tied 3-3 going into the ninth. AGAIN ON THE BRINK

Each team made defensive errors in their side of the ninth to put runners on, but home plate remained clean and the game headed to extras. The Red Sox, seeking their first championship in 68 years, needed just one more push to bring it home — and it appeared they did just that when Dave Henderson homered and Boggs doubled and later scored on an RBI single by Marty Barrett. Going into the bottom of the 10th, Boston carried a 5-3 lead.

As the two clubs exchanged sides, a flurry of activity was already occurring behind the scenes. Workers began setting up the commissioner’s trophy in the Red Sox clubhouse, while NBC’s Bob Costas prepared for the presentation. Media members took a vote and selected Boston pitcher Bruce Hurst as Series

MVP. Mets rookie utility man Kevin Mitchell went down to the clubhouse to begin booking flights home over the phone.

Nothing seemed premature yet after Schiraldi, back on the mound for his third inning, retired Backman and Hernandez on fly balls. After 68 torturous years, Red Sox fans were ready to celebrate. All they needed was one more out.THE METS REFUSE TO LOSE

But the Mets had di�erent ideas, and again it started with their leader Carter.

The All-Star catcher, whose batting helmet from the Series now resides in Cooperstown, stroked a two-out single to left. Mitchell was quickly dragged out of the clubhouse and into the game to bat for pitcher Rick Aguilera, and he promptly responded with a hit. Then Ray Knight, down to his final strike, lofted a jam shot just past second base to score Carter from second. Knight would later donate his batting helmet from that fateful plate appearance to the Hall of Fame.

“The Mets refuse to go down quietly,” said Ford C. Frick Award winner Vin Scully on the NBC broadcast, “and here comes John McNamara to the mound.”

The Shea Stadium crowd, deflated after Henderson’s homer in the top of the frame, was alive and on its feet once again. McNamara replaced Schiraldi with reliever Bob Stanley, but the bleeding could not be stopped. Stanley tossed a wild pitch to the backstop, plating Mitchell to tie the game at five.

“And it’s going to go to the backstop,” said Scully, his voice rising, “here comes Mitchell to score the tying run! And Ray Knight is at second base!”

Then, on the 11th pitch of his at-bat, Mookie Wilson tapped a grounder toward first base to set one of baseball’s most famous plays in motion.

“Little roller up along first,” Scully said, before the dribbling ball went through Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner’s legs and into the outfield. “Behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!”

Then silence — at least from the broadcast booth. Scully remained speechless for more than three minutes, letting the images of pandemonium tell the story. At one point, Costas, now scrambling to the Mets clubhouse, could be overheard on the telecast admitting, “I don’t think I’m going to be able to get anybody [to talk to].”

“If one picture is worth a thousand words,” Scully finally resumed. “You have seen about a million words.”

More than that, the play created millions of memories — both sweet and bitter, depending on your allegiances — that illustrate the volatile beauty of postseason baseball.

“To this day, if I saw it I’d be startled,” Scully said of the Buckner play in a 2011 interview, “It’s what makes this game so great. You just can’t take anything for granted.”

Matt Kelly is the communications specialist at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Reprinted with permission from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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ROLLIE WAS ROLLINGRollie Fingers was an established star when he first

joined the Milwaukee Brewers 35 years ago, his handlebar moustache already a familiar sight thanks to a trio of World Series championships.

But after calling the West Coast home for more than a decade, the rubber-armed righty made an immediate impression on his new team by having arguably his finest season — one that may have cemented his place in Cooperstown.

Fingers added to his reputation as one of the best relievers in baseball history when, 35 years ago in 1981, he won the American League’s Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards. Since the Baseball Writers’ Association of America instituted the Cy Young Award in 1956, only five others (Don Newcombe in 1956, Sandy Koufax in 1963, Bob Gibson and Denny McLain in 1968, and Vida Blue in 1971) have won both the Cy Young and MVP award in the same year, but none was a relief pitcher.

“I feel this was my best season ever. Very few guys get a chance to have a year like I had,” Fingers, who entered the season as the all-time leader in saves with 244, would say. “Every guy on the ballclub played great behind me. That’s one of the reasons I won. I gave up 10 runs all year, and every one of them was earned. The defense didn’t give up a run when I was out there.”

Although 1981 was a bad year for baseball — a midseason strike wiping out nearly two months of the schedule — it was a memorable season for Fingers, who turned 35 near the end of the campaign. He finished with a 6-3 won-loss record and a 1.04 ERA, compiling 28 saves in 47 appearances for the Brewers, a team that won the second-half title in the A.L. East and whose 62-47 record was the best overall in the division.

“When I bring Rollie into a game, I just feel I’m through with managing tonight,” said Milwaukee skipper Buck Rodgers. “I’m a spectator. I’ve got the best man in the profession in there. That’s probably the only time in a game I sit down.”

Fingers emerged as a star with the Oakland Athletics, where he spent his first nine big league seasons. On the sport’s grandest stage in October, he was the main man out of the bullpen for an A’s dynasty that dominated the early 1970s by winning five division titles, three pennants and three World Series. In fact, from 1972 to ’74, Oakland played in 19 Fall Classic games and Fingers pitched in 16 of them — winning two, losing two, and saving six while compiling a 1.35 ERA in 33.1 innings.

But like many of his Oakland teammates, Fingers eventually opted for free agency, signing with the San Diego Padres following the 1976 season. After four seasons and twice leading the National League in saves, he was part of two blockbuster trades only days apart, first shipped to the St. Louis Cardinals as part of an 11-player transaction on Dec. 8, 1980, then, only four days later, swapped to the Brewers, along with catcher Ted Simmons and pitcher Pete Vuckovich, for outfielders Sixto Lezcano and David Green, and pitchers Lary Sorensen and Dave LaPoint.

“We wanted Rollie Fingers or Bruce Sutter,” said Brewers general manager Harry Dalton. “And we thought we had the inside track on getting Fingers from the San Diego Padres, but the next thing we knew, the Cardinals got Fingers, so we started thinking about concentrating on getting Sutter from the Chicago Cubs but then the Cardinals got Sutter, too.

“As soon as Whitey [Herzog] got Sutter, we figured he wouldn’t want to keep Fingers, too. That’s when we started talking about Fingers, and we also knew that Vuckovich and Simmons might be available.”

The newly acquired trio of Fingers, Vuckovich and Simmons paid immediate dividends and turned the Brew Crew into a winner. But after coming away with their second-half title, Milwaukee battled back after losing the first two games against the New York Yankees in the Division Series before dropping the decisive Game 5.

On November 3, six days after the Los Angeles Dodgers took the 1981 World

Series in six games over the Yankees, Fingers became the first Brewers player to win a postseason award of any kind when it was announced he had captured the A.L. Cy Young Award. Oakland starting pitcher Steve McCatty, who ended the year with a 14-7 record and a 2.33 ERA, finished a distant second.

“Relief pitchers don’t win the Cy Young, starters do,” said Fingers after he learned of the Cy Young Award when he arrived in Las Vegas for a vacation. “Though a lot of people talked to me about it, it was the sort of thing that goes in one ear and out the other. It’s a dream come true. It’s nice to get recognition like this and I’m happy without a doubt. It’s something every pitcher dreams of but never really expects to win.”

Since the Cy Young Award was instituted by the BBWAA in 1956, only three other relief pitchers had been named up until that point: Mike Marshall of the Dodgers in 1974, Sparky Lyle of the Yankees in 1977 and Bruce Sutter of the Cubs in 1979.

“It’s the kind of year you dream about having when you’re 25, not when you’re 35,” Fingers said. “It was the kind of season when everything just went right for me: a double play here, a strikeout there … it just all fit together. I have to credit the great defense behind me and I had two experienced catchers [Simmons and Charlie Moore] and that helped. I didn’t do it alone; I had some great help.”

Simmons, one of the catchers referred to by Fingers, explained: “When he’s right, he has the ability to throw something other than the fastball when he’s behind in the count. When he’s behind 3-1 or 2-0 in the count, he’ll throw a slider or a forkball and it’s a strike. Other guys try to do that and it’s a ball.”

The one regret Fingers had after the season was that the Brewers didn’t come away with the ultimate prize.

“I’d like just one more shot at the Series. Hopefully, I’ll get another chance,” Fingers said. “I guess I’ve been pretty lucky in my career. I’ve won some very important awards and played in some exciting World Series competition. I’m very satisfied about my life. Obviously, I’m a happy man right now.

“Awards at the end of the season are fine, but it’s playo� wins and the World Series that really matter. We were shooting for a World Series and I sure would have liked to have gotten there,” he added. “I guess it just wasn’t to be, but we’ll do it next year. We just missed it this time. I just want to get into another World Series.”

The Yankees’ Rich “Goose” Gossage, a fellow Hall of Fame relief pitcher who finished tied for fifth in the ‘81 Cy Young voting, agreed with Fingers, adding, “Rollie deserved the award. He was the best this season, but I know he’d give up the award to be where I was – in the World Series.”

