Official 2021-22 Hot Stove League Thread.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, Stradling said:

Correa

Duh. Totally missed it

[tdawg87]

Corrhea

[m0nkey]

holy

[angelsnationtalk]

Deal is 12yr/$223M 

[Hubs]

I'm 100% with Scooter Gennett here. Correa is a fucking cheating bastard and he and Altuve are the worst of the lot. They're trying to push this narrative that the Astros are clean now, but somehow I fucking doubt it.

They won a WS by exploiting a loophole. The front office gave up the sacrificial lamb, but they absolutely should've been punished harder. Vacate the WS and explain that any further cheating schemes get them a post season ban, or even removed from the league for a year.

Fuck the Asterisks.

 

[Jason]

1 minute ago, Hubs said:

I'm 100% with Scooter Gennett here. Correa is a fucking cheating bastard and he and Altuve are the worst of the lot. They're trying to push this narrative that the Astros are clean now, but somehow I fucking doubt it.

They won a WS by exploiting a loophole. The front office gave up the sacrificial lamb, but they absolutely should've been punished harder. Vacate the WS and explain that any further cheating schemes get them a post season ban, or even removed from the league for a year.

Fuck the Asterisks.

 

It would be nice if no club signs him and has a "fuck that guy" attitude 

[mmc]

 

[nando714]

Steal for Tampa Bay. Wander will be a top 10 player for years 

[rottiesworld]

1 hour ago, Angels 1961 said:

I think Ray goes back to Toronto, Gausman back to Giants, Mad Max to Dodgers and that leaves Stroman. So many teams going after starters not as easy as saying need to get one of those 4. That is plan A but may have to go to plan B.

It will be like every year and go with plan D

[Angels 1961]

46 minutes ago, Jason said:

It would be nice if no club signs him and has a "fuck that guy" attitude 

That would be nice but Astro's would sign him at a discount. I would like him to sign in same league as Joe Kelly

[Lou]

46 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

I thought they were poor.

[mmc]

 

[mmc]

 

[angelsnationtalk]

Soooooo maybe they add Stroman and Iglesias then? 

Hell, get Scherzer and Iglesias. 

[totdprods]

2 minutes ago, angelsnationtalk said:

Soooooo maybe they add Stroman and Iglesias then? 

Hell, get Scherzer and Iglesias. 

Personally, I think Arte has given the greenlight to Perry to sign Iglesias (~$15m) and one of Scherzer, Gausman, Ray, maybe even Kershaw :/, perhaps Stroman (~$25-$30m), and that he's willing to up payroll to that amount, but that being the limit, and, if none of those are met, and expectation to fill out the needs while sticking close to the $180m. 

It's just up to those guys deciding if they want to sign here.

[angelsnationtalk]

1 minute ago, totdprods said:

Personally, I think Arte has given the greenlight to Perry to sign Iglesias (~$15m) and one of Scherzer, Gausman, Ray, maybe even Kershaw :/, perhaps Stroman (~$25-$30m), and that he's willing to up payroll to that amount, but that being the limit, and, if none of those are met, and expectation to fill out the needs while sticking close to the $180m. 

It's just up to those guys deciding if they want to sign here.

Scherzer might command $30M+. But if that's the case, then he's the player that could put the icing on the cake for the Angels. 
Perry seems to be working some good magic in getting players to sign. 

Don't forget that Trout was recruiting Scherzer at the end of last year. My gut tells me they will take a hard run at him. 

Offseason of Syndergaard, Loup, Iglesias and Scherzer would almost be a dream. 

[angelsnationtalk]

https://www.mlb.com/angels/video/mark-gubicza-on-ohtani-angels?t=t108-default-vtp

 

""There's going to be another big name, I think, in the next few days as far as signing with the Angels" This is Gubi referring to our starting pitching. He and Roger Lodge might just be pumping the team up, but it's also bold to say. Maybe they know of some names we are still talking to. 

[EdmontonAngelsFan]

Hasn't Gubi done this before and nothing came of it?

[m0nkey]

1 minute ago, EdmontonAngelsFan said:

Hasn't Gubi done this before and nothing came of it?

So then he’s due

[EdmontonAngelsFan]

Just now, m0nkey said:

So then he’s due

I like the way you think!

[Chuck]

13 minutes ago, angelsnationtalk said:

https://www.mlb.com/angels/video/mark-gubicza-on-ohtani-angels?t=t108-default-vtp

 

""There's going to be another big name, I think, in the next few days as far as signing with the Angels" This is Gubi referring to our starting pitching. He and Roger Lodge might just be pumping the team up, but it's also bold to say. Maybe they know of some names we are still talking to. 

I wouldn't believe a word Gubi says. He's a hype machine that has no clue what's going on behind the scenes. 

[EdmontonAngelsFan]

 

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I wouldn't believe a word Gubi says. He's a hype machine that has no clue what's going on behind the scenes. 

He and Lodge are Halo Honks so that makes them legit 

[Chuck]

3 minutes ago, EdmontonAngelsFan said:

 

 

[totdprods]

Graveman doesn’t have the track record Iglesias does.

Between Graveman, Kimbrel, and Hendricks, plus their other arms, their pen is nuts. 

Trading Kimbrel and his 1/$16m could be an option now, either for the Angels or teams looking at Raisel. This also might make the Raisel market move quicker too.