Orange County Register

• Angels International Scouting Director Clay Daniel has been fired. No word on why, though Ken Rosenthal brings up the possibility — but doesn’t suggest there is any evidence — that Angels scouts may have been “skimming,” or taking a cut of signing bonuses. Former Nats GM Jim Bowden is under a federal investigation regarding the practice. Again: There’s no suggestion that is what happened, but it’s a possibility, according to Rosenthal.

• News from Left Field gives us the first 300-game winner, and also baseball’s first PED user, Pud Galvin:

But Galvin is perhaps more famous for his use of Brown-Sequard elixir, which contained testosterone drained from animal gonads, in 1889. According to an 1889 article in The New York Times, the elixir was thought to “increase the strength of the human organism, presumably in old men, not by structural change but by nutritive modification; that the alterations in muscular structure are not essentially allied to old age may disappear and a consequent recovery of old age may supervene.”

• We’re nowhere near this point yet, and I doubt we’ll get there, but if the Angels (knock on Wood) were to fall out of the race, a large contingent of free-agents-to-be would make them the ultimate seller at the trading deadline.

• Man, is Torii Hunter the best or what?

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