Offseason Question

[kevinb]

How would you feel if the Angels made no major moves this off season and kind of just went into next year with the same group that ended the season last year? 

[Hubs]

Stop worrying and being negative.

Since Richards, Ohtani, Johnson, Parker, Shoemaker on the pitching side... and Cowart, Arcia, C Young, E Young, and Marte are no longer on the 40-man roster, there is no chance of this happening.

If they didn't do anything else major, it will still be a different group in 2019.

We'll sign a pitcher, or trade for one. We'll sign a Catcher and a replacement 1b/OF.

Relax, Hot Stove is just now getting heated up.

[kevinb]

How is what I said negative in anyway? I was just curious what you guys thought if Eppler did nothing of note this off season and went into next year very similar to last years team that ended the year.

[mtangelsfan]

Point is it can't be.  There already are a lot of changes.  There are empty spots that must be filled.

 

[HaloNArizona]

2 minutes ago, mtangelsfan said:

Point is it can't be.  There already are a lot of changes.  There are empty spots that must be filled.

 

We have 37 players on the 40 man roster

 

[WeatherWonk]

2 minutes ago, HaloNArizona said:

We have 37 players on the 40 man roster

 

OK, then, quit being so realistic.

Think positive! Look how well it's worked the last three years!!!!!

[mtangelsfan]

1 minute ago, WeatherWonk said:

OK, then, quit being so realistic.

Think positive! Look how well it's worked the last three years!!!!!

What has thinking negatively gained you the last three years?

 

 

That is rhetorical by the way.

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Kevinb said:

How would you feel if the Angels made no major moves this off season and kind of just went into next year with the same group that ended the season last year? 

First off they can't go with last year's crew, Richards is gone to San Diego and we won't even bring up Valbuena. The team is changing regardless of what high level free agents aren't picked up.

The only emphasis I want to see is that the long term goals are bring met not just short sighted splashes to keep message board geeks happy. If that means passing on over priced free agents that really aren't going to help long term, that's fine. It's tough to play the waiting game but the impatience game wrecks the franchise. 

[T.G.]

Stopped by Eppler's office today... and saw this:

 

[Docwaukee]

I would be disappointed if we didn't bolster the pitching staff with at least one if not two rotation arms.  Preferably at least one of them is middle of the rotation capable.  

[Hubs]

2 hours ago, Kevinb said:

How is what I said negative in anyway? I was just curious what you guys thought if Eppler did nothing of note this off season and went into next year very similar to last years team that ended the year.

You're bringing up a possibility that the Angels will be the same old crew, nothing will change, and the team is just gonna be blah again. That's what you're inferring with a post like this.

The team between opening day to opening day actually under Eppler has been like 8-10 new folks every year. Way more than I thought.

The 2018 Opening Day Roster for your reference. Heaney started on the DL. It clearly isn't going to be the same team that opened the year.

José Álvarez (LH)	Shohei Ohtani	Martín Maldonado	Zack Cozart	Kole Calhoun
Luke Bard (RH)		René Rivera	Ian Kinsler	Mike Trout
Cam Bedrosian (RH)			Jefry Marte	Justin Upton
Jim Johnson (RH)			Albert Pujols	Chris Young
Keynan Middleton (RH) -- ON DL TO OPEN 2019			Andrelton Simmons
Blake Parker (RH)			Luis Valbuena
JC Ramírez (RH) ON DL TO OPEN 2019
Noé Ramirez (RH)
Garrett Richards (RH)
Matt Shoemaker (RH)
Tyler Skaggs (LH)
Blake Wood (RH)

The Team that ended the year had, in addition to the names above: Jose Fernandez, Taylor Ward, David Fletcher, Jabari Blash, Michael Hermosillio, Eric Young Jr., Joe Hudson, Jose Briceno, Francisco Arcia, Sherman Johnson, Omar Despaigne, Parker Bridwell, Junichi Tazawa, Williams Jerez, Ty Buttery, Justin Anderson, Deck McGuire, Akeel Morris, Miguel Almonte, and a few others.

Still not a complete roster, because of how many people are now gone.

It's not gonna be the same team.

[kevinb]

I said that ended the season last year not opened @Hubs And I am not inferring anything. Just curious the opinions of people if nothing major happened this off season. There was no ill intention from this thread, despite what you might think.

[Hubs]

Just now, Kevinb said:

I said that ended the season last year not opened @Hubs And I am not inferring anything. Just curious the opinions of people if nothing major happened this off season. There was no ill intention from this thread, despite what you might think.

Ok I guess you didn’t mean anything negative if you say so. Still the team that ended the season was listed at the bottom of my post, and the strikes are how many of them are gone. 

Of the 27 position players used last year, only 10 are still on the 40 man. (Trout, Pujols, Ohtani, Upton, Calhoun, Cozart, Briceno, Fletcher, Ward, and Simmons)

 Of the 35 pitchers, only 15 remain. 

[kevinb]

1 minute ago, Hubs said:

Ok I guess you didn’t mean anything negative if you say so. Still the team that ended the season was listed at the bottom of my post, and the strikes are how many of them are gone. 

Of the 27 position players used last year, only 10 are still on the 40 man. (Trout, Pujols, Ohtani, Upton, Calhoun, Cozart, Briceno, Fletcher, Ward, and Simmons)

 Of the 35 pitchers, only 15 remain. 

I may have wrote what I meant wrong to start the thread. I was more meaning line up the same and rotation the same. Not the entire roster. More meaning not signing anyone major how would people feel. But ya there wasn't anything negative in my post. More just what people thought if something like that happened.