Things You’d Like to See Under New Ownership

[BTH]

Besides the obvious: a winning team that perennially makes the playoffs and wins World Series titles.

I’ll start with a couple things:

• Top down investment in the organization, starting with a President of Baseball Operations being given a huge budget and full autonomy over baseball operations.

• Bring back a version of these full time:

[TempeAngel]

 

Thing You’d Like to See Under New Ownership.

 

Ohtani.

 

[OhtaniSan]

Name change to California Angels or Anaheim Angels

[tdawg87]

New uniforms. 

[Docwaukee]

• A single unified philosophy from top to bottom.  
• No limits on collecting smart people at any level of the org.  
• a proper marriage of analytics and conventional scouting
• Keep Ohtani but winning take precedent over star power.   
• Reasonable budget flexibility
• not a semblance of the pennywise pound foolish mentality
• Build teams on a yearly with the future in mind.  Don't constantly live year to year.  
• Appropriate resources at all levels without sacrificing the lower levels for short term gain at the major league level

[Jason]

I really want to see a focus on scouting, drafting and development of future talent. The idea that the team can fill needs via free agency has not been working. With that said, the org will have to be able to spend the money to retain these same players when the that time comes. 

[Warfarin]

5 hours ago, Docwaukee said:

• A single unified philosophy from top to bottom.  
• No limits on collecting smart people at any level of the org.  
• a proper marriage of analytics and conventional scouting
• Keep Ohtani but winning take precedent over star power.   
• Reasonable budget flexibility
• not a semblance of the pennywise pound foolish mentality
• Build teams on a yearly with the future in mind.  Don't constantly live year to year.  
• Appropriate resources at all levels without sacrificing the lower levels for short term gain at the major league level

In truth, I think that's probably the most important part, and why some organizations are as successful as they are.

We got hints of the discord last year between Maddon and Minasian, and how having that conflict led to significant player development related issues, as they had different visions of how players should utilize information to make adjustments.  I think that is why Maddon was fired instead of simply just waiting for the end of his contract - I think that discrepancy between the two was too great.

So on that note, I'd really hope to see that unified approach moving forward.

[angelsnationtalk]

• President of baseball ops
• Strengthened staff for scouting
• strengthened staff for player development
• payroll flexibility to compete with any team as needed
• Refreshed Angels jerseys from 1976–1992
• Get rid of "LA" on the name
• NUMEROUS WORLD SERIES TITLES 

[Angel Oracle]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

I really want to see a focus on scouting, drafting and development of future talent. The idea that the team can fill needs via free agency has not been working. With that said, the org will have to be able to spend the money to retain these same players when the that time comes. 

This

Only sign the best of your own players to the bigger contracts, no more out of house big money FAs.

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

This

Only sign the best of your own players to the bigger contracts, no more out of house big money FAs.

That should be the norm but there isn’t anything wrong with signing the big name FA from time to time, like Vladdy. 

[AngelsFaninGA]

Treat people in the organization with respect and decency. No more scandals every few months. 

[Taylor]

Bring back Clutch and Scoop.

 

[Pancake Bear]

Never go back to Anaheim Angels, for one.

[Stradling]

Focus on draft and develop

Give the GM the power to hire his own manager 

Use free agency to supplement a team, not to build a team.

Have the budget to fill holes in free agency, when the rest of the team is in place.

Stay out of the headlines in a negative way.

[cba1358]

1. Re-sign Ohtani. No Matter What.

2. Retire #14, #15, & #16. Maybe even #27 (Guerrero). It is crazy that no one from the World Series team has their number retired and the only player in the HOF with an Angels hat doesn't have their number retired.

3. Take care of the minor league situation - Arte has a terrible reputation for treatment of the minor league players and this seems pretty crazy for a guy with as much money as he has.

4. Make a switch to the uniforms. The Los Angeles part of the name doesn't bug me, but either switching to the retro California Angels or making the City Connect uni's the standard.

 

[greginpsca]

12 hours ago, Docwaukee said:

• A single unified philosophy from top to bottom.  
• No limits on collecting smart people at any level of the org.  
• a proper marriage of analytics and conventional scouting
• Keep Ohtani but winning take precedent over star power.   
• Reasonable budget flexibility
• not a semblance of the pennywise pound foolish mentality
• Build teams on a yearly with the future in mind.  Don't constantly live year to year.  
• Appropriate resources at all levels without sacrificing the lower levels for short term gain at the major league level

All of the above and also resolving all the Stadium issues. 

[Swordsman78]

39 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Focus on draft and develop - Check (pitchers in 2021, Rest of positions in 2022)

Give the GM the power to hire his own manager  - Check (Nevin)

Use free agency to supplement a team, not to build a team. - Check (Renfroe etc.)

Have the budget to fill holes in free agency, when the rest of the team is in place. - Check (exceeded $200m)

Stay out of the headlines in a negative way. - Check (no negative headlines)

FIFY

[James]

If none of this already listed doesn't happen, at least hook us up with the Sticky Buns concession stand again. 

[Jay]

Move the team to Boise.

[Taylor]

INO at the stadium. 

@Stradling make it happen.

[Jay]

14 minutes ago, Taylor said:

INO at the stadium. 

@Stradling make it happen.

You could get in line in the 1st inning and by the end of the game get your burger.

[T.G.]

I'd like this team get its swagger back and to be the lead sports story in the local news for what they've done on the field and not off of it. 

And...

See this team play meaningful games in September and October which would make them relevant again. 

Have Angels games be the hottest ticket in town and a stadium full of fans wearing red every night. 

See Jered Weaver inducted into the Angels HOF and Tim Salmon and Garrett Anderson's numbers retired. 

I'd like them to put a first rate broadcast team together and be the featured game on Sunday Night baseball frequently.

I want Shohei Ohtani to join Mike Trout as a life-long Angel. 

I just want Angels baseball to be fun again.

[Taylor]

28 minutes ago, Jay said:

You could get in line in the 1st inning and by the end of the game get your burger.

Or order it ahead of time in the app.

[Stradling]

44 minutes ago, Taylor said:

INO at the stadium. 

@Stradling make it happen.

Not happening.

[Taylor]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Not happening.

Lame.