NJHalo

While I cannot say who my source is, I can assure you if you knew who it was, you would not question his credibility. I will continue to be working with him on a project for work. 
While I am not a Rendon hater, his two latest contributions have been getting suspended for his involvement in a brawl while being on the IL, and getting into a fight with a fan. 

I never understood the hatred for CJ Wilson. If you look at his stats over the  4 years he was in Anaheim, they were pretty good. He would be our ace 

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It’s Arte Moreno. Obviously. Is this even debatable?!

Clown organization

Lucas Giolito trade may end up as one of the most disastrous trades in Angels history. Good lord.

I hope that this past week will serve as our Waterloo moment. It certainly seems to be the sentiment.

I'll say this.... and everyone here is free to take it as they want.
And I've been a pretty big Moreno supporter over the years, until recently (it's past time to sell).
@Jeff Fletcher mentioned things in the org have gotten better recently. And maybe they have (I'll take his word for it).
But some years back I was having dinner with a few players. A few were Angels, the others different teams. And we were discussing who the Angels might get in the offseason. And I mentioned whoever I thought at the time they needed.
And the table basically laughed and said "no chance".
Here's the interesting part...
One of the guys told me, almost apologeticly because he knew I was an Angel fan, that "honestly bro... most guys don't want to play here." And i was kind of baffled. 
Keep in mind this wasn't too far removed from the salad years, where we were one of the best teams in baseball for a decade. And we had signed some pretty big names in recent years.
But then collectively they started complaining about how cheap the org was, in comparison to other teams.
Now keep in mind the things they mentioned, I took as "you guys are kind of fucking spoiled, if that's what you're complaining about." 
That being said, when they gave examples of what was the norm for other teams, I could at least understand why if the money is mostly equal, the perks might be the tiebreaker.
Again, like I said. The examples I was given that night to me were kind of "cmon dude, grow up." Like CJ Wilson talking about no breakfast or chick fil A. Well, my work (and I'm sure everyone else's here) doesn't give me breakfast either. 
But I could see it getting old if say you're constantly for example chartering shitty airlines or cheap hotels or something like that. If you know guys on other teams who get first class everything.

While I cannot say who my source is, I can assure you if you knew who it was, you would not question his credibility. I will continue to be working with him on a project for work. 
While I am not a Rendon hater, his two latest contributions have been getting suspended for his involvement in a brawl while being on the IL, and getting into a fight with a fan. 

Considering how easy it is for multiple users on this board to get info about Rendon being a bad clubhouse guy, I’m surprised no writer (Angels or national reporter) gets wind of this and writes about it.
Maybe your sources need to speak with Sam Blum, cause I’m sure he’d love to write an article calling out Rendon.

Brian Fuentes

I never understood the hatred for CJ Wilson. If you look at his stats over the  4 years he was in Anaheim, they were pretty good. He would be our ace 

I never understood the hatred for CJ Wilson. If you look at his stats over the  4 years he was in Anaheim, they were pretty good. He would be our ace 

I never understood the hatred for CJ Wilson. If you look at his stats over the  4 years he was in Anaheim, they were pretty good. He would be our ace 

While I cannot say who my source is, I can assure you if you knew who it was, you would not question his credibility. I will continue to be working with him on a project for work. 
While I am not a Rendon hater, his two latest contributions have been getting suspended for his involvement in a brawl while being on the IL, and getting into a fight with a fan. 

I never understood the hatred for CJ Wilson. If you look at his stats over the  4 years he was in Anaheim, they were pretty good. He would be our ace 

1 - Hamilton
2 - Gary Mathews Jr
3 - Tony Phillips

What's funny is Victor never saw that thread. So the people he's talked to about Rendon and the folks that @NJHalo and I referenced are two different sets of MLB people. 

What gives? Why the constant second guessing? Chuck knows who it is, and knows that he is a credible source. This my second time meeting with him, and after dinner and drinks, we were just talking about baseball. His comments about Rendon and Arte were spoken in conversation, and not as a “l have a secret, but promise you won’t tell anyone “ . I am not dropping his name, so l don’t see the issue with sharing some Angels info with a group that would be interested. He had plenty else to say about MLB that l won’t bother to add. 

I am not trying to organize a lynch mob, but rather add some substance and insider information that I hope gives another layer of clarity to a hot topic here that continues to linger with no end in sight. I asked a question, and he expanded on it. This wasn’t speculation, it was his knowledge and experience, and he has dealt with Rendon. It was nothing new that hadn’t already been discussed here. I will be meeting with him again in the next few weeks, and now that he knows l am an Angels fan, l am sure he will give me a few more stories. 

I think Perry would have been fine walking in and dismantling the team by trading off anyone that could fetch a prospect, which includes Ohtani. 
But before he could make his first move Arte shoved Maddon down his throat and demanded a top tier player signed, which ended up a disaster.  
His drafts have been creative and productive but you can squeeze only so much out of mid tier picks instead of taking a few low first rounders by tanking. Having Neto and Schanuel rise so quickly says he knows how to spend his first picks. Picking up O'Hoppe was damn near genius level trading. 
Minasian is trying his damnedest to assemble a team that just won't stay on the field. No other GM could stop the last three years of injuries so thinking someone new is going to magically do better is a fools errand. 
Not with an owner that has subverted the baseball ops in every way imaginable. For fucks sake, Arte put the team in limbo on an aborted sale, handcuffing Minasian to not make any big moves that Moreno wouldn't clear. 
It has been one long clusterfuck and it hasn't been Minasian's plan to operate this way. 
 

YouTube tomorrow. I'm pooped. 
Enjoy! 

I am not trying to organize a lynch mob, but rather add some substance and insider information that I hope gives another layer of clarity to a hot topic here that continues to linger with no end in sight. I asked a question, and he expanded on it. This wasn’t speculation, it was his knowledge and experience, and he has dealt with Rendon. It was nothing new that hadn’t already been discussed here. I will be meeting with him again in the next few weeks, and now that he knows l am an Angels fan, l am sure he will give me a few more stories.