Angels interested in Josh Donaldson

[Tank]

34 minutes ago, popo85 said:

Cole and Donaldson will do hell we sucked so bad last year I’ll settle for Ryu Donaldson and Kuchel

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[Angel Oracle]

I'd be good with an off-season of adding Cole, Bundy, Donaldson, either Machete or Castro, and Yamaguchi.

Rotation: Cole, Ohtani, Bundy, Yamaguchi, Heaney, and Canning...with Sandoval, Suarez, Barria, and Peters for depth in AAA

Lineup: Fletcher, Trout, Ohtani, Donaldson, Upton, Pujols/Stella, Simba, Adell/Goodwin, Machete or Castro/Stassi

Bullpen: Undertaker, Buttrey, Middleton, Bedrock Jr., Ramirez, Bard, and F. Pena (Probably will need an additional clean peanut reliever.)

[popo85]

14 minutes ago, Tank said:

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Ok English Nazi 

[Taylor]

3 minutes ago, popo85 said:

Ok English Nazi 

*OK, English Nazi.

[Chris]

I vote for Wheeler, Grandal, and Will Smith.

 

oh wait...

[gotbeer]

Sounds like the Angels will be going for Donaldson or Rendon.  While minor, a plus for Donaldson is he's shown he can hit in the AL.  Donaldson is 34, so a 2-3 year contract should do it.  Rendon will be a longer term, 5-7 years.  In that respect, I'd rather take Rendon, because I'd rather have the core of Trout/Rendon/Ohtani smacking people around for 5+ years.  And not have to worry about that cursed position of 3B for a while.  But either player is a huge upgrade in our offense.  

With that move, that would move Fletcher/La Stella to 2B.  La Stella can't seem to stay healthy, but when he is, he puts up some good numbers.  Fletcher has played all over the field, 2B, SS, 3B, LF.  So he could be a valuable Figgins type player on a team that seems to get hurt quite often.  

Now about that pitching situation.

[Don]

2 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Sounds like the Angels will be going for Donaldson or Rendon.  While minor, a plus for Donaldson is he's shown he can hit in the AL.  Donaldson is 34, so a 2-3 year contract should do it.  Rendon will be a longer term, 5-7 years.  In that respect, I'd rather take Rendon, because I'd rather have the core of Trout/Rendon/Ohtani smacking people around for 5+ years.  And not have to worry about that cursed position of 3B for a while.  But either player is a huge upgrade in our offense.  

With that move, that would move Fletcher/La Stella to 2B.  La Stella can't seem to stay healthy, but when he is, he puts up some good numbers.  Fletcher has played all over the field, 2B, SS, 3B, LF.  So he could be a valuable Figgins type player on a team that seems to get hurt quite often.  

Now about that pitching situation.

That's a dirty MOTO.

[Pancake Bear]

3 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Sounds like the Angels will be going for Donaldson or Rendon.  While minor, a plus for Donaldson is he's shown he can hit in the AL.  Donaldson is 34, so a 2-3 year contract should do it.  Rendon will be a longer term, 5-7 years.  In that respect, I'd rather take Rendon, because I'd rather have the core of Trout/Rendon/Ohtani smacking people around for 5+ years.  And not have to worry about that cursed position of 3B for a while.  But either player is a huge upgrade in our offense.  

With that move, that would move Fletcher/La Stella to 2B.  La Stella can't seem to stay healthy, but when he is, he puts up some good numbers.  Fletcher has played all over the field, 2B, SS, 3B, LF.  So he could be a valuable Figgins type player on a team that seems to get hurt quite often.  

Now about that pitching situation.

Donaldson might get 4. 

[Pancake Bear]

Just an opinion from Fletch, but probably not too far off. 

[CanadianHalo]

1 minute ago, Sean-Regan said:

Just an opinion from Fletch, but probably not too far off. 

Well now that Fletch has resurfaced I think we can chalk up those tweets Sunday night to him simply f*cking up

[Junkballer]

1 hour ago, popo85 said:

Cole and Donaldson will do hell we sucked so bad last year I’ll settle for Ryu Donaldson and Kuchel

[AngelsFaninGA]

Donaldson's 34. He's playing for one last contract and I can't imagine he has much left in the tank.

[gotbeer]

12 minutes ago, Sean-Regan said:

Just an opinion from Fletch, but probably not too far off. 

He mentioned Bumgarner and his brother.  Does he have Bumgarner on his mind?

[Stradling]

9 minutes ago, AngelsFaninGA said:

Donaldson's 34. He's playing for one last contract and I can't imagine he has much left in the tank.

He’s coming off a 6 WAR season.

[tdawg87]

11 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

He mentioned Bumgarner and his brother.  Does he have Bumgarner on his mind?

I'm sure he had Bum on his mind. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[AngelsFaninGA]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

He’s coming off a 6 WAR season.

I don't doubt that. I'm just not a fan of giving a 34-year-old a 4 year contract. 2/25, sure. But beyond that you risk another Cozart situation where he's just dead weight for the last couple years. 

[UndertheHalo]

Don’t want.  

[UndertheHalo]

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, AngelsFaninGA said:

I don't doubt that. I'm just not a fan of giving a 34-year-old a 4 year contract. 2/25, sure. But beyond that you risk another Cozart situation where he's just dead weight for the last couple years. 

I’m guessing he gets 3 years and no he is not a Cozart situation because he is former MVP and hasn’t really shown signs of slowing down.  

[ten ocho recon scout]

50 minutes ago, popo85 said:

Ok English Nazi 

 

[Don]

Also, Cozart sucked pretty immediately for us. It wasn't the last couple years of his contract... It's been the entirety of the contract so far.

[TroutCron]

1 hour ago, Sean-Regan said:

Madbum is a back end starter who will get paid like a 2-3. 

MadBum is looking at 4/100mil. plus. That is hardly 3-4 money. Bum at over 100 million is way too risky given his three Straight years of decline. Ryu is also risky considering his long history of injuries. Keuchel is less of a gamble for a 3-5 and should be considerably less expensive. 
 

I think that Donaldson at four years is better than Rendon at seven. Signing Donaldson will create more payroll flexibility. Rendon would only be the right choice if his contract is backloaded the first two years until the Albatross is off the books.  In that case Rendon would be good. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

It's hard for me to imagine any of these scenarios are true when we weren't in on Wheeler or Grandal at their price.

[Angel Oracle]

36 minutes ago, Stradling said:

He’s coming off a 6 WAR season.

And has only played some 8 MLB seasons.    He shouldn't be that bad off, even at age 34.  

He's also had several strong seasons.   Cozart had ONE. 

Edited December 11, 2019 by Angel Oracle

[Troll Daddy]

This sounds like a complete waste of dollars ... the Angels offense is good enough as it is. Spend the dollars on pitching and more pitching.