Orange County Register: Whicker: Angels get lucky again with Trout

[AngelsWin.com]

The Angels have Mike Trout through 2020. They are lucky to have him at all. In fact, they only have him through the tender mercies of their competitors. Of the 23 players selected in the 2009 draft before the Angels’ turn came up, only two have...

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[Vegas Halo Fan]

So we should send a thank you note to every other club in baseball for not drafting him?

 

Perhaps we did a good job of developing his talents.

[ukyah]

greeaaat article. yes, the angels got lucky. as did every other team who ever drafted, what would become a great player, after the first overall pick.

 

and yes, the angels are extremely lucky to have him.

[Glen]

Shut the **** up with this 'Angels are lucky' crap. It's the sourest of grapes.

[Sherlock31]

He sounds so bitter, is this guy a Yankees fan or something?

[Halos of Anaheim]

''Click here to login or subscribe and see more.''

 

Yeah, no thanks.

[arch stanton]

The Angels are lucky to have a full stable of asshats writing sports columns for their hometown newspaper.

[Chuck]

The Angels are lucky to have a full stable of asshats writing sports columns for their hometown newspaper.

Well, excluding Jeff Fletcher and Mike DiGiovanna.

I agree on Simers, Miller and Whicker.

[floplag]

WTF how is that luck on our part as much as stupidity on others?
last i checked thats how the draft works....
fishwrap writers proving once again why its now called fishwrap

[papawealey]

The organization is a lot of things. However, lucky is not one of them.

[Spencer]

Cardinals got soooo lucky we drafted Alfredo Amezaga instead of Albert Pujols

[Spirit]

Shut the **** up with this 'Angels are lucky' crap. It's the sourest of grapes.

 

Seriously! 

 

So the Yankees were lucky with Jeter?  The Dodgers were lucky with Kershaw?  The Cards were lucky when Pujols?  

 

Please!  What a ridiculous statement. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

To be fair, the angels did get lucky. They got lucky we had inside info on him, and that he was still available when it came time.

That said, like you guys already mentioned, you can say that for every team.

[Chuck]

So we were lucky to have Eddie Bane is what you're saying?

I can agree with that.

[Docwaukee]

you make your own luck.  they were diligent in their research of Mike and saw something that 29 other teams didn't.  That's not lucky.  That's preparation and hard work.  They were fortunate.  Not lucky. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

So we seduced trout and found money under his bed?

(Wasnt he still in high school when we did that? Gross)

[Brandon]

The advent of social media has created cap writing like this. Now everyone with a twitter handle tries to come up with asinine opinions or thoughts for attention and viewers and it's moved over to the journalism sector.

Granted, one could say social media changed journalism, but there is still something to opening a newspaper and reading a well thought out editorial.

[mrwicked]

it's not luck.....

todd.

 

[markb]

Placing an article of this quality behind a paywall is akin to 

 

[Hollyw00d]

He sounds so bitter, is this guy a Yankees fan or something?

 

dodger fan