Gerrit Cole signs with the Yankees (9 years, $324 million)

[Second Base]

Shit......Cole, Strasburg and Wheeler off the board. 

Eppler, your ass needs to be fired..... Maybe.....f-ing fix this you stupid ass GM. it's your job.

[CanadianHalo]

Just now, angelsnationtalk said:

In the last 2 years Eppler has whiffed on Corbin, Eovaldi, Wheeler, Strasburg and Cole. 

Now they're going to overpay for Bumgarner, Ryu and Price

Even without budget restrictions Eppy still taking L’s. I questioned his ability to get big deals like this done a month ago and got flamed for it and yet, here we are. 

Time for plan D. (B and C were Stras and Wheeler)
 

[Pancake Bear]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

No one has called him cheap. He's just full of shit.

Arte spends a ton of money. He just doesn’t spend enough on the right players. He claims to be all in and wusses out. 

[Buttercup]

I feel things are about to get real interesting for the Angels. If they grabbed Cole they’d need a catcher and may not have had a lot of resources left for more moves. Now Eppler will have to get more creative. One things certain. They won’t be sitting still. 

[mulwin444]

Alright...when you guys are done hate-fucking Eppler in a few days and realize that pitchers and catchers don't report for 3 months, it's time to go back to speculating on how they'll build the team from here.

Enjoy this one though, you've earned it.

[tdawg87]

Just now, Hufflepuff said:

Lol that Pujols contract has been killing us for years and you still wanna go out and give 324 mil to a pitcher till he’s 39! Yea... we totally blew it... accept that we didn’t. 
 

That kind of contract sinks a team! 

This is bullshit. All of it. Especially since Cole will be 37 at the end of the contract. 

Pujols prevented us from signing Josh Hamilton, Justin Upton, and giving Trout the largest contract in history. Oh wait, no it didn't.

[Bronson]

Getting Rendon is a must get now. They can't lose out on him also.

[TroutField]

Just now, Second Base said:

Shit......Cole, Strasburg and Wheeler off the board. 

Eppler, your ass needs to be fired..... Maybe.....f-ing fix this you stupid ass GM. it's your job.

I’ve been a huge Eppler fan but my fucking god how do you whifff this fucking hard on every free agent? 
 

it feels like we just got eliminated from the playoffs and it isn’t even Christmas. Even Rendon and Ryu DONT make this a good enough team to make a run at a World Series. 
 

Now it’s time to blow the minor league system on a bad trade. Right on que 

[Taylor]

Lol @ all the people calling for Eppler to be fired. He's the guy who got us Ohtani and made sure Trout was an Angel for life. He's also turned our minor league system around in a matter of years.

 

[kevinb]

I don’t want Bumgarner with out Cole. 

[Erstad Grit]

LOL people complaining we missed out on Eovaldi now? 

[angelsnationtalk]

3 minutes ago, CanadianHalo said:

Even without budget restrictions Eppy still taking L’s. I questioned his ability to get big deals like this done a month ago and got flamed for it and yet, here we are. 

Time for plan D. (B and C were Stras and Wheeler)
 

My heart breaks for Trout.

[beatlesrule]

Includes an opt out after 5 years.

[TroutField]

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

LOL people complaining we missed out on Eovaldi now? 

It’s not that, it’s just that he can’t entice ANY free agent to come to Anaheim even with Trout and Ohtani.... 

[Bronson]

The dude trusted us to build a contender and we are slowly failing him.

 

This is just fucking bullshit.

[angelsnationtalk]

2 minutes ago, Bronson said:

Getting Rendon is a must get now. They can't lose out on him also.

So what? The Angels can score 5 runs a game but give up 8?

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Is Clevinger available?

[failos]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

Lol @ all the people calling for Eppler to be fired. He's the guy who got us Ohtani and made sure Trout was an Angel for life. He's also turned our minor league system around in a matter of years.

 

Yes, but he still can't build a winning time even with all the resources he has.

[Bronson]

Just now, beatlesrule said:

Includes an opt out after 5 years.

[Second Base]

It's totally gonna be fine. Because spending 100 effing million on gosh darn Madison effing Bumgarner is totally going to make up for this effing BS. 

Damn't! 

F!

[CanadianHalo]

2 minutes ago, Bronson said:

Getting Rendon is a must get now. They can't lose out on him also.

Even with Rendon. We NEEEED pitching. Good pitching. Not the crap that’s being floated around like Ryu and Price. We needed a true ace

[rafibomb]

Did Billy really think we could have signed Cole with 8 years and a salary just south of 300 million?

[Bronson]

1 minute ago, angelsnationtalk said:

So what? The Angels can score 5 runs a game but give up 8?

Well what fucking else can we do at this point?? We got to get someone of impact.

[Taylor]

1 minute ago, beatlesrule said:

Includes an opt out after 5 years.

Opt out for whom? I can't imagine Cole will get a better deal entering his age 34 season, but I also can't imagine him giving the Yankees an opt out.

[Kendo36]

Watch eppler get irrational and trade the farm