What's the lineup in 2025?

[Hubs]

Angelswin Oracles, 

I ask you, what is the lineup and rotation not next year, but on opening day in three years. I think they will do their best to win next season and keep Ohtani for a few more years. But you may disagree. I feel like for the first time in over a decade, they have a solid core of young position players ready to contribute starting in 2023, and 2024 a lot of new faces will be up.

2B Fletcher

CF Trout

DH Ohtani

RF Judge

3B Rendon

C O'Hoppe

1B DiChara

LF Ward

SS Neto

SP1 Ohtani

SP2 Detmers

SP3 Sandoval

SP4 Bush

SP5 Bachman

SP6 Silseth

CL Joyce

 

[Hubs]

I'm sort of joking with the Judge pick, but the way Arte operates, I'm not totally joking. Even though he's selling the team, he may go for it one more time.

It's far more likely Adell or Calabrese, Moniak or Adams in CF and Trout in Left, Ward in RF. 

 

[Taylor]

Depends. Which journeymen 0.0 WAR veterans are free agents after 2024?

[BTH]

1. Fletcher- 2B

2. Trout- LF

3. Rendon- 3B

4. Hoskins- 1B

5. Ward- RF

6. O'Hoppe- C

7. Neto- SS

8. Rengifo- 3B

9. Moniak/Adell- CF

 

SP-

1. Bieber

2. Sandoval

3. Detmers

4. Bush

5. Suarez

 

[Angelsfan1984]

Why worry about 2025? 3 years is a lifetime away in baseball. 

[failos]

Bookmarked.

[Jason]

Realistically you have to move Trout and Rendon out of the line ups as they will be on the IL

[Angelsjunky]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Realistically you have to move Trout and Rendon out of the line ups as they will be on the IL

They'll be on the ambulance squad.

[Taylor]

Which Angels will be out of the lineup on the trip to Bangladesh because they aren't vaccinated against emufluenza?

[m0nkey]

Where are wallach and ford? 

[Lou]

1 minute ago, m0nkey said:

Where are wallach and ford? 

Wallach was trades for deGrom

[m0nkey]

39 minutes ago, Lou said:

Wallach was trades for deGrom

This can only mean Ford was traded to get Ohtani back

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

This can only mean Ford was traded to get Ohtani back

Thanks, Arte! 

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

Wallach was trades for deGrom

How many trades?

[Lou]

5 minutes ago, Taylor said:

How many trades?

411

[Warfarin]

20 hours ago, Hubs said:

I'm sort of joking with the Judge pick, but the way Arte operates, I'm not totally joking. Even though he's selling the team, he may go for it one more time.

It's far more likely Adell or Calabrese, Moniak or Adams in CF and Trout in Left, Ward in RF. 

 

Arte is trying to sell the team - he will act differently now.  No new owner will want to inherit tons of debt from the previous owner, and rather, would likely want to make their own decisions in terms of payroll.

I highly doubt we will see any significant contract given in the offseason.  We will probably see 1 and 2 year deals, but I doubt anything more than that.  Judge is not coming here, and in truth, we have no business signing him anyway until this team improves further and starts pumping out young, cheap talent in droves.  THAT would be the time to start shelling out big deals to free agents, not before then.

[fan_since79]

3 years?

Third wild card! Book it.

 

[Angelsjunky]

I'm still mourning the fact that the 2025 lineup won't include Brandon Marsh, and maybe not even Jo Adell or Jordyn Adams. 

[Revad]

3 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

I'm still mourning the fact that the 2025 lineup won't include Brandon Marsh, and maybe not even Jo Adell or Jordyn Adams. 

That sucks, I agree.  BTW O’Hoppe for MVP 2025.

[Angelsfan1984]

More importantly, trouts son will be draft eligible in 16 years. How big of a contract will he get?

[BigVladdy]

On 9/1/2022 at 12:01 PM, Hubs said:

I'm sort of joking with the Judge pick, but the way Arte operates, I'm not totally joking. Even though he's selling the team, he may go for it one more time.

It's far more likely Adell or Calabrese, Moniak or Adams in CF and Trout in Left, Ward in RF. 

 

Thank you for clarifying 

[wopphil]

On 9/1/2022 at 12:06 PM, Taylor said:

Depends. Which journeymen 0.0 WAR veterans are free agents after 2024?

I love your optimism. 

[Slegnaac]

6 hours ago, Lou said:

411

How many for cash considerations?

[BTH]

3 hours ago, Angelsjunky said:

I'm still mourning the fact that the 2025 lineup won't include Brandon Marsh, and maybe not even Jo Adell or Jordyn Adams. 

Pretty wild…

And let that be a lesson for people who think the Angels have a middle infield surplus, because they don’t since prospects will often fail to reach their potential.

[Warfarin]

58 minutes ago, Trendon said:

Pretty wild…

And let that be a lesson for people who think the Angels have a middle infield surplus, because they don’t since prospects will often fail to reach their potential.

I do think that Marsh will end up being a solid MLB player.  I think the FO decided they wanted to strengthen C more than they wanted a young OF.  A lot of Marsh's value comes from his CF defense, which wasn't that essential for us given we have Trout manning CF.  I think Adell, though, will likely not materialize, unless he makes a significant leap in his plate discipline.