Your 25-man roster & offseason predictions/hopefuls...

[Chuck]

1. Trade Luis Valbuena, Parker Bridwell and Kaleb Cowart to the Reds for Eugenio Suarez. Valbuena just keeps the hot corner warm until their top prospect who is close, Senzel is ready to take over by mid-season or at the start of the 2018 season. Bridwell gives them a young cost controlled left starter. 

2. Trade David Fletcher and Joe Gatto for Tony Kemp for 2B. Lefthanded bat with speed, GREAT OBP, some pop. Minor league career: .310/.388/.419. Good defense (Can also play in the outfield).  

3. Sign Yu Darvish.   Backup plan, sign CC Sabathia. Go big in Darvish or just sign an innings eater like Sabathia.

4. Sign Wade Davis and lefty Jake McGee. Bolstering the bullpen would be huge and seems to be a staple for all successful team's that not only make the playoffs, but go deep.

5. Sign utility infielder Stephen Drew or Jose Reyes to be our backup infielder. 

Lineup (25 Man Roster)

2B Kemp (High OBP, speed) (L)

3B Suarez (High OBP, power) (R)

CF Trout (R)

LF Upton (R)

DH Ohtani (L)

1B Pujols (R)

RF Calhoun (L)

SS Simmons (R)

C  Maldonado (R)

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Rotation

Richards

Darvish or Sabathia

Ohtani

Heaney

Shoemaker

Skaggs/Tropeano/Barria

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Bullpen

Wade Davis (Closer)

Blake Parker (Setup)

Jake McGee (Setup)

Jim Johnson

Kenyan Middleton or Cam Bedrosian

Blake Wood

JC Ramirez (long relief)

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Bench

1B C.J. Cron (plays 1B on days Ohtani pitches, his days off, while Pujols DH's)

C Carlos Perez (earned the backup job with a solid AAA campaign last season)

OF Jarrod Dyson signed via FA to be our 4th outfielder. Speed off the bench late. 

U INF Stephen Drew or Jose Reyes (2B, SS/3B) signed via FA

[Warfarin]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

1. Trade Luis Valbuena, Parker Bridwell and Kaleb Cowart to the Reds for Eugenio Suarez. Valbuena just keeps the hot corner warm until their top prospect who is close, Senzel is ready to take over by mid-season or at the start of the 2018 season. Bridwell gives them a young cost controlled left starter. 

 

Don't you think the Reds are going to want a LOT more for Suarez than that?

[popo85]

Trade Cron/Calhoun/Thiass for Yelich

Trade Skaggs/Hermiloso for Hernandez

Sign Moose 4 yrs 70 mill

Sign CC 2yrs 15 mill

Re-sign Revere 1 yr

 

 

Line up

Hernandez

Yelich

Trout

Upton

Moose

Pujols

Ohtani

Simmons

Maldy

 

Bench

Valbuena

Revere

Cowart

Perez

 

Starting Pitchers

Ohtani

Richards

CC Sabthia

Heaney

Bidwell

Shoemaker

Bullpen

Tropeano

Middleton

Bedrosian

Plaker

Ramirez

Johnson

 

[Chuck]

8 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

Don't you think the Reds are going to want a LOT more for Suarez than that?

No. 

They get a stop gap until Senzel is ready and a good young arm. If anything switch out Cowart for something else, but nothing too sexy. 

The year before this last season he sported just a .248 BA and .317 OBP. He's NOT a premier guy or all-star so he won't cost a fortune IMO. 

[Bull58]

What about Gio in the rotation. Apparently according to MLB Trade Rumors they may use him as a trade chip for controlled talent but I don't want to lose Barria and/or Adell. He only has one year left on his contract of $12M.

http://www.masnsports.com/nationals-pastime/2017/12/could-nationals-dangle-gio-gonzalez-in-trade-talks.html

[Chuck]

14 minutes ago, Bull58 said:

What about Gio in the rotation. Apparently according to MLB Trade Rumors they may use him as a trade chip for controlled talent but I don't want to lose Barria and/or Adell. He only has one year left on his contract of $12M.

http://www.masnsports.com/nationals-pastime/2017/12/could-nationals-dangle-gio-gonzalez-in-trade-talks.html

Good idea....

Skaggs for Gonzalez?

[Troll Daddy]

Another tire to kick is Chase Headley for 3B ... Yankees are shopping him I heard. He has 1yr/13M left on his contract. 

[Bull58]

Would be cool, and will be much cheaper then Darvish but the question is what would the Nats want for him. Maybe toss them both Skaggs and Bridwell.

