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  • Figgins Has Plenty of Good Leads

    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | July 26, 2005
    As Chone Figgins has learned this season, it takes more than a thief -- and more than speed and a good jump -- to steal bases. While studying tapes last winter, Figgins and his buddy Juan Pierre, the Florida Marlins' speedy leadoff man, noticed a trend in their unsuccessful stolen-base attempts.
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  • POSITION OF INFLUENCE

    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | March 26, 2005
    Way down the list of vote-getters for the 2004 American League most-valuable-player award, far behind superstars Vladimir Guerrero, Gary Sheffield, Manny Ramirez, Miguel Tejada and Alex Rodriguez, in 29th place to be exact, was Chone Figgins.

  • Playoff Experience Useful for Figgins

    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | October 1, 2005
    Chone Figgins is the first to admit he experienced a bad case of playoff jitters last October, when he made several costly fielding mistakes, a baserunning gaffe and went two for 14 with five strikeouts, as the Boston Red Sox swept a three-game American League division series from the Angels.

  • NOW YOU KNOW

    Sports | September 13, 2005

  • Figgins Doesn't Get Down

    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | September 17, 2005
    After Chone Figgins missed Chris Shelton's third-inning popup for an error that cost the Angels a run, and misplayed Curtis Granderson's fourth-inning drive off the wall, turning what should have been a double into a three-run, inside-the-park home run, a derisive cheer rumbled through Angel Stadium when Figgins caught Brandon Inge's routine fly ball to center to open the fifth inning Thursday night.

  • Figgins Discovers a New Role

    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | May 4, 2005
    As a super utility player, Chone Figgins carries four gloves -- one for second base, one for shortstop, one for third base and one for the outfield -- and he also has to be handy with a catcher's mitt; until Bengie Molina returns from the disabled list, Figgins is the Angels' emergency catcher.
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  • Chone Figgins has been great catch for Angels
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | June 2, 2009
    Chone Figgins led off the first inning of a recent game against the Chicago White Sox with a wicked liner to first baseman Paul Konerko for an out. Earlier in his career, maybe even earlier this season, Figgins would have tinkered with his swing in his next at-bat or two, thinking he had to do something different to get a hit, but that thought never crossed his mind last week.
  • Chone Figgins learns that is not an easy steal
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | August 13, 2008
    Chone Figgins has been getting on base at a .376 clip, the fifth-best percentage among major league leadoff men, but the Angels speedster has not been stealing bases at his usual pace.
  • Chone Figgins' single complete sweep on Yankees.
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | August 11, 2008
    The Angels capped a rare sweep of the New York Yankees in dramatic fashion today, Chone Figgins grounding a run-scoring single to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 4-3 victory, the Angels' seventh walk-off win of the season.
  • Chone Figgins may be headed back to Angels' disabled list
    Sports | Bill Shaikin | May 27, 2008
    The Angels took Chone Figgins off the disabled list six days ago, but they might have to put him back on it. Figgins played one game before aggravating his right hamstring injury, and he has not played in the five games since.
  • Chone Figgins comes off DL, but Erick Aybar goes on it
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | May 22, 2008
    TORONTO--The Angels gained one infielder and lost another today when third baseman Chone Figgins was activated off the disabled list and shortstop Erick Aybar was placed on it.
  • Figgins' absence takes toll on Angels
    Sports | Helene Elliott | May 17, 2008
    As lethal a bat as Howie Kendrick wields -- the second baseman was hitting .500 when he suffered a left hamstring strain on April 13 -- the Angels weathered his loss well, going 18-11 in April.
  • Ending is some catch for Angels' Figgins
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | April 15, 2008
    ARLINGTON, Texas -- Manager Mike Scioscia, ejected for arguing umpire Joe West's third-strike call on Vladimir Guerrero in the eighth inning Monday night, did not see the last out of the Angels' 7-4 victory over the Texas Rangers in person.
  • Hitting approach pays off for Angels' Figgins
    Sports | Mike Digiovanna | April 13, 2008
    SEATTLE -- It's a fine line between being too aggressive and too selective at the plate, and Chone Figgins is walking it with the ease of a Sunday stroll through the park.
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