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I assume we must have had to overpay against ourselves?

1 minute ago, John Taylor said:

Ya know, it's 1 year, not a ton of money, I figure if Harvey is going to have "forearm tightness" might as well be in a Halos uniform.

Hasn't he had forearm tightness in the past?

Hopefully we get something in the 3.90 to 4.10 Era area with him, I've been so desperate that I'll take it!

haha we're probably going to end up with Shelby Miller, Derek Holland or Cahill/Gio. If they don't land Kikuchi

1 minute ago, Angelsfan1984 said:

there are plenty of first rounders who turn out to be turds....so its a gamble. Even further of a gamble in the 2nd. If you can get a player of grandals caliber while at the same time filling multiple areas of need, then i think you have to take that risk.

I totally agree with this. He's got a 28% CS rate. He also will solidify a pretty mediocre(hopefully maybe gets better) pitching staff. A 2nd round pick for a proven guy at 29 years old, I don't see why we wouldn't try and sign him. One pick won't shatter the world

2.5 mill! I'll take it!

Just now, jordan said:

Interesting.  Bour is solely a 1B.  From what Ausmus said today, seems like Pujols’ days are numbered as long as he isn’t performing.   Bour is a nice lefty bat. 

On a good day a lefty CJ Cron 

Man I hope it's not for a lot of money, but if it's cheap... I'm down 

If we're looking at old guys we should offer Charlie Morton a 2 year deal

3 minutes ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

Happ to the Yanks 3yr deal....probably takes them out of the Thor trade aswell. 

Sucks we lost him, but 3yr for a 36 year old is a tough pill to swallow

9 hours ago, TroutField said:

They need to get a good catcher, I’m really hoping for Austin Hedges from SD, they are stacked with catching talent in their system. Definitely 2 starters, one that can slot into the top of the rotation. I don’t see anyone biting on Calhoun but if they could offload him it would be great. I really want an OF/1B to cover 1st when Albert sucks/gets hurt. Wil Meyers makes a lot of sense if they could afford the contract. 

Man Myers and Hedges would be amazing. I know Meyers always seems to be hurt, but that dudes a gamer and I've just always been a fan of him. Able to field 1st and 3b also outfield. Hedges is a pretty horrible hitter, but always seems to be a great catcher

4 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

NFL 

NBA

MLS 

Well that's fair, I don't see the MLB losing it's market of 10 billion anytime soon. I feel like a lot could change in 10 years though

10 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

As long as there’s an automatic strike zone and a dh in both leagues I’ll be happy with the way baseball is going. I also think baseball will be 4th in terms of sports popularity in America in 10 years. 

In what order for the other 3?

2 hours ago, Second Base said:

This is a post I made in a different thread, but I think it could generate good discussions.  What are some major things we'll see happen in 10 years with baseball?

Within the next decade, there will likely be a lot of movement among major league teams.  I think the Angels and the city of Anaheim will end up working out a deal where the city partially funds a mass renovation, and Arte Moreno will end up funding the majority of it, so Angels Stadium won't look like it did before.  But in return for Moreno investing his money into making the park experience better, the city of Anaheim will give him rights to develop the parking lot and some of the surrounding areas and profiting that way.  Attendance is down league wide, and there's a "small stadium" movement beginning where instead of having 50,000 seats, with 20,000 of them empty, teams are showing a willingness to build stadiums with 30,000 max capacity, and I think that's likely what will happen with Angel Stadium. 

I also believe that both the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Rays will relocate, and Major League Baseball will expand by two teams.  I'm guessing Tampa Bay will relocate to Montreal and become the Expos and the A's will be convinced to relocate to Las Vegas when the Giants and /or politics block their latest attempt at building a new stadium.  Then MLB will have two expansion teams, likely in Portland, Oregon and Charlotte, North Carolina.  

This will also cause Major League Baseball to realign.  The AL and NL will still exist, but now, each will have four divisions instead of three.  There will still likely be an East and West Division, MLB will likely make the other two divisions North and South.   Portland and Las Vegas will be an AL team, and Charlotte and Montreal will be an NL team.  This will cause one NL team to have to move to the AL, and for the sake of this scenario, we'll say it's the Marlins.  So the divisions might shake out like this...

AL West: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle and Portland. 

AL East: Boston, New York, Toronto and Baltimore.

AL North: Chicago, Minnesota, Detroit and Cleveland

AL South: Texas, Houston, Kansas City and Miami

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NL West: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Arizona

NL East: New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Charlotte

NL North: Colorado, Milwaukee, Chicago and Montreal

NL South: Atlanta, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh

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The playoffs will likely need to be restructured as well.  It'll probably be four division winners and four wild cards (so literally half the teams making the playoffs).

- Round one will give the two division winners with the highest record an automatic buy into the Division series. 

- The rest of round one will be WC 1 vs WC 4 in a one game playoff, WC 2 and WC 3 in a one game playoff.

- Then it will be WC 2 vs division winner 3 in a three game series, and WC 1 and division winner 4 in another three game series.  The winners of those series will advance to the division series to play the top two seeds in the league. 

- The Division Series will be a 5 game series. 

- The League Championship Series will be a seven game series.

- The World Series will also be a seven game series.

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Outside of that, I'm thinking that eventually we'll see an international draft, and draft picks being able to be traded. 

What an outstanding read this was! I'd love to see a lot of this happen, I'm not sure it can in 10 years, but still a great read!

5 minutes ago, Blarg said:

His resume doesn't warrant that contract. 

agreed but the ws win does

17 mill x 4  is steep for him

I'm assuming with the GM meetings upcoming, we could be in for a few trades. I highly doubt we pick up anyone huge...Unless Arte want's to go over the budget 

I wish it was us 

14 minutes ago, jordan said:

Everyone here hopes you’re right. But not likely. Like others have said, it’s probably more likely after one more season. I can’t see him 1) not having a farewell tour, and 2) foregoing that chance to return to STL as a player.  The OP is one season early. 

This is exactly right! Like David ortiz, Pujols is going to be celebrated the same way. He might announce he's retiring after this season. I'm fairly certain there's some type of deal that Pujols receives a lot money when he retires 

Big time overpay, but I hope he does great there!

I'll take it!

2 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

The report I saw this morning said Angels Brewers and 6 other teams ? I’m not sure though when I went to the link it said story can not be found. 

Here you go!

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1660072/report-angels-brewers-among-teams-interested-in-happ

1 hour ago, TroutField said:

You don’t have a holiday to celebrate stealing the native people’s land and women, and then claiming it was all civil and we shared turkey and cranberry sauce together? 

 

You guys are missin out 

Hah we do! But it's in October! 

Happy Turkey day!! It's just a regular Thursday here in Canada

4 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

I know. BTW now Ovi has one too. 

Aaron donald, Ovi and Trout? Haha