John Taylor

1 minute ago, Chuckster70 said:

hahaha!! 

Best. Thread. Ever. 

To the AngelsWin Hall of Fame with ye!

Yay its my turn to change the Topic title name

Red Sox get Jeter, the real headline here.

If this topic gets to 69 pages, I'll be tempted to lock it just to say "nice".

I won't do it, but my inner 14 year old would be sooo happy.

Just now, UndertheHalo said:

Nope, they bought out his arbitration years. 

But basically instead of arguing in arbitration, they just basically paid him correct?

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I think I read that over the history of the arbitration process there hasn’t been a single player who has lost an arbitration case and has then signed a long term contract with that team.  

Let me know if I'm wrong, but I believe the Angels locked Trout in (the first time) while he was still arbitration eligible? So instead of trying to nickle and dime him they realized how great he was, and started paying him as such.

2 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Ok. That doesn’t change that the dodgers weren’t wrong to argue that he’s been a platoon player. 

They weren't, and they were doing what pretty much any baseball team would do, but if my employer argued against me getting a raise because I'd feel pretty disrespected by them and would want to look at employment elsewhere. I know everyone says "it's just business" but there is a human element to it. I bet Mookie feels similar as he has all but been traded this week and wouldn't be very excited to show up in Sox spring training.

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

I mean to be fair, Joc has been a platoon player.  He only had like 40 AB’s against lefties last year. 

Yeah, but I'm speaking on the theoretical point of view from Joc's perspective, as someone who doesn't know him or has ever met him, and projecting my feelings upon him as all good internet message board prognosticators do to make me sound smarter than I actually am. 

Just now, Stradling said:

Yea, I absolutely want this trade to happen.  I fully understand for this trade to happen it means the Dodgers improve, but I really don’t care.  My love of the Angels outweighs my hatred of the Dodgers or even the Red Sox.  The Dodgers are going to improve anyway.  The fact that they are above and beyond anyone else in baseball at drafting and more importantly developing, and they still haven’t won is a little surprising.  And in case I haven’t said it recently fuck the Astros.  

If anything, I'd be happy for the Dodgers and Angels to improve for the chances of a Freeway World Series, something most of us would want to see in our lifetime (at least I've always wanted it), and even more, people hailed Mookie as the pretender to the throne of Mike Trout, so imagine meeting the Dodgers in the World Series with Mookie in blue.....

....I'll be in Toby's bunk.

12 hours ago, Duren, Duren said:

If the trade doesn't go through will the Angels  just reinstate Rengilfo at second and act like nothing happened?

Try to trade him elsewhere?

Or do they still pursue Pederson and/or Stripling through other offers? Maybe the same combo, maybe something completely different.

I really think it will fall apart between the Angels and Dodgers because Betts was they key for them. Without him the Dodger outfield reverts to something like last year. And Pederson lost in arbitration and won't get a big raise. 

Maybe they move him at the deadline, but by then he wouldn't factor into the Angels plans. 

 

 

 

If I'm Pederson I want out of the Dodgers org ASAP, they basically had traded him away anyway, and as a double F$#k you to Joc, argued down his arbitration based on saying he was a platoon player. So there isn't much incentive for Joc to want to play for the Doyyers this season. He doesn't seem like that kind of guy who would demand a trade, but he has every right to feel somewhat disrespected by them.

I honestly now just get my news from the changing title of this thread.

2 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Ohtani, Stripling, Teheran, Canning, Heaney, Bundy is solid folks. We even have Sandoval who I really like as well, in addition to Andriese for depth. 

Let's talk about Stripling who I believe the Angels will increase his workload. 

Here's an outing by Stripling early on in the season in 2019 where he went 8 innings. 

 

lol, if Assmus was his Manager he would have been out in the bottom of the 3rd.

2 hours ago, Lou said:

Why would the dodgers trade for Rengifo? 

Tommy Lasorda was hungry

4 minutes ago, Randy Gradishar said:

Who the fuck is Jackson, anyway?

Tito, by far the most talented Jackson.

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

bloodbrother beat merlin!

The King is dead!!

 

@mymerlincat is slipping in his old age.....

So at the end of the day, (if) we still have Adell and Marsh, we are getting Joc and probably Stripling, and we didn't take on Price's contract.

Dammit Eppler, well played.

Just now, Chuckster70 said:

Seriously. He's incredibly underrated. 

I agree, I would call this a great day for Billy if it's Stripling.

Just now, mymerlincat said:

 

That means it's most likely Stripling.

If the Angels arn't giving up any of the A prospects I wonder if that means we're taking on Price.

2 minutes ago, SoWhat said:

I’m gonna guess Marsh for May  

That would be damn incredible. May is a beast in waiting and would fill our ginger quota for next year.

Big league starter? Hmmmm!

4 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

That's what he made last year.  He filed for arbitration, so he'll get a big boost.  I'll be curious to see if the Angels settle with him before his hearing.

Yeah, Fletch says could be $7.75 or $9.5 million.

17 minutes ago, Stradling said:

@Angelsjunky what’s funny is we saw Hamilton in Chicago and we are going to see Chicago in Boston.

Your next task is to see Boston in Kansas