Mt. Rushmore Good & Bad of Angels Free Agent Signings

[JoJo26]

GOOD MT. RUSHMORE: Vladdy (best ever), Bobby Grich, Torii Hunter and Don Baylor (OKAY - Inside Pitch corrected me - as I only relied on my memory - thinking the cowboy emptied his money bags for Carew, DeCinces & Lynn. REVISED)

Honorable Mention: Chili Davis, (some might say - but I don't) Bart Colon, Reggie Jackson

BAD MT. RUSHMORE: Albert, Josh, Mo, GMJr 

MANY Honorable Mentions....  

[T.G.]

I'll add Torii Hunter, Anthony Rendon, and Chili Davis

[failos]

Sosh, Vlad, Bartolo Colon, Torii, Orlando Cabrera, and some other dudes

[Docwaukee]

Wasn't Ohtani a signing?   

[rageous]

2 hours ago, True Grich said:

I'll add Torii Hunter, Anthony Rendon, and Chili Davis

How the hell do you put Anthony Rendon on there when he has produced 1/3 of a full season and still has 6 out of 7 years left on the contract?

[Angel Oracle]

Mt. Rushmore: Vlad, Baylor, Grich, Torii

Mt. Crushmore: Pujols, Hamilton, GMJ, Vaughn

[Jason]

1 hour ago, rageous said:

How the hell do you put Anthony Rendon on there when he has produced 1/3 of a full season and still has 6 out of 7 years left on the contract?

This was about Mt. Rushmore good and Mt. Rushmore bad and he didn’t specify which one he’d go on. Maybe he meant bad? It’s a little early to make judgment for Rendon but he’s trending in the wrong direction. 

[Jason]

2 hours ago, Dochalo said:

Wasn't Ohtani a signing?   

I guess he technically was but the halos did have him his “rookie” season 

[nate]

7 hours ago, failos said:

Sosh, Vlad, Bartolo Colon, Torii, Orlando Cabrera, and some other dudes

OC was a trade

Any bad list should also include CJ Wilson

 

[oldguy]

More Mt. Crushmore - Gaetti, Hillenbrand, Steve Finley, Jack McDowell, Bill Travers, 

[T.G.]

5 hours ago, rageous said:

How the hell do you put Anthony Rendon on there when he has produced 1/3 of a full season and still has 6 out of 7 years left on the contract?

I just typed his name using my keyboard.

[Inside Pitch]

9 hours ago, JoJo26 said:

GOOD MT. RUSHMORE: Vladdy (best ever), Bobby Grich, Fred Lynn, Don Baylor

Honorable Mention: Doug DeCinces, (some might say - but I don't) Bart Colon, Reggie Jackson, Rod Carew

BAD MT. RUSHMORE: Albert, Josh, Mo, GMJr 

MANY Honorable Mentions....  

Lynn, DeCinces, and Carew were trades....

[Inside Pitch]

43 minutes ago, True Grich said:

I just typed his name using my keyboard.

[m0nkey]

1 hour ago, nate said:

OC was a trade

 

Who’d they trade?

[nate]

1 minute ago, m0nkey said:

Who’d they trade?

My bad, he was a FA, traded by the Angels for Garland, misremembered.

@failos

[Taylor]

8 hours ago, Dochalo said:

Wasn't Ohtani a signing?   

No, that was destiny.

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

No, that was destiny.

This makes him sound more exciting 

[Taylor]

8 minutes ago, Toby Flenderson said:

This makes him sound more exciting 

You don't find Ohtani exciting?

[happybat4]

Vaughn and CJ Wilson weren't great, but they certainly are not the worst.

[Tank]

this is your yearly reminder that some of you need to go back and look up mo vaughn's stats when he played here.

hint: they weren't awful.

[T.G.]

Is it true that when Tank started teaching school in Glendale, more families in that community opted to home school their kids?

[Angel Oracle]

8 hours ago, Toby Flenderson said:

This was about Mt. Rushmore good and Mt. Rushmore bad and he didn’t specify which one he’d go on. Maybe he meant bad? It’s a little early to make judgment for Rendon but he’s trending in the wrong direction. 

His health is.   The stats are there.

[Angel Oracle]

52 minutes ago, Tank said:

this is your yearly reminder that some of you need to go back and look up mo vaughn's stats when he played here.

hint: they weren't awful.

My issue was that he only gave them 2 productive seasons on a 5 year contract, and from reports not a good clubhouse guy.

I did go back and forth on putting Vaughn or Nibs on Mt. Crushmore.

Edited May 14, 2021 by Angel Oracle

[Chuck]

GOOD MT. RUSHMORE: Vladimir Guerrero, Bobby Grich, Don Baylor, Shohei Ohtani

BAD MT. RUSHMORE: Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton, Mo Vaughn, Gary Matthews Jr.  

[Tank]

44 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

My issue was that he only gave them 2 productive seasons on a 5 year contract, and from reports not a good clubhouse guy.

I did go back and forth on putting Vaughn or Nibs on Mt. Crushmore.

he was injured and missed the entire third year of his contract, then was dumped on the mets for appier or sele and we won the WS without him. but his stats for the two years he played here were good.