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I wanted Cole, I also knew the Yankees would be the biggest obstacle for them given their future rotation issues.   So, I'm not one of those people shocked or all that put out by this other than Cole would have been a ridiculously amazing stroke of luck had he fallen into the Angels laps -- if you can consider having to pay a guy a top three salary "lucky".   I just know it took a lot of the pressure off the team by filling a glaring hole...
What I am annoyed with is guys like Gibson and Pineda being gone.   There is a reason I was calling for them to sign a guy early, there is a reason I made a thread about value buys...    Ryu is probably the best chance at getting a non ridiculous deal and that guy comes with all kinds of past injury issues.  Bumgarner is not someone I have a whole lot of confidence in moving forward.   Price?  Meh...  Only if they can get him for 15-17 mil a year and if that happens I would expect there to be other teams willing to take on that deal.
The Rendon talk...    I see the Angels as being third on his wish list.   Dodgers offer him a better chance to win now, they have just as much money.  The Rangers rotation makes the Angels staff look like a joke by comparison and Texas is home -- sure our offense is better, does he think the team will be?  Who knows..
All I know is that Gibson for 3/30 and Pineda for 2/20 would look really good right now -- and that is very very frustrating to me.

i wonder if any of you who are losing your collective shit right now have ever heard the phrase, "fiddle while rome burns."?
i believe all of you who are going off the deep end have forgotten, it is darkest before dawn. i think a lot of good things are going to happen for the angels in the next very short while, and i think the team will be better off for it.
i don't give a shit about cole, strassburg, madbum, rendon, or any other FA individually. i do believe that if the angels use their money on numerous key acquisitions that this team will win more games than they would have with only cole. 
it's ok if you guys need to lose your shit because you had an idea in your head that you wanted, but when you're done just remember there are many very good players out there that we can get to get this team to where they need to be.
 

i wonder if any of you who are losing your collective shit right now have ever heard the phrase, "fiddle while rome burns."?
i believe all of you who are going off the deep end have forgotten, it is darkest before dawn. i think a lot of good things are going to happen for the angels in the next very short while, and i think the team will be better off for it.
i don't give a shit about cole, strassburg, madbum, rendon, or any other FA individually. i do believe that if the angels use their money on numerous key acquisitions that this team will win more games than they would have with only cole. 
it's ok if you guys need to lose your shit because you had an idea in your head that you wanted, but when you're done just remember there are many very good players out there that we can get to get this team to where they need to be.
 

Not here for you to make any effing sense of this @Lou and @Glen
Now let me tantrum so you can Lou this for years from now and I can eat my effing crow.

i wonder if any of you who are losing your collective shit right now have ever heard the phrase, "fiddle while rome burns."?
i believe all of you who are going off the deep end have forgotten, it is darkest before dawn. i think a lot of good things are going to happen for the angels in the next very short while, and i think the team will be better off for it.
i don't give a shit about cole, strassburg, madbum, rendon, or any other FA individually. i do believe that if the angels use their money on numerous key acquisitions that this team will win more games than they would have with only cole. 
it's ok if you guys need to lose your shit because you had an idea in your head that you wanted, but when you're done just remember there are many very good players out there that we can get to get this team to where they need to be.
 

Lol @ all the people calling for Eppler to be fired. He's the guy who got us Ohtani and made sure Trout was an Angel for life. He's also turned our minor league system around in a matter of years.
 

No one has called him cheap. He's just full of shit.

It's blowing my mind how much Eppler sucks. This guy freaking sucks ass

I'm not even a little bummed out for some reason. Glad it's over.

That money is just ridiculous. Next. 

Whoa. 1st round pick to move Cozart is tough, if they didn't blow the pick on Wilson in the first place. Necessary trade. 

Luis Rengifo instead of Fletcher and Upton  instead of Marsh plus a decent prospect not named Marsh or Adell.

And if you had read your Primer Series you would have known this! Muwhahahahaahahaahahahaahahahaahahahaaha! 😄

Great Minds Think Alike

you bastard.

Shocker ... i swear these media hacks just throw obvious shit around and call it reporting. Easiest job in sports 

A bit of info on him, rated top 100 prospect back in 2014  #83 on baseball prospectus 
2019 Minor League stats .286 avg 15 hrs 58 rbs 21 sb in 119 games

An offense that includes Trout, Rendon, Ohtani, Adell, and Marsh for the next 7+ years sounds like a lot of fun to watch. 

The last thing this team needs right now is someone with so many issues off the field and with his behavior. He’s good but he’s probably about to be one-year deal territory for his career and just not worth the effort. If we were doing a one-year in RF, I’d just as soon go with Pillar or Souza, or a Kole reunion. 
Kole will be 32...Castellanos only 28. I’m not gonna bank on some kind of JD Martinez surge for Castellanos now that he’s gone from Detroit, but he looked great in Chicago and is at an age where he should start peaking - and he’s coming from a very good base - .286/.336/.504/.840 the last four years, averaging near 50 doubles, 10 triples, and 30 HR per 162. He could very well blow up and be a .950+ OPS beast for a few seasons. Seemingly did well under Maddon.
I wouldn’t go crazy on him - nothing like $25m+ AAV, but if you can sneak in and get him for $15-20, maybe $22m AAV, it could be great value.

you bastard.

who framed jeff fletcher.

I was definitely on the "Cozart can't be traded" train. Very glad I was wrong.

This was a brilliant move.

They are rebuilding, so moves like this make sense. Took on a bad 1yr contract to acquire a prospect taken 15th overall last year.