Angels sign C Jonathan Lucroy to 1yr/$3.35M deal

[bloodbrother]

 

[GrittyVeterans]

Garbage offseason continues

[DMVol]

Not bad....I thought it might be Machete but Lucroy is ok....

[jordan]

Maybe Eppler is saving money for something bigger. Probably not. 

[IEAngelsfan]

Maybe they're hoping he reverts back to his 2016 season.

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[JAHV76]

Not a bad signing since it’s only  a one year deal and could be a trade piece later this season if they’re out of contention.

[Stradling]

3 minutes ago, GrittyVeterans said:

Garbage offseason continues

Wanna double the bet?  Haha.  

[DMVol]

2 minutes ago, jordan said:

Maybe Eppler is saving money for something bigger. Probably not. 

Not big but maybe Robertson....

[floplag]

Well.. i guess thats that. 
Not what i had in mind and a bit of a letdown based on 18 numbers.   
We needed offense from that spot and a negative -0.7 WAR (espn)  isnt going to get it. 
30% caught stealing isnt terrible but ... yeah, color me unimpressed. 
 

[wopphil]

More money for Kikuchi or Keuchel. I have no objection.

[jordan]

Lots of 1 year deals.  Makes me very curious about next off season. Arenado in the crosshairs??

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[The_Outrunner]

I'm totally cool with this 

[Stradling]

I truly think we are going to see one more bigger money signing, whether that is Kikuchi or Robertson, I don’t know, but one more bigger guy coming our way.

[Erstad Grit]

More garbage 1 year deals.  

[bloodbrother]

This is a whatever signing for me. Lucroy has seen his offensive production decline significantly for 3 straight years so I'm not expecting much with the bat from him. He's always been pretty good defensively though. 1yr and less than $4 million is a drop in the bucket.

[nando714]

5 minutes ago, jordan said:

Lots of 1 year deals.  Makes me very curious about next off season. Arenado in the crosshairs??

Dodgers 

i think they have a lot of money coming off the books 

[DMVol]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I truly think we are going to see one more bigger money signing, whether that is Kikuchi or Robertson, I don’t know, but one more bigger guy coming our way.

Not sure the dollars are there....hope I’m wrong....

[tdawg87]

I'm ok with this. 

[Second Base]

Yes!!! I really like Lucroy. I know his offense wasn't what it once was, but look at this way. Oakland had ZERO pitching last year. That team should've been a .500 ball club. Yet every single pitcher that pitched to Lucroy, threw like they never had before.

Jon Lucroy will bring the best out of the Angels starters, and even do a little on offense too. 

[beatlesrule]

At least this ends the Grandal speculation.

[UndertheHalo]

Obviously signals they weren’t comfortable giving a big deal to Grandal, which is apparently what he’s going after.  Which I get.  This does sort of kick the can down the road though.  The Angels realistically don’t have any internal solutions at catcher.  So we’ll be doing this again next year.  And maybe the year after.  Who knows. 

I’m not sure that I have a lot of confidence that they’ll be doing anything else significant.  They seem to have balked at going where they had to to get any of the more premier guys.  So this just may be it.  I mean if they won’t pay Grandal.  Why would they pay Keuchel ?  Grandal imo represented a significantly more pressing need.  We might just have to accept that the club isn’t goIng to be aggressive going into 2019.  For better or worse.  

On the one hand I’m glad they’ve maintained flexibility and haven’t committed to any potentially risky long term deals.  But on the other, it’s hard to say this hasn’t been sort of disappointing.  I was expecting/hoping for bigger things this offseason.  I think most of us had this years FA class circled.  Oh well.  It is what it is. 

 

[Chuck]

8 minutes ago, nando714 said:

Dodgers 

i think they have a lot of money coming off the books 

They have Turner. 

[Chuck]

If Grandal wanted 4 years, F that. See ya.

[Angel Oracle]

17 minutes ago, DMVol said:

Not big but maybe Robertson....

And Lowrie 

[AngelsFaninGA]

yay? I guess this pretty much solidifies the front office's ultra low risk approach.