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Christ, get the bullpen warming. He looks horrible

Well, the fear that Scioscia will leave Pujols batting 3rd or 4th the rest of his contract remains But yes, this is a step in the right direction for the fat man

Upton would drive in 135 runs batting behind Trout a full season

The great part about having some pitching depth on the way is that you no longer have to go pay 10-15 million for #4-5 starters in free agency. Instead, you can pay 20-25 million for an ace if you really feel like you need it (Heaney/Skaggs/Richards injury question marks). Not having to pay big money for mediocre talent is the best thing about Eppler's reign as GM so far. Dipoto and Reagins were so bad at building the farm that he we were forced into acquiring Blanton/Hanson (RIP) type pitchers all the time

1. Jones 2. Adell 3. Barria 4. Marsh 5. Thaiss 6. Ward 7. Canning 8. Hermosillo 9. Jose Suarez 10. Elvin Rodriguez I'm impressed with what Suarez has done. He might be short but at 19 years old he's striking out 11.8 batters per 9 innings in A ball.

So I take it Adell and Marsh will start next year in Burlington?

The Teixeira trade. I thought we were winning it all that year. Ugh

The Astros are rolling Verlander, Kuechel, McCullers out there in the playoffs. Then they have Altuve, Springer, and Correa on offense. They will be tough to beat. But fuck them we've got Upton, Trout, Simmons

What a day for Billy Eppler and the Angels

You think you're the one person on these boards who wants to build the farm?

lol at Barria and paying the guy 30 million per year. That's insanity If he was 30, then sure why not but we're talking about a guy who is going to be 35 next year

I think it's a Rawlings but could be an Easton too

Going to have to catch the yankees. The White Sox and Tigers are just pathetically bad

Umm 30 million a year would be a big overpayment. I wouldn't pay more than 25 per for Upton

If it's Marsh then the Angels come out huge losers in this trade unless they win the World Series

Makes sense. We passed our quota of black guys on the 40 man

Eppler isn't fucking around

Escobar DH Trout CF Upton LF Calhoun RF Cron 1B Simmons SS Valbuena 3B Cowart 2B Maldonado C What will actually happen: Escobar 3B Trout CF Pujols DH Upton LF Calhoun RF Cron 1B Simmons SS Pennington 2B Maldonado

You have to ask yourself if you really want to go blow the Hamilton money on a mid-30s starter with a ton of innings. To me I'd rather go after Stanton

Guerra needs to be up. He was good last year in the majors and dominated AAA this year. He's an arm that could potentially give a couple guys in the bullpen some needed rest

I think it's strange to even want that kind of spotlight. If I were a minority I wouldn't want a set day where I'm celebrated, I'd just want to be treated equally day in and day out

True, which is reflected in the 10 point different in their OPS+

The correct move in terms of wins/losses is just to make Escobar the everyday DH and bench Pujols, I think everyone here except Troll Daddy can agree with that

Remember how bad Vernon Wells was for this team in 2011? His OPS was .660 that year. OPS+ of 84. Pujols' this year is .648. OPS+ of 74.

Pearson I see the upside to at least. Nonie, not so sure about