halonatic13

Is it April 1st???  Too good to be true!  Come on down Steve Ballmer.

Is it April 1st???  Too good to be true!  Come on down Steve Ballmer.

Saw this and truly believe that some of the minor league players I’ve been watching recently miles better than this clown.  It’s like the halos plucked him off a bike on his Mormon mission and swapped out his shirt and tie for a uniform. 

My parent company is in Canada, I experienced this firsthand. Thankfully I'm 100% remote now. 

Everyone's mentality here is why we always need to go after the big splash in FA.  There is no risk to signing these young players to long term contracts.  I love what the Braves are doing. Detmers, Sandoval, Rengifo, Ward is who I sign long term.

Everyone's mentality here is why we always need to go after the big splash in FA.  There is no risk to signing these young players to long term contracts.  I love what the Braves are doing. Detmers, Sandoval, Rengifo, Ward is who I sign long term.

He's on a hot streak right now. Let's see if he can maintain a productive pace through the end of next season or if he fizzles out like Walsh.

5-0 Angels.  Book it!

but wait, that means that we'd have to release suzuki?

Marsh is 0-7 in his last two games with 6 strikeouts. 

Next season will be interesting when each teams plays less of their division during the season.

Nevin has team playing hard and having some fun. Extend Phil today

I remember reading that Perry wants to make sure our backups players are of high caliber, so if a starter goes down, we don't go down to Duffy/Mayfield/McKinnon level of players.  Our bench has sucked for quite the time.  I wouldn't mind knowing that our backup is more than capable of holding the line before the starter comes back from injury.  Because we ALL know it's going to happen.

Angelswin is the Q of Fandom. 

I think I’ve pointed this out before. 
 
I have about 44k Twitter followers and the Angels official account has over 1M. So to me that means a very large number of the Angels “customers” are just interested in when the next fireworks night is and what bobbleheads are coming up and not so much who is making the spot start on Wednesday or why Andrew Velazquez is playing or which pitchers they’ll target in FA, etc.

I would normally respond but @lou would prefer that I practice restraint.    See Lou, I make a friendly post, and this is what the response is. 

We should have just kept CJ Cron

As far as hype goes, MO was up there with Pujols at the time. He was our first bona-fide big name FA in years. Felt like good times ahead.
Literally first inning of his first game, baseball gods were like "never forget who you are, Angels"

How much rice can a man possibly eat?
$400 mil would enable one to purchase alot of rice.
San Francisco the rice a roni treat.

I should have done that multi quote thing. 
 
But this is the same answer as I gave above. 
 
As of right now the Angels are going to try to win next season, so they’re going to want to keep Ohtani whether or not he signs an extension. (Maybe that changes if Trout suffers some kind of setback over the next two months.)

The OP is a false premise. From a team building perspective, you aren’t trading one for the other. These trades happened at different times, and the Angels were mulling an offer from Toronto for Syndergaard. I’m guessing, based on rumors, that involved taking Syndergaard and Iglesias but asking the Angels to pay down a chunk of it, maybe include a low level prospect. Perry seemingly decided to not have to pay (which is good) and get a 4th OF with a good amount of upside and a low level prospect to replace Marsh, along with being free and clear of Iglesias while getting a possible rotation piece. 
Also, it’s not like Moniak is 27 and hopeless. He’s Marsh’s age with less MLB at bats, but had a good spring and a very good AAA season. Worth a shot to see if there’s more there. 

Moniak minors .256/.305/.410/.715    
Marsh minors     .288/.371/.440/.811
I hope this clears up any discussion about which player has a more likely chance to have a major league career.