Did Joe Madden Help the Angels?

There are good arguments that joe madden has maybe been exposed as a suppar manager. He broached the idea of moving mike trout init corner to the media before mentioning it to mike trout, who was not thrilled about the idea. And then there was, of course, the basis loaded intentional walk. I te we might talk about another odd intentional walk in this episode. But i don't want to make too much of a spring training musing about player usage. It's like you start doing the mental matho,. how much better you have to be over the remainder of your schedule? Yet they seem to have found their level again.