HANK CONGER RUMORS & GOSSIP

By Robert Cunningham - AngelsWin.com Feature Writer Major league managers, coaches, and scouts always talk about the importance of pitching depth. However, and perhaps just as importantly, catching depth is also critical to a team’s success. The Angels have created a catching corps of Chris Iannetta, Hank Conger, and Bobby Wilson to provide Mike Scioscia with options for the 2012...

Another week, another collection of the best tweets (term "best" used loosely) from LA Angels players and personnel.  This week, Torii Hunter teaches us to respect the police, prospect Jon Karcich has a great invention and Hank Conger can't hide his hate for the Kardashians. Torii Hunter never stops being a role model... I think: I don't run from the PO PO NO MO...

Trumbo, Conger set to swing for charity What: First Annual Trinity Bat Co. Home Run Challenge Who: Past and Present Big League Stars & YOU! Where: El Dorado High School Baseball Field (Placentia, CA) When: Jan. 21st, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Finals /Main Event @ 2 p.m.) Why: Benefiting the Cory Hahn Fund ANAHEIM, CA – The Angels have announced that infielder Mark Trumbo and catcher...

Another week, another collection of the best tweets (term "best" used loosely) from LA Angels players and personnel. This week, we take a look at C.J. Wilson the breakdancer, Hank Conger going "Panda Mode" and Victor Rojas being as bored by the BCS game as the rest of us were. You know how some people like to make fun C.J. Wilson because he is a "hipster...

The Angels made a some-what surprising move yesterday sending top catching prospect Hank Conger to Triple-A Salt Lake City to make room for starting pitcher Tyler Chatwood.

Hank Conger is one of the better catching prospects in baseball, and even though he’s come up and struggled a little bit- fans still shouldn’t refer to the young lefty a bust. The kid is still insanely young, and frankly…has the tools to be an outstanding two way catcher. All young catchers have to go through a serious process of learning how to call a game at the league level...

When spring training started in February for the Los Angeles Angels in Tempe, Ariz., there was essentially an open casting call for the starting catcher’s position, and three players were vying for the role: Jeff Mathis, Bobby Wilson and Hank Conger. Now, some two months later, it appears as if Conger has taken the lead role. Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Ervin Santana...

#45 Hank Conger – Los Angeles Angels C DOB: 1-29-88 ETA: 2011 Conger, the Angels’ incumbent catcher, hit .300/.385/.463 in the PCL last season and walked at nearly a 1 BB/K clip.  His judgment of the strike-zone already is regarded as the finest in the organization, and there are no real concerns about his ability to stay behind the plate in the Majors.  The switch-hitter...

HANK CONGER'S SPRING TRAINING JOURNAL WEEK ONEFebruary 20th, 2010 The first day of spring training always seems the same except for maybe some different faces. As I walked in the clubhouse, I greeted everybody and we exchanged conversations with each other about how everything has been, etc. Spring training for a catcher is usually a grind. The day usually consists...

Hank Conger pushes his average up over .300 with a solid week of playWood: 3-7, triple, 2 double, 3 RBI, BB (.316) (AAA)Patchett: 3-6, 3 singles, 2 RBI, BB (.259) (AAA)Pettit: 3-7, 3 singles, RBI, 2 K (.341) (AAA)Arredondo: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, K (2.41) (AAA)Reckling: 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K (2.69) (AA)Bourjos: 2-5, double, single (.281) (AA)Trumbo: 1-4, single (.276) (AA)Conger...