We are still three weeks from games that count, but it doesn’t seem hard to envision what the Angels’ lineup might look like on opening day.
Monday’s exhibition featured what looked like the potential starting nine, though tweaked slightly when Tommy La Stella was scratched with back stiffness, replaced atop the batting order and at second base by Luis Rengifo. But the meat of it had an increasingly familiar look.
Mike Trout batted second in all 133 starts last year, so his batting second isn’t really news. But a heart of the order that has Trout, Anthony Rendon, and Shohei Ohtani two through four is as enticing as it gets.