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Yes but he could have milked 7 years 140 million+ out of Reagins if he wanted to, and can you imagine how ****ed we'd be if he did? He was one of the best pitchers in the game when he signed that deal. He was better than Greinke was when he signed his deal with the dodgers (6 years, 144 million) People need to gain a little perspective on the guy. This is a pitcher who finished top 5 in the CY young 3 straight years. His ERA was 2.73 over those 3 years. He could have gotten some team to pay him whatever he wanted at that point in time

I just couldn't envision a scenario where Scioscia benches such a popular veteran player. Honestly I'm not even taking a cheap shot at Scioscia here. What is he supposed to do? Weaver is making 20 million dollars this year and would be awful in the bullpen too. He pretty much has to just roll him out there every 5 days at least to start the season. If things escalate to a point where he's giving up 7 runs a game, then yeah he's gotta pull the plug as much as it would be tough for him (I imagine him and Weav have a good relationship). I think if Weaver is a 6 inning, 4 runs a game type of pitcher (which is an ERA of 6) Scioscia will just roll him out there the entire season/ I think Weaver may agree to a buyout in June though if he can't get his fastball above 80

Yeah, but Scioscia doesn't care. If he gave Steve Finley and Matt Joyce regular playing time until late August, he will surely give Angel legend Jered Weaver the entire season no matter how bad it gets. It's not a big deal because this team is not making the playoffs (realistically)

Let's be honest, Scioscia is not going to take him out of the rotation until August at the earliest no matter how bad it gets. He loves the veteran players...my guess is it will be an embarrassing season for both of them. Tropeano or someone like that is going to get robbed out of some experience because of this. Very hard to picture him keeping his ERA below 5 this year Having said that, I can't be mad at Weaver. He's entitled to play out the contract him and the team agreed to and that's what he's doing. He's been a fan favorite and leader for many seasons. Pujols and Wilson are much easier targets for me

Good call. We just signed Al Alburquerque!

He said to the media something along the lines of "I don't know how much money I can spend"....I'll try to find it

What prospect wad? Newcomb and Ellis got us our SS for the next 6 years. He's an elite defender and an average hitter for a short stop. You really need to gain some perspective on the SS position and realize that Tulowitzki's hardly exist. If you can get a 5 WAR player in his prime to be your SS for you, it's not a terrible trade. Simmons is significantly better and younger than Aybar and therefore is an upgrade to the roster "Prospect wad" is hilarious btw, this team had exactly 1 good prospect - Newcomb - and Eppler used him to get a stud SS in his prime. Dipoto/Moreno were unable to accumulate any other good prospects for Eppler to do his job. The fact you're putting that on him is absurd considering he just got here 3 months ago. It's a trash situation for him to come into The problem for Eppler is that the dumbass owner didn't tell him what the budget is. He therefore had no idea if he could sign Hayward/Cespedes/Upton or if he should focus on acquiring cheaper options. The trade market is not good and we again have no prospects. So how is this on him again? Arte literally gave the guy 15 million and said "make this a playoff team". And he knew full well we didn't have the trade assets for that to be possible.

Because Arte doesn't have a budget plan laid out for Eppler. It's ludicrous to blame Eppler for this when he's said to the media that he doesn't even know if Arte is willing to go into the luxury tax. This is an Arte issue, like most things are related to this organization right now

no, Blackmon is not good. They could have had Nori Aoki for 5 million if they wanted a solid but unspectacular left fielder. Giving up a Major League ready #5 starter for a player of Blackmon's caliber is just dumb. Especially with Newcomb gone and Weaver/Wilson in their mid-30s

The subtlety in this post is amazing. Well done I was thinking about posting about that but I would have come across like a dick for sure