Fingers’ final accolade of 1981 came on Thanksgiving Day when it was announced he had edged Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson to become the first relief pitcher in A.L. history to win the MVP Award. Jim Konstanty of the 1950 Phillies was the only reliever to win the MVP Award at that point in history.

“I was kind of surprised because a lot of guys in the league had great years,” Fingers said from his home in California after the MVP announcement was made. “I’m surprised but very happy, though. I guess I needed a change from San Diego.”

Since Fingers’ remarkable 1981 season, others closers that have won a Cy Young Award include Detroit’s Willie Hernandez (1984), Philadelphia’s Steve Bedrosian (1987), San Diego’s Mark Davis (1989), Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley (1992) and the Dodgers’ Eric Gagne (2003). Hernandez and Eckersley also came away with the MVP.

When his 17-year career came to an end, Fingers, a seven-time All-Star, had compiled a then-record 341 saves.

Fingers was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.Bill Francis is a Library Associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Reprinted with permission from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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WHEN TED CHANGED HISTORY

The sky was partly cloudy, 86 degrees outside, a typical mid-summer day in the small upstate New York village of Cooperstown. But the Splendid Splinter was about to shake things up.

That day 50 years ago, Ted Williams’ remarks before a worldwide audience would forever change the course of baseball’s most cherished institution.

Williams, the great Boston Red Sox slugger and arguably the greatest hitter in the game’s long history, was to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25, 1966. Sharing the stage with him this day was beloved manager Casey Stengel, an electee after 54 years in professional baseball well known for his unique gift of gab. But this would be a day for Teddy Ballgame to make news with his words instead of his bat.

What began as a standard acceptance speech evolved into something more important, when at the end Williams spoke for those without a voice, those who had been shunted aside, those with no hope of ever joining the National Pastime’s fabled fraternity.

“Inside this building are plaques dedicated to baseball men of all generations and I’m privileged to join them…And I hope that someday the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players that are not here only because they were not given a chance.”

Why Williams decided to use this day to make this case is up for debate. But the groundbreaking statement by one of baseball’s greats, while previously made by others in less prestigious forums, would prove to be the impetus for change.

“His speech had an impact. He did change some minds,” said Hall of Famer and Negro League veteran Monte Irvin, as quoted in the book Ted Williams: A Tribute. “The writers picked up on it, and some of the powers-that-be at the Hall of Fame had to kind of perk up and take notice.”

Washington sportswriter and 1975 Spink Award winner Shirley Povich was more succinct, once penning: “The fact is that Ted Williams launched the whole movement for the inclusion of Negro League players into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.”

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the group that annually votes on major league players for Hall of Fame inclusion, would later take up the cause. At the 1969 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, BBWAA President Dick Young, who would become the 1978 Spink Award winner, spoke eloquently on the subject before thousands of spectators.

“Until now, there has been one failing, and the baseball writers intend that this should be rectified,” Young said. “Nobody questions, certainly, the credentials of these great ballplayers on my right. They all belong. But we do ask the question, why should Waite Hoyt and Stanley Coveleski be in

the Hall of Fame and not Satchel Paige? Why should Roy Campanella be in the Hall of Fame and not Josh Gibson?

“There are other men, great ballplayers, who certainly have a place here in this shrine. They were not part of organized ball. When the rules were set up, one of the rules was that you should excel for a period of 10 years because time proves a man’s worth. And it might be said that Satchel Paige did not play major league ball for 10 years and that Josh Gibson did not play major league ball for 10 years. But was that their fault, gentlemen? The answer, of course, is obvious.”

The vision of Williams became reality on Feb. 3, 1971, when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced the formation of a special 10-man committee, the Committee on Negro League Veterans, which included Roy Campanella, Judy Johnson and Monte Irvin, to select the top Negro league stars of the pre-1947 era “as part of a new exhibit commemorating the contributions of the Negro Leagues to baseball.” But they weren’t to be actual Hall of Famers because they didn’t play major league ball for the required 10 seasons.

Allowed to choose one player per year, the Committee unanimously selected Paige on Feb. 9, 1971. The tall and lean right-handed pitcher, whose true age will be forever up for debate, filled stadiums with fans eager to see one of baseball’s true fireballers. “I don’t feel segregated,” said Paige at a press conference that day. “I’m proud to be wherever they put me in the Hall of Fame.”

Not all agreed. “If the blacks go in as a special thing, it’s not worth a hill of beans. It’s the same

rotten thing all over again,” said Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, the player who broke down big league baseball’s color barrier in 1947. “They deserve to be in it but not as black players in a special category. Rules have been changed before. You can change rules like you change laws if the law is unjust.”

And the rules were changed with Kuhn and Hall of Fame President Paul Kerr announcing on July 8, 1971, that Paige and future inductees would be given full membership. So it was on Aug. 9, 1971, five years and two weeks after Williams made his bold pronouncement, that Paige did indeed became a Hall of Famer. “I am the proudest man on the earth today,” he said that the most wonderful occasion.

In all, 35 former Negro Leaguers have earned election to the Hall of Fame, including 17 Negro Leaguers and pre-Negro League figures inducted following a special election in 2006.

And in many ways, it all started 50 years ago on a stage outside the Hall of Fame — when Theodore S. Williams gave voice to those who had none.

Bill Francis is a Library Associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Reprinted with permission from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

50 YEARS AGO, THE SPLENDID SPLINTER CAMPAIGNED FOR NEGRO LEAGUERS TO B E E L I G I B L E FO R H A L L O F FA M E D U R I N G H I S I N D U C T I O N S P E E C H

BY BILL FRANCISNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY

Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams forever changed the Cooperstown shrine when he used his Induction speech to advocate for the inclusion of Negro League players as members on July 25, 1966.


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ANGELS HALL OF FAMEGENE AUTRY DON BAYLOR

ROD CAREW DEAN CHANCE

BRIAN DOWNING

CHUCK FINLEY

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BOBBY GRICH BOBBY KNOOP JIMMIE REESE

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Chone Figgins left the game of baseball as an Angel.

Figgins — the former popular, versatile All-Star who played

12 big leagues seasons — recently signed a one-day contract with

the organization as part of his o�cial retirement announcement

as a player.

A member of the Angels’ 2002 World Championship team, Figgins

registered a .291 average with 31 homers, 341 runs batted in, 596 runs

and a club-record 280 stolen bases during his time with the franchise

(2002-09).

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Former Angels pitcher Jim Abbott continues to travel the country,

serving as an inspirational speaker.

To learn more, visit his website — JimAbbott.net — or contact Lilly

Walters at (909) 398-1228/[email protected]

Also ….

Follow Jim on Facebook: Facebook.com/Jim-Abbott/330775770272681Follow Jim on Twitter: @jabbottum31

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Curtis Pride has been hired by Major League Baseball as an

ambassador for inclusion.

The former Angels outfielder, Pride — deaf since birth — played

parts of 11 seasons in the big leagues, including 68 games with the

Angels from 2004-05.

He also serves as the head baseball coach at Gallaudet University

— a leading university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students — in

Washington, D.C.

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IT’S A FACTCARLOS PEREZ IS ONE OF FOUR PLAYERS TO HIT A WALK-OFF HOME RUN IN HIS MLB DEBUT. IRONICALLY THE FIRST PLAYER TO DO IT — BILLY PARKER — ALSO

PERFORMED THE FEAT WHILE WITH THE ANGELS.

BILLY PARKER1971

CARLOS PEREZ2015

JOSH BARD2002

MIGUEL CABRERA 2003

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Arte Moreno was introduced as the third owner in franchise history in May of 2003. As leader of the Club, Arte’s impact was immediate. Moreno has guided the Angels with a large market approach, leading to six A.L. West Division championships and 13 consecutive seasons drawing over three million fans, resulting in a combined home attendance of over 40 million. Over the past several years, his support of the baseball operations department has culminated in the key free agent signings of three-time N.L. MVP Albert Pujols, 2004 A.L. MVP Vladimir Guerrero, 2005 A.L. Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon, nine-time Gold Glove outfielder Torii Hunter, 2009 World Series MVP Hideki Matsui and several others. In 2014, he signed Mike Trout to a six-year extension.

During Arte’s tenure, the Angels organization has been among the industry’s best in the areas of player development and scouting. His dedication to the Angels farm system has paid dividends in its development of several key players including the 2014 A.L. MVP Mike Trout, three-time A.L. All-Star Jered Weaver, Garrett Richards and Matt Shoemaker, among others. The Angels’ minor league affiliates have reached the playoffs 45 times while capturing 28 division titles and seven league titles. The farm system posted winning records in nine of the last 12 seasons and was named “Minor League Organization of the Year” in 2003 by The Sporting News and 2007 “Farm System of the Year” by the Minor League News.

Arte’s focus is balanced between baseball, business operations and fan experience. In 2009, the Angels were voted the number one franchise in professional sports in “Fan Value and Experience” by voters in a fan poll by ESPN the Magazine. Since the inception of the rankings, the Angels ranked in the top three among MLB teams for 10 consecutive seasons (2003-2012). On March 15, 2012 at the LA Sports Awards at Club Nokia, Moreno was honored with his second Los Angeles Sports Executive of the Year award (also 2005). The prestigious award is presented by the LA Sports Council “to celebrate the greatest moments of the year in sports in the Los Angeles/Orange County area.” In 2005, Time Magazine selected Moreno as one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America.

