The Angels released Jose earlier today (just after I sent out my previous
email to the list), leaving him teamless with 5 days remaining until
opening day.

I'll let you know as soon as I get more information. And no, I have no
idea where Jose will end up. I just hope it's somewhere where he can put
up decent numbers and make the Angels regret the huge mistake they just made.

-Mark

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From the Angels Official Site:
3/28/2001 12:09 pm ET
Angels dump Canseco, get Hill
By Tom Singer
AngelsBaseball.com

TEMPE, Ariz. - Conceding their first dip into the New York Yankees'
overflowing player pool to be a flop, the Angels this morning returned to
the well.

Anaheim released veteran Jose Canseco, signed after he had withered on the
Yankees’ bench during the 2000 World Series.

At the same time, the Angels acquired bench-hitter deluxe Glenallen Hill
from the Yankees in exchange for minor-league outfielder Darren Blakely.

Both moves were announced this morning by Angels General Manager Bill
Stoneman.

The development is a jarring experience for the 36-year-old Canseco, who
has 446 homers across a transient 15-year career during which he has played
for seven teams, been traded four times, moved as a free agent four other
times, and been waived once.

But this is the first time he has drawn an outright release.

It wasn't working out with the Angels, who had signed him to a minimal
$200,000 contract on January 16 with hopes he could provide them with a
full-time DH.

Slowed by various nagging injuries, Canseco went 9-for-39 (.231) in 13
exhibition games, with three RBIs and no home runs. He was scratched from
lineups three times due to different ailments: hamstring, stiff lower back,
nerve irritation in the neck.

Angels Manager Mike Scioscia, who has consistently expressed concern over
the long-term prospects of Canseco being able to remain in the lineup, now
has a more durable bat in that of Hill.

Hill, 35, is still a capable outfielder, but is better suited to the DH
role. He played a pivotal late-season part in the Yankees' drive to the
2000 American League East title, batting .333 with 16 homers and 29 RBIs in
40 games after being acquired in a July 21 deal from the Chicago Cubs.

For the entire season, Hill hit a solid .293 with 27 homers and 58 RBIs.

This spring, Hill is carrying an average of only .190 in 19 Grapefruit
League games, but three of his eight hits have been homers.

He may be most notorious as arguably the Majors' most dangerous
pinch-hitter. A career .300-plus hitter off the bench, Glenallen ranks
second among active players with 14 pinch-homers (Pittsburgh's John Vander
Wal leads with 16).

The Angels will be the eighth Major League team of the well-traveled Hill's
12-year career.

Blakely, 24, is a native of New York state who batted .237, with 16 homers
and 54 RBIs, in 122 games with Class-A Erie last season. Since being a
5th-round draft choice in 1998, he has hit a cumulative .252 in the Angels'
system, with 33 homers, 150 RBIs and 45 stolen bases. Blakely also has
struck out 364 times in 1,126 at-bats.