Angels re-sign Raisel Iglesias (4 years, $58 million), DFA Selman

[Capital_Dave]

What is this feeling?  The Angels did something… right?  

[Cosmo_Kramer]

1 minute ago, Second Base said:

A little bit of an overpay, maybe by 3 million per year, but not bad. 

Depending on how they structure the contract, it looks like the Angels payroll is now sitting around 172 million (assuming Iglesias'salary is even across the board). 

They've gone to 190 before and likely even may go to 200, as long as it's under the luxury tax, which it is. 

I don't see any reason why they can't afford Marcus Stroman and a backup catcher and stay under 200 million. 

And a shortstop

[ten ocho recon scout]

Here's hoping it wont go bad in the end, but for now and the immediate future, this is great news. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Now go get him someone to close out games for....

[Biergott]

This is such a relief.  
 

Snag Stroman and the pendulum has gone the other way.   An Ohtani extension would be nice too while we are at it.  And maybe C Taylor.

 

but seriously, huge relief 

[Lou]

4 minutes ago, Second Base said:

A little bit of an overpay, maybe by 3 million per year

There is no way he was signing for 4/$46M.

[Bronson]

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

There is no way he was signing for 4/$46M.

Yeah at first I thought he meant 3 million off the total which would make much more sense.

[JAHV76]

[AngelsLakersFan]

3 minutes ago, Lou said:

There is no way he was signing for 4/$46M.

It seems like just yesterday I was saying there was no way he’d go for less than $45 million and people thought I was exaggerating.

[Lou]

MLBTR predicted 4/56

[T.G.]

Never a doubt 

[Pancake Bear]

Good move. Now take a note from Steve Cohen and go big: Sign Stroman and Taylor (and a backup catcher) and call it an offseason. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

Also, there goes most of the Ray money. I could still see them adding another $10-15m hopefully.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Awesome move! Lockout begins tomorrow night, correct?

[HanfordGuy]

[beatlesrule]

I still wish the Angels would have traded him at the deadline but no way of knowing if the Angels still get him if they did. At least they were able to re-sign him so not trading him makes a little more sense now. Good stuff!

[ettin]

14 minutes ago, Lou said:

MLBTR predicted 4/56

There was an easy case that he could have made more, based on past FA relief signings for guys of his caliber, so the $14.5M AAV feels like a slight "hometown" discount because Raisel likely wanted to stay as originally reported by @Jeff Fletcher. Excellent deal for a reliever of his caliber and our bullpen now has real potential to be a weapon in 2022.

Personally, I am happy with all of the moves to-date. If the Angels can squeeze another front-of-the-rotation type pitcher for no more than about $8M in a trade, they will have a tremendously successful offseason. As of now they have a good offseason in my humble opinion.

[failos]

HELL YEAH

[failos]

[Angelsjunky]

50 minutes ago, angelsnationtalk said:

When was this idea changed? Even when they were rumored in on Scherzer and Ray, they have always said they want Iglesias back. Nothing has changed. They still want another starter. 

21 + 8.5 + 6.75 + 14.5 = 50.75M added to payroll. How much more do you expect them to spend? They also need help in the middle infield and probably backup catcher.

That said, I hope they bust the bank and sign Stroman or Rodon, not so much trading Marsh + Detmers for Castillo.

Edited December 1, 2021 by Angelsjunky

[Angelsjunky]

Liam Hendricks, who is a better pitcher than Raisel--he's been almost Gagnean over the last three years--got 3/$55M. Considering that Raisel isn't as good but still elite, I'll take 4 years at basically the same price.

[arch stanton]

2 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

21 + 8.5 + 6.75 + ~15 = ~52M added to payroll. How much more do you expect them to spend? They also need help in the middle infield and probably backup catcher.

That said, I hope they bust the bank and sign Stroman or Rodon, not so much trading Marsh + Detmers for Castillo.

Judging by who they're rumored to be in on, my guess is they're allowed to go exactly 1 Upton over budget for this season so it balances back up for next

[aznhockeyguy]

Always risky to give relievers multiyear contracts, but this had to be done after the Angels decided not to trade him at the deadline. 

[T.G.]

Minasian has Moxie 

[Bronson]

8 minutes ago, failos said: