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Angels nearing multiyear deal with Luis Valbuena

John Smith

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2 hours ago, totdprods said:

You can add Pennington to that list too. And it frees up Cron and Marte a bit more in trade discussions. Valbuena could just as easily remain a bench bat next year. He also could be trade bait. This is all about depth and giving Eppler dozens of more possibilities with which to handle deals throughout the season. 

 

You're correct about depth ... with the emphasis on winning now.

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Fletcher reporting the deal is complete - 2/$15m with a mutual option. A little more expensive than I thought but nothing outrageous.

For luxury tax purposes, I think this puts us around $182.5m; $195m is the threshold. Should be our highest opening day payroll ever, and by a decent margin.

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21 minutes ago, totdprods said:

....For luxury tax purposes, I think this puts us around $182.5m; $195m is the threshold. Should be our highest opening day payroll ever, and by a decent margin.....

I'd like to get some more pitching but if Wieters could be had on a one or two year deal, pretty hard to say no.....

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9 minutes ago, DMVol said:

I'd like to get some more pitching but if Wieters could be had on a one or two year deal, pretty hard to say no.....

So much of our payroll is tied up in one-year commitments at this point, I can see us going right up to and possibly even over the tax threshold before the year starts. We did last year when we brought in Chacin and Lincecum.

Wieters (say $11m) and a cheap arm or two (no more than a couple mil) points us just marginally over the threshold. 

More than likely we wind up clearing up some of that salary by midseason anyways to get back under.

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GM Billy Eppler said Valbuena will play mostly 1B. If Pujols is healthy, that will presumably create a competition with Cron

 

Eppler: "We have some roster flexibility. We could potentially have a surplus."

My 2 cents: Angels aren't looking to trade anyone, but now have flexibility to listen on Cron/Marte/Escobar over next 12 months.

 

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