Since purchasing the Angels in 2003, Arte and his wife Carole have also spent over a decade strengthening the club’s commitment to the local community. In Jan. 2004, the Morenos established the Angels Baseball Foundation. The Foundation concentrates

on investments in education, health care, arts and sciences and community-related youth programs throughout the region, in addition to providing children the opportunity to experience baseball and its positive attributes. To date, the Foundation has distributed over four million dollars in grants to various programs within Southern California. In 2010, the Angels were privileged to host their third All-Star Game in Club history (1967 & 1989). In conjunction with the Major League Baseball All-Star Legacy Fund, the Angels and the Angels Baseball Foundation provided over two million dollars to groups and projects in 2010, including a significant portion directed to the renovation of softball fields at Anaheim’s Pioneer Park into the MLB Angels All-Star Complex. The Foundation has touched more than 3,000 organizations by regularly donating tickets, memorabilia and ballpark experiences to the various groups and fundraisers.

In addition to his responsibilities with the Angels and various committees within Major League Baseball, Arte was also a member of the Little League Foundation Board of Trustees, which assists Little Leagues in all 50 U.S. states and more than 70 other countries with more than 2.7 million participants. In the mid-80s, Arte was among a group who owned the former Single-A Salt Lake Trappers of the Pioneer League. Under his group’s ownership, the Trappers went on to win three championships. He was later an original investor in the Arizona Diamondbacks (the 2001 World Series Champions) and a former part owner of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.

A native of Tucson, AZ, Arte served his country in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Army. After his tour of duty, he attended the University of Arizona, graduating with a degree in marketing.

Carole was born in Reno, NV, and moved often as the daughter of a career Air Force man. She spent much of her youth in Fredonia, KS, and went on to earn a degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. Her favorite charities include the Barrow Neurological Institute, Boys & Girls Clubs, UMOM family homeless shelters, American Heart Association and Fresh Start Women’s Foundation.

The Moreno family is also active in their own philanthropic efforts. They established the Moreno Family Foundation, which supports nonprofit organizations focusing on youth and education. They are the parents of three children.

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FRONT OFFICE EXECUTIVESDennis Kuhl begins his 13th year with the Angels

after joining the Club on Nov. 10, 2003. He was initially appointed as the Halos’ seventh president before a promotion to Chairman on Nov. 14, 2009. Kuhl’s central focus is a renewed eort in the area of civic aairs and community outreach. He also oversees the Angels’ flagship radio station, KLAA AM830.

Under his leadership, the Angels have shown tremendous growth and advancement in key business initiatives, including sponsorship and marketing revenues, the nationwide expansion and marketing of the Angels brand. Kuhl also played a key role in working with Major League Baseball in the Club hosting the 2010 All-Star Game.

Kuhl is actively involved in several Southern California charities. He serves as president of the “Light the Night” event which supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and is a founding board member of The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation/Lott Trophy. Kuhl works with Susan G. Komen for the Cure serving as a member of the

Orange County A�liate’s Board of Directors and is also one of their “Pink Tie Guys,” a select group of advocates speaking out to find a cure for breast cancer. Kuhl is a member of the Board of Governors at Chapman University, along with the board of directors for several nonprofits: the Los Angeles Sports Council, Boys and Girls Club of Anaheim, Tiger Woods Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Association of Orange County. In 2014, Kuhl served as a co-chairperson for the United Cerebral Palsy Golf Classic and a co-chairperson for the annual Red, White & Greens Golf Tournament to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards for South County Outreach and the Irvine Public School Foundation and is also on the Angels Baseball Foundation Board of Directors.

A Boonton, N.J. native, Kuhl graduated from the University of Arizona in 1970 with a degree in business administration. In 2009, he was named the ‘Business Man of the Year’ by the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. He currently resides in Newport Beach.

DENNIS KUHL, CHAIRMAN

John Carpino was named the eighth President in Angels’ history on Nov. 14, 2009. At the age of 57, he oversees all areas of business, sales, marketing and communications. Carpino’s top priority is the fan’s value and experience in all areas of the game including concessions, merchandise, promotional items and ticketing. As the principal executive in charge of business operations, he has helped the Halos

welcome over three million fans through Angel Stadium turnstiles for 13 straight seasons. Carpino was also an integral part of the 2010 MLB All-Star Game, hosted at Angel Stadium, and was involved in the negotiations for the extension of the Club’s television agreement with FOX Sports West.

The Chicago native continues to seek out avenues to create value for Angel fans, focusing not only on the game inside the lines, but the entire ballpark experience. Carpino has guided the Angel brand with a focus on aordable pricing and providing a quality family environment. Under his leadership, Carpino’s team has also established Angel Stadium as one of the premiere destinations in California for non-baseball events such as concerts, Supercross, Monster Truck and corporate events.

As one of the initial executives Arte Moreno appointed after taking ownership of the Club, the 2016 season marks Carpino’s 13th with the team, having previously held the position of senior vice president. Carpino has led the Angels to unprecedented financial growth in the sponsorship, marketing and ticketing divisions. He oversaw the general manager selection processes in 2011 & 2015 and has assisted in the acquisition of high-profile Angels such as Albert Pujols and Andrelton Simmons along

with negotiating the Jered Weaver contract extension. Carpino has created a stronger, more viable partnership with Los

Angeles-based radio and television partners, and oversees KLAA AM830, the home of Angels Baseball. His vision and creativity have brought an emphasis on the Angels’ heritage with a reintroduction of the Angels Hall of Fame with yearly inductees, the hosting of Angels Fan Fests and the celebration of the Angels 50th Anniversary. Popular giveaways have been provided including several Guinness® record-breaking items and items showcasing the continuing popularity of the Rally Monkey. His eorts continue to create a brand that connects socially and in sync with current cultural trends. Carpino’s promotion followed six seasons as the Club’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing during which he oversaw all aspects of marketing, promotions and ticket sales for the Angels.

He began his professional career in 1982 in the billboard industry, including stints in Tucson, AZ; Chicago, IL; Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA. In 1985, he joined Moreno at Outdoor Systems, a billboard company (which later became Viacom Outdoor in 2000 and CBS Outdoor in 2005) and spent 18 years in the Phoenix and Los Angeles markets. Carpino oversaw $200 million in sales for the western region.

Born in Chicago, IL, Carpino is a 1982 graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in business administration. He currently serves on CHOC Children’s Foundation Board of Directors and served for three years on the Executive Board for the Orange County United Way. He and wife Elizabeth are involved in numerous charitable eorts throughout Southern California and support the Angels Baseball Foundation. The Carpinos have three children and reside in Laguna Beach.

JOHN CARPINO, PRESIDENT

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FRONT OFFICE EXECUTIVESBill Beverage enters his 13th full season as the

Angels Chief Financial O�cer (CFO) after joining the organization in Nov. 2003. As the Angels CFO, his duties include managing the day-to-day finances of the organization.

Prior to his current position, Beverage served

as both controller and CFO during his 18-year career in the outdoor advertising industry. Before he entered the outdoor advertising industry, Beverage was an auditor with Arthur Young after graduating from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.

Bill and his wife reside in Phoenix, AZ.

BILL BEVERAGE, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Molly Jolly became the highest ranking woman in the Angels organization in just her third year with the team (2003) and remains an integral part of the primary operations of the Club. She is in her 16th season with the Halos as Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration. Molly spent three years (2001-03) as Director of Finance for the Angels and Anaheim Ducks before her current appointment.

A native of Naples, FL, Jolly oversees all financial matters, including reporting and planning, budgeting, accounting, payroll, ticketing and strategic initiatives. She is also responsible for office administration, including human resources and information services. Additionally, she oversees financials at Angel Stadium for non-baseball events such as Supercross, Monster Jam and concerts.

Before joining the Angels and Ducks in 2001, Jolly spent 11 years working for the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), including six years (1989-94) at ARCO Alaska in Anchorage, serving as an Inventory

Accountant, Financial Analyst and Electronic Commerce Manager. In 1994, Jolly was transferred to ARCO Corporate in Los Angeles where she worked as an Internal Control Advisor and Project Manager.She was promoted in 1996 to Financial Manager and Strategic PlanningSenior Consultant for the ARCO Products Company. Jolly began her career in 1988 as an auditor for Arthur Anderson LLP in Boston, MA.

A 1988 graduate of Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics/Accounting, Jolly graduated from the Anderson School at UCLA with a Masters degree in Business Administration in 1999. Jolly is a Board Member and 2nd Vice Chair for the Girl Scouts of Orange County and a Board Member and Treasurer for Friends of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), and a sustaining member of the Junior League of Orange County. In 2011, Jolly was nominated as ‘Chief Financial Officer of the Year in Orange County’ by the Orange County Business Journal. She and husband Burt reside in Villa Park, CA.