[tomsred]

  

1.  Sign free agent Neil Walker for 2B.

2.  Sign free agent Addison Reed for the bullpen.

3.  Sign free agent Todd Frazier for 3B.

 

Lineup (25 Man Roster)

2B Neil Walker (L)

CF Trout (R)

LF Upton (R)

DH Ohtani (L), Pujols (R)

3B Frazier (R)

1B Pujols (R), Ohtani (L)

SS Simmons (R)

RF Calhoun (L)

C  Maldonado (R)

NOTE:  The order is very fluid, and likely to change daily depending on the opposing pitcher)

 

Rotation (6 man)

Richards (R)

Ohtani (R)

Heaney (L)

Tropeano (R)

Skaggs (L)

Shoemaker (R)

[Minor League depth = Barria, Wright, Schribner]

 

Bullpen

Blake Parker (Closer)

Jim Johnson

Kenyan Middleton 

Cam Bedrosian

JC Ramirez

Addison Reed

[Minor league depth = Paredes, Wood, N. Ramirez, Guerra] 

 

Bench

3B/1B Luis Valbuena (L)

C Carlos Perez (R)

2B/SS/3B Kaleb Cowart (S) 

OF Ben Revere (L)

 

[Second Base]

I think strictly from a financial point, while we may have about 20 million more to spend, long term, the Angels need to be very conservative in FA. Richards, Ohtani, Maldonado and Trout will all need extensions within the next couple years (sooner in Richards case), and because of such expenditures, they need to trade at a low value, or buy at a low value players that will fit the team's needs. They'll also need their prospects to be able to come in and provide cost effective value. Guys like Barria, Canning, Thaiss, Maitan, Marsh, Jones and Adell all need to end up being pretty good if this team stands a chance at being a contender for the next decade.

So I don't expect the Angels to be in on Darvish or Wade Davis unless Eppler is convinced he can't find a cheaper alternative, or they really want to play here. I think Eppler prides himself on being able to see pitching talent where others don't, and so I don't think we'll get Darvish when we have Ohtani, Richards, Heaney, Skaggs, Shoe, Tropeano, Barria, Bridwell and Ramirez.

[Angelsjunky]

I don't get the Eugenio Suarez fixation. I mean, he's pretty good, but he's young (26), cheap, and just had a breakthrough season. Why would the Reds trade him?

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 hour ago, Chuckster70 said:

2. Trade David Fletcher and Joe Gatto for Tony Kemp for 2B. Lefthanded bat with speed, GREAT OBP, some pop. Minor league career: .310/.388/.419. Good defense (Can also play in the outfield).  

Are there 2 Tony Kemp? because the one I found has a slash line of: .217/.287/.306/.593   

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kempto01.shtml

[Chuck]

18 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

I don't get the Eugenio Suarez fixation. I mean, he's pretty good, but he's young (26), cheap, and just had a breakthrough season. Why would the Reds trade him?

Senzel.

The same reason we should trade Bridwell.

[JustATroutFan]

I think the Angels could use another star pitcher, like an Arrieta. I just don't trust anyone else right now that is in the starting rotation that has pitched for the Angels to be an ace. Richards gets injured too much. Shoemaker is a nice #3 or #4, and Ramirez is a nice #4 if he pitches like he did this past year. 

[Docwaukee]

sorry chuck but that's not going to get it done for Suarez.  

Scooter Gennett could be an interesting target though.  Not a great Eppler target with a meh obp and defense.  But that .874 ops is kinda sexy.  I like the Tony Kemp idea though.  

[tdawg87]

We always rock the trade proposals here.

I suggest Cron for Hernandez. 

[Vlad27Trout27]

1. Get Jhay from the pirates.

   Heard that pirates aren't asking much so, Castillo for Harrison

2. Sign CC 2 yr 17 mil (second year is a option)

3. Trade Jim Johnson to the Mets for Harvey ( Worth a risk, start him in Bp but if he returns to form put him in the rotation,

4. Sign McGee 2yrs 14 mil

Lineup-

2n- Jhay

Rf- Calhoun

Cf- Trout

Lf-  Upton

1st- Pujols/ Cron

Dh-  Ohtan/pujols ( flip flop with pujols and cron)

SS- Simba

3rd- Valbuena

C- Maldando

Rotation

1. Richards

2. Skaggs

3. Ohtani

4. CC ( Last 3 years 3.57 era away)

5.Heaney

6. Shoe/ Brid / Harvey

Bullpen

Closer- Bedrock ( Hurt most last year, had an era of 0 before getting hurt small sample tho, but has the stuff and has shown to dominate).  

Setup- Blake

Setup- Kay/ Harvey

Lefty- McGee/Alvarez

Long- Jc

Bench- Cowart, Juan and EYJ