How the Angels Spent $450 Million and Became one of the Worst Teams in Baseball

[mopuddin]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1673618-how-the-angels-spent-450m-and-became-one-of-the-worst-teams-in-baseball

 

[Brent Maguire]

These articles are so depressing

[Glen]

"1 of the worst..."?  Holy shit, they can't even write out "one" anymore? 

[austin724]

I hate this season. I wish it was over now.

[gotbeer]

cry.  Hamilton.  The entire two parts about him was not good.

[Chuck]

Zzzzzzz

[Lou]

they haven't spent $450 million

[Lifetime]

Bleacher Report? Not interested. 

[Angel Oracle]

they haven't spent $450 million

Not yet, but that is the total sum of Pujols', Hackilton's, and Nibs Nibbler's contracts.

That's a lot of money for three players who so far have probably truly earned collectively 1/3 of their salary to date.

[Lou]

so the title of the article is incorrect

[Brandon]

Pretty brutal read.

[Palomar]

Is there an equivalent article about the Dodgers?

[austin724]

Exactly, why are the Dodgers getting a pass. They are equally as awful and have a payroll nearly 100 million more than ours. It's funny, when I watch the baskeball games I see Magic Johnson as one of the commentators. I wonder if he is trying to stay away from the team.

[DMVol]

Bleacher Report? Not interested. 

Would agree that Bleacher Report is normally like AO on a bad day but there is little in that article to disagree with....at least I can't ....a 10 year deal for Scioscia was crazy, even with his success...no need to go that far, way beyond any industry norm....Pujols and Hamilton were terrible signings, before the ink was dry..."win now" can't justify half a billion dollars in bad long term investments...not sure CJ was that bad, would probably disagree there...

[Lifetime]

I won't even read an article they write anymore. They lack credibility and their writing sucks. Their articles have less value than a Simers piece. 

[Ohtaniland]

I'm just glad they didn't waste too much money on Weaver, Trout and Trumbo.

[mulwin444]

"Oh no, we suck again!"

[WallyWorld]

given the source, this is actually a pretty well written article.  and this coming from a guy who thinks very little of BR.

 

the most interesting part to me, because I hadn't heard it: "According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, Scioscia actually considered stepping down after Hatcher was given the boot."

 

maybe if Jerry fires Butcher it will be the final straw?   

[Angel Oracle]

At least Kendrick is hitting well shortly after his new deal took effect.

[Lifetime]

"Scioscia denies that he ever contemplated resigning or challenged Dipoto to fire him. Dipoto, too, denies that Scioscia issued such a challenge, and says that the give-and-take between them is no different than it is between any manager and GM."

[mtangelsfan]

I don't believe the story, but a denial from Sosh or Dipoto doesn't really hold much wait.  It's not like they would admit it anyways.

[Lifetime]

As much as any unnamed source does. 

[Taylor]

The fact that they don't spell out 'one' in the headline tarnishes the article's credibility.

[ettin]

I won't even read an article they write anymore. They lack credibility and their writing sucks. Their articles have less value than a Simers piece. 

 

Ouch.

[YouthofToday]

"Moreno had other ideas. According to Ken Rosenthal, it was Moreno who spearheaded the club's pursuit of Josh Hamilton, and his signing left little financial wiggle room for Dipoto to rebuild the pitching staff. He was going to have to do what he could."