Stephenson done for the year

[ScottM]

 

[Angel Oracle]

2 minutes ago, ScottM said:

 

TJS or something else?

[Blarg]

1 minute ago, Angel Oracle said:

TJS or something else?

It's just the elbow missing the season. 

[Inside Pitch]

[tdawg87]

[jsnpritchett]

Not surprised.  Disappointed, but not surprised.  Such a stupid signing.

[Ron Mexico]

Can't say the Angels are going to miss him. 

[Ron Mexico]

Dude had to be Damaged goods when the Angels signed him.

[tdawg87]

We got Cimber so fuck this guy.

[Erstad Grit]

Damn

[Angel Oracle]

10 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

Can't say the Angels are going to miss him. 

Can’t miss something you truly never had.

Edited April 18 by Angel Oracle

[Angel Oracle]

11 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Not surprised.  Disappointed, but not surprised.  Such a stupid signing.

Time to discontinue giving longer contracts to relievers?   Doesn’t seem to work out too well a lot of times.

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, Angel Oracle said:

Time to discontinue giving longer contracts to relievers?   Doesn’t seem to work out too well a lot of times.

At least it doesn't for the Angels.  It's still amazing to me that the bullpen is seemingly a problem every single year.  At some point, it seems like just sheer dumb luck would give them a good year overall, but, nope, not recently.

[Ron Mexico]

According to Bob the Angels can now keep him in 2027 for 2.5 mil if they want to 

[Angels 1961]

I hope this is last relief pitcher halos sign for more than 1 year.

[Ron Mexico]

So they had to have known something was wrong for this to be in his contract 

[Angelsfan1984]

Amazing! 

[Angelsjunky]

There goes 11 million dollars.

[jsnpritchett]

I do wonder if his increased reliance on his slider, along with throwing it harder, led to these injuries (shoulder and now elbow).

https://www.mlb.com/news/robert-stephenson-improving-slider-with-rays

 

[JAHV76]

It seems like the halos free agent signing’s the last 10 years have been marginal at best. Hopefully they can fine some pitching via their farm system 

[redoctober2002]

7 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

So they had to have known something was wrong for this to be in his contract

Was about to post this same thing. I can't think of too many players with injury options in their contracts.

11 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

It's still amazing to me that the bullpen is seemingly a problem every single year.  At some point, it seems like just sheer dumb luck would give them a good year overall, but, nope, not recently.

I think a big part of it is that the rotation has been a cluster for years now. It's hard to have a good bullpen when you constantly have to bring relievers in early in the game.

[Hufflepuff]

What percentage of free agent signings work out for the Angels? I can’t think of many.

[Good]: Raised Iglesias, Torii Hunter, Vladdy, Joe Smith

For some reason I can remember the bad ones though:

[Bad]: Gary Matthews, Josh Hamilton, Pujols, Cozart, Justin Upton, CJ Wilson, Rendon, Stephenson, Ryan Tepera, Loupe, Syndergaard, Matt Harvey, Luis Valbuena, Joe Blanton, Shaun Burnett, 

Tyler Anderson (TBD)

15/19 contracts ended up being bad contracts. Maybe it’s time we focus on building the farm system

[EDinTUSTIN]

I am in the camp that thinks that the Angels could've used that money for something else. Thought so from the beginning of this particular move. Stephenson had 3/4 of a very good year, but had been rather pedestrian throughout most of his career, otherwise. I just didn't get the hoopla over him. I mean, it would've been great if he wasn't injured and was occupying the spot of a Suarez, but really, the money used to acquire him could've had been used elsewhere.

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, Hufflepuff said:

What percentage of free agent signings work out for the Angels? I can’t think of many.

[Good]: Raised Iglesias, Torii Hunter, Vladdy, Joe Smith

For some reason I can remember the bad ones though:

[Bad]: Gary Matthews, Josh Hamilton, Pujols, Cozart, Justin Upton, CJ Wilson, Rendon, Stephenson, Ryan Tepera, Loupe, Syndergaard, Matt Harvey, Luis Valbuena, Joe Blanton, Shaun Burnett, 

Tyler Anderson (TBD)

15/19 contracts ended up being bad contracts. Maybe it’s time we focus on building the farm system

I would argue that the Iglesias deal didn't really work out for the Angels.  They salary-dumped him in the first year of the contract for Jesse Chavez and Tucker Davidson (yuck).  He's been fine for the Braves, though.

[jsnpritchett]

I'm also curious who the driving force behind signing Stephenson was.  Was it mostly a Perry move, or someone else in the front office?  I can't imagine Arte had anything to do with that one.