Calhoun to DBacks...

[AngelsLakersFan]

4 hours ago, floplag said:

Not a bad little deal at all, more than i thought he would get, good for him. 

Remember when everyone told me I was wrong when I said he’d get more money than the Angels owed him?

[Roy Hobbs]

8 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Remember when everyone told me I was wrong when I said he’d get more money than the Angels owed him?

This is a two year deal, $6 million in 2020 and $8 million in 2021.The Angels had to pay him $14 million for 1 year, so this new deal is for less.

[floplag]

18 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Remember when everyone told me I was wrong when I said he’d get more money than the Angels owed him?

Well to be fair thats 2 years not one, but... yeah, more total dollars

[AngelsLakersFan]

9 minutes ago, Roy Hobbs said:

This is a two year deal, $6 million in 2020 and $8 million in 2021.The Angels had to pay him $14 million for 1 year, so this new deal is for less.

He is guaranteed $16m. The point was that I predicted he’d get more than the Angels $14m option, and thus if the Angels didn’t want to commit to him at $14m for one year they would likely have to commit to more total dollars if they wanted to bring him back. This was when people were talking about bringing him back on a cheaper deal.

[Troll Daddy]

Sweet deal for Kole ... congratulations kole if you’re listening  

[Stradling]

38 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

That's he's a 2 WAR player?  Maybe Eppler just didn't want to trade him. Pure and simple.  I find it incredibly difficult to believe that absolutely no team wanted him.

Haha, so which teams needed a right fielder the last 2 months that wanted to spend $5 million for possibly winning one more game. 

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, beatlesrule said:

Apparently, no teams wanted to trade for Calhoun at the deadline but the Diamondbacks just gave him 16 million. Hmmmm....

No team wanted the 14 million dollar option for one year.  You do know the 16 million is for two years...right?

[Drink More Yakult]

14 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Haha, so which teams needed a right fielder the last 2 months that wanted to spend $5 million for possibly winning one more game. 

The Brewers. That one game they win is the wild card game because there isn’t a 3 run error in right. Strasburg doesn’t opt out and completely reset the pitching market. Astros win the WS so Cole doesn’t care about winning as much. The Angels sign Cole for 7/$245

[nate]

Good for him, I thought he might make a little more than that but I am happy for him.

[papawealey]

Best wishes to Kole, a gamer for sure.

[Stradling]

32 minutes ago, Drink More Yakult said:

The Brewers. That one game they win is the wild card game because there isn’t a 3 run error in right. Strasburg doesn’t opt out and completely reset the pitching market. Astros win the WS so Cole doesn’t care about winning as much. The Angels sign Cole for 7/$245

At the deadline they had Yellich playing right field. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

1 hour ago, beatlesrule said:

That's he's a 2 WAR player?  Maybe Eppler just didn't want to trade him. Pure and simple.  I find it incredibly difficult to believe that absolutely no team wanted him.

I am sure they could have traded him for some team’s 17th best prospect. 
 

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

I'm glad he's on a team where we won't have to see him constantly destroy the Angels like he's ARod Napoli or something 

much more accurate.

[failos]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

Sweet deal for Kole ... congratulations kole if you’re listening  

Thanks

[failos]

2 hours ago, beatlesrule said:

That's he's a 2 WAR player?  Maybe Eppler just didn't want to trade him. Pure and simple.  I find it incredibly difficult to believe that absolutely no team wanted him.

Is this your shtick now?

[Lou]

3 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Remember when everyone told me I was wrong when I said he’d get more money than the Angels owed him?

maybe you should change your name to Third Base 

[JustATroutFan]

Calhoun should thank the juiced baseballs for the contract that he got. Dude just swung for the fences every single time when he came up to the plate. Sucks 

[Troll Daddy]

1 hour ago, JustATroutFan said:

Calhoun should thank the juiced baseballs for the contract that he got. Dude just swung for the fences every single time when he came up to the plate. Sucks 

Unlike Trout 

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

Unlike Trout 

Correct. 

[Slegnaac]

4 hours ago, Lou said:

maybe you should change your name to Third Base 

D'Lou'd

[Blarg]

19 hours ago, Drink More Yakult said:

The Brewers. That one game they win is the wild card game because there isn’t a 3 run error in right. Strasburg doesn’t opt out and completely reset the pitching market. Astros win the WS so Cole doesn’t care about winning as much. The Angels sign Cole for 7/$245

The Brewers had Ryan Braun in left, Lorenzo Cain in center and Christian Yelich in right. There was no reason for them to trade for Calhoun at the deadline. 

[disarcina]

so long Kole -- he had a good Halos career.

hope he does well at his next duty station.

the old adage applies here - rather part with a player a year or two too soon than a year or two too late.

all this being said -- I just don't see high K ratio guy Kole being an effective roster addition to an NL team,

how many times did Calhoun strike out last year ?  I am going to guess-estimate 125-130 -- far too much for being part of an NL line up.

 

[Make Angels Great Again]

On 12/24/2019 at 5:15 PM, JustATroutFan said:

Calhoun should thank the juiced baseballs for the contract that he got. Dude just swung for the fences every single time when he came up to the plate. Sucks 

 

[disarcina]

well, it's definitely KOLE with a "K"

he averaged 145 K's a season during his Halos career.

in 2019 he struck out 162 times -- that's an average of once a game if he played all 162 games.

for a hit and run type NL team -- that just won't work.

Kole's K numbers per season since 2015: 2015 - 164; 2016- 118; 2017 - 134; 2018 - 133 and then 2019 - 162.

on to the D-BacKs

 

 

 

[Stradling]

2 hours ago, calscuf said:

Seriously Strad’s new profile pic just makes me angry.

Only cause you don’t get it.