Dear Arte...

[halobob]

Cut beer prices in half the rest of the season...we're gonna need it.

[Angel Oracle]

Stop hiring sucky GMs.

Just STOP it!

[YouthofToday]

Stop hiring sucky GMs.

Just STOP it!

Dipoto really hasn't been a bad GM. Reagins was a terrible GM and Arte forced the Albert Pujols & Nightmare Child signings on Dipoto.

[mtangelsfan]

Who only made it worse by signing Pujols, Hamilton, Blanton and Madson.

[Angel Oracle]

I do wish someone would give Moreno the Steinbrenner treatment (suspension) for his own good. He has gotten in the way of this org's progress.

[YouthofToday]

Madson I have no issue with. I liked the risk/reward of the signing. The process made sense.

[mtangelsfan]

What move with the Angels has Dipoto made that gives him a pass on this season?  What gives him a pass on Madson?

[tdawg87]

I want to give Dipoto a pass for this year, but then I look at Blanton and I'm like "oh".

[Troll Daddy]

I still laugh at all you jokers thinking that Moreno Forced Dipoto's hand to sign pool holes and Hamilton

[Angel Oracle]

Whoever signed them needs to be ridiculed for spending $365 million on yesteryear players.

[OregonLAA]

I really don't understand the Moreno bashing or the Dipoto bashing. At all

[austin724]

We just all need to vent.  I don't understand the Moreno bashing. At least he wants to win. Dipoto on the other hand is a terrible GM.

[mtangelsfan]

I really don't understand the Moreno bashing or the Dipoto bashing. At all

 

I don't understand the free pass given to Dipoto.

[SmallSampleSize]

Annnnnnnnd down goes the rest of the Dipoto bandwagon.

[YouthofToday]

Blaming Dipoto for the Albert Pujols and nightmare Child is ridiculous, IMO. Blame the dude who signs the checks.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

The biggest signings have been grossly underperforming and that's not the owner or GM's fault. Blanton was a flat out bad signing which you can blame the GM for but the starters being hit with injuries aren't anyone's fault.

[OregonLAA]

Moreno has done everything he can to help this team win. The decisions haven't worked out, but the man is willing to do whatever it takes. You guys are ungrateful. We can go back to the shit days where no one came here and we never had a chance to win.

As for Dipoto, he doesn't exactly get a pass, but the only move he has made that I have disliked has been the Blanton signing. Everyone bitches about pitching, but people seem to forget the rotation he built last year and how it didn't work out. The players have to pan out or he looks bad. Burnett and Madson haven't done much to help, but Coello and DDLR have helped out big time and they were picked up off the scrap pile. What has Dipoto done to deserve the hate

[mtangelsfan]

It seems like a general narrative for people who like the moneyball approach (like dipoto) to blame Arte for the signings of Pujols and Hamilton.

 

This seems like a huge leap of logic to give the GM a pass on FA acquisitions.

[OregonLAA]

And once again, there were no starters out there. Greinke is overrated and **** paying him 150 million. Everyone on here was screaming for Brandon McCarthy, Edwin Jackson Joe Saunders. Saunders would have been the only decent pickup. People were even pissed he let Haren go and be has been junk. People hate the moves he made, but no one can give me an alternative to what he should have done. It's stupid

[mtangelsfan]

Moreno has done everything he can to help this team win. The decisions haven't worked out, but the man is willing to do whatever it takes. You guys are ungrateful. We can go back to the shit days where no one came here and we never had a chance to win.

As for Dipoto, he doesn't exactly get a pass, but the only move he has made that I have disliked has been the Blanton signing. Everyone bitches about pitching, but people seem to forget the rotation he built last year and how it didn't work out. The players have to pan out or he looks bad. Burnett and Madson haven't done much to help, but Coello and DDLR have helped out big time and they were picked up off the scrap pile. What has Dipoto done to deserve the hate

He has had two crappy seasons.  That is first and foremost.  Also, the spots he has filled have generally not panned out.  The players performing the best on this team are ones that were here before Dipoto got here.  The pitching staff, which has been the worst part of this team, is almost entirely his.

[YouthofToday]

Francisco Liriano, if it was possible.

[OregonLAA]

It seems like a general narrative for people who like the moneyball approach (like dipoto) to blame Arte for the signings of Pujols and Hamilton.

 

This seems like a huge leap of logic to give the GM a pass on FA acquisitions.

I don't blame either for those players. They have hugely under performed and I don't know how Moreno or Dipoto can be blamed for that. They were just supposed to give us 4ish good years to compete and they haven't done anything to justify the signings. No one in all of baseball could have told you they would immediately suck. No one

[YouthofToday]

Baseball Prospectus kind of called Hamilton. I missed the original article before Arte pursued and signed him. Read it the other day.

[OregonLAA]

He has had two crappy seasons.  That is first and foremost.  Also, the spots he has filled have generally not panned out.  The players performing the best on this team are ones that were here before Dipoto got here.  The pitching staff, which has been the worst part of this team, is almost entirely his.

Once again you're forgetting about the pitching staff from last year. The formula didn't work out last year so he tried a different approach. And the bullpen has improved this year. It was rough early on, but it has gotten much better as of late

[OregonLAA]

Francisco Liriano, if it was possible.

Do you honestly think Liriano would have had the same results here?