Does Eppler realize how stupid this is?

[The Dude]

LOL dont worry dawg, ill be crawling back into my cave soon enough.

[Stradling]

Just now, The Dude said:

LOL dont worry dawg, ill be crawling back into my cave soon enough.

It’s not about you at all. 

[beatlesrule]

Even with the high payroll, we seem to be right back to the Jeff Juden days.

[tdawg87]

We have only ourselves to blame. 

[Stradling]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

We have only ourselves to blame. 

I know who I blame. 

[The Dude]

5 minutes ago, The Boogie Man said:

It’s not about you at all. 

oh i know, i interepted it as a "why even bother"

[Lou]

20 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

$27 million frees up from Kinsler, Valbuena, Johnson, and Young.

You have to remember that $7M goes to salary increases and Skaggs, Heaney + others will be getting raises through arbitration

[Ohtaniland]

5 minutes ago, Lou said:

You have to remember that $7M goes to salary increases and Skaggs, Heaney + others will be getting raises through arbitration

The GM job is easy. Trade your prospects.....no don’t trade your prospects. Sign this guy for $150M......no don’t sign that guy for $150M. Try trading your declining crap for their best star players.....no those teams won’t make those deals so our GM sucks. 

Attrition people. It takes time but that’s how you clear the deck.  

[2020worldseries]

51 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

$27 million frees up from Kinsler, Valbuena, Johnson, and Young.

Also Richards 7 million, Rivera 2 million,  Maldy 4 million,  Wood 1.5, JC Ramirez 2 who I don’t see them bringing back, Shormaker who makes 4.2 mil will prbly get a little more also I don’t see them bringing him back

thats a total of about $48

Upton Pujols simba Calhoun increase about $7 million total

Bedrosian Alvarez due for slight bump and Heaney Skaggs are due for bigger bump

so around 35 leftover?

Manny Machado plz

[m0nkey]

Fire scioscia!

[Billy_Ball]

51 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

Even with the high payroll, we seem to be right back to the Jeff Juden days.

Jack McDowell, Dennis Springer, Tim Belcher, Jason Isringhausen, 1991 Fernando, Allen Watson....

I don’t miss those guys so much.

[T.G.]

This place is like watching reruns of a bad TV show. 

[Angel Oracle]

How far away are Tyler Stevens (AA) and Jeremy Rhoades (AAA) from being ready?

Both have had dominant Ks/BBs ratios of over 5/1 so far in 2018.

Stevens is intriguing, only age 22 and not drafted long ago from UNM.  He has a 52/10 Ks/BBs ratio and ERA just over 2.00 in 38 innings between A and AA.

[Dick B Back]

I know, along with everyone else, that this bullpen is shit... no question... for various reasons.

But, as a long-time Angels fan, I really had a fun day at the park today. Yeah, the BP gave it up (again) as they lost in extras; however, walking up the ramp and seeing the field, watching Trout stretch before the game, sitting in the sun with some food and a beverage, volunteering to take multiple phones to take family pictures of strangers, talking with a family of Jays fans that were at the Big A for the first time.

It was all good and I don’t feel bad about giving Arte some yacht fuel cash. Thanks Angels, I know you’re trying to win even though the roster may limit how well you do this year.

[UndertheHalo]

This shit is so depressing.  Can’t we get any good goddamn news about this season ?  This is me pretty much right now when it comes to the Angels.  Just miserably waiting around for something to genuinely be positive. 

Edited June 25, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[Docwaukee]

18 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

How far away are Tyler Stevens (AA) and Jeremy Rhoades (AAA) from being ready?

Both have had dominant Ks/BBs ratios of over 5/1 so far in 2018.

Stevens is intriguing, only age 22 and not drafted long ago from UNM.  He has a 52/10 Ks/BBs ratio and ERA just over 2.00 in 38 innings between A and AA.

Stevens will help next year maybe.  Rhoades possibly a bit this year.  

[The Dude]

1 hour ago, UndertheHalo said:

This shit is so depressing.  Can’t we get any good goddamn news about this season ?  This is me pretty much right now when it comes to the Angels.  Just miserably waiting around for something to genuinely be positive. 

 

Ha! Thats probably most of us right now. I think it safe to say we were all pretty pumped for this year more so than in recent seasons. Things started off better than we could have hoped for and within a few weeks it was back to the same old shit.

[Lou]

3 hours ago, 2020worldseries said:

Also Richards 7 million, Rivera 2 million,  Maldy 4 million,  Wood 1.5, JC Ramirez 2 who I don’t see them bringing back, Shormaker who makes 4.2 mil will prbly get a little more also I don’t see them bringing him back

thats a total of about $48

Upton Pujols simba Calhoun increase about $7 million total

Bedrosian Alvarez due for slight bump and Heaney Skaggs are due for bigger bump

so around 35 leftover?

Manny Machado plz

you're not going to replace all of the players for free

[Puget Sound Angel]

Well, he has no sense of urgency seeing as it took him almost to the end of June to try and get some bullpen help.

[Ohtaniland]

5 hours ago, Puget Sound Angel said:

Well, he has no sense of urgency seeing as it took him almost to the end of June to try and get some bullpen help.

None of the other teams will accept EBT in exchange for good relief pitchers. 

[TroutAdell]

Putting together a solid bullpen may be one of the hardest jobs in baseball. Colorado spent huge money on their pen in the offseason and it has been mediocre at best. The Cubs and Indians have had awful bullpens this season. The other issue is that very few relievers are reliable from year to yesr. The Angels need to commit to developing late inning guys in the lower minors. Hopefully, next season will bring better results. 

I, for one, don’t want Eppler to trade any top 20 prospects for pen arms unless they are young and controllable.

[Lou]

the Cubs relievers have the 5th best ERA in MLB

Cleveland, Colorado, Washington and the Mets have been the biggest disappointments. 

[Angel Oracle]

WTF happened to the Indians’ pen?

Miller suddenly sucks.   McAlister suddenly sucks.   Allen has been meh. 

[T.G.]

[EDinTUSTIN]

14 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

It is not OK and until he finally decides to pay up for legit options, this merry go round will continue. This team can't ever get any kind of momentum because we see multiple games a week like today from this bullpen. They have maybe 3 good enough middle relievers(Parker, Bedrosian, Alvarez), 1 long-reliever type(Noe Ramirez) and then a rookie with good stuff who is incapable of throwing quality strikes with it(Anderson). The rest of the bunch are a mix match of crap that Eppler shovels around here and there(Morris, Paredes, Drake, McGuire, Robles, etc)

 

Note Ramirez needs to go, I see nothing that indicates quality there. He should be hired by MLB to be the permanent Home Run Derby pitcher.  He does that already for Angel opponents.