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And was part of the Ryan/Fregosi trade.

Cuban
Montana
Jail

Iglesias is still young enough to man SS well for another 3-4 years.
Would be a lot cheaper to re-sign him, than the big money FA SS’s.

March — Spring training is ok, ohtani looks good with the bat and on the mound leading to a lot of speculation and excitement. Marsh looks great. Heaney goes down with a minor injury as in past seasons, seemingly putting Barria in rotation and Sandoval in pen. Angels do bolster their rotation though and grab Walker and reliever Justin Wilson. 
April — Angels get off to a hot start, pen being lights out and rotation being solid. Ohtani doesn’t go deep into games, averaging only 4 innings, but they lineup Barria to piggy back his starts. Upton gets off to a great start offensively and people stop criticizing him. They end the the month 5 games over .500.

May — Uptons hot streak falters but he’s still productive. Ward and Fowler are in a straight platoon and productive. Trout is phenomenal and Pujols homers in three straight games and is happy in his final season with his limited playing time. Heaney returns at the end of May and they give Canning a two week break to limit innings. They’re 7 games over .500 and battling the A’s for first.
June — Walsh is absolutely on fire, and sets the Major League Record for Home Runs in June. Canning returns from his break refreshed and ready to go and they send out Walker. Adell and Marsh are chomping at the bit, so they ask Ward to try to play catcher again since he’s been hitting and has taken over for Fowler as the primary RF, but his defense has been just adequate. Stassi is out with a hip Contusion so Ward and Suzuki form a platoon. Adel is promoted the right field spot.
July — Angels surge to a clear lead in the division before the break. Walker returns and he’s lights out, Ohtani gets a break. Three actually with the All Star Game. Walsh, Trout, Rendon all start for the AL. At the deadline, the Angels move Jose Iglesias, Quintana, Stassi, and a few prospects for Trevor Story who is leading the NL in batting average and is the only player in the baseball above Mike Trout but has not signed an extension so the Rockies let him go. German Marquez is not part of the deal unfortunately but they do bring in Jon Gray. 
August — The Angels offense is the best in the league and everyone is hitting. Their pitching is good and Ohtani returns to the rotation and is a clear Ace, even though his innings are not great, going only 6 innings per start. Cobb gets a break. Barria has embraced the piggyback role and regularly finishes games with 3 innings after the starter goes 6. Angels pen is best in league and Raisel Iglesias is among the top closers in the game. Trout though shows everyone why he’s the best player in the league, and surges from his high .340’s Average which had been leading the league prior to Story being acquired. From him The second week of August through the end of the Month, he goes 60/110 which is a .545 average and pushes his overall average to .389. 
September — Marsh is promoted when rosters expand and Adell moves to left. Angels are clearly in first because the Astros are fourth in the division behind the Rangers and A’s, just Slightly ahead of the Mariners. Trouts incredible three weeks is over, but he still pushes ahead to a .406 average on September 10th. Walsh surges again but the star of the month is Anthony Rendon, who quietly has put up the best numbers of his career. Angels win division, Trout drops below .400 for the last two and half weeks, leaving many to believe he won’t make it but just average is .391 headed into the final three games of the season. But he goes 11-12 and finishes at .401. Angels finish at 97-65.

October —Angels sweep their first playoff series with Trout, and their offense looks unstoppable. Canning has two excellent starts in the ALDS against the White Sox . In the ALCS against the Yankees, Ohtani dominates no-hitting the Yankees over 6 2/3, but with over 100 pitches Madison turns to Barria to comes in to finish the no-no. Angels win in 6. It’s an Angels-Dodgers World Series and the Dodgers take an early 2-0 lead, but the Angels win three straight including an extra inning affair in game 3 where Pujols wins it with a walk off. Game 6 goes eerily familiar with the Angels going down 5-0. Inexplicably Roberts calls for the game ball for Walker Buehler and sends in Blake Treinen to face Trout. Trout hits a double scoring Fletcher from second, then the Angels load the bases for Walsh, who clears the bases with a moonshot, to tie the game. Adell doubles in Marsh in the eighth, pushing the Angels ahead. And Iglesias slams the door shut in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Angels win the World Series.
 

 
 

 
 

Spots without depth or quality have mostly been filled. Some less satisfactorily than others. RF is done. C is done. SP is unlikely to change, though not impossible. RP is the most obvious opening for another move. If they grabbed another legit arm, I wouldn't complain, but I'm okay with going into camp as is. 
At the same time, all he's really saying is they have no immediate roster spots to fill. They could still be working on something, but I wouldn't expect him to say so if they were. Would be incredibly short-sighted to advertise a perceived roster need. 

Like a dominican Mark Reynolds.

Weaver would probably be really really good at it until he suddenly completely sucked at it.

I'd be down for that too. 

That was Mike James for me. Loved that guy.

This season we were pretty good at the no-contact play. We were probably one of the best.

Did he ask him if he was interested in acquiring Robert Baldoquin?

To be fair, as lame as the interviews are, can you (or anyone) do better? Meaning, can anyone think of a fresh take after EVERY routine game?
Its the same as the players. You do this every day, its tough to think of anything new to say.
The gatorade shit is old, though. You do that when something crazy happens, like a walk off. Not you had the game winning rbi in the 6th, and nobody scored after.

Not to make this thread pivot fully to a Hamilton or Pujols thread. . .
But in the context of bad contracts, those tow don’t even come close to comparing in my opinion.
Pujols underperformed overall but he was never a cancer.  The team overpaid for his production.  The cost was some money.
Hamilton underperformed and then literally didn’t perform and was a distraction and disruption.  The cost was more than money.  It was money.  It was performance.  It was culture.  It was clubhouse.  It was brand damage.  It was humiliation to the owner.
The two really don’t belong in the same sentence.

If it’s not Maddon, I would  take 
Bochy & he can bring MadBum with him ??

If it’s not Maddon, I would  take 
Bochy & he can bring MadBum with him ??

It'll be someone we'll be disappointed in and complain about constantly. 

I look forward to his instructional video series: "Learn to Play the Wong Way"

Eppler: (selects  young, talented prospect off waivers in a minor transaction)
Angels fans: "WTF Eppler?! What are you doing acquiring talent?!  And...trying to make the team better...like it's your job or something!" 

Oooh, may want to delete this. We might have some sensitive Wash. State fans here.

Whatever he's taking for his hair must be bad for the heart.
 

How do pitchers handle pain?  When I learned recently that MLB doesn't test for opiates I was astonished and could only assume it is too complicated to determine appropriate use, yet MLB tests for steroid masking agents.  Seems like MLB as a whole does have a blind eye.

He has playoff experience.

These guys are managing pain while playing a game for our enjoyment.  For Tyler, we know he's dealt with a significant amount of injuries so hearing he's been using some type of pain killer shouldn't be a surprise.