Vladdylonglegs

Exactly, we shouldn’t create threads like this until we have solved every other part of the organization.  BTH, you’ve been put on notice. 

And managing a baseball team can be done by either. 

Grown ups?  You are living in a dream world where Nevin was untouchable in your eyes and you put yourself in the category of grown up.  Find a mirror and take a deep look. 

Sorry. But you talking about people skills is hilarious. 

“Good manager”

You are adorable. Still hiding out in your garage?

Now yours is an act which we all get. FC not so much. 

Woman can be generals in the army but heaven forbid they try to manage a baseball team. Fucking idiots. 

If it’s an act then it’s funny. If this is who he is then it’s pathetic. 

Yes that I’m a reasonable adult. Thanks. 

I don’t have an opinion of what gender the manager is as long as they can do the job. Obviously you disagree, which tells me a lot about you. 

If you are ever looking for a real piece of shit look no further than Aubrey Huff. 

To be fair.... As a former Angels GM he probably thought it was normal to put anyone and everyone on the DL.
 

Hahahaha. 

Excerpts:
"The Angels front office and ownership have consistently believed they’re close to making the playoffs, that the failures have been a result of some misfortune.
“We don’t feel like we’re that far away — we don’t,” Angels GM Perry Minasian said after his club’s 73-89 finish last season. “I think we’re closer than what our record might show to competing.”
The Angels enter the final weekend of this season with a record of 71-88. Injuries have hurt. But they’re still no closer to competing than a season ago.
The Athletic spoke with 17 current and former employees and players with the organization, in an effort to better understand why the Angels have not been able to build better teams around their superstars. The consensus was that under owner Arte Moreno, the organization has not spent at the levels of its competitors in critical areas throughout the franchise, beyond just player payroll. And that this frugality is at the heart of the team’s failures.
“The margins are so small between failure and success in baseball,” said former Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson, speaking broadly about the Angels’ lack of spending. “It could be a 10- or 15-game swing in the standings from just taking care of those ancillary situations.”
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"At a time when other large-market teams had already moved aggressively to aid technological training and evaluation aids to their organization, the Angels were lagging behind. In 2019, the team brought in advanced pitching and hitting equipment such as Edgertronic cameras, Rapsodo machines and K-Vests, multiple former coaches said.
“Before 2019, we didn’t have anything at all,” said a longtime former coach in the Angels system. “No technology. Bullpens were thrown without any technology. … We were very outdated as an organization. We were years behind other organizations.”
Roughly half of MLB’s 30 teams have established dedicated pitching or hitting labs, according to published reports, and these kinds of advanced facilities are even spreading throughout the collegiate level. One of the better pitching labs in the country is at Wake Forest University. It cost the school about $12 million to create, and allows players and staff alike to hone in on granular areas for improvement — be it a release point, a grip on a certain pitch, or many other details that might lead to improvement.
“Why wouldn’t you get all hooked up to see what fits best for you?” Braves All-Star third-baseman Austin Riley told The Athletic in spring about the Braves’ hitting lab. “I feel like the best hitters are always trying to find that little bit of an edge.”
The Angels have neither hitting nor pitching labs."
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"Moreno was one of four owners who voted against raising the luxury tax during the lockout in 2022. Historically, Moreno has effectively treated the lowest tier of the tax as a cap for his own spending, and the team’s moves over the last month have underscored that approach.
Matt Thaiss, for example, was activated off the injured list when he was still unable to catch due to his shoulder injury. He hasn’t appeared in a game since Sept. 13. But having Thaiss on the IL and a minor-league player called up in his place would have added marginally to payroll. They didn’t take that approach every time, but people within the organization say the front office remains cognizant of where it stands in relation to the luxury tax. And though it appears they’re actively working to be below it at season’s end, there’s a very real chance they do not finish below the threshold.
Some in the organization now worry that this aggressive push to shed salary will impact the team’s ability to sign free agents moving forward.
This most recent push to save money, however, seemingly fits within a pattern of frugality that can be seen throughout the organization.
The Angels’ only World Series championship came in 2002. Last June, the organization invited players from that team to return to Angel Stadium for a ceremony. The Angels hyped up the event, which included a shirt giveaway. On a Wednesday night against the Royals, and with Ohtani scheduled to pitch, the Angels sold nearly 35,000 tickets, which was 15,000 more than the night before.
But the Angels did not pay for travel for those former players to attend the event, sources said, requiring them to foot the expense themselves if they wanted to be there."
 
 

We just are. Just accept it. 

5-10 year rebuild and third wild card by 2035!
Book it. You guys just need to be patient.

Someone quoted me then chose to delete their post. That’s cute. 

Just a reminder, 2024 is his age 30 season.   Beware of long contracts.

Clearly there should be variety, and we should be talking about how well the Angels are doing, and their prospects for October.  Well, instead of mentioning how they're probably about to lose a generational player for Nothing, we could discuss how Trout is having trouble playing more than 2/3rds of a season, while in the middle of a long term contract, or how their other high salaried player, Rendon, can't play more than 20% of a season since he was signed.
In case it's gone unnoticed, I've also made quite a few posts about how the owner is a douchebag, and the Angels are going nowhere so long as he owns the team.  This has nothing to do with Ohtani really, although in a way, it does.  As I've said in several posts, dysfunction starts at the top.
Also.....the title of this thread is "Ohtani Has Cleared Out His Locker," so forgive me for staying on topic.

Ok. Thank you for your guidance. You sir are not a troll. 

Just me. He obviously doesn’t need my permission, he has free will. 

Then find a bit of variety in your posts. You literally said you came here to tell us how bad things are and that Ohtani is leaving. Then you stayed true to that by constantly telling us, regardless of the topic of the thread that Ohtani is leaving. Variety. 

I don't really care about that.  People can be wrong, but calling people names is just immature and childlike.  Not to mention it's as if I'm the only one saying these things.  Perhaps if I were the only one trashing the organization for the Shohei situation, I might appear troll like, but clearly others are embarrassed as well, being supporters of the team overall.
And if Ohtani signs any sort of contract here, I'll be glad to come back and say how wrong I was, albeit shocked beyond belief.  I realize that possibility exists, until he signs a contract, but imo, the signs all point to a more successful team offering him everything he's looking for, while his experience with the Angels has shown him that they can't.  It's what known as "Scoreboard," and the Angels haven't even come close.

And you have zero clue what he’s going to do. Fletcher, who literally wrote the book on Shohei says it’s about 30%, I’ll go out on a limb and say he’s much closer to the truth than the troll who created a profile to constantly post about Ohtani not coming back.