ANAHEIM — You can easily pick apart Caden Dana’s performance in the Angels’ 12-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Monday night to see where he is in his big league development.
At times Dana flashed flashed the kind of swing-and-miss stuff that gives the Angels reason to believe the 21-year-old will be part of the solution to their pitching problems.
At times he showed the lack of command that is why he still has plenty of work to do.
Dana gave up five runs in 4⅔ innings in his second start of the season, a disappointment after his encouraging outing last week. He gave up two runs in five innings against the Kansas City Royals.
Dana has a 6.32 ERA though four major league games this season, including two starts.
The positive was that he struck out nine. The Twins whiffed on 42% of their