MOLLY JOLLY, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT – FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

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FRONT OFFICE EXECUTIVESTim Mead begins his 37th season in the Angels

organization and 19th as Vice President of Communications. He oversees media relations, publicity and broadcasting for the Club.

Before his current appointment, Mead spent four seasons as assistant general manager (1994-97) under former GM Bill Bavasi.

Mead, 57, began his career with the Angels as an intern in the Public Relations Department in 1980. He was appointed director of media relations in 1985 and later assistant vice president of media relations in 1991. During his tenure in media relations, Mead and his sta� have been responsible for the handling of media during the Angels’ 1986, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2014 postseason appearances, the 1989 and 2010 All-Star Games at Angel Stadium and the Halos memorable World Series run in 2002.

Mead was the recipient of the 2000 Robert O. Fishel Award for PR excellence, recognizing the “active non-uniformed representative of Major League Baseball whose ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism and humanitarian e�orts best represent the standards propounded by Robert O. Fishel.” He was also honored in May 2005 with the first Distinguished Alumnus Award for Athletics by his alma mater Cal Poly Pomona. Mead was honored in 2012 by the American

Diabetes Association and the Orange County Father’s Day Council as one of four Father of the Year recipients. The award is given annually to 100 men from across the nation who “portray and epitomize family, citizenship, charity, civility and responsibility in their everyday lives.”

In April 2002, Mead took part in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC) designed by the Department of Defense. He was one of 60 civilians chosen by the Pentagon to attend the conference, traveling to the Pentagon, Norfolk Naval Air Station in VA, Sheppard Air Force Base, Sheppard, Texas, Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, NC and Ofutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska to see the United States Strategic Command Center. The trip is designed to present a clearer picture and understanding of the military to civic and community leaders across the country.

The Athens, Greece native is a 1980 graduate of Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor of science degree in communications. He is a member of the board of directors for the Orange County Sports Youth Association. He assists other charitable groups such as Amigos de los Niños and the Orange Ronald McDonald House. Mead also serves on the advisory committee for the sports management program at Long Beach State and the dean’s advisory board for the college of communications at Cal State Fullerton. He and his wife Carole have one son, Brandon.

TIM MEAD, VICE PRESIDENT - COMMUNICATIONS

Beginning his eighth season with the Club, Neil Viserto is the Angels Vice President of Sales. He oversees sales and marketing of tickets, premium suites, corporate sponsorship and new media. He previously served as the Angels Director and Senior Director of Corporate Sales during his tenure with the team beginning in 2009. Under Viserto’s guidance, the Club has seen substantial

growth in corporate sponsorship as well as a broader scope of business ventures. In 2015, the Halos drew over three million fans for the 13th consecutive season.

Prior to joining the Angels, Viserto held several executive positions in television and sports including sales management positions at WJLA/ABC in Washington, DC; KMEX/Univision in Los Angeles and served as Vice President of Broadcast & Marketing for the Washington Redskins and Vice President, Sportslink LA a division of Adlink Cable Sports sales.

He began his working career as an institutional money market broker for Noonan, Astley & Pearce in New York City before heading to the television and sports industries. Born in NYC, Viserto is a 1986 graduate of Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Neil and wife Susan reside in Yorba Linda, CA with their two children.

NEIL VISERTO, VICE PRESIDENT - SALES

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FRONT OFFICE EXECUTIVESBilly Eppler was named the 12th General Manager

in Angels’ history on October 4, 2015, agreeing to a four-year contract thru the 2019 campaign.

Eppler oversees all aspects of the Club’s baseball operations and reports to Owner Arte Moreno.

“Billy’s experience in the areas of scouting, player development and major league operations, in addition to his organizational and communication

skills, were primary reasons for our decision. He is energetic, creative and has a tremendous passion for the game,” said Moreno.

“I want Angels’ fans to know that I am committed to championship standards, that I will work relentlessly, ethically and e�ciently toward making the Angel organization a model of excellence,” said Eppler at his introductory press conference.

Within his first month on the job, Eppler orchestrated a deal with Atlanta to secure the game’s top defender in shortstop Andrelton Simmons. During the 2015 Winter Meetings, he filled the need for a third baseman via trade with Washington for INF Yunel Escobar.

Eppler, 40, is a native of San Diego, CA. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Finance Degree in 1998 and began his sports career as an intern in the Washington Redskins scouting department. He started his baseball career with the Colorado Rockies

organization, where he was hired in January, 2000 as an area scouting supervisor for Southern California. He would eventually join the front o�ce as the Assistant Director of Pro Scouting & Player Development from 2003-04.

The 2015 season represented his 11th with the New York Yankees following his hiring as Assistant Director of Baseball Operations, Nov. 1, 2004. Eppler would eventually be promoted to Director of Professional Scouting from 2006-09 and Senior Director of Professional Personnel from 2010-11. He finished his fourth season as Assistant General Manager and first as Vice-President in ’15. His responsibilities for the Yankees and assisting General Manager Brian Cashman included player acquisitions, roster composition and management, sta�ng and personnel decisions, and player contract negotiations. In addition, he oversaw all phases and personnel in the Yankees’ Major League and professional scouting departments both domestically and internationally.

Eppler credits Cashman for much of his professional growth during his time in New York.

“I have the utmost respect for Brian and cannot thoroughly thank him for the guidance he has provided.”

Eppler and wife Catherine have a son and reside in south Orange County.

BILLY EPPLER, GENERAL MANAGER

Steve Martone (mar-TONE), 35, comes to the Angels following nine years in baseball operations with the New York Yankees, including the 2009 World Championship campaign. Over the previous two seasons, he has served as Yankees Manager of Professional Scouting.

Originally hired by the Yankees in April of 2006 as a baseball operations intern, Martone was

promoted to Assistant of Baseball Operations in December that same

year. In that capacity, he focused on player tracking & data collection, research for arbitration & grievances as well as technology initiatives (iPad integration for players & coaches). In March of 2014, Martone was promoted to Manager, Professional Scouting where he dealt with 40-man roster composition, departmental budget, MLB depth charts and targeting of players.

The Houston, TX native graduated from the University of Houston in 2005. Martone and wife, Laura, have three children.

STEVE MARTONE – ASSISTANT GM

Jonathan Strangio, 27, enters his fifth year with the Angels in 2016, first as Assistant General Manager. Following the 2014 season, Strangio moved up to Manager, Major League Operations where his responsibilities included 40-man roster construction, rules and CBA compliance, baseball analytics, salary arbitration and contract negotiation. He joined the Club as a baseball

operations intern in 2012 before a promotion to Coordinator, Baseball Operations after the 2012 campaign.

A native of Long Island, NY, Strangio graduated from Harvard University in 2010 where he was a four-year varsity pitcher on the Crimson’s baseball team. Upon graduation, he was hired by the New York Mets as a baseball operations intern. Strangio is engaged to fiancée Alexandra and resides in Newport Beach, CA.

JONATHAN STRANGIO – ASSISTANT GM

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In 2016 Scioscia will embark on his 17th season as Angels manager, the longest tenured manager in the Majors...Owns a 1416-1176 (.546) career mark as 16th field manager in Angels history…Scioscia’s 1,416 wins rank 24th all-time and sit 64 behind Earl Weaver for 23rd...The 1,416 wins also are ninth most all-time by a manager with one team, seven wins shy of passing Fred Clarke (1,422) of the Pittsburgh Pirates...Is just the third manager to guide his first Club for at least 17 consecutive seasons, joining Walter Alston (23 years with the Dodgers) and Tommy Lasorda (21 years with the Dodgers)...During his 16 seasons with the Angels, Scioscia, who is under contract through 2018, has guided the Club to seven playo� appearances, captured six American League West titles, won an American League pennant and led Halos to the franchise’s first World Series title in 2002...Prior to his tenure, Club won a total of three division titles in the previous 42 seasons…Only Angels manager to make seven playo� appearances (previous best was two) and only Angels manager to win six division titles (Mauch won two, 1982 & 1986)...12 of his 16 teams have finished above .500...His .546 winning percentage

is best in Club history...23rd manager in MLB history to notch 1,000 or more wins with one team and just seventh to reach milestone in his first managerial position (Tom Kelly - MIN, Walter Alston - LAD, Tommy Lasorda - LAD, Earl Weaver - BAL, Danny Murtaugh - PIT, & Red Schoendienst - STL)...2-time BBWAA A.L. Manager of the Year (2002 & 2009), finished second in voting in both 2007 and 2014…Ranks third amongst active skippers in career games managed (2,592) and games won (1,416), trailing only Bruce Bochy and Dusty Baker in both categories...One of seven managers in MLB history to guide same franchise for at least 17 straight seasons and just the fourth since 1975 (Bobby Cox, Sparky Anderson, Tommy Lasorda)…Since 1900, is one of 17 men to have recorded at least 1,100 hits as a player and 1,100 wins as a manager at the Major League level...Was first manager in MLB history to guide his team to playo�s six times in first 10 seasons...Scioscia averages 88.5 wins per season, the most per season in Club history…Led Angels to six consecutive winning seasons (2004-09) for first time in Club history…Only active manager with at least 1,000 wins with current team.

