This isn’t to say that there aren’t concerns, but one bad month does not a season make, just as one good April didn’t mean you should have started saving up for playoff tickets. There definite areas of concern, but there are also definite areas of improvement. Before throwing your hands up, let’s take a few beats and consider what the Angels have done, and where that leaves them.
First off, the starting pitching’s come around in a big fat way. In 167 May innings, the starting rotation posted a spectacular 2.86 ERA. Despite the bad start on Thursday, Andrew Heaney still posted a 2.