wopphil

This is a brilliant post. I’m not sure you get the credit you deserve. If you were a baseball player, you’d be Stan Musial. Nobody every really talks about Stan, but he is 11th in all time WAR. Quietly, you get the job done day in and day out. 

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

You want the guy to succeed. He seems like a tremendously hard worker, and also someone who is humble and trying to take advantage of his opportunity. And so much damn talent.

I chose starter, and the reason why is because multiple relief pitchers would fall into a price index where they really aren't that effective, aside from Chafin. But another starting pitcher, allows the Angels to use guys like Barria, Suarez, Rodriguez, Canning, etc... In bullpen roles. 
It helps the rotation and and bullpen. 

Exactly what I was thinking - the first name that came to mind. He put up a 108 OPS+ his first five seasons, capped by his massive breakout year at age 26. Then he never had another even 100 OPS+ season and was at 82 for the remainder of his career. 

Leave Phil alone. Having met most of you, I can tell you that hands down Phil is the best looking guy on this website. 

And further, why are you bothered by Hunter Biden’s potentially shady dealings in Ukraine, but unfazed by the fact that the former U.S. President attempted to hold foreign aid hostage in exchange for receiving political dirt on his political opponent? If you can’t see the difference between the two, then you my friend are the one who can’t see the forest through the trees. 

Every morning at Krotchman's breakfast table.

I think my preference is Kluber. Should be cheaper, no loss of a draft pick, and perhaps less of a health risk. But Eovaldi, if healthy, offers much more upside. 

I think my preference is Kluber. Should be cheaper, no loss of a draft pick, and perhaps less of a health risk. But Eovaldi, if healthy, offers much more upside. 

I think they'll sign a SP.  We have 5 good ones, but considering we intend to use 6, our depth can thin out fairly quickly with an injury or two.  If we assume Silseth takes the 6th spot, then our depth is Canning (injury concerns/unknown), Davis (??), CRod (probably a reliever, huge injury concerns), and .. Bush?  Davidson?  Diaz?  Rosenberg?
If we sign one of the remaining SP options, then that pushes everyone down one, which is probably needed for depth purposes.

They also take about 1500 plate appearances from the group that produced -7.0 WAR last year.  
WAR costs 10m per.  probably more now as I haven't seen the calc in awhile.  You get half of that -7.0 taken away plus the 5 ish they're projected for and you're getting around 8 wins by adding those guys.  Conservatively.  That's the impact of depth for this team.  It doesn't work like that for every team but when you have almost no position players in the upper minors who could step in and capably fill a spot with 0-1 wins, it's a huge delta.  Would you spend 30m a year for 8 wins?  

I'd have preferred Profar but I love the mentality.  Just hope he doesn't become the 2019 version.  Even if he does, he's better than the the likelihood of significantly sub replacement production we'd be looking at without him.  
The number everyone should focus on is 2,571.  
That's the number of plate appearances for players with ZERO war or worse on the angels last year.  
The other number is -7.0
That the total WAR of those players.  
It might seem like redundancy and it might seem like there's not enough AB to go around but if Urshela and Renfroe and Drury get 724 PA's each (the most in the majors last year from Marcus Semian), there would still be 400 additional plate appearances left.  So in real terms, those three getting about 502 PA (minimum for a qualified hitter) leaves over 1000 still for someone else.  Granted, a hefty chunk of those are from C but even conservatively it's at least enough for one more player to get the min. qualified.  
Who do you want filling those 500 additional plate appearances?  Soto? Adell? Moniak? Thaiss? Wallach? Mike Stefanic?  Jordyn Adams?  Andrew Velazquez?  Jared Oliva?  Ryan Aguilar? Aaron Whitfield? Jeremiah Jackson?  Riley Unroe? Orlando Martinez? Bryce Teodosio? 
Because that's about the list of next up.  
So I can make a very strong argument that they shouldn't be done adding position players and I would very much like to see a legit 4th OFer.  
 

I had a feeling this was coming, even though I'm not crazy about Drury.  I'm still slightly confused as to what the overall strategy is at this point, as the Angels continue to deepen the roster, but they're now at the point of creating redundancies. With this signing, plus the Urshela deal, and the continued presence of Rengifo and Fletcher, there's not really enough ABs to go around for everyone.  I get that you want to prepare for the worst, but I'm still concerned that while the "floor has been raised," the ceiling really hasn't been.

I’d be okay with Andrus if the contract doesn’t exceed 1/8. I also think Eovaldi would be a good addition. 

I’d be okay with Andrus if the contract doesn’t exceed 1/8. I also think Eovaldi would be a good addition.