MIKE SCIOSCIAANGELS MANAGER

MANAGERIAL YEARLY SUMMARY2015 - Compiled a 85-77 (.525) record in 16th season as manager of the Angels...Club finished three games behind the Rangers for the division title and one game behind the Astros for the second Wild Card berth.

Won 1,400th career game as a manager Sept. 6, becoming the 10th manager to record 1,400 wins with one team.2014 - Guided Halos to a Major League-best 98-64 (.608) record and captured his sixth American League West title...Marked seventh 90-win season as manager of Angels (11th such season in franchise history)...Club finished 10 games ahead of second place Oakland.

Tallied 1,300th career win as a manager Aug. 4 vs. Dodgers...According to STATS LLC, is just fourth manager in MLB history to win 1,300 games in his first stint as a big league skipper.

Finished second in American League Manager of the Year voting (Buck Showalter).2013 - In his 14th season at the helm of the Angels, led Club to a 78-84 record and third place finish in A.L. West (-18)...Finished 13.5 games behind Tampa Bay for second Wild Card spot.

Won 1,200th game on July 19 vs. Oakland...He and Bruce Bochy are only active managers to accomplish the feat.2012 - Led Angels to a 89-73 record and third place finish in A.L. West (-5)...Finished four games behind Texas for second Wild Card spot.

Managed 2,000th career game on June 4 to become the ninth manager in A.L. history to reach the milestone with one club, and first since Minnesota’s Tom Kelly.2011 - Guided the Halos to a 86-76 (.531) record and a second place finish in the A.L. West.

Notched career victory 1,000 May 8 vs. Cleveland

becoming the 56th manager in MLB history with 1,000 or more victories.2010 - Led Angels to a 80-82 record and third place finish in A.L. West (-10).

Coached the American League All-Star team alongside manager Joe Girardi.2009 - Won third consecutive A.L. West crown and led Angels to at least 90 wins for the 10th time in Club history.

Captured 900th career win in final game of season (Oct. 4 at Oak., 5-3 win).2008 - Led Angels to a 100-62 (.617) record for their first-ever 100-win season (previous high was 99 in 2002) and another A.L. West crown.

Following 2008 season, had contract extended through 2018...Reached 800-win plateau, Sept. 22, with 2-1 win at Seattle. 2007 - Skippered Angels to 94-68 (.580) record and third A.L. West Crown in four seasons.

Became winningest manager in Angels’ history, May 4, 2007, with a 5-1 victory over White Sox, giving him 626 wins and eclipsing Bill Rigney’s previous record mark of 625 (in nine seasons).

Reached 700-win plateau, Sept. 20 (in his 1,287th game) and was fastest MLB manager to reach 700 career wins since Mike Hargrove did so in 1,273 games (Aug. 22, 1999).2006 - Led Angels to 89-73 record and second place finish in A.L. West and third consecutive winning season (first time ever in Club history).

Earned 600th career win Sept. 15th at Texas (a 2-1 win in 11 innings).

On Nov. 4, 2006, had contract extended through 2009 with club option for 2010. 2005 - Guided Angels to 95-67 mark and second straight West Division title (first time in Club history).

Earned 500th career win, Sept. 1 vs. Oakland (3-0).2004 - Directed Angels to first West Division title in 18 seasons (1986) with a 92-70 record.

Earned 400th career victory Aug. 19 at Tampa Bay (10-7).2003 - Led Angels to a 77-85 record and third place finish in the A.L. West (-19).

On July 12, received two-year contract extension through 2007 with Club option for 2008.

A.L. manager for 74th All-Star Game in Chicago (IL), July 15th (A.L. won, 7-6). 2002 - In third season with Angels, led Club to World Championship and a then-best record in Club history (99-63).

Honored as 2002 ‘Major League Manager of Year’ by Baseball America and 2002 A.L. Manager of the Year by The Sporting News, USA Today Sports Weekly and BBWAA.

Named recipient of the 2002 C.I. Taylor Award for A.L. Manager of the Year by Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Became 17th person in history to win World Series Championship as both player and manager.

Led Angels to A.L. Wild Card playo� berth in 2002 (-4 behind Oakland).

Increase in wins (24; 75-87 in 2001, 3rd in A.L. West) and games in standings (37; -41 in 2001) from one year to next is best in Club history. 2001 - Compiled 75-87 record, guiding Angels to third place finish in A.L. West (-41).

Club extended his contract through 2005 season (with club option for 2006), Aug. 20, 2001.2000 - Posted 82-80 record in debut season, guiding Angels to third place finish in A.L. West (-9 1/2).

Led Club to 12-win improvement from 1999 season (best since 14 in 1997) and 15 1/2 game increase in standings.

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ANGELS COACHES2016 marks first season as Angels hitting coach following appointment on Nov. 3, 2015 (replacing Don Baylor)...Spent previous two seasons (2014-15) as the Club’s assistant hitting coach...Marks third stint as head hitting coach for a Club (Seattle Mariners in 2013; Los Angels Dodgers 2011-12)...In 2014, assumed head hitting coach responsibilities for 12 weeks while Don Baylor recovered from a broken right thigh bone...Spent 2013 campaign as Seattle’s hitting coach...Under his tutelage, saw Mariners o�ense hit 188 home runs, good for second most in the A.L. and

an improvement of 39 homers over previous season (149)...Mariners were the only team in the A.L. that saw an improvement of 35+ home runs between 2012 and 2013 campaigns...Spent 2012 and part of the 2011 season as the Dodgers hitting coach...Began the 2011 season as Dodgers Major League hitting instructor prior to his promotion July 20...After his promotion, Club averaged 4.6 runs per game for remainder of season (averaged 3.6 runs in first 97 games)...Prior to joining Dodgers, was Arizona’s minor league hitting coordinator for the 2008-2010 seasons...Began professional coaching career in 2007 as Arizona’s Double-A Mobile BayBears hitting coach.

DAVE HANSEN2016 represents fifth season with Angels and first as assistant hitting coach...Appointed to current position Nov. 3, 2015...Held the title of Minor League Hitting Coordinator for the Club from 2013-15...Assisted Dave Hansen with hitting coach duties during the 2014 campaign while Don Baylor recovered from a broken thigh bone...Held first professional coaching role in 2012 as hitting coach for Single-A Adv. Inland Empire.

PAUL SORRENTO

Returns to the Angels organization following his appointment to Mike Scioscia’s sta�, Nov. 2, 2015 (replacing Mike Butcher)...Served as a Special Assistant to Cleveland’s Player Development department in 2015...In 2014 with Cleveland, attended Spring Training as an instructor/assistant...As pitching coach for the Diamondbacks in 2013, saw the development of Patrick Corbin who went 14-8 with a 3.41 ERA in 32 starts...Club had four di�erent starting pitchers record at least 100 strikeouts (one shy of the Club record of five in 2003)...D-Backs relievers also recorded a Major League leading 35 wins...In 2012, Wade Miley (16 wins), Ian Kennedy (15) and Trevor Cahill (13) became

second trio in franchise history to win 13 or more games in a season...Bullpen fashioned a franchise-low 3.24 ERA (466.2 IP - 168 ER)...2011 Diamondbacks starting sta� had four di�erent hurlers win 10-or-more games, tying a franchise record (also, 1999)...In 2010, served as pitching coach for Cleveland’s Triple-A Columbus Clippers...Club, which won the International League championship, featured pitchers Carlos Corrasco and current Angel Joe Smith...Spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons as pitching coach for the Angels’ Triple-A Salt Lake Bees...Worked with Halo farmhands Jered Weaver and Joe Saunders, among others during tenure...Served as a Special Assistant to Cleveland’s Baseball Operations from 2004-05.

CHARLES NAGYIn 2016, DiSarcina assumes the role of Angels first base coach following two seasons (2014-15) as the Club’s third base coach (originally appointed, Nov. 5, 2013)...2016 also marks his seventh season in a professional coaching role and 17th campaign with Halos (third as a coach)...Managed Boston’s Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox in 2013...PawSox went 80-63 (.559) to claim International League North division title and advanced to Championship Series before falling to Durham in four games...Named 2013 Minor League Manager of the Year by Baseball America...

Served as Halos’ field coordinator in 2012 following initial return to organization as Special Assistant to the General Manager in 2011...Tabbed as Boston’s minor league infield coordinator in 2010...Managed Boston’s Single-A Lowell Spinners during 2007-09 campaigns, leading Spinners to back-to-back division titles in 2008 and 2009 and setting a franchise mark with 45 wins during 2009 season...Returned to professional baseball in 2006 as a Baseball Operations consultant for the Red Sox...Also served on coaching sta� for Team Italy in 2006 World Baseball Classic.

