Trout 12 years/$440 million! Its done!!

[Jeff Fletcher]

56 minutes ago, Lou said:

Does anyone know the breakdown of years/annual $$ ?

@Jeff Fletcher? 

I’ll have that tomorrow. 

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, ScottT said:

It's official. Press conference 3pm Sunday

YES! I will be there.

[ten ocho recon scout]

It just hit me that trout made this commitment when he has barely gotten to know ausmus. 

Not that that should/would be a huge concern, but it would suck if they turn around and hate each other.

[Billy_Ball]

Hahaha I love Weaver

 

[m0nkey]

 

[Blarg]

5 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

It just hit me that trout made this commitment when he has barely gotten to know ausmus. 

Not that that should/would be a huge concern, but it would suck if they turn around and hate each other.

Asmus was with the Angels all last year. 

[Blarg]

7 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

 

He took a pay cut!

[ten ocho recon scout]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

Asmus was with the Angels all last year. 

Duh. Im an idiot. It was late.

Stephan a smith was posting for me

[Docwaukee]

the most important part of the new deal for Trout is the fact that there is no opt out.  Knowing what we know of Trout, it makes sense.  But it's still awesome.  

[yamsi12]

So are the Angels gonna hold a press conference to announce it?

[Broad Street]

37 minutes ago, yamsi12 said:

So are the Angels gonna hold a press conference to announce it?

Absolutely

[Bronson]

Do you guys think that if Trout was on the Orioles he would still stay for “loyalty”? 

[Blarg]

It's not the same organization. What he likes about the Angels and living in Socal is different than what Baltimore offers. 

[Bronson]

7 minutes ago, Blarg said:

It's not the same organization. What he likes about the Angels and living in Socal is different than what Baltimore offers. 

I meant from a team perspective. I think if we were bottom feeders and weren’t gonna be competitive for 4 or 5 years he would leave no matter how much he loves the location.

 

He knows we are really close to being a legit playoff team and that’s exciting. Just knowing he knows it makes me feel really good I don’t know why lol

[Adam]

I think Trout is a big Bernie Sanders supporter and wanted to stay in a place that allowed him to pay the highest possible taxes without freezing his balls off

[Lou]

19 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

It just hit me that trout made this commitment when he has barely gotten to know ausmus. 

Not that that should/would be a huge concern, but it would suck if they turn around and hate each other.

 

or perhaps Trout signed the extension because Ausmus is the manager 

[bloodbrother]

 

[Bronson]

12 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

 

Yeah he pulled that out of his ass.

[beatlesrule]

Is there a collection of quotes from all the baseball writers/ inside infoers that stated that Trout was going to leave the Angels? Have any of them admitted how foolish they were or where their so-called sources were coming from?

[Lou]

5 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

 

anyone care to guess what my response would be if I were on Twitter?

[Roy Hobbs]

43 minutes ago, Lou said:

anyone care to guess what my response would be if I were on Twitter?

I'll try, would it be "I agree" or maybe shove it up your ass Heyman

[DCAngelsFan]

7 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

 

 

Trout signing an extension has just deprived Heyman and others fodder for a couple of thousand articles in the coming 2 years - guess now they may have to write about, you know, actual things.

Who's running the pool on these media types first use of "albatross" to describe Trout's contract?  

 

[T.G.]

Now they can focus on Betts leaving Boston in two years.

[Blarg]

If I had a Twitter account you know who I would direct this to.

Regardless what Heyman does this Spring, his neighbor will make a big play for his wife — provided he hasn’t already, of course. @jonheyman will try to keep his wife this summer, but while she likes it there, the whispers are that his neighbor is much better hung.

[Inside Pitch]

19 minutes ago, True Grich said:

Now they can focus on Betts leaving Boston in two years.

It's really going to be interesting to see if they play this up or not - unlike Trout who was always pretty mum other than "Obviously I want to win", there have already been signs of dissent coming from Betts himself.  He's essentially said he's waiting for a legit offer but none has come and that he suspects none will be coming this off-season.  

Imagine the narratives those Eastern media outlets would have created had that happened at any point with Trout.   In Trout you had a player who was given the biggest contract ever for a player with his service time and who was locked up for an additional two years.   Betts has been forced to go year to year, yes the team has won but does anyone think that if the situations were reversed the narrative wouldn't have been -- "Angels ride MT to the WS but refuse to commit the money he's rightfully earned" ???   You know they would have talked up the situation as if he had been massively slighted and the team wasn't showing him the respect/love'/loyalty that he deserved.

I believe the Red Sox will re-sign Betts because they seemingly learned a valuable lesson during the Lester dealings -- but to date it's not been handled anywhere near as cleanly as the Angels did the Trout situation and an argument could easily be made that Betts hasn't been treated as well as one would expect as a franchise player who played a key role in them making it to and winning a WS.