The outfielder has not started any of the four games in Houston, so should he should be back in Triple-A to play every day? Manager Phil Nevin says Moniak still has a role.
Mickey Moniak rose to become a revelation at the top of the Angels lineupMoniak was on the bench for all four games this weekend in Houston, which is simply because Taylor Ward has gotten hot. Ward was 9 for 22 with two homers in the five games leading into Sunday.
The question, then, is whether the Angels should keep Moniak sitting on the bench in the majors, or send him to Triple-A to play every day. “I think he’s too valuable to us right now,” Nevin said before Sunday’s game. “He’s still in a good place. He’s gonna be in a game here soon. There’s some scenarios coming up where he has a chance where he could play a couple.”
Moniak is hitting .327 with a 1.034 OPS and four homers in 14 games. Ward is hitting .240 with a .665 OPS and six homers, but the Angels are expecting him to perform more like last year when he had an .833 OPS. Moniak’s career OPS coming into this season was .486.Infielder David Fletcher is hitting .336 with a .787 OPS in 34 games at Triple-A. The Angels surprisingly sent him down in April, trying to get him back to being as productive as he was in his first few years in the majors.
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