GARY DISARCINA

Returns to Mike Scioscia’s sta� following five seasons as manager of the Milwaukee Brewers...2016 represents 12th season in the Angels organization and first since 2010...Began the 2015 campaign as manager of the Brewers before being relieved May 3...Named third base coach for the Dodgers Aug. 17...Posted a 342-331 record (.508) in five seasons (2011-2015) as manager of the Brewers...The 342 wins ranked fifth all-time in Milwaukee’s franchise history...Named to the 2012 National League All-Star coaching sta� by manager Tony LaRussa...In

2011, during first season at the helm of the Brewers, led the Club to a 96-66 record and captured the franchise’s first division title since 1982...The 96 wins were a franchise best...Club defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS before falling to St. Louis in the Championship Series...Finished second in the Manager of the Year voting (Kirk Gibson)...Served as bench coach for the

Angels during the 2006-10 seasons (replaced Joe Maddon)...Was Club’s third base coach from 2000-05 following his initial appointment to Mike Scioscia’s sta� Nov. 23, 1999…Served as manager of Fresno Grizzlies (San Francisco’s Triple-A a¥liate) in 1999…Led Grizzlies to 73-69 record and second place finish in Southern Division, one-half game behind eventual-league champion Salt Lake…Spent seven previous seasons in Los Angeles Dodgers’ organization…Managed Double-A San Antonio (1997-98) and Albuquerque (1998), getting promoted to Triple-A, June 26, 1998, after Glenn Ho�man was named Dodgers’ manager…Named Manager of Year in 1997 after Missions won Texas League title (84-55)…Served as hitting instructor for Triple-A Albuquerque in 1996…Also managed Single-A San Bernardino (1995) and rookie-level Great Falls (1994)…Guided San Bernardino to league title (84-54) and named California League Manager of Year…Led Great Falls to 34-38 record and third place finish…Spent two seasons (1992-93) as part of Dodgers’ Major League coaching sta�, positioning outfielders as club’s “Eye in the Sky”.

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Enters his 12th season in Angels organization in 2016 and third as bench coach for Club (replacing bench coach Rob Picciolo)...His promotion came after eight seasons as third base coach (initially appointed to Mike Scioscia’s sta Nov. 16, 2005, replacing bench coach Joe Maddon)...Ebel is also entering his sixth campaign as the Halos’ outfield coach...Pitched to Albert Pujols’ during the 2015 Home Run Derby in Cincinnati...In 2014, served as manager for three games, going 3-0, while Mike Scioscia was away attending his daughter’s college graduation and attending former teammate Bob Welch’s funeral...Served as pitcher

for Vladimir Guerrero when he won the Home Run Derby at the 2007 All-Star Game in San Francisco...Spent 2005 regular season managing Triple-A Salt Lake, leading Stingers to a 79-65 record (just one game out of first place)...Named to coaching sta of World Team for 2005 Futures Game...Joined the Angels in 2005 after spending previous 17 seasons with Dodgers as minor league player, coach and manager…Owns career managerial record of 531-496 (.517) in eight-plus seasons...Served as manager of Double-A Jacksonville Suns for three seasons (2002-2004), compiling a 209-206 record...Led Jacksonville to 2002 Southern League East Division Championship (in second half) and berth

in League Championship Series...In 2001, led Single-A Wilmington to a 75-63 mark...Spent 2000 season with Single-A San Bernardino, guiding club to 77-63 record and California League title...Began managerial career in 1997, taking over San Bernardino for final 39 games of season (18-21) after beginning that season as a coach (club reached California League finals)...In first full-season as manager, led Rookie Great Falls to 40-35 record and 1998 Pioneer League North Division first-half championship...Took over at Single-A Yakima in 1999 (33-43)...Began coaching career as player/coach with Single-A Bakersfield (1991-94)...Also served as player-coach with San Bernardino in 1995 before becoming full-time coach with Double-A San Antonio Missions in 1996...Has extensive coaching experience in winter baseball, managing Estrellas Orientales in Dominican Winter League in both 2003 and 2013 and Cervesa Atlas Tiburones in 2001 Panamanian Winter League...Served as coach for Peoria in Arizona Fall League in 1995...Worked as infield instructor for Chinese National Team (2000) and Osaka Bualoes (2002) and as field coordinator for Sinon Bulls in Taiwan (2002).

DINO EBEL

2016 marks his 17th season in Angels organization and first in the role of infield coach...Served as first base coach from 2000-15 (initially appointed Nov. 23, 1999)…Only member that has been on Scioscia’s sta for his entire tenure...Also coached on the 2013 World Baseball Classic champion Dominican Republic team...Began Major League coaching career with Toronto as Blue Jays first base coach in 1996-97…In 1995, was roving minor league instructor for Toronto.

ALFREDO GRIFFINJoins the Angels as bullpen coach in 2016 following three seasons as a minor league pitching coach in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization...In 2015, helped guide Triple-A Oklahoma City to a Pacific Coast League leading 86 wins...Held title of pitching coach for Double-A Chattanooga in 2014...Began tenure with the Dodgers organization in 2013 as pitching coach of Adv.-Rookie Ogden...Named pitching coach of the Cleveland Indians for the 2012 campaign...Served as the Indians bullpen coach in 2010 and 2011 when current Angel Joe Smith was a member of the Cleveland

relief corps...Tabbed as Cleveland’s Triple-A pitching coach from 2007-09...During the 2006 season, named pitching coach for Cleveland’s Double-A Akron Aeros...Garnered first professional coaching position in 2005 after being named pitching coach of Cleveland’s Single-A Lake County Captains...Joined the Indians in 2004 as a guest instructor during Spring Training.

SCOTT RADINSKY

Returns as bullpen catcher for sixth season...Appointment follows four seasons as Angels roving catching coordinator…Filled in as bullpen catcher in 2010 for Steve Soliz, who took over bullpen coach duties from Orlando Mercado while he recovered from a broken arm.

TOM GREGORIO

2016 represents his first season as Information Coach following five seasons as bullpen coach (originally appointed Nov. 10, 2010)...2016 also marks his 13th with the organization...In April 2012, filled in as first base coach while Alfredo Gri¢n was away from the team for personal reasons...Spent eight previous seasons (2003-2010) as Angels bullpen catcher…Filled in as bullpen coach for part of 2007 season while Orlando Mercado recovered from surgery on his left Achilles tendon and a broken arm in 2010...In 2002, served as volunteer coach for the Yuma

(AZ) Bullfrogs in the independent Western League.

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Anel De Los Santos joins the Angels sta as a bullpen catcher, after serving as the hitting coach for the Dominican Summer League Angels since 2013. Prior to coaching, De Los Santos played six minor league seasons in the Angels system after originally signing as a non-drafted free agent on Feb. 1, 2005. In 2011, he was a non-roster invitee in Spring Training to Angels Major League camp, but suered a career-ending thumb injury in early March. A native of the Dominican Republic, he compiled a .218 (224/1024) batting average with 37 doubles, nine triples, 19 home

runs and 126 RBI across 284 games. As a catcher, he registered a 37% caught stealing rate (175/467) for his minor league career. He was ranked by Baseball America as the #10 prospect in the Angels organization after the 2007 season and was named the organization’s best defensive catcher after both the 2007 & 2008 seasons. In 2008 with Single-A Cedar Rapids, he was the named the best defensive catcher in the Midwest League by Baseball America after recording a 44% caught stealing percentage (44/107).

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Charles Nagy is the Angels pitching coach. He is in his first season with the club.

Nagy joined the Angels coaching sta� after spending the 2015 season as a Special Assistant to Player Development with the Cleveland Indians. He has previously served as a Major League pitching coach with the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2011-13, as well as working as the Triple-A pitching coach with the Columbus Clippers (Indians) in 2010 and the Salt Lake Bees (Angels) in 2006-07.

A native of Bridgeport, CT, Nagy played 14 Major League seasons with the Indians (1990-02) and the Padres (2003), compiling a 129-105 career record and 4.51 ERA. The three-time American League All-Star was a member of six A.L. Central Division Championship teams, two American League Champion squads and he was inducted into the Indians Hall of Fame in 2007.

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB SO Awards

1990 23 CLE AL 2 4 .333 5.91 9 8 0 0 45.2 58 31 30 21 26

1991 24 CLE AL 10 15 .400 4.13 33 33 6 1 211.1 228 103 97 66 109 RoY-8

1992 25 CLE AL 17 10 .630 2.96 33 33 10 3 252.0 245 91 83 57 169 AS, CYA-7

1993 26 CLE AL 2 6 .250 6.29 9 9 1 0 48.2 66 38 34 13 30

1994 27 CLE AL 10 8 .556 3.45 23 23 3 0 169.1 175 76 65 48 108

1995 28 CLE AL 16 6 .727 4.55 29 29 2 1 178.0 194 95 90 61 139 CYA-6

1996 29 CLE AL 17 5 .773 3.41 32 32 5 0 222.0 217 89 84 61 167 AS, CYA-4

1997 30 CLE AL 15 11 .577 4.28 34 34 1 1 227.0 253 115 108 77 149

1998 31 CLE AL 15 10 .600 5.22 33 33 2 0 210.1 250 139 122 66 120

1999 32 CLE AL 17 11 .607 4.95 33 33 1 0 202.0 238 120 111 59 126 AS

2000 33 CLE AL 2 7 .222 8.21 11 11 0 0 57.0 71 53 52 21 41

2001 34 CLE AL 5 6 .455 6.40 15 13 0 0 70.1 102 53 50 20 29

2002 35 CLE AL 1 4 .200 8.88 19 7 0 0 48.2 76 51 48 13 22

2003 36 SDP NL 0 2 .000 4.38 5 0 0 0 12.1 15 7 6 3 714 Yrs 129 105 .551 4.51 318 297 31 6 113 2188 1061 980 586 1242

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Paul Sorrento is the Angels assistant hitting coach. He is in his first season with the club in this capacity and this is his fifth season overall with the Angels.

