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The team goes 68-94 - their worst season since 1994.

But whose place does he take? 

Great interview! Good questions and I loved Wayne's insight.

Great interview! Good questions and I loved Wayne's insight.

I'm glad he's doing well but I believe Moniak and Adell must get the heft of at-bats this season.

Nice show, guys.

Nice show, guys.

And here we are. LOL!

Hi Chuck, Listening to this now on You Tube but I had to make a comment about Arte. It's so sad how Arte wanted to be loved and how things have changed so much because of the state of the team. 😞
 

Who gives a flying fuck about that dude anymore 🤬🤬

Really?  We need a thread for this?  How soft have we become here? 

Please post all things that you want to post about Shohei Ohtani in this thread and ONLY in this thread. Whether it's news about him getting married, a picture of his dog, what he did in a game, or off the field. 
 
Let's just keep all things related to Shohei in one place so that it doesn't bleed into every other thread. 

Shohei is dead to me. And i cant figure out how to change my username. 
This sucks. 

Bumping this. 
Good writeup, @Angelsjunky!!!

I'm concerned with the Hicks move because on paper he's not a fourth or fifth outfielder. Like another poster stated, Adell has to play five times a week. We all want him to be confident but the team has to show confidence in him. With Ohtani gone, the one good thing that comes out of it is that there aren't big expectations. Arte's lack of big moves should cement that notion. Let Adell play regularly for the first two months and see what happens. If he thrives, great. If he doesn't, trade him. The Angels owe themselves to give him a chance. 

Always felt like Adell needed just needed to be short to the ball and use all fields. The talent is extremally high and hopefully everything connects this season. 

I really hope Hicks isn't taking significant AB's from Adell or Moniak. If we're going for it and Bellinger is taking their AB's - fine. If we're truly rebuilding, I'd like to see Adell and Moniak playing enough to see what we have in them. 

I'm concerned with the Hicks move because on paper he's not a fourth or fifth outfielder. Like another poster stated, Adell has to play five times a week. We all want him to be confident but the team has to show confidence in him. With Ohtani gone, the one good thing that comes out of it is that there aren't big expectations. Arte's lack of big moves should cement that notion. Let Adell play regularly for the first two months and see what happens. If he thrives, great. If he doesn't, trade him. The Angels owe themselves to give him a chance. 

Since he's making league minimum, would not surprise me one bit if he was DFA'ed before end of ST if Ward and Trout prove healthy and Adell and Moniak have a strong spring, or if we decide someone like Sano or Dozier or an infielder are more of a 26-man need. 

He's effectively here on a minor league deal. 

Absolutely...I was way more bummed than I should have been when that happened just for him as a human. He had the clearest opportunity ahead of him and had been playing well and minding his biz in AAA and it didn't last but what, a week? 
Really hoping he gets a shot this year.

Getting hurt when he could have played everyday replacing Trout was a really bad break...

Jo was starting to put the pieces together before he got injured last year. I'm excited to see what he does this season.

He has worked on his defense last 2 years and has vastly improved.

I don’t think we’ve seen enough of Jo Adell to determine whether he’s a failed prospect.  This year we will definitely see.  I think we all might as well be optimistic about him.