Rosenthal: Robbie Ray atop the Angels wishlist (signs with Seattle lmao)

[Erstad Grit]

22 minutes ago, ADHB said:

Ray also got an opt out. And as far as we know, Arte doesn’t believe in giving opt outs.

good point

[totdprods]

6 minutes ago, WicketMaiden said:

Could be that he wanted to be the main man. On the M's he's the leader of the pitching staff, on the Angels he's a no3 behind Syndergaard and Ohtani. 

He would not…he won the Cy last year. Easily our #1.

I think the Mariners just made a strong move and he had enough interest and motivation to lock it up. I do think the Angels either dragged ass here or didn’t anticipate it moving as fast as it did. Which makes me wonder how much they really wanted to prioritize him in the first place. So who knows.

[ScottM]

Just pathetic. 

 

[rafibomb]

Just now, ScottSted said:

Just pathetic. 

 

yikes

[Blarg]

Seattle is a beautiful city and he can afford a seaside home on the Sound for far less than anything near the shore in So Cal. Maybe it all works out for him.

But I hope he crashes and burns every game against the Angels. 

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, ScottSted said:

Just pathetic. 

 

Lol.  So, yeah, I guess those tweets about the Angels not having met with him yet WERE true.

[Jason]

F*** the Mariners

[tdawg87]

Lol

[Inside Pitch]

26 minutes ago, Jason said:

F*** the Mariners

No #%$@ the Angels..   

This is like Reagins showing up late to the winter meetings.  If a team's front office is going to spout off left and right about how they will be interested in all the pitching, the least you think they would do is make a hard push for a guy you were supposedly in on.

Instead we are hearing how they were GONNA meet but sat back and let someone else slide in.

Props to the Ms.

 

[Jason]

7 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

No #%$@ the Angels..   

This is like Reagins showing up late to the winter meetings.  If a team's front office is going to spout off left and right about how you will be interested in all the pitching, the least you think they would do is make a hard push for a guy you were supposedly in on.

Instead we are hearing how they were GONNA meet but sat back and let someone else slide in.

Props to the Ms.

 

Ok, f*** them both 

[bloodbrother]

24 minutes ago, ScottSted said:

Just pathetic. 

 

[Kendo36]

Starting to think that the 6-man rotation is deterrent 

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Kendo36 said:

Starting to think that the 6-man rotation is deterrent 

Yeah, could be for some of the top guys.  For Syndergaard, it's probably a plus.  But for guys who are used to going out there every 5th day, I could see it being a negative--or, at least, not a positive.

[Make Angels Great Again]

So once again, Dipoto fucking Angels fans right up the ass.

Dude was held back in his time here or something.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Funny that our previous two GMs got hired fairly recently after being fired here....

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, ADHB said:

Ray also got an opt out. And as far as we know, Arte doesn’t believe in giving opt outs.

They can discuss that next week when they are scheduled to meet.

[CanadianHalo]

So it’s November 29th and the guy they apparently had at the top of their list they hadn’t even met with yet?

Good lord these guys just don’t get it

[tdawg87]

11 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

So once again, Dipoto fucking Angels fans right up the ass.

Dude was held back in his time here or something.

Lets not go too far here.

Dipoto is still a complete asshat. 

[Justin]

41 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

"You don't wanna go to Anaheim, Robbie. Those fans make fun of you when you quit on them mid-season."

[ten ocho recon scout]

27 minutes ago, CanadianHalo said:

So it’s November 29th and the guy they apparently had at the top of their list they hadn’t even met with yet?

Good lord these guys just don’t get it

That, for me, is the big letdown. Again, I want stroman over ray. But if ray was their target, and minasian had time to fly to nyc to take syndegaard to dinner, had time to waste offering scherzer a ton of money, etc etc, and we never even made an offer to our supposed top target...

 

It is not only ridiculous, but it leaves me with zero hope stroman is even in play.

Who knows how far the talks with the reds have gone, but if you cant even reach out to the easiest option (the wide open free agent), then wtf, over

[UndertheHalo]

Isn’t it that dumb bitch Perry’s job to do the meetings.  What the fuck ?!

[GrittyVeterans]

Once again we have a bunch of people on the board who got excited about a few mediocre signings.

In the end it’s just not good enough. We needed to do something special this off-season and get a Syndergaard level upside gamble AND a proven ace(Ray/Scherzer). 
 

For whatever the reason may be, they’ve proven time and time again they just can’t get it done.

 

will be a .500 team

[UndertheHalo]

Definitely bodes ill for our chances with Stroman. 

[BTH]

1 hour ago, Kendo36 said:

Starting to think that the 6-man rotation is deterrent 

are you serious?

Seattle literally uses a 6-man rotation and they signed Ray.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

Funny that our previous two GMs got hired fairly recently after being fired here....

Dipoto quit.