Speier, Anderson

According to the LA Times, Justin Speier threw a bit on Friday and will throw again tomorrow. He will then be re-evaluated on Tuesday. He has been out since April 30th with the feared "flu-like symptoms", and has been missed very much. How does a guy miss an entire month with flu-like symptoms? If he misses much more time, I'm going to start thinking he's actually got a full-blown case of mono, just like our good buddy Kotchman. Let's hope not.

The Angels also have a left fielder named Garret Anderson. He hasn't played in a long time, and it's kind of hard to remember he was ever out in left ever since Reggie Willits came along. GA is supposed to return sometime in the next week and take over the DH job, which I assume means that Shea will be knocked out of the lineup, rather than be moved to LF and kick Reggie out, but you just never know with Scioscia. That was kind of a long sentence.