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Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe moves past rough start to week

April 25, 2026

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Logan O’Hoppe admitted that he wasn’t in a good place earlier this week.

Padres star reliever Mason Miller made him look bad striking out on three sliders on Sunday, and then Toronto Blue Jays ace Dylan Cease struck him out twice on his way to a four-strikeout game on Monday.

“I was really frustrated,” O’Hoppe said on Saturday. “But I know that’s part of the season. I know you’re going to through days when you’re frustrated and you’re going to go through days where you feel like the world is ending and there’s days where you feel you’re on top of it. It’s very much a three-day little lull instead of a week or a month where I’m down, so I feel good. The work’s been really good. I’m feeling good on the field, which is nice.”

O’Hoppe had two hits on Wednesday and a hit and a walk on Friday. All three of the hits were to the opposite field, which is a good sign that O’Hoppe isn’t getting too pull conscious.

Throughout the first month of the season, he’s drawn more walks. His walk rate is 12%, which is better than the major league average and much better than last year’s 5% rate.

O’Hoppe credited hitting coach Brady Anderson.

“Brady’s helped me with staying relaxed in the box,” O’Hoppe said. “Seeing the ball and not having the count dictate any emotional attachment to it. It’s really helped.”

O’Hoppe’s strikeout rate, even with the bad games earlier in the week, is still down from 31% to 24%.

For the season, O’Hoppe is still not where he or the Angels expect him to be. O’Hoppe is hitting .213 with a .600 OPS. While the walks have helped increase his on-base percentage, his slugging percentage has gone down. He has just two extra base hits, a homer and a double.

O’Hoppe has continued to be in the lineup at a high rate. He was the starting catcher for the 23rd time in the Angels’ first 28 games on Saturday.

Playing so much, he said, has helped him mentally. When he was slumping last year, he said he often had to sit and think about his rough at-bats during his off days.

“Mentally, knowing that you’re going to have tomorrow to make the adjustments you need to make, and to stay in the flow of things, it helps,” O’Hoppe said.

LEARNING

As Kurt Suzuki goes through his first time managing, there will be mistakes. A day after he admitted a miscalculation in the way he used Yoán Moncada to pinch-hit, Suzuki said that, just like when he was a player, he’s learning.

“Whether you’re in your first year or your 10th year, I feel like I was always going after the postgame evaluating things and saying ‘I should have done this,’” Suzuki said.

He then quoted bench coach John Gibbons, a veteran big league manager.

“He said sometimes you’re going to make the right move and it backfires and sometimes you’re going to make the wrong move that makes you look like a genius,” Suzuki said. “You just gotta take it day by day.”

The issue came up after Suzuki put Moncada up to pinch-hit for Oswald Peraza on Friday night. Suzuki admitted after the game that he didn’t think left-hander Daniel Lynch IV had been throwing in the bullpen long enough to be ready. But Lynch did come in, and he struck out Moncada. Moncada is now 1 for 19 with 11 strikeouts against lefties.

“It was one of those shots where we took it, and they countered with somebody and they came out on top,” Suzuki said. “But if Moncada gets a hit then it could have been good for us. It’s just baseball right? It’s one of those things. At the same time, thinking through situations, learning from situations and moving forward.”

NOTES

Right-hander Ben Joyce (shoulder surgery) is scheduled to pitch in a game on Monday in Arizona. Joyce has faced hitters twice already, but this will take the workout up a notch. It’s still unclear how long before he’s pitching in a full-season minor league game. …

Right-hander Ryan Johnson (hamstring) is also scheduled to throw three innings on Monday in Arizona. Johnson opened the season in the big league rotation but then got sick, and subsequently tweaked his hamstring. …

Right-handers Alek Manoah (finger contusion) and Grayson Rodriguez (shoulder inflammation) will both pitch again in Arizona in the coming days. Manoah has gotten up to four innings and Rodriguez is up to three in their workouts so far. …

Right-hander Caden Dana came out of his start on Friday at Triple-A because he wasn’t feeling well, Suzuki said. Dana was charged with five runs in one inning. …

Right-hander Kirby Yates (knee inflammation) was scheduled to make his second rehab outing at Triple-A on Saturday night, and his third overall. Yates’ velocity in his previous outing was down about 2 mph from what he was throwing in his final outing of spring training.

UP NEXT

Angels (LHP Reid Detmers, 1-2, 4.08) at Royals (RHP Seth Lugo, 1-1, 1.15), Sunday, 4:20 p.m. PT, Peacock, 830 AM

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