I can guarantee that Stroman will want to be an Angel next year either by free agency or a trade this year. Dude loves Trout. Yes, for that reason alone, he'd want to be near him. Put it on the BOOOOAAAARRRRD!
3 way trade idea.
Angels send Rengifo to Boston
Angels send Marsh/Barria or Sandoval to Indians
Boston eats $50 mil and sends Price to Angels leaving only 2/46 left on contract
Boston sends to Indians: Benintendi
Indians sends Clevinger to Angels
Angels get: Price & Clevinger
Indians get: Benintendi, Marsh & Barria or Sandoval
Boston gets Rengifo & save 46 million.
Am I typing out of my ass here or what?
Angels rotation:
Clevinger
Ohtani
Price
Heaney
Canning
Bundy
You would think signing Rendon would happen sooner than later. Is Boras counting his dollar billz or something?
Angels...don't make this offseason worse.
I'd go with Chuck's idea.
Trade for Darvish/Contreras
Sign Rendon
Sign Madbum
We get enough offense to offset the pitching. Darvish & Madbum are much better than Harvey/Cahill.
Ohtani
Madbum - 2.5 WAR
Darvish - 3.3 WAR
Heaney
Bundy - 2.3 WAR
Canning
1B - La Stella
2B - Fletch
CF - Trout
DH - Ohtani
3B - Rendon - 6.3 WAR
LF - Upton
C - Contreras - 3.1 WAR
RF - Adell
SS - Simmons
That is a solid team.
Let's look at it this way. Would you rather have Cole or Ohtani? If the Yankees would have won Ohtani, we'd be pissed. But we'd have a better chance of getting Cole.
So who would you rather have?
8/264 with full no trade, no opt outs, family suite for home games, own hotel suite on the road, 50k bonus for each AS game appearance, 150k bonus for each Cy Young.
Cole will be an Angel. His memories of being at the WS game with the thundersticks. You can't tell me he doesn't think about that. Be the ACE of a team winning only their 2nd WS title? Yankee's have won how many? It's not so special anymore.