The Entire International Pool Money Guy

[Docwaukee]

around .380/.860 over his past 15 games.  He was striking out at a frenetic pace but just 8 times in his last 65 pa.  Also, no errors over that time.  

 

I'm gonna give him a pass for this year.  I could see him getting to AA next year if he keeps it going as he has but he's probably got a lot longer to go than we might have hoped.  My guess is that if we see him in the bigs it won't be till 2017/18.  

[Second Base]

He's such a unique case that I can't really wrap my head around it all. He left Cuba, but didn't defect, but his family was able to leave with him, but no one will say a word about how that happened. The Angels signed him for a huge sum of money despite other teams not showing much interest. There seems to be some upside, but even in Cuba his numbers weren't great.

Anyway, the Angels have said both privately and publicly that this year is more about him getting settled in and comfortable with playing baseball here.

If the numbers are any reflection, I suppose Roberto is beginning to feel comfortable with his new life both on and off the field.

[wopphil]

He has destroyed the baseball the last two weeks, and us still pretty young for the Cal League. Hopefully he keeps this up.

[Glen]

BA up to .246 now.

[m0nkey]

Bring him up

[Tyler]

.307 SLG %

[bloodbrother]

In the California League....and he rarely draws any walks

[UndertheHalo]

Disappointing, we've been so bad at this.

[jsnpritchett]

Disappointing, we've been so bad at this.

He's still young, so maybe he'll turn it around--but you do have to wonder what the Angels saw in this guy that literally no one else did. He wasn't even good in the Cuban league.

[bloodbrother]

Not only that but they go over their international spending limit on the guy.....then just don't bother to try to add more international talent afterwards for whatever reason. Now they're penalized over these next 2 years from spending much of anything on international talent and will have no chance at signing any of the highest rated international prospects

 

This team has been incredibly poor in this area for years for whatever reason. They just haven't had any sort of presence in the international market for years now.

Edited August 16, 2015 by bloodbrother

[Docwaukee]

They don't sign people they don't scout.

They should have 10x the scouting budget. I had heard the halos have one of the smallest in baseball. I don't get it, but at this point it's just another whatever in regards to this franchise.

[Hollyw00d]

This dude sucks. .560 ops in the cal league

[Angel Oracle]

Flop!

[Blarg]

He was your kind of guy, AO. Some over paid foreign presence that never experienced baseball in the US.

[Angel Oracle]

All I know is, other teams seem to find good players from that neck of the woods.

The most recent we've found were Aybar and Morales, a decade back.

 

If Arte is going to maximize his chances at success, he's going to have to swallow his pride some and deal with the downside that can come from scouting down there.   

Edited September 14, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Stradling]

All I know is, other teams seem to find good players from that neck of the woods.

The most recent we've found were Aybar and Morales, a decade back.

If Arte is going to maximize his chances at success, he's going to have to swallow his pride some and deal with the downside that can come from scouting down there.

Being ok with blackmail and human trafficking equals swallowing his pride

[Angel Oracle]

Just like others say to prove something, do you have proof that every Latin American player is affected by blackmail and trafficking?

[Stradling]

Just like others say to prove something, do you have proof that every Latin American player is affected by blackmail and trafficking?

Of course not everybody is affected by blackmail and trafficking, but instead of going to your usual, "Arte is the devil and everything he does is wrong" give me a logical reason why he would stop operating down there. If the story comes out and it says we didn't like how business was done down there, isn't that enough? Or do you have to automatically go to the blame game?

[Hollyw00d]

Asians kill dolphins and whales, does that mean we should boycott their talent pool?

[Pujols4MVP]

Asians kill dolphins and whales, does that mean we should boycott their talent pool?

In south korea they still allow people to eat dogs & cat