Daniel Murphy?

[Tank]

Pujols always speaks English when he has lunch with me and Alex Curry.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

Pujols always speaks English when he has lunch with me and Alex Curry.

I still think it was pathetic that you made her carry her own tray

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Second Base said:

St. Louis assessed the situation and offered himself seven years. If the Angels were that smart, he either wouldn't be here, or the Angels would be done with his contract by now.

they reportedly offered him a 10 year $210M contract. 

[Lou]

On November 2, 2018 at 12:11 AM, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

Descalso many gloves decent at all good at a couple. If you are looking for a util guy. I think he's in house in Fletcher. 

well said 

[Second Base]

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

they reportedly offered him a 10 year $210M contract. 

It's been a while. For some reason I remember reading that the Cards offered him seven years.

[Tank]

6 hours ago, Lou said:

I still think it was pathetic that you made her carry her own tray

she gets no free pass from me, especially on grilled cheese wednesdays.

wait, maybe i need to reassess my strategy.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

she gets no free pass from me, especially on grilled cheese wednesdays.

wait, maybe i need to reassess my strategy.

anyone thinking what I'm thinking? 

 

 

 

 

yep, a grilled cheese sounds good right now. 

[Docwaukee]

49 minutes ago, Lou said:

anyone thinking what I'm thinking? 

 

 

 

 

yep, a grilled cheese sounds good right now. 

I was always suspicious that you were ....

 

 

 

 

a vegetarian.  

[nando714]

Murphy > Fletcher , ward or anyone else 

[Stradling]

The more I think about it the more I wouldn’t mind having Murphy, Fletcher and Cozart all on the team.  I’m not sure they could have all three and still keep Ward and a 4th outfielder.  Also if you have all three of those guys, my guess is Ward would probably be better off getting every day at bats in AAA.  

[totdprods]

Even though I've been saying Fletcher would be our starting '19 2B since last offseason, I still think ideally he should be the UT IF. 

It'd be fantastic to have someone legitimately good at doing all the little things on the bench; fantastic defense, great contact, good speed, versatile. 

He'd give Sosh...uhh...Ausmus a lot of options. That's gonna take some getting used to. : /

[Angel Oracle]

21 hours ago, Lou said:

they reportedly offered him a 10 year $210M contract. 

I thought it was 9 years for $210 million that the Cards offered Pujols. 

F'n Dipoto

[Angel Oracle]

5 hours ago, Stradling said:

The more I think about it the more I wouldn’t mind having Murphy, Fletcher and Cozart all on the team.  I’m not sure they could have all three and still keep Ward and a 4th outfielder.  Also if you have all three of those guys, my guess is Ward would probably be better off getting every day at bats in AAA.  

Cozart at 3B, Fletcher at 2B, Murphy for 120-130 games at 1B, and Ohtani for 140 games at DH would work, if Eppler/Ausmus and Pujols finally have the talk about being limited to 60-70 games in 2019.

[T.G.]

There are too many questions surrounding Murphy's knees and his glove for me. 

[Angel Oracle]

Just now, True Grich said:

There are too many questions surrounding Murphy's knees and his glove for me. 

Good question, they've already had to put up with Pujols' bad knees/feet from 2013-2018. 

[Angelsfirst]

I like Murphy, wouldn’t mind him on a two year deal. Yeah his glove is bad but his bat is what would have the most value on this team obviously. Im sure they can find him his AB’s even with Albert lingering on the roster at this point. Bring him on.  

[T.G.]

I'd rather roll the dice with the internal candidates than see the Angels sign guys like this or Moustakas or Dozier - who are going to be expensive and have too many question marks surrounding them.  If they don't pan out - at least they won't break the bank.

[Second Base]

2 hours ago, True Grich said:

I'd rather roll the dice with the internal candidates than see the Angels sign guys like this or Moustakas or Dozier - who are going to be expensive and have too many question marks surrounding them.  If they don't pan out - at least they won't break the bank.

This sounds like Eppler's plan.  He wants to spend on pitching it seems, and he has some degree in confidence in Fletcher, Ward, Thaiss, Rengifo and Walsh developing.  While isn't sure all five will pan out, he seems to be relatively confident that of those prospects, at least two or three will end up being pretty good. 

So from my set of shoes, the only position player he'll acquire this offseason is a catcher.