Sorrento joined the Angels coaching sta� this year after serving in a variety of coaching roles at several di�erent levels of the organization.

A native of Somerville, MA, Sorrento played 11 Major League seasons with the Twins (1989-91), Indians (1992-95), Mariners (1996-97) and the Devil Rays (1998-99), compiling a .257 batting average with 166 home runs and 565 runs batted in. He ranked among single-season A.L. leaders in home runs per at-bats and fielding percentage at first base on multiple occasions, and his team made the playo�s three times — highlighted in 1991 when Minnesota won the World Series and another trip to the Fall Classic in 1995.

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS

1989 23 MIN AL 14 27 21 2 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 4 .238 .370 .238 .608

1990 24 MIN AL 41 135 121 11 25 4 1 5 13 1 1 12 31 .207 .281 .380 .662

1991 25 MIN AL 26 51 47 6 12 2 0 4 13 0 0 4 11 .255 .314 .553 .867

1992 26 CLE AL 140 514 458 52 123 24 1 18 60 0 3 51 89 .269 .341 .443 .784

1983 26 CLE AL 148 527 463 75 119 26 1 18 65 3 1 58 121 .257 .340 .434 .774

1994 26 CLE AL 95 360 322 43 90 14 0 14 62 0 1 34 68 .280 .345 .453 .799

1995 27 CLE AL 104 378 323 50 76 14 0 25 79 1 1 51 71 .235 .336 .511 .847

1996 28 SEA AL 143 542 471 67 136 32 1 23 93 0 2 57 103 .289 .370 .507 .878

1997 29 SEA AL 146 513 457 68 123 19 0 31 80 0 2 51 112 .269 .345 .514 .859

1998 30 TBD AL 137 495 435 40 98 27 0 17 57 2 3 54 133 .225 .313 .405 .718

1999 31 TBD AL 99 348 294 40 69 14 0 11 42 1 1 49 101 .235 .351 .401 .752

11 Yrs 1093 3890 3412 454 876 176 5 166 565 8 15 426 844 .257 .340 .457 .798

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The Angels will enter their 16th season a�liated with Triple-A Salt Lake and Double-A Arkansas and their sixth with Advanced-A Inland Empire. The club also opens its fourth season with the Burlington Bees of the Midwest League and its 12th campaign with

the Orem Owlz of the Pioneer League. In 2016, the Angels will again field rookie teams in the Arizona Summer League (at the Tempe minor league complex since 2006) and the Dominican Summer League (in Boca Chica).

The following is a look at the Angels’ 2016 Minor League Development Staff:

MINOR LEAGUESDEVELOPMENT STAFF

DIRECTOR, MINOR LEAGUE OPERATIONS: Mike LaCassa

DIRECTOR, BASEBALL DEVELOPMENT: Mike Gallego

ASSISTANT, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT: Andrew Mack

FIELD COORDINATOR: Jack Howell

FIELD COORDINATOR, LATIN AMERICA: Michael Noboa

PITCHING COORDINATOR (Lower Level): Jim Gott

PITCHING COORDINATOR (Upper Level): Pat Rice

HITTING COORDINATOR: Johnny Narron

INFIELD COORDINATOR: Denny Hocking

OUTFIELD, BASERUNNING, BUNTING COORDINATOR: Ty Boykin

CATCHING COORDINATOR: Jose Molina

MENTAL SKILLS COACH: Geo� Miller

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT INFIELD COACH: Bobby Knoop

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CATCHING INSTRUCTOR: Bill Lachemann

MEDICAL COORDINATOR: Geo� Hostetter

REHAB COORDINATOR: Eric Munson

REHAB COACH: Kernan Ronan

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COORDINATOR: Al Sandoval

MINOR LEAGUE EQUIPMENT MANAGER &

AZ OPERATIONS: Brett Crane

MINOR LEAGUE VIDEO COORDINATOR: Aaron Wiedeman

SALT LAKE (AAA) ARKANSAS (AA) INLAND EMPIRE (A) MANAGER Keith Johnson Mark Parent Chad Tracy PITCHING COACH Erik Bennett Scott Budner Michael Wuertz HITTING COACH Tom Tornincasa Brenton Del Chiaro Ryan Barba TRAINER Brian Reinker Matt Morrell Yusuke Takahashi STRENGTH & COND. Andrew Chappell Adam Auer Sergio Rojas

BURLINGTON (A) OREM (R) TEMPE (R) DOMINICAN (R) MANAGER Adam Melhuse Dave Stapleton Elio Sarmiento Hector De La Cruz PITCHING COACH (s) Jairo Cuevas John Slusarz & Matt Wise & Nerio Rodriguez & Hector Astacio Jonathan Van Eaton Jose Marte HITTING COACH (s) Buck Coats Alexis Gomez & Brian Betancourth & Anel De Los Santos & Travis Adair Paul McAnulty Berbani Martinez TRAINER Richard Gill Ryan Russ Chris Wells Rafael Abreu STRENGTH & COND. Adam Smith Tyler Gniadek Daniel Escobar Edison Oviero &

Chris Rodriguez

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TIM LINCECUMIN-SEASON ACQUISITION

EVERY MOMENTM TTERSMMOOMM TTETTE

The Angels signed two-time National League Cy Young Award

winner Tim Lincecum to a 2016 contract.

Lincecum has pitched nine Major League seasons (all with San

Francisco) and has compiled a 108-83 career record with 10 complete

games, seven shutouts and a 3.61 ERA (1643.2 IP – 660 ER). He is one

of four pitchers all-time to have won back-to-back National League

Cy Young Awards, doing so in 2008 and 2009 and has been named

to the N.L. All-Star team four times (2008-11). Lincecum was also a

member of the Giants World Series Championship clubs in 2010, 2012

& 2014 and has pitched to a 5-2 career postseason record with a 2.40

ERA (56.1 IP – 15 ER) in 13 games (six starts).

A native of Bellevue, Wash., Lincecum made 15 starts for the Giants

last season, going 7-4 with a 4.13 ERA (76.1 IP – 35 ER). He exited his

final start on June 27 vs. Colorado after taking a line drive o� his right

elbow and was diagnosed with a right forearm contusion. It marked

the first disabled list stint of his career. In July, he was diagnosed with

a degenerative condition in both hips and underwent season-ending

surgery on his left hip on Sept. 3.

Since 1958 when the Giants moved to San Francisco, Lincecum ranks

second in franchise history with 1704 strikeouts and ranks third with

108 wins. He is also one of 28 players since 1913 to throw multiple

no-hitters, having done so on July 13, 2013 at San Diego and June 25,

2014 vs. San Diego. His 36 games with 10+ strikeouts are the most in

SF Giants franchise history and his 265 strikeouts in 2008 are a Giants

single season record in the San Francisco era.

Lincecum was originally drafted in the first round (10th overall) in

the 2006 First-Year Player Draft by San Francisco out of the University

of Washington where he was the 2006 Golden Spikes Award winner

as collegiate baseball’s top player. He also became the fifth quickest

Giant to reach the big leagues following the June draft (334 days).

The contract was made o¥cial on May 20.

FUN FACT: Upon making his debut, Lincecum will mark the sixth former Cy Young Award winner to join the Angels (Mike Cuellar, Zack Greinke, Jack McDowell, Bob Turley and Fernando Valenzuela).

QUOTABLE: “I’ve always had curiosity about the Angels just because as a kid they were in my sights. It was hard not to take a look at that, especially given the opportunity that was presented to me,” said Lincecum.

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HIGH SCHOOL BALLANY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PROGRAM CAN ULTIMATELY PRODUCE A BIG LEAGUER.

ANDREW HEANEY

Putnam High School (Oklahoma City, OK) FELLOW BIG LEAGUERS:

Lou Kretlow, Lee Lacy, Joey Nation, Darrell Osteen, Jeff Salazar (pictured)

and Bob Shirley.

JOHNNY GIAVOTELLA

Jesuit High School (New Orleans, LA)FELLOW BIG LEAGUERS:

Ryan Adams, Marv Breeding, Putsy Caballero, Will Clark (pictured), Fats Dantonio, Jim Gaudet, Charlie Gilbert, Larry Gilbert, Tookie Gilbert, Connie Ryan and Rusty Staub.

C.J. WILSON

Fountain Valley High School (Fountain Valley, CA) FELLOW BIG LEAGUERS:

Blake Davis, Luke Hudson, Casey Janssen (pictured) and Chris Tillman.

