We got him! Ohtani selects the Angels

[Fish Oil]

Hahaaaaaa, now we need to trade for Stanton.

 

[Angel Oracle]

23 minutes ago, Blarg said:

It feels like the Angels are actually a professional baseball franchise again. 

Rebuilding the MLB team - check

Rebuilding the farm - check

Rebuilding Latin American base - check

Starting a legacy of Asian talent here - check

In Epp We Trust! 

LOL at Dipussy, who traded his 2nd and 5th best prospects, and essentially ends up with a rock (Gordon out of position and no Ohtani) like Charlie Brown at Halloween.   Don't think too hard, Dipussy, it will hurt your medulla.

[zenmaster]

I'd love to be in the meeting with Dipoto and the mariners discussing this.

[ronaldcm]

Living up here in Seattle is awesome today, they are all hating and butt hurt, lmao

[Angel Oracle]

12 minutes ago, greginpsca said:

This is going to make the Winter Meetings interesting. Maybe Cron traded for relief pitcher, sign Moustakas Nunez and Cozart ++

 

FIFY

Might as well get two players for Moose's anticipated salary.  Valbuena is best served backing up 3B, 1B, and DH.

[stevestevens]

AO, 

Any nicknames for Ohtani yet? 

[Taylor]

25 minutes ago, Turd Ferguson said:

It is a bummer that our entire international bonus pool is gone now.

Worst post of the thread.

[Mile High Dreams]

Hell of a week for Mike Trout,

Eagles in Town practicing in Angels Stadium

Getting Married Saturday

Angels Sign Ohtani

[Angel Oracle]

2 minutes ago, stevestevens said:

AO, 

Any nicknames for Ohtani yet? 

Off the top of my head, and in tribute to Dick Enberg....MyOhMytani

[zenmaster]

2 minutes ago, stevestevens said:

AO, 

Any nicknames for Ohtani yet? 

His first hitless game: OforTani

[Angel Oracle]

4 minutes ago, ronaldcm said:

Living up here in Seattle is awesome today, they are all hating and butt hurt, lmao

Rams need to finish that job in 9 days, with a long awaited NFC West title.

[Turd Ferguson]

10 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Worst post of the thread.

[Taylor]

Just now, Turd Ferguson said:

Dangit! I should have known.

[ettin]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

See you dudes at the press conference 

Wait?!?

The Mike Minor press conference, the Mike Fiers press conference, or the Ohtani press conference?

Edited December 8, 2017 by ettin

[IEAngelsfan]

37 minutes ago, zenmaster said:

Omfg I said I’d eat my shoe in a live stream if we signed him 

I hope for your sake, you haven't stepped in dog poop lately.

Btw, yippee on signing Ohtani!

[jordan]

Now Dipoto has a $38 mil CF who’s never played the position, and $3.5 mil Ohtani Bucks that are set to expire.  LOL

[bloodbrother]

 

[totdprods]

 

Ken Rosenthal

 

@Ken_Rosenthal

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Agent (not from CAA) on Ohtani signing: “Eppler made this happen. 100% all him. He has been on Ohtani since he was in HS and I will bet he absolutely crushed the presentation. This is a credit to him.” Eppler visited Japan while with NYY and after becoming LAA GM in Oct. 2015.

[Blarg]

1 minute ago, NotMyCat said:

Not a total loss for the Mariners:

 

https://twitter.com/lextresabogados/status/939230908800032768

 

Maybe they can make "We Got Morin!" T-shirts.

Seattle fans are printing up "We got Moron!" t-shirts with Sham Wow Dipoto's smiling mug.

[Blarg]

5 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

 

Awesome that Vlad follows the Angels. Tragic Jery locked us out of signing his son.

[ukyah]

today is a great day to be an angel.

[greginpsca]

24 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Rebuilding the MLB team - check

Rebuilding the farm - check

Rebuilding Latin American base - check

Starting a legacy of Asian talent here - check

In Epp We Trust! 

LOL at Dipussy, who traded his 2nd and 5th best prospects, and essentially ends up with a rock (Gordon out of position and no Ohtani) like Charlie Brown at Halloween.   Don't think too hard, Dipussy, it will hurt your medulla.

The thing i like the most is that Eppy is getting high OBP guys that are also good defenders. Not one dimensional players.

[Chuck]

7 minutes ago, totdprods said:

 

Ken Rosenthal

 

@Ken_Rosenthal

·

Agent (not from CAA) on Ohtani signing: “Eppler made this happen. 100% all him. He has been on Ohtani since he was in HS and I will bet he absolutely crushed the presentation. This is a credit to him.” Eppler visited Japan while with NYY and after becoming LAA GM in Oct. 2015.

[HaloNArizona]

Too many threads, but someone asked about his low IP last year:

 

Given that Ohtani is used to pitching only once per week and was limited to five starts by an ankle and leg injury in 2017, the Angels would seem a good candidate to pitch with a six-man rotation. (That’d also help to manage the innings of Richards, Skaggs, Heaney and Tropeano — each of whom has had elbow issues in the past two years.) For all of his merits — a career 2.52 ERA with 10.3 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 in 543 NPB innings — Ohtani has never pitched more than 160 2/3 innings in a season.

 

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

[bloodbrother]

2 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Awesome that Vlad follows the Angels. Tragic Jery locked us out of signing his son.

Yep. All so he could splooge on Baldoquin.