BREAKING: Angels acquire....

[T.G.]

Bye Bye Blash.

[UndertheHalo]

1 minute ago, True Grich said:

Bye Bye Blash.

Love this alliteration. 

[Dtwncbad]

The full spelling if his last name is Giavolastella.

[The_Outrunner]

I'll take it!

[AngelsLakersFan]

Hopefully a move to SoCal will help La Stella get his groove back.

[Dtwncbad]

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

Love this alliteration. 

My favorite is "Little old lady got mutilated late last night."

[UndertheHalo]

The bright side is that there’s decent chance he’s better then Blash, Valbuena, and Marte.  

A low bar to clear for sure.  But hey Joe Maddon says he can fall out of bed and hit.  That’s gotta count for something ! 

 

 

 

[NJHalo]

Thomas Fredrickson La Stella (born January 31, 1989) is an American second baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves in 2014, and was traded to the Cubs before the 2015 season.

 

Must be big news if it was updated on Wikipedia within an hour. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

If baseball doesnt work out for him, hes got a future as a tough guy in a mob movie.

[Dtwncbad]

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

The bright side is that there’s decent chance he’s better then Blash, Valbuena, and Marte.  

A low bar to clear for sure.  But hey Joe Maddon says he can fall out of bed and hit.  That’s gotta count for something ! 

 

 

 

I am disturbed that Madden is aware of falling out of bed.

[T.G.]

[T.G.]

[floplag]

4 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Haha, ok eeyore.  

Actually that about sums up my general opinion of the club right now pretty well, i am extremely down on what im seeing.   I guess thats not allowed?   lol 
 

[T.G.]

[T.G.]

6 minutes ago, floplag said:

Actually that about sums up my general opinion of the club right now pretty well, i am extremely down on what im seeing.   I guess thats not allowed?   lol 
 

[beatlesrule]

 

[UndertheHalo]

8 minutes ago, floplag said:

Actually that about sums up my general opinion of the club right now pretty well, i am extremely down on what im seeing.   I guess thats not allowed?   lol 
 

Dude it’s November.  He seems like he basically a league average left handed bat.  Something that would have been useful for the last several years.  A wait and see approach with this guy is smart.  He may be decent. 

[Second Base]

Better than what we had before, though I do wonder if this changes Fletcher's immediate future with the big league club.  I don't feel like Ls Stella or Fletcher should be the starting 2B. 

[Second Base]

Anybody else remember this?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/08/09/cubs-la-stella-refuses-to-report-to-minors/88494048/

[Erstad Grit]

I like this. One of the best PH last year. Lefty bat. He is a legit bench infielder. Nice move. 

[Chuck]

1 minute ago, Second Base said:

Better than what we had before, though I do wonder if this changes Fletcher's immediate future with the big league club.  I don't feel like Ls Stella or Fletcher should be the starting 2B. 

Maybe some team needs Fletcher to be included in a deal so we went ahead and signed a utility infielder to back up Cozart, Rengifo, Simmons, etc. 

La Stella is a good pinch hitter from the left side and can play all over the infield diamond. He's not going to suck offensively like Cowart either. 

[Stradling]

16 minutes ago, floplag said:

Actually that about sums up my general opinion of the club right now pretty well, i am extremely down on what im seeing.   I guess thats not allowed?   lol 
 

Sure it is allowed, I didn’t say you can’t say that, I don’t even have the power to tell you not to say that.  It would simply carry a lot more weight if other teams were making moves that mattered while the Angels were not.  We upgraded our roster today, you may not see it, but it is exactly what happened.  We replaced Blash, who is awful, with a guy with good on base skills.  

[Second Base]

1 minute ago, Chuckster70 said:

Maybe some team needs Fletcher to be included in a deal so we went ahead and signed a utility infielder to back up Cozart, Rengifo, Simmons, etc. 

La Stella is a good pinch hitter from the left side and can play all over the infield diamond. He's not going to suck offensively like Cowart either. 

We sure do have a lot of "utility infielders" on the roster.  Cozart, Fletcher, Cowart, Rengifo, LaStella.....

[AngelStew43]

Look on the bright side.   At least we didn't acquire Tommy Lasorda.  One or two of those other utility types will probably go out in another deal.

La Stella may be our opening day 2B.

[tdawg87]

Tommy La Stella has got us to 3 pages.

You guys are in your element.