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CAPE COD LEAGUE

PLAYER TEAM YEAR(S)

A.J. Achter Cotuit Kettleers 2010

Jett Bandy Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox 2010

C.J. Cron Cotuit Kettleers 2010 Johnny Giavotella Harwich Mariners 2006-07

Andrew Heaney Falmouth Commodores 2011

Mike Morin Bourne Braves 2010-11

Cliff Pennington Falmouth Commodores 2004

Garrett Richards Bourne Braves 2007

Nick Tropeano Cotuit Kettleers 2010

DATING BACK TO 1885, THE CAPE COD LEAGUE (CCL) IS ONE OF THE PREMIER AMATEUR BASEBALL LEAGUES IN THE NATION.

THE CAPE LEAGUE EMBARKS ON ITS SEASON IN JUNE AND FEATURES A 44-GAME REGULAR-SEASON SCHEDULE LEADING TO THE POSTSEASON MADE UP OF BEST-OF-THREE QUARTERFINAL, SEMIFINAL AND CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES.

The following Angels have experience in the CCL:

CLIFF PENNINGTON

C.J. CRON

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EVERY GAME M TTERSGAMGAMGAMGAMMM TT TT

After graduating from Simi Valley High School,

Jered Weaver headed south to Long Beach

State University.

Of course he ultimately continued to head south

to Anaheim — when the Angels selected him in

the first-round of the 2004 First-Year Player draft

and he made his debut with the big club in ‘06

— but not before establishing himself as one of

college baseball’s best players.

At Long Beach from 2002-04, Weaver went

37-9. He also won seven di�erent national player

of the year awards in a magical 2004 season, one

of the best ever for any collegiate pitcher.

That year Weaver led the nation in wins (15)

and strikeouts (213). He finished the season with a

1.62 ERA and a 15-1 record over 144 innings. He set

the Long Beach State and Big West career records

in both wins and strikeouts while also topping the

Dirtbags record books in innings pitched (370),

starts (55) and consecutive wins (14).

Weaver was also named a first-team All-

American in both of those years, becoming

Long Beach State’s first two-time first-team All-

American; he is one of five All-Stars to play at

Long Beach (Evan Longoria, Jason Giambi, Steve

Traschel and Troy Tulowitzki); and in 2011 he was

honored at the Long Beach State Hall of Fame

Induction Ceremony.

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THETHETHE JUNIOR JUNIOR JUNIOR RRREPOREPOREPORTTTERERER

SCOTT — THE ANGEL MAGAZINE ‘JUNIOR REPORTER’ — SAT DOWN WITH ANGELS

CATCHER CARLOS PEREZ AND ASKED A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS.

SCOTT THE ANGEL MAGAZINE ‘JUNE ‘JUNE IOR

The Angels Team Store is the official clothier of the Junior Reporter

CARLOS PEREZJUNIOR REPORTER: How old were you when you got your first cell phone? CARLOS PEREZ: I was 14 years old.

JUNIOR REPORTER: Were you nervous before your first big league game? CARLOS PEREZ: A little bit. There were some nerves there definitely.

It was the same way in the minor leagues too.

JUNIOR REPORTER: Where is your favorite vacation spot? CARLOS PEREZ: Venezuela. That is where I am from so when I am there

it is with family so it is a great time.

JUNIOR REPORTER: What is the worst injury you have ever had? CARLOS PEREZ: No injuries yet for me. I am very thankful for that.

JUNIOR REPORTER: Would you ever switch teams? CARLOS PEREZ: I have been with di�erent teams. I started with the

Toronto Blue Jays and then got traded to Houston and then here with

the Angels.

JUNIOR REPORTER: If you were to show up to a baseball game and wear something embarrassing, what would you choose?CARLOS PEREZ: I would choose some sort of full mascot costume

I think.

JUNIOR REPORTER: When is the last time you went down a slide at the playground? CARLOS PEREZ: To be honest it wasn’t that long ago.

JUNIOR REPORTER: Are you scared to get struck by lightning?CARLOS PEREZ: Absolutely. That would scare me for sure.

JUNIOR REPORTER: Why do they call it a dugout?CARLOS PEREZ: I don’t know. That is a good question.

JUNIOR REPORTER: What is your favorite holiday?CARLOS PEREZ: Christmas.

JUNIOR REPORTER: How badly do you want a six-pack/abs?CARLOS PEREZ: I would like that. For sure. I want to look good too.

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THE KID IN MENot everyone can say that they lit the Angel Halo up after a win,

but I was lucky enough to participate in this great event after a recent

home victory for my latest Kid In Me story.

Before I did this, though, I was a little nervous and excited at the

same time. The final score was 6-1 Angels over the Royals, with the

game highlights being home runs by Mike Trout and Albert Pujols —

who hit two homers.

During the ninth inning, my Dad and I walked over to the right

field area outside the stadium to meet a number of sta� members

who were ready to show me what to do. When you walk inside the

team o¥ces you can see that they connect to the rest of the stadium.

We walked a little ways down a hallway and entered a door that

was labeled SECURITY in red. We walked in and met a very friendly

group of people.

In the room there were many security cameras and large screen

televisions. One TV even showed the actual Big A that was really not

that far from us. Apparently they knew I was coming as they had a

chair ready for me with a computer in front of it. On the computer

screen was the Angels logo and many di�erent buttons you could

click. Before entering the room I thought it would be a big red button,

like in the cartoons.

They showed me where to direct the mouse and said it would be

real easy to do. They placed the mouse over a button titled V2 Home

Win which means Version 2 for a Home Win. There was a TV nearby

with the game playing so I could watch too. I had to wait until the last

out as Joe Smith was pitching. When the last out happened, I clicked

the mouse and instantly the Halo lit up. I knew that it worked because

I could see it by way of an outside camera.

At that point, my job for the night was over. Everyone — including

me — cheered when we saw the Halo lit up. We asked a few more

questions and took some photos and were soon on our way home.

I wanted to know how it worked when the team won a game on the

road. The button to press then is called Version 1 for a Road Win.

I also asked if they ever forget to hit the button or are late hitting

the button.

I also learned that the sign can light up di�erent colors. On this night

the Halo had a design of stars and the Angels Win logo on it. On the

Fourth of July they said they do red, white and blue lights. They can

also do di�erent colors like orange for when the Ducks hockey team

wins a big game.

When we walked out of the o¥ces, we were back outside and the

first thing I could see was the Halo all lit up. Thinking back, I realized

that I was a little nervous about hitting a button really fast because

if the mouse slid and hit another button, that would be bad. On the

way to the freeway, I liked to look back at the Halo because that was

probably the last — and only time — I will get to do this.

Overall, I would totally do it again and suggest if anyone gets the

opportunity, they take it. The Angels sta� was very nice to let me do

it and I thank them.

The Angels Team Store is the o¥cial clothier of the Kid In Me

LIGHT THAT BABY UP!BY SYDNEE-ANNE

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THE YOUTH ZONEGEAR FOR THE BASEBALL YEAR

Gear up for the Angels’ Baseball season with brand new Angels jerseys and other official memorabilia at Angels Team Store.Angels Team Store at Angel Stadium features the widest selection of Angels merchandise and is open to the public Monday

through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For more information, call 714-940-2618.

The Angels – and the Angels Team Store at Angel Stadium – proudly o�er a wide-range of popular merchandise for baseball fans of all ages, and Angel Magazine this season presents a discount on select items specifically geared toward our club’s younger fans.

In this issue, two hats, one jersey and one t-shirt are featured.

Fans are encouraged to bring a copy of this magazine to the store to receive a 20 percent discount on these particular items. In addition, fans are encouraged to read the magazine throughout the season to see all the featured/discounted items.

Angel Magazine: The Angels Team Store is the o�cial clothiers of The Kid In Me and The Junior Reporter.

New Era

Jr. Team Bucket

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New Era

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Stopping by the Angels Team Store is a must when visiting Angel Stadium. The Angels Team Store carries a variety Angels hats and gear and the the range of items can satisfy the newest Angels fan to the most die-hard Angels merchandise collectors.

Make sure to stop by the Angels Team Store on the way to your seat to pick up a hat or a jersey, and stop back by before the 7th inning stretch to make sure that you have a Rally Monkey ready to cheer on the Angels at the end of the game!

The Angels Team Store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

NEW – New Era has a new, fresh take on their in-stadium store concept at Angel Stadium, bringing to life a one of a kind retail experience for Angels fans. Innovative materials, colors and polished aesthetics highlight the new shop, echoing a premium lifestyle mix of sport, fashion and culture geared towards fans, both old and new. The contemporary shop features New Era’s “This is the Cap” Baseball campaign, imagery of New Era and the Angels’ collaborative history fusing the New Era brand with hometown comradery, and New Era mens, womens and kids headwear, apparel and accessories. The new store is located at Gate 1, Section 107.

GRAB YOUR COPY OF ANGEL MAGAZINE FROM THE ANGELS TEAM STORE. THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE PRODUCED EACH SEASON WITH YOU – THE ANGELS FAN – IN MIND

ISSUE 1(APRIL)

ISSUE 2(MAY)

ISSUE 3(YEARBOOK EDITION –

JUNE/JULY)

SPRING TRAINING(TEMPE, AZ)

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