Washington Nationals right-hander Dan Haren is surprised that the Los Angeles Angels are off to a slow start this season.
Last year, Haren was on an Angels team that also got off to a slow start, going 15-19 after 34 games.
"You would never think it would happen two years in a row to them," Haren said. "Actually, I thought about it a lot because I have a lot of friends over there. If they would have kept the team together and rolled it over into this year, I guarantee that team would have played really good baseball. We got off to a little bit of a slow start [last year], but we really started jelling as a team throughout the year. We came a couple of games short.
"It's hard when you get into a lot of turnover. The rotation, three-fifths of it was gone. It's hard to build chemistry. It's taken [the Nationals] some time here, too. You could see it here. But luckily, we pulled it together after treading water for a while."