Kendo36

The only way this team competes this year is if they sign two starters. Snell is an enigma but you pair him with Montgomery or Stroman and that is money well spent. Let the cheap position players grow and spend on pitching. 

The only way this team competes this year is if they sign two starters. Snell is an enigma but you pair him with Montgomery or Stroman and that is money well spent. Let the cheap position players grow and spend on pitching. 

i think artes thinking of selling again.

Ron Washington hire should have told you everything. We're done. Let the kids grow. The money is tied up in Trout and Rendon and they have to perform. 

Ron Washington hire should have told you everything. We're done. Let the kids grow. The money is tied up in Trout and Rendon and they have to perform. 

No, but I also don't want to get anyone's hopes up. 
Ohtani's negotiations held up the market, and now free agents are allowing their individual markets to develop. But also, if two teams are offering similar money, the player is more likely to choose a winning team with a strong farm that can infuse excitement and talent. 
Right now, the Angels aren't a winning team, and while O'Hoppe, Neto and Schanuel are exciting, much of the farm is barren. So I'm guessing that unless the Angels offer more money, they probably aren't at the top of anyone's list. And I doubt they're involved in the trade market for guys like Cease or Bieber. The cost will be more than I think they can afford. 
So my guess is they'll round out the roster with some low cost vets. 

How the fuck is that allowed? 

So we’d be back to where we were, being like a 73 win team, with money tied up on a risky arm in Snell. 
The Angels cannot spend their way back into contention, not in one winter. 
Love Shohei, wanted him back, didn’t even really care if it was so expensive it effed the teams finances up, but it’s a blessing in disguise. Baseball is changing, even more so after the Ohtani deal, where the star players are going to be paid even more exorbitantly. The Arte method of spending big on a couple players has not worked and won’t work anytime soon. And before anyone replies with “but the Rangers!” bear in mind they also had a ton of good young talent to support and did a good job on mid-level signings. That’s probably the closest hybrid of approaches the Arte-owned Angels can take if they want to compete, but they can’t turn that ship around in one winter, nor did the Rangers. 
Punt 2024. Do what will be best this year to develop the young core. Give them mentors, give them complimentary pieces to keep pressure from mounting, acquire guys who can be traded for farm depth or guys who can contribute through say, 2025-2026 at most, and bide our time for a season or two.

Watch Perry be happy with what they have internally and not do much. 

I hope it's wrong just so it ends Hoornstra's career 

I hatched out of an egg most recently and became my own birdie. 

I thought he looked nervous as hell

Big difference between the production they got for their big contracts vs. ours. Semien & Seager have been far better than Trout & Rendon. Our season will depend on Rendon/Trout again and I have little faith. 

Perry Everymanasian

Forgot how much I hated Cron at the plate. 

Moniak gave us more than expected. He’s now a liability. Need to get healthy. 

I hope Neto can start and I never see Velazquez sorry ass again unless it's during the playoffs to steal bases late in the game. 

I hope Rengifo picks Cron up at the airport.
I hope Fernando Salas is driving Grichuk's cab to the team hotel.

This team is so fucking bad with RISP against decent opposition. 0-13 now between the two games, including 0-6 with the bases loaded. Unreal levels on ineptitude in the most important series of the season.

Watching the Astros stream. O’Neal is beyond annoying.

I’m not a guy that likes to rail on the announcers, but I wish Patrick O’ Neal would just shut the fuck up when he’s talking to Mark Langston and Tim Salmon about what it’s like to be a big league ball player and what it’s like to condition during the season.
It sounds like both Langston and Salmon literally want to tell him to shut the fuck up when it comes to Ohtani and his regiment.  Seriously, shut up.

It’s all on the bats. Pathetic performance after pathetic performance. 

Nevin is fine. Not gonna win games when the offense stops hitting for at least half of every season

Our schedule is brutal. This was the month to make up ground and they failed to do so. 

Our schedule is brutal. This was the month to make up ground and they failed to do so.