NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Angels always have eyes on them. Eyes behind cameras, eyes behind phones held aloft — anyone emerging from the Angels clubhouse for batting practice steps into the intense gaze. Most of the players glide by, momentarily recognized but left alone, because they are not the targets. They are not Shohei Ohtani or Mike Trout.
The other 24 Angels don't set off a flurry of clicks and flashes — except for sometimes Hunter Renfroe, Trout's serendipitous stunt double — but they will ultimately determine whether Ohtani and Trout can seize the sport's biggest spotlight,, by reaching October.
To break the pattern — and perhaps hold out any hope of retaining Ohtani in free agency — the Angels need something to be different from previous years. They need something new.This past weekend, the Angels summoned their most recent first-round pick to take over as the starting shortstop. Zach Neto, a 22-year-old chosen out of Campbell University with the No. 13 pick in July 2022, played only 44 minor-league games between college and the majors.
“I was shocked a little bit,” Neto told Yahoo Sports. “I was like, 'Is this actually real?’ Finally, when the game finished and I got to sit down in our manager's office, you know, the words couldn't describe it. I sat there, and I couldn't stop smiling.” Armed with excellent contact skills and an unconventional coiling leg kick, Neto is now trying to adjust to the big leagues on the fly. After managing just one hit in his first four games, he laced two doubles in a strong performanceWaited back on a breaking ball at the bottom of the zone to drive this to left field.
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