Jeff Fletcher

Yeah. There is a big difference between evaluating a player’s current value and evaluating his career. 
 
Once you put Buster Posey on there you’re pretty much saying you’re evaluating the career and not the current status, so having Trout 8th makes no sense. 

Yeah. There is a big difference between evaluating a player’s current value and evaluating his career. 
 
Once you put Buster Posey on there you’re pretty much saying you’re evaluating the career and not the current status, so having Trout 8th makes no sense. 

Yeah. There is a big difference between evaluating a player’s current value and evaluating his career. 
 
Once you put Buster Posey on there you’re pretty much saying you’re evaluating the career and not the current status, so having Trout 8th makes no sense. 

Yeah. There is a big difference between evaluating a player’s current value and evaluating his career. 
 
Once you put Buster Posey on there you’re pretty much saying you’re evaluating the career and not the current status, so having Trout 8th makes no sense. 

Yeah. There is a big difference between evaluating a player’s current value and evaluating his career. 
 
Once you put Buster Posey on there you’re pretty much saying you’re evaluating the career and not the current status, so having Trout 8th makes no sense. 

Eh. The Angels were in decent shape late July. It was Arte's last chance to win with Ohtani (and maybe help sway negotiations) and their first true shot at contending in years. Arte has long said his focus is on the fans and their experience. Most fans don't care about the farm. Most fans only care when the team is winning, and don't really care when they're not. It's only us diehards who see the baseball logic. Arte sees it as no more than a passing entertainment moment. When we remove our diehard emotions from the equation, keeping Ohtani was the obvious move to make. It had the best chance of giving the Angels a winning team in the moment and bringing fans in. It didn't work out. Those same casual fans will come back whenever the Angels are winning again. 
Flipping switches, sure, it would've been great to trade Ohtani and get some prospects back, plus keeping the ones we dealt, but while we did trade away a bunch of interesting guys, I don't think we gave away a bunch of future perennial All-Stars. Quero could be Victor Caratini, and he was arguably the best prospect we lost. Our farm is just that bad.

Also, these franchise player deals rarely make the impact people would expect. 

Betts and Price to Dodgers - Verdugo has been decent, now a Yankee, Downs has bounced around, Connor Wong is okay but not looking like much
Goldschmidt to Cardinals - Carson Kelly and Luke Weaver were the big gets, and both have basically flopped and become DFA waiver bait
McCutchen to Giants - hey! A good deal! Pirates got Bryan Reynolds
Longoria to GIants - Denard Span and a slew of flop prospects
Stanton to Yankees - Starlin Castro and a couple prospects yet to have any impact
You can go on with first Verlander trade, Miguel Cabrera, Nolan Arenado, Francisco Lindor, Blake Snell...none of these created franchise-altering returns. 

As nice as it would've been to get a cadre of prospects back from Tampa (who notoriously trades well), I have doubts that it would've done made a massive difference. If anything, Perry's work to trim payroll and get the Angels back into 2nd round comp pick territory might be almost on-par with the type of surefire guy we would've gotten back. 

If the Angels want to rebuild the farm, the best way to do it over the next 1-3 years will be avoiding FAs who cost them a pick and selling high on arb. guys like Rengifo, Ward, Sandoval, and Canning. 
If they sign one-year guys the next two years and flip them at the deadline, they'll arguably restock the farm with the same quality of guys they lost last deadline. 

Not a monumental deficit to overcome, IMO.

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

I did a ton of research on this last year and I don’t think there’s a difference between 4 and 5, but 6 starts to get problematic. 

That would be my guess 

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

He said they think Thaiss will be OK as the backup, but of course they’re always “open” to whatever presents itself. 

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

I didn’t take this story to be a negative toward the Angels or Ohtani, but rather an acknowledgment that having Ohtani on your team leads to some distractions/complications/etc and now the Dodgers need to be prepared for that.

He said they think Thaiss will be OK as the backup, but of course they’re always “open” to whatever presents itself.