Former Angels out of work/luck

[fan_since79]

Say what you want about Mathis, but no one can deny the brilliance of parlaying a .565 OPS and a 0.9 WAR into $15.6 million dollars over 13 years of steady work on major league rosters.

 

Edited March 26, 2018 by fan_since79

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Say what you want about Mathis, but no one can deny the brilliance of parlaying a .565 OPS and a 0.9 WAR into $15.6 million dollars over 13 years of steady work on major league rosters.

 

FULL MLB pension..   And everyone and their brother knows the minute he hangs it up he has job offers to coach...   Dude will be a baseball lifer.

[Taylor]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

Mathis - $2 million guaranteed contract for 2018

Napoli - signs minor league deal for 2018 

Mathis is a pro at procuring embarrassing photos of managers.

[Make Angels Great Again]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

Mathis - $2 million guaranteed contract for 2018

Napoli - signs minor league deal for 2018 

 

If you had said this 10 years ago I would have called you a fucking moron.

[aznhockeyguy]

27 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

If you had said this 10 years ago I would have called you a fucking moron.

You and me both.  Though to be fair, Napoli is more of a DH/1b type now and those type of players have had no love in finding deals in the past few years.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Over the last 10 years Napoli made over 80M and won a WS so I'll still give him the edge.  That said both players have had long MLB careers taking advantage of their strengths so kudos to them.  If Mathis could have hit like Napoli or Napoli could have played defense like Mathis while staying away from Goat Hill the Angels would have been set at C for the last decade.    

[Angel Oracle]

3 hours ago, ArturoMoreno said:

And he did blast that dinger off Kershaw during last year's NLDS game 1. 

And won game 5 in the 2009 ALCS vs the Skanks.

[DMVol]

8 minutes ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

If Mathis could have hit like Napoli or Napoli could have played defense like Mathis while staying away from Goat Hill the Angels would have been set at C for the last decade.    

We would have had Johnny Bench or Pudge Rogriguez....

[Chris]

any news on Huston Street?  the guy may have to consider retirement; he's barely taken the field the past few years

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, aznhockeyguy said:

You and me both.  Though to be fair, Napoli is more of a DH/1b type now and those type of players have had no love in finding deals in the past few years.

I have a feeling hes not really worried about coming back.

[Farmbuildingfan]

8 hours ago, Lou said:

Cron in Spring of 2017:

.297/.354 /.541 /.895/ 4 HR/ 4 Dbl/ 11 RBI

Cron Career stats:

Spring - .327 BA  .926 OPS

Regular Season - .262 BA   .756 OPS 

 

 

I knew that the Angels would eventually trade Cron.

 

I expected it two years ago though. Didn't they get virtually nothing for him?

A young home grown position player is not going to be an Angel for long unless you are Trout or Calhoun.

Cowart will be gone too, either sooner or later.

 

 

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Farmbuildingfan said:

Cowart will be gone too, either sooner or later.

Shhhh, you're going to jinx it. 

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Farmbuildingfan said:

I knew that the Angels would eventually trade Cron.

 

I expected it two years ago though. Didn't they get virtually nothing for him?

A young home grown position player is not going to be an Angel for long unless you are Trout or Calhoun.

Cowart will be gone too, either sooner or later.

Aybar as here for 10 years. As for the others, which players from the heap of hot garbage should we have kept?