Official 2022-23 Offseason Hot Stove Thread

[Warfarin]

1 minute ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

17.5M for Bellinger, lol.

Dude has become the Andrew Velazquez of Center Field. Until he can prove otherwise, that's what he has become.

Kinda, yeah.  While he was insanely bad in 2021, he did have that leg injury that likely factored into his performance.  Still, looking at this season, you can basically expect the following:  great CF defense, a fair amount of HRs (especially in Wrigley), and tons of Ks and awful swings.

[Warfarin]

3 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

Let's have some halo news

Well, if you want to look for hope, that Lion dude has said that Perry is cooking, or whatever, and it seems that we should expect something soon.  But to be fair, he has actually been one of the most active GMs so far.

[Angels 1961]

4 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

The Giants have a ton of payroll space, even if they sign Judge.  They will assemble talent.

I hope so plus need pitching

[Biergott]

Just now, Warfarin said:

Well, if you want to look for hope, that Lion dude has said that Perry is cooking, or whatever, and it seems that we should expect something soon.  But to be fair, he has actually been one of the most active GMs so far.

[Angels 1961]

This is supposed to be BIG SPLASH Day for Angels

[Warfarin]

2 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

I hope so plus need pitching

I will be very interested to see how that teams does over the next few years.  They literally have no one on the payroll next year - I think their current luxury tax estimate is like 35mil.  That is crazy.  Even if they add Judge, they can probably add like 3-4 more superstars if they want and come in below the luxury tax.

[Angels 1961]

2 minutes ago, Biergott said:

He has just couple more pieces SS SP and BP 

[Erstad Grit]

1 minute ago, Angels 1961 said:

This is supposed to be BIG SPLASH Day for Angels

[Warfarin]

5 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

This is supposed to be BIG SPLASH Day for Angels

BREAKING:  Correa to sign with the Angels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy?  

[Biergott]

2 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

BREAKING:  Correa to sign with the Angels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy?  

[Warfarin]

 

 

[Biergott]

[Warfarin]

33 minutes ago, Biergott said:

Exactly lol.  Maybe the MLB asked clubs to wait to announce things until after the MLB draft lottery tonight, so as to not detract from it?  We'll see.  If you want to read into stuff, that one Lion dude is hosting Twitter spaces right after the lottery ends, so if you are in the camp that feels he actually has info, maybe you can optimistically think that a lot of stuff will start to break tonight  

[Angelsfan1984]

@mmcnow you wait one damn minute sir…does your supposed cat who’s allegedly named merlin…live…..in Texas?

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Take it for whatever its worth but the retired Puerto Rican baseball player who called Verlander to the Mets (almost to the exact amount) a day or two before it was made official is posting that with Judge in the bag, the Giants will turn to Correa and he could sign with them in the upcoming days. 

Based off of reddit users, he has a decent track record. According to them, he also broke Chapman, Yimi Garcia, and Semien to the Jays the last couple years.

[Warfarin]

4 minutes ago, Angels_Make_Me_Drink said:

Take it for whatever its worth but the retired Puerto Rican baseball player who called Verlander to the Mets (almost to the exact amount) a day or two before it was made official is posting that with Judge in the bag, the Giants will turn to Correa and he could sign with them in the upcoming days. 

Based off of reddit users, he has a decent track record. According to them, he also broke Chapman, Yimi Garcia, and Semien to the Jays the last couple years.

I'm sure he's got sources, but I think he also announced that Freddie Freeman was signing with the Blue Jays last year, which obviously didn't exactly happen.

That said, the Giants have a lot of money, so it would not surprise me to see them sign both.  That would be one helluva offseason, and the Yankees will be left out in the cold, which I would very much enjoy lol.

[greginpsca]

3 minutes ago, Angels_Make_Me_Drink said:

Take it for whatever its worth but the retired Puerto Rican baseball player who called Verlander to the Mets (almost to the exact amount) a day or two before it was made official is posting that with Judge in the bag, the Giants will turn to Correa and he could sign with them in the upcoming days. 

Based off of reddit users, he has a decent track record. According to them, he also broke Chapman, Yimi Garcia, and Semien to the Jays the last couple years.

Carlos Baerga?

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Just now, greginpsca said:

Carlos Baerga?

Yeah that guy

I dont know jack shit about him lol. I just came across it browsing the baseball subreddit and figured I'd post it 

[Warfarin]

 

 

[Vlad27Trout27]

1 minute ago, Warfarin said:

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Angels 1961 said:

This is supposed to be BIG SPLASH Day for Angels

There is the breaking news you wanted! Congratz

[ten ocho recon scout]

2 hours ago, Docwaukee said:

the dogs fixed Heaney...and were able to milk a whole 72.2 innings out of him.  

And if I remember correctly, didn't he start reverting to his old self towards the end? Like started hot, "wow, then fixed him", but ended up "yeah that's him"?

[Warfarin]

1 minute ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

And if I remember correctly, didn't he start reverting to his old self towards the end? Like started hot, "wow, then fixed him", but ended up "yeah that's him"?

Yeah, he started to pitch poorly towards the end of the year, giving up tons of HRs.  The Dodgers helped amplify his swing and miss stuff, but they still couldn't really truly "fix" him I'd say.

[Angelsfan1984]

5 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

 

 

Perry is cookin!

[Warfarin]

 

Interesting little tidbit

[ukyah]

10 hours ago, Jason said:

Not a terrible idea at all. I feel like Ward is going to underwhelm us this season 

you could be right and i could be wrong, but i feel exactly the opposite. his bat was big boy big, not just hot, for an extended period and it looked like it was approach driven, imo. secondly, the shoulder injury destroyed him and he came back not really healthy trying to help the team because our depth sucked. once he got healthy again, he went right back to the same results as earlier. i think he unlocked his potential with an advanced approach, we'll see about league adjustments and whether or not i'm totally full of shit or not.