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A guy named Nick Pollack who started a baseball site called pitcherlist and a fangraphs contributor named Paul Sporer are both high on Patrick Sandoval. Both have done really well in picking breakout prospects or bounce back players. I attached the small blurb: Our pitching certainly isn’t a sure thing, but it wouldn’t surprise me if our rotation performs well.

Angels: Shohei Ohtani Andrew Heaney, Griffin Canning, Dylan Bundy, Julio Teheran Patrick Sandoval *Im so biased, and love Heaney, Canning, and Ohtani. If healthy (big if), I think all 3 can be crazy good. Not sold on Bundy or Teheran. Overly optimistic with Sandoval. Mike Fiers: no thanks... innings eater, meh Chris Bassitt: not reliable, bad peripherals Jesus Luzardo: high upside, seems fragile, unproven Sean Manaea: more upside, longevity is questionable Frankie Montas: stud, but who knows what happens coming off PED’s A.J. Puk: love him, but he hasn’t pitched many innings let alone in the majors *future making of a great rotation, but it looks like they need another year Astros: Justin Verlander: old Zack Greinke: old Lance McCullers: injury prone Jose Urquidy: looks promising Forrest Whitley: looked terrible last year *without Cole, and verlander/grienke another year older... nowhere near what they were last year Mariners: Marco Gonzalez: innings eater, back end guy Yusei Kikuchi: garbage Justus Sheffield: who the hell knows what will happen here Justin Dunn: same as Sheffield Kendall Graveman: coming off injury *id be much more confident with our rotation over Seattle Rangers: Lance Lynn: solid Mike Minor: out performed his peripherals, but still solid Corey Kluber: I can see Kluber having a great year Kyle Gibson: another solid above average pitcher Jordan Lyles: meh *could have the best rotation in the AL West My guess would be: 1. Astros 2. Rangers 3. Angels 4. Oakland 5. Mariners

Reports are Marsh plus another prospect in the Angels top 10.... I can see why Eppler gave that a hard pass

I talked to a Cleveland scout about a week ago and he said ownership is trying to get under 80 million by 2022. We talk a lot about Arte being cheap... the Indians have a great team and the owner isn’t willing to make a push to try and win it.

Good news is we keep our 1st round pick and only lose our 2nd round and $500,000 of our international bonus.

Do we forfeit our 1st round pick with this signing?

I’ll play devils advocate: -Peak velo was 92.1 and last year he sat at 91.4. If he can sustain that, he should be solid. -swinging strike % also very solid, less than 2% off his peak years. -He really suffered from a high hard hit % which may be attributed to the new ball. His rate of regression will determine if he’s a good or bad signing.

High risk signings can set you back, make you less flexible. I think Eppler has done a good job building more depth and longevity. It’s not sustainable for the Angels to make huge signings. We have a ton of holes. Improving one particular aspect really well still leaves the other gaps.

Velocity is so important in today’s game. Advanced stats make a strong case of velo and a pitchers effectiveness. I’d stay away from mad bum as well

I don’t know how to embed a tweet, but Jayson Stark made an interesting tweet: Free agents who got 9+ years & changed teams, last 20 years: Harper (13-$330M) Machado (10-$300M) A-Rod (10-$252M) Pujols (10-$240M) Cano (10-$240M) Prince (9-$214M) And now Gerrit Cole (9-$324M) How many of those deals would their teams sign if they had it to do over?

I talked to a scout for the Indians while in line at Disneyland for about a half hour. He’s really high on Heaney, Canning, and Ohtani. Indians know pitching. Attack the strike zone, high heat, off speed down in the zone. I think we have 3 really good pitchers. It’s a good start

Let’s just say we sign Cole, and he gets hurt. We’re right back to where we started. It’s a high risk high reward move to sign Cole. I prefer a more conservative approach, so agree to disagree.

Lol that Pujols contract has been killing us for years and you still wanna go out and give 324 mil to a pitcher till he’s 39! Yea... we totally blew it... accept that we didn’t. That kind of contract sinks a team!

Our fourth best prospect is the giants 10th best prospect... even though our farm system has improved, it’s still pretty bad

WTF indeed... didn’t say anything about wanting our minor league teams to win championships. Just something to talk about.

Yea, it’s me... dipoto... hilarious. Just generating some conversation on a fan board. Wondering if there’s a correlation between prospect depth, and winning percentages. Seems like the highly rated farms have a better win% Although I like a lot of individuals in the Angels farm system, I’m curious as to the lack of depth being reflective by their w/l record

Any thoughts as to why our farm teams are consistently in the bottom half of their respective league standings? Should we be more aggressive with international signings?

This could be over thinking things, but I've read that Stassi and Cole have a good relationship. Maybe this is the first part in persuading Cole to be an Angel next year. I have no problem with this move either way, and if it betters our chances at getting Cole... great Cole Ohtani Canning Heaney (Don't really care)

I didn't feel like this team was a clear cut playoff team, especially after such a tragic loss. Complicated by Heaney being hurt, even if they did make a wild card, they're not winning it this year. We all knew this was another rebuilding year. We're trending in the right direction. Losing these games makes it an easy decision to sell off the pieces that we don't need for next year. I see a lot of promise and am enjoying the rebuild process.

I hate guys that take walks and get hit by pitches... swing the bat

gotta factor in inflation... now days the fetal four might be worth about 40 million

Interesting article on Heaney. https://www.pitcherlist.com/going-deep-have-you-seen-andrew-heaneys-changeup/ Really good analysis

I feel like there is so much volatility in 1st round pitching prospects. If you go back and look at the mlb prospects top 10 pitching prospects over the years you'll find a lot of names like: Matt Moore, Julio Teheran, Shelby Miller, Jacob Turner, Taijuan Walker, Danny Hultzen, Archie Bradley, Carlos Rodon etc... Time will tell, but it seems like scouts felt this was a weak pitching class. We could just sign G Cole if the Angels really want an ace.

I’m not feeling very confident about the 8th and 9th...

First off, Fake news. Noe Ramirez's swinging strike % is at 13.4 per fangraphs. I see what you're saying about sample size, but you're missing a key point in what I'm saying. Heaney is throwing 2 pitches! He's getting a ton of swing and miss on his fastball cause he's elevating it more.. Once he gets a feel for his changeup, he will absolutely be able to elevate his game to another level (if he can stay healthy). His changeup was a great pitch for him last year with a wCH of 8.3. His peripherals would indicate that Heaney has a much higher upside. With that said, I don't dislike Skaggs, but Heaney is better.