Best bullpen in the Show

The first month of the season the Angel relievers were known as the "blow-pen" of baseball. Ernesto Frieri was a rocky one-pitch closer, Joe Smith was an unknown name to Halo fans, Salas never got comfortable and home product Kevin Jepsen has had had one good season in six big league seasons. No lead was safe.

However since June 25th, the Angels bullpen has an ERA of 1.64. Frieri was traded for Pirates' Jason Grilli, who would take on the non-pressure 6th inning role. 1.50 ERA in 12 innings. Kevin Jepsen has a sub-2 ERA in 46 innings and has not given up a run in his last 13 innings while hitters are batting .073. He's got the 7th inning. Joe Smith has given up just five hits and no runs in his last 16 innings. While I like him as the closer, I love him in the 8th inning. The caboose of the reliever train is the newest Angel, Houston Street, who.. (go ahead and guess) has not given up a run in his 6 innings in red. Wow what a surprise! A closer with a .093 ERA is worth three top minor leaguers when your in the race. This is especially true when Roth, Rasmus, and Morin all have sub-3 ERA's while Santiago continues to improve as an inning eater (especially during all these extra inning extravaganzas).

Grili 6, Jepsen 7, Smith 8, Street 9...game over.

Halo role players continue to play well. David Freese's bat has seem to come alive and Skaggs, Richards, and Shoemaker have continued to impress. The "stars" of the team need to become reliable as we get closer to October. Whether its competing with Oakland in the division, or facing Detroit or Baltimore in the playoffs, guys like Weaver, Wilson, Pujols (currently hitting alright), Trout, and Hamilton have to be guys who step up in the spotlight. This being the best record in team history to this point, its starting to have the feeling of a memorable year. These names can complete the best all around team in baseball.

Let's go get those A's!

Go Halos.