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You can’t forget the elephants, they are all in the room!

You can’t forget the elephants, they are all in the room!

If you listen closely you can hear Troy Glaus popping opening the champagne.  The record lives on!

I would have been happy with keeping the California name.

The real question is do you want all $40 million plus eggs in one basket, or do you want 4 baskets of $10 million eggs.  Do you want to consolidate the risk, or dilute it by spreading it out.  If you want to dilute the risk we could get an outfielder, and three different pitchers.  If one or two of the four go down, you don't lose $40 + million eggs.  Or here is a novel idea, put $40 million + in the egg farm and when the chicks hatch watch it bloom and go crazy.  On the other hand do we trust the farmers?

can they give back tyler anderson and get the draft pick they lost? seems fair

Giolito’s experience with the Angels was a positive one overall. 
 
Maybe for him it was. I did not enjoy it one bit. 

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, pitched so much it made him cry.

Rengifo, getting  yanked out of a game, certainly seemed to light a fire under his ass!

GO ANGELS!!!!
A SWEEP GETS YOU ANOTHER GAME CLOSER TO .500!!!
Following our Angels all the way to and through rebuilding and recruitment season since 1961.

I really liked both, but they're so far back still it's not like they're irreplaceable. This is why we drafted 20 pitchers! Just might need to do it again next year.

Which made 2002 all that much more amazing!

Which made 2002 all that much more amazing!

This is where I've been for awhile.  I'll take it back to post Stoneman actually.  That's when it really started to erode.  This entire franchise has been curling the tube of toothpaste tighter and tighter since Reagins took over.  Even with some improvement in the development pipeline that started with Billy and was carried over by Perry, it still feels like a constant battle as to the how, why, where and when resources get allocated and who gets to choose how that's done.  Even if it feels like it's being done appropriately at times I'm just not overly confident that isn't the org just doing a better job of faking it.
From 30,000 feet Arte inherited a WS winning team and then rode the wave of that success to 5 playoff appearances in the first seven years.   Then it because one good season among several mediocre.  And finally into 7 consecutive losing seasons and fighting hard not to make it an eighth where you've had two of the best players in baseball and failed to the point where it really hasn't even been close. 
Or to put it another way, Arte inherited a 99 win WS winner and has turned it into a franchise that has averaged 76 wins for the last 7 seasons. 
What else can you say but you're doing it wrong.     

Along with Rendon, can they make them take what's left on Anderson's contract too?

I think that the curse started when
Kendrys jumped on home plate and broke his leg!

I think that the curse started when
Kendrys jumped on home plate and broke his leg!

I'm sure they will bring up some bum from single A that will shutout the Angels and look like Greg Maddux against us but suck every other start.

Yovan pitched as a closer as a freshman at Oregon and went 15 for 15 in saves. As a Sophmore started off closing and went 5 for 5 in saves and then was moved to a Saturday starter where he had 3 quality starts and then moved to Friday night Starter. Had another 5 quality starts out of 7. Pitched that summer for Team USA as the setup guy Gave up only one run in 9 outings and that was against the Cuban National team. Started his Junior year against texas tech and got hurt in the opener. Was out the entire year. He is a gamer & a grinder 
 

Philips needs to work on keeping that hat clean

I've never started a new topic here as I am a "luker" multiple times daily, but tend to not weigh-in much.  With that out of the way, I want to simply point out that Perry just "seems different" than what we've had in the role of a GM in past.
I admittedly was appreciative of the job Eppler did and have always felt he inherited an extremely difficult hand.  The state of the farm, the noose/limitations he was under, lack of depth, etc.
With that being said, I'd like to express how pleased I have been with Perry's job to-date.  Given the circumstance and current situation (i.e. win now), the foresight and judgement he has displayed is so clearly evident in most every area of the roster.  It's almost as if his plan from the day he began is now being played out in front of our eyes....and he has rarely missed on many of the players he identified early on.
No one truly knew what he had when with Bachman, Joyce, Neto, Moniak or others.  In many cases, we still don't.  But to have the foresight to "lower our floor" with inexpensive backfilling the way he has AND to have the cajones to promote and trust his instincts has been remarkable.  I remember when he signed Anderson to such a low-market deal wondering what the "catch" was.  Now, we are seeing a quality 3-4 starter evolve we will have for another year at a reasonable cost.  I was a big Marsh fan, but would make the trade for O'Hoppe over and over again.  Neto blows my mind for a rook and I have no idea how he possibly projected that and laid off the FA's when his job was on the line.  The Renfroe signing was SO solid.  
The BP was always a huge question mark and that wasn't lost on Perry.  I was critical of the offseason approach (i.e. low-cost spending, practically ignoring the white elephant), but his response has been to rely on his initial moves to address it (Silseth, Bachman, Davidson....and more to come).  
Undoubtedly, when our season comes to an end without a championship we will be able to "Monday Morning Quarterback" what he should have done differently.  But I have to say, I won't be in that crowd.  What he has done this year and the results through 30+% of our games have demonstrated to me this is a man with a plan.
Hell, he has me so excited to be an Angels fan again that I am actually at piece with Shohei leaving (Note: fan since Nolan signed my ball in '77).  In fact, I find myself at times wondering if it might be best for the organization to trust in him to identify the right combination of young talent in a deadline trade to truly put us over the top going into '24!!!  Nuts?  I know.  But man, this guy seems to know talent.  I am so jacked about having a young, core group of O'Hoppe, Neto, Moniak, Adelll, Sandy, Detmers, Bachman, Joyce, Paris, and whatever else he might acquire from a Ohtani trade that I am beginning to think the worse thing we can do is let him walk for nothing with this guy in charge.
I honestly think if the vets can perform like they can, this team is capable of making a very serious run.  I don't envy Perry's position in having to determine it's fate by early July (the trade deadline being so early is a point of contention with me, but that's a whole other topic).  But just imagine if Rendon returned and the power came with it, Walsh found his grove, and Mike returned to being "Mike."  With our starters coming around and the BP taking shape, we have a roster that can compete in ways we haven't seen in quite awhile.  I'm not suggesting we'd win it all, but it "could" make for a really fun ride.
My point is, props to Perry.  Well done, sir.  And thank you for offering this fan something to be excited about for the next handful of years.

Hmm, I think I figured out that Suarez is still tipping his pitches.  Freeze-framed these two from the Sunday game.  Maybe you can spot it also.
This is his fastball:

This is his changeup:

I only remember that as an Angel, he was a complete disappointment!

any possibility there's a 500 day IL?

Drop him down in the lineup...and for the love of god, extend renfroe immediately.