The Official 2022 Spring Training Hot Stove Thread

[Hubs]

Two Years and 44 is way doable. Oh well. 

Rodon became my priority during the lockout, over a trade for a starter. Now I see trade, if they add another starter. They may not. They have 12 guys on the 40 who they've either signed as starters or started for us last year. Ohtani, Syndergaard, Lorenzen, Sandoval, Suarez, Barria, Canning, Detmers. Naughton, Criswell and Junk also started. C-Rod is gonna go on the 60-Day Injured list to start the season.

I thought they may need another pen arm, but with Suarez, Lorenzen, and now Buttrey maybe in the pen mix, they may not.

 

[angelsnationtalk]

1 minute ago, tdawg87 said:

I honestly think we're getting Suzuki and trading Adell/Marsh for Castillo. 

That's my prediction.

It makes sense to me.

[mmc]

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

If he's good again this year and stays healthy, he would almost assuredly opt out.  If he sucks and/or isn't healthy, then a) he's not helping this year and b) the Angels are stuck with him at $20M+ for 2023.  They already have Syndergaard and Lorenzen on 1-year deals.  As always with the Angels, they need guys that are controllable.

It's definitely not the ideal move, I'm just not convinced we're going to come up with anything better.

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, mmc said:

 

[Don]

1 minute ago, bloodbrother said:

Angels already made their big gamble with the Syndergaard signing. I think they'll be acquiring another arm by trade or signing some vet on the market like Greinke...IF they actually add another SP  of course. Let's hope they do because they sure as hell need more than 1 SP

I wouldn't be shocked if Greinke just retires now that he can't go to a NL team and hit. I know that sounds like an odd basis for such a decision, but it would absolutely be a Greinke-esque thing to do. Pretty sure the dude has mentioned before that he really wants to get to double digit career HRs. He's sitting at 9.

[mmc]

Amazing what you can do with Josh Hamilton money

 

[Inside Pitch]

3 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

I'm really pulling for Jerry on this one.

[Angelsfan1984]

he did wake up with a rager to transact

[Don]

1 minute ago, mmc said:

Amazing what you can do with Josh Hamilton money

 

That's a real solid bargain rotation.

[Hubs]

5 minutes ago, mmc said:

Amazing what you can do with Josh Hamilton money

 

They lost out in the Robbie Ray to the Mariners, Kevin Gausman to the Blue Jays swap, so this is presumably Gausman's replacement. 

 

[mmc]

 

[Don]

1 minute ago, mmc said:

 

When do playoff tickets go on sale?

[jsnpritchett]

7 minutes ago, Don said:

When do playoff tickets go on sale?

[Erstad Grit]

29 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

Angels already made their big gamble with the Syndergaard signing. I think they'll be acquiring another arm by trade or signing some vet on the market like Greinke...IF they actually add another SP  of course. Let's hope they do because they sure as hell need more than 1 SP

That's why stroman was such a good fit imo

[HanfordGuy]

15 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

The piece.

[mmc]

 

[HanfordGuy]

4 hours ago, Taylor said:

I've never heard of this guy, but I'm outraged that the Angels didn't get him. 

He’s been in Japan the past 2 years. 

[nando714]

Angels front office thinks they’re still locked out 

[Don]

8 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

That's why stroman was such a good fit imo

I know I can't be right, but it seems like Stroman is a FA or very publicly available via trade every single year.

[tdawg87]

22 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Perry will sign a reliever to a minor league deal for the lolz

 

28 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

Nailed it.

[HanfordGuy]

6 minutes ago, nando714 said:

Angels front office thinks they’re still locked out 

Perry got locked out of his cell phone.

[HanfordGuy]

4 hours ago, mmc said:

 

Morning transaction.

[Lazorko Saves]

5 minutes ago, HanfordGuy said:

Perry got locked out of his cell phone.

Live shot of the Angels corporate checkbook after Arte left the room:

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, Lazorko Saves said:

Live shot of the Angels corporate checkbook after Arte left the room:

I have the same one. 

[mmc]