Stephenson?

[jsnpritchett]

 

[ScottM]

Nice, he is needed in the bullpen.

[jsnpritchett]

Ugh.

 

[ScottT]

Fudge 

[ScottM]

Fuck, he pointed to his elbow. 

[TroutField]

Are is never going to spend another cent on a free agent after this. I’ll just laugh so I don’t cry 

[AngelsLakersFan]

He had a nice run for us at least.

[jsnpritchett]

1 hour ago, ScottT said:

Fudge 

 

1 hour ago, ScottM said:

Fuck, he pointed to his elbow. 

Now, I realize it's ScottT for "teen" and ScottM for "mature."

[totdprods]

On 3/13/2024 at 1:46 PM, totdprods said:

Sean Burnett 2.0

Sigh. Mentioned earlier in the winter months he reminded me too much of Matt Wisler or Oliver Drake. Rays found them on scrap heap, made them unreal, and then let them go only to see them disappear to the IL and seemingly out of baseball.

Only “bright side” is I guess we get a free year of control on him if he has elbow surgery. 

Edited April 14 by totdprods

[Ochocinco!]

This signing will forever baffle me. That $11 mill could have been used in so many different ways. Im assuming he’ll need TJ and won’t pitch for another year +… so we’ll still have what another 1.5 years left of control when he comes back? For a 11mill a year reliever with only a 4 month good track record. Yikes 

[jsnpritchett]

3 hours ago, Ochocinco! said:

This signing will forever baffle me. That $11 mill could have been used in so many different ways. Im assuming he’ll need TJ and won’t pitch for another year +… so we’ll still have what another 1.5 years left of control when he comes back? For a 11mill a year reliever with only a 4 month good track record. Yikes 

 

5 hours ago, totdprods said:

Sigh. Mentioned earlier in the winter months he reminded me too much of Matt Wisler or Oliver Drake. Rays found them on scrap heap, made them unreal, and then let them go only to see them disappear to the IL and seemingly out of baseball.

Only “bright side” is I guess we get a free year of control on him if he has elbow surgery. 

@Ochocinco!, what @totdprods says here is correct. If Stephenson spends 130+ days on the IL due to elbow ligament surgery, the Angels have a $2.5M option on him for 2027. Of course, it might not even be worth exercising that option by that point, but it is there. 

And, hey, who knows, maybe it's not as bad as it looked in the video...

[Angels 1961]

Lot of pitching injuries around MLB this year. 

[jsnpritchett]

 

 

[ShotimeDynasty]

2 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

@Ochocinco!, what @totdprods says here is correct. If Stephenson spends 130+ days on the IL due to elbow ligament surgery, the Angels have a $2.5M option on him for 2027. Of course, it might not even be worth exercising that option by that point, but it is there. 

And, hey, who knows, maybe it's not as bad as it looked in the video...

Man, I forgot about that elbow injury clause and sure sucks to be reminded of it in just the second week of April, 2024

[Inside Pitch]

56 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

 

So much "no habla ingles" this year from the Angels.

[AngelStew43]

Oh well, at least we have some options for the pen.  We can always move Soriano back down there, I think he's better in the pen, anyhow.  

There is always Ben Joyce, and Kenyon Yovan is throwing well in SLC.  

[redoctober2002]

I figured if the Angels were going to get shafted by the Stephenson signing it would be due to regression from him not being on the Rays anymore. He had an elbow injury to start the season last year so it wouldn't surprise me if this ends up being kinda nasty.

[DMVol]

10 hours ago, Ochocinco! said:

This signing will forever baffle me. That $11 mill could have been used in so many different ways. Im assuming he’ll need TJ and won’t pitch for another year +… so we’ll still have what another 1.5 years left of control when he comes back? For a 11mill a year reliever with only a 4 month good track record. Yikes 

There was a reason we signed him fairly quickly. He (wisely) jumped on an offer that appeared to be out of line with his track record. 

[Stradling]

2 hours ago, DMVol said:

There was a reason we signed him fairly quickly. He (wisely) jumped on an offer that appeared to be out of line with his track record. 

Except they didn’t sign him fairly quickly. They signed him in January about three weeks before spring training started. 

[Chris]

[James]

18 hours ago, DMVol said:

There was a reason we signed him fairly quickly. He (wisely) jumped on an offer that appeared to be out of line with his track record. 

[Taylor]

Hopefully he writes the sequel to Treasure Island while he's shut down.

[James]

20 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Hopefully he writes the sequel to Treasure Island while he's shut down.

How may TJ surgeries you trying to give this guy? 

Edited April 15 by James

[DMVol]

19 hours ago, DMVol said:

There was a reason we signed him fairly quickly. He (wisely) jumped on an offer that appeared to be out of line with his track record. 

My mistake....it seemed earlier, weird off season. The deal did seem like a reach, regardless of the injury. We'll see if he recovers and produces. 

[Slegnaac]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

Hopefully he writes dictates the sequel to Treasure Island while he's shut down.

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