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  1. I would not mind Lincecum if you could convince him to switch to closer.
  2. No I am not being a jerk, but the guy with the most trade value is clearly Trout. Trout would get you more then Trumbo, Kendrick and Aybar combined. The Yankees would give us their farm system for him. None of us, or anyone one else in their right mind would trade Trout. I think we should trade Kendrick/Aybar or both. Trumbo is iffy, a 30hr/100rbi guy does not fall out of the sky everyday or everyone would have one. I have always been a Bourjos fan and think we have a better outfield with him in it and potentially a better offense too. Depending on the return I think you make all of them available. I think Ianetta is overvalued by some, but I agree that there are a few teams who would want a guy like Ianetta. If the Dodgers don't win the WS this year than a trade for Lee if far more likely. I would not trade Trumbo unless we are getting a ++ starting pitcher in return. You keep Bourjos because he is still cost controlled and unlikely to bring a return equal to his value if healthy. Vargas I think will re-sign. He may not give the hometown discount, but I tend to think the Angels will have first chance to reel him back in. Richards to me has proven he is a major league quality starter. The bullpen is the weak link, a return of Williams to the bullpen if we find a quality starter who can produce better than Williams (which the Angels have not managed to accomplish now in two full years), would help, I think Frieri is acceptable so long as you can live with the occasional week long grease fire he seems to turn into, you may not like the comparison but how much better was Troy Percival? De La Rosa has been a good find, although he is essentially Brendan Donnelly 2.0, what we dont have is Scot Shields 2.0. In 2002 our rotation was Washburn Appier Schoeneweis (later replaced in rotation by John Lackey) Sele Ortiz You can't tell me we cannot field a rotation equal to or better than that next year.
  3. Mike Trout was not on your list. Does he have a no-trade clause?
  4. Trout's leverage now for someone who is supposed to have none under the CBA, is pretty high just because he has presented the appearance of a transcendent player. The fact he has essentially called the Angels bluff by having another monster year puts incredible pressure on the front office to move. If Moreno is going to give Pujols and Hamilton monster contracts, then he really needs to figure out something now for Trout. If he plays the “under club control” card on him next year, then I think this is going to end poorly for Moreno and the Angels. By the end of the year Trout will have in two years become essentially the 7-8 best player in Angels history in terms of WAR. Best player south of Nolan Ryan by the eye test, although maybe I need to clean my rose colored glasses first. If I was advising Trout I would come in with a 5 year demand with a player buy out at three years. I would come in right up front and tell them if you renew then Trout will leave no matter the offer as anyone with a brain knows that if he continues to perform at a high level the Angels will get killed with the highest ARB award in the history of baseball, and then watch him sign with the Yankees for the biggest contract in the history of sports. The franchise would not recover in my lifetime. Moreno as a media type business man has to know the loss of Trout under this type of circumstance would doom the club and cast a dark light on him with other players and with the fans for a very long time. Trout needs to be the guy who goes to the HOF with an Angels Cap.
  5. There is no content on either the LAT or OCR that I cannot find anywhere else. Certainly none I would pay for. As a reporter I would expect you think your services are worth the price of admission, which of us would not like to get paid for our work. Here the print media model is no longer feasible as a primary business model. To then ask for what is, comparatively, an absurd amount of money for the pay site is going to do nothing but make interested parties, dis-interested in the delivery method and seek our news elsewhere. As for TJ, I always kind of thought of him as the Steve Hartman of newspapers, trying to create news and conflict where none need exist to justify ones own existence by the number of people calling and writing to complain about you.
  6. They said that shot yesterday was 454? go look at the 472 for Napoli that hit off the face of the deck just to the right of where Trumbo's cleared the glass and hit the wall in the back of that deck. If Napoli's was 472 then Trumbo's was more like 490.
  7. Now that I fixed my password I figured this is a good bump.
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