Gerrit Cole chose Yankees because he wanted to win a World Series

[Angels_Fan]

1 minute ago, Brandon said:

Now I feel bad for Rendon. He has no idea what the bullpen will look like in a couple years.

Rendon didn’t specifically say he chose the Angels because he felt they would’ve given him the best chance to win a WS, haha. 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

What about Trout? He’s signed even longer.  I’ll leave my porch light on. 

[Brandon]

Even for AW standards, this is pretty ridiculous.

[RedEyeBleed]

So if Cole and the Astros would of won the World Series he would of been a Angel??

[Angels_Fan]

3 minutes ago, Brandon said:

Even for AW standards, this is pretty ridiculous.

Are the Yankees going to be a better team or have more chances than the Angels to win a WS from 2021-2028?

Please answer that question. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

It is possible that Garret Cole shares a blood line with Nostradomas, Miss Cleo and John Edwards. He may have foreseen the Yankees fate.

[AngelsLakersFan]

Holy shit Clod is back 

Please no one tell Strad

[m0nkey]

I thought I was the crazy one

[m0nkey]

5 minutes ago, Angels_Fan said:

Are the Yankees going to be a better team or have more chances than the Angels to win a WS from 2021-2028?

Please answer that question. 

So who would you sign with if you were him?

[Angels_Fan]

6 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

So who would you sign with if you were him?

Irrelevant. But I wouldn’t use the reasoning of wanting to win a WS on a 9 year contract, that’s for sure. Because how a team looks like in one year doesn’t mean that’s how they’ll look like the next year...and never mind 9 years.

His reasoning was short-sighted, simple. He couldn’t have possibly known whether the Yankees would’ve given him the best chance to win a WS over the duration of his contract.

 

[bloodbrother]

They give him the best or one of the best chances right now and in the immediate future, which is why he chose them. Makes sense to me. Angels are still working to establish themselves as contenders

[Brandon]

11 minutes ago, Angels_Fan said:

Are the Yankees going to be a better team or have more chances than the Angels to win a WS from 2021-2028?

Please answer that question. 

Just stop dude. This premise is one of the most obscure things I have ever seen here right up there with "Jesus was an ass birth"

Both teams will be good and in contention. The Yankees have a more complete team to compete for championships in the coming years.

[Brandon]

12 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Holy shit Clod is back 

Please no one tell Strad

I'm pretty sure we are all being trolled pretty hard. There's no way this is real or serious.

[Angels_Fan]

Just now, Brandon said:

Just stop dude. This premise is one of the most obscure things I have ever seen here right up there with "Jesus was an ass birth"

Both teams will be good and in contention. The Yankees have a more complete team to compete for championships in the coming years.

All you had to do was say “I don’t know”. Which would’ve validated made my point that his decision was short-sighted. Basing your decision on wanting to win a WS when your contract is for 9 years is stupid. He has no idea how his team will look in 2021 and beyond. Or how the Angels would’ve looked. Or any other team, really.

[Angels_Fan]

Anyway, I’m done with this discussion.  

[bloodbrother]

None of these guys are thinking about the end years of their contracts when they sign them with regards to how the teams are gonna look. In any case, Cole has an opt out after yr5 so it's not like he's stuck there the whole 9 years.

[nate]

4 hours ago, m0nkey said:

The Yankees are closer to a title than the Angels.  

 

The Angels future is bright.  It's so bright that one day they could be in the position the yankees are in now.

Yankees could easily win the WS a couple times in the next 5 years.

The Angels are unlikely to even make the playoffs in the next 5 years.

[Stradling]

Unlikely, like less than 50/50?

[Lou]

7 minutes ago, nate said:

Yankees could easily win the WS a couple times in the next 5 years.

easily? lol 

[arch stanton]

But didn’t he also choose the Yankees over a team that won even more games than they did last year and played in back to back World Series before that? Choosing them over the Dodgers as well makes this whole championship schtick sound like a giant pile of rationalized horseshit. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

6 hours ago, m0nkey said:

The Angels future is bright.  It's so bright that one day they could be in the position the yankees are in now.

It shows just how far that the club has come under Billy Eppler for something like this to even be said here. During the Dipoto years, there looked to be no hope. The Angels had arguably the worst farm system in baseball, they were laden with big contracts for underperforming players, and they had no discernible trade chips. Things have changed a lot since Eppler arrived. The one remaining piece is the major league club.

[nate]

4 hours ago, Stradling said:

Unlikely, like less than 50/50?

Without adding two very good starting pitchers, do you really see the Angels winning the division in the next few years?

If not, would they even make the wild card?

Rendon is a great signing and will make the offense fun to watch.  I doesn't do much to make the team winners though.

[Pancake Bear]

5 hours ago, nate said:

Yankees could easily win the WS a couple times in the next 5 years.

The Angels are unlikely to even make the playoffs in the next 5 years.

 

53 minutes ago, nate said:

Without adding two very good starting pitchers, do you really see the Angels winning the division in the next few years?

If not, would they even make the wild card?

Rendon is a great signing and will make the offense fun to watch.  I doesn't do much to make the team winners though.

Per unbiased projections - I.e. Not from Angels fans - the Angels project to have the second best offense at present. Even an okay pitching staff with an elite offense will win a lot of games and without the majority of their games being thrown by minor leaguers who were never supposed to be in the majors last year, they’ll be better than okay per projections.

If you want to be an eternal pessimist, that’s up to you, but don’t pretend that matches the data.

[Brandon]

We're going to win every game 11-9

[ten ocho recon scout]

The Yankees are better than us today, and offered more money. And its the yankees.

Not a huge deal.

For me, if anyone is going to get mad about that, I hope its Heaney.

Heaney IMO is a crucial piece. I hope after last year, everything with Skaggs, the previous years, etc, that hes working his ass off to put it all together finally. Not going to be young forever.

Im not finger pointing at all. But hes one of the bigger coin tosses between us being average and being good. If he stays healthy, and takes a small step forward, we suddenly have a lot better team than I think anyone realizes.

If say he does that, and Canning stays healthy.... with Ohtani and say adding keuchel... with this offense.... were in it against anyone, yankees included.