Angels to Acquire Max Stassi for OFs Rainier Rivas, Raider Uceta

[Angels Fan Forever]

Thank you Billy Eppler!!

[Taylor]

10 minutes ago, Angels Fan Forever said:

Thank you Billy Eppler!!

This. A great GM who gets almost no credit.

[failos]

5 minutes ago, Taylor said:

This. A great GM who gets almost no credit.

He’s average at best, like my height

[Stradling]

You spelled length wrong

[Tank]

if you two start mentioning girth, i'm shutting this down.

[mmc]

43 minutes ago, Taylor said:

This. A great GM who gets almost no credit.

cringe

[Taylor]

6 minutes ago, mmc said:

cringe

I agree. It's cringey how people blame Eppler for problems that Arte and Dipoto caused.

[mmc]

4 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I agree. It's cringey how people blame Eppler for problems that Arte and Dipoto caused.

It’s even more cringeworthy that people still love this loser GM even after he’s not with the organization anymore.  

[eligrba]

On 8/1/2019 at 7:29 AM, eligrba said:

Looks like the return of Jeff Mathis.

YES!!!   I'm not an idiot!!!

 

ok....maybe just not as much of an idiot as I had originally thought.

[Vlad27Trout27]

On 7/31/2019 at 1:09 PM, Vlad27Trout27 said:

The big piece!

I was right!

[rafibomb]

Raider Uceta was released by the Astros.

 

 

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, rafibomb said:

Raider Uceta was released by the Astros.

 

 

Scotty right now:

[totdprods]

On 7/31/2019 at 3:48 PM, totdprods said:

I can’t really complain with any of Eppler’s catcher acquisitions so far. If they like him there must be good reason. He could be our guy for the next couple seasons. 

Or not. But I doubt he cost much.

[nate]

Lots of gold in this thread

[Stradling]

18 minutes ago, nate said:

Lots of gold in this thread

Yep.  This is Lou porn. 

[nate]

4 minutes ago, Hells Rainbow said:

Yep.  This is Lou porn. 

I agree

[Lou]

On 7/31/2019 at 2:02 PM, Chuckster70 said:

Wow. What a stupid trade. 

 

On 7/31/2019 at 2:02 PM, Angelsjunky said:

Terrible, terrible move. WTF. How is Stassi better than Garneau? We gave up two intriguing prospects for a replacement level catcher. 

I don't get it at all.

 

On 7/31/2019 at 2:03 PM, Scott34 said:

Yiiiiiiiiiiiikes. Why?

 

On 7/31/2019 at 2:04 PM, Chuckster70 said:

Just stupid. We basically gave up two potentially good outfield prospects for a Jeff Mathis type. 

 

On 7/31/2019 at 2:08 PM, floplag said:

it took 2 to get this done?   lololololololololol 

 

On 7/31/2019 at 3:08 PM, AngelsFaninGA said:

Yikes. Can't believe we actually gave up anything of consequence, much less two actually solid prospects. What is you doin Eppler?

 

On 7/31/2019 at 3:14 PM, mmc said:

Rocky Gale and John Ryan Murphy were had for cash considerations.  No reason for the Angels to give up all this for Stassi.

 

On 7/31/2019 at 3:28 PM, Jay said:

Should have been able to get Stassi for a bag of chips.

 

[AngelsFaninGA]

Nailed it

[Lou]

On 7/31/2019 at 1:02 PM, m0nkey said:

Yes!!! Thanks billy!

Atta boy!

[ten ocho recon scout]

Without scrolling back several pages, if I remember correctly, we were all excited, assuming this meant Cole was coming here.

"That has to be it!"

Funny looking back now, in "post sticky stuff" Cole times, that we still did great with this move.

[Angelsjunky]

Fangraphs on Stassi:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/max-stassi-is-making-the-most-of-a-small-sample-again/

Notable stat: In 2020-21 he's 12th among all major leaders with a 151 wRC+, albeit in only 279 PA. Still.

We all had boners over Walsh's offensive breakthrough, but Stassi may be the real story.

In before someone says, in reply to me posting this, "Great."

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 8/3/2019 at 2:19 AM, Billy_Ball said:

https://www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/7/23/20706682/the-houston-astros-are-ready-to-move-on-from-max-stassi-and-that-would-be-a-mistake

People called him mathis 2 in this thread. And this kind of explains it. Mathis, for all he sucked with the bat, was adored by pitchers and managers. 

Mathis may have just been ahead of his time. With a skillset that not many appreciated until more recent times

[tdawg87]

9 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Fangraphs on Stassi:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/max-stassi-is-making-the-most-of-a-small-sample-again/

Notable stat: In 2020-21 he's 12th among all major leaders with a 151 wRC+, albeit in only 279 PA. Still.

We all had boners over Walsh's offensive breakthrough, but Stassi may be the real story.

In before someone says, in reply to me posting this, "Great."

Great.

[tdawg87]

We should extend Stassi imo

[Jason]

6 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

We should extend Stassi imo

Agreed. I don’t think there are too many better options at that position. Other than Suzuki of course