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Thursday, January 25, 2007

I AM BACK, I THINK
Hello.

As you may have noticed, I haven't been entirely active here lately. The basic reason is that nothing has happened in the last month, so I haven't had anything on which to opine.

In past offseasons, I've actually had plans and done series of things during the winter, but this time I came in flying blind, so when nothing happened, I had nothing to say. And when you get in the habit of not-posting, that begets more and more not-posting, and momentum just takes you away from everything.

Well, pitchers and catchers report back in just a few weeks, so I might as well report back, too.

There have only been a couple of Angel-related items in the last month -- one, that Dallas McPherson may miss the whole year due to injury, and two, that Darin Erstad has signed with the Chicago White Sox.

Neither of these stories have much impact on the Angels; McPherson's back problems were already such that it never occurred to me that he would be a key part of the club this year, and The Punter's departure was even more expected.

But I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that I'm back; I should hopefully have some items of interest up next week. I want to look at Gary Matthews Jr.'s breakthrough/fluke 2006 and see how repeatable it might be, so that will hopefully transpire. I also want to look at Mike Scioscia's sacrifice bunts called in 2006, and see how they either helped or hurt the team's chances of winning.

I don't know what, if anything, I'll conclude about those two things, but hopefully I'll do so next week.

As for the end of this post, I will leave you, for old times' sake, with this link to Darin Erstad's final groundouts to second base in his Angel career, courtesy Baseball-Reference's shockingly awesome Play Index.

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