If you are graduating college with more than 25 grand of student loans and you did not come out with a degree in law, Medicine, Dentistry, or engineering; you really have no one to blame but yourself. These lazy entitled pieces of shit that go out of state directly out of high school and do nothing but party and get a degree in Art, and then whine for Bernie to make college free are the same people going on hunger strikes at Universities around the country last year Making college free is letting the dumbasses have a free pass

Fox News has better anchors than MSNBC, even if you completely disagree with the agenda being pushed. IMO MSNBC is the most unwatchable channel on TV and not just because I am a Republican/Conservative. I don't have that much of a problem with CNN for example

Kubitza is not a Major League player. You have to have some sort of specialty skill to make it in this league. He doesn't play good defense, he doesn't hit or get on base particularly well, he doesn't hit for power, and he doesn't have great speed. That's a AAAA player or a bench piece in a good year. He certainly isn't athletic enough to handle 2nd base either. He should grab an outfield glove and be working vigorously at trying to become an option in left field Cowart at least does one thing well. He's got serious ability on the defensive side of the ball, which is why I'm a tad disappointed that we brought in Yunel to play 3rd Escobar/Giavotella just doesn't excite me. Two poor defenders playing important positions...with Cron at first base...that's an unmitigated disaster waiting to happen

This guy threw a lot of innings in Japan, just like Darvish and Tanaka did More than likely he's on the DL by August Still a solid gamble

I'm for making universities lower their prices. Tuition is out of control in the last 5-10 years. Making it free will never work. Community college, maybe but that's not that expensive anyway right now (and their is financial aid/payment plans). Making universities free will just boost the amount of riff-raff attending. I'm taking on student loans next year after attending community college for two years. I'm paying my own way and it is very do-able for anyone if you're not a lazy piece of shit. If you're willing to grind 35 hours a week at work and put in the effort for two years at a community college in order to transfer, you can get out w/ a bachelor's with 10-12K student loans. Which is not that daunting but does need to be lowered The kids that want to go out of state right out of high school are the people that need to have their heads examined. Paying 50 thousand dollars for the first two years of general lower division courses is just absurd these days. But "they get the full college experience"...yeah, have fun making payments for 10 years after you graduate

No, that doesn't help people get out of poverty. That helps you be content being poor because someone else is paying for your shit Free education would water down a college degree so much that it would hardly be worth it. Also would increase taxes on the middle class. Not sure how that is a solution to anything

*Reads this response on Iphone while out eating Sushi*

Lmao. This was an actual rebuttal to why socialism, a system that robs people of hard-earned money and allows the government to muck around in society, will never work in an economy as big as the United States. You know, for as much as you criticize "laissez-faire" economics, the United States happens to have the best economy in the entire world. Somehow, someway, we do just fine without the government giving money to lazy pieces of shit for no apparent reason(for the most part - it could still be better with a more fiscally conservative president). You want poor people to have all those benefits you have? It's coming out of your pocket and quality of life in order to happen. I don't see how that could possibly be a good thing for this country

He peaked way too early, holy shit

So let me get this straight: 1) Arte approves/facilitates a deal for a 32 year old injury prone drug addict 2) Arte decides to pay almost the entirety of Hamilton's salary for him to play on a rival team after the dumbass he signed relapsed 3) Arte is afraid of signing free agents now because his ridiculous gamble backfired (to no one's surprise) This guy is the worst owner in the MLB We're ****ed, get ready to be the Phillies when Trout dips

Ridiculous thread. Arte is ultimately responsible for plummeting the minor league system into bottom of the league area annually. He's also responsible for all the big contracts for underperforming players he's signed So either rebuild the right way or ****ing sack up and spend. Being in between when you have the best player in the league locked up is asanine It's awful ownership to sign Pujols/Hamilton/Wilson and then give up after that because they didn't work out. We have the 30th ranked farm system in baseball. We aren't getting an impact player unless we spend. We aren't better than mediocre this year unless we spend

Wow you almost have to try to be as bad as this organization is at evaluating talent

I think he's proposing we trade Simmons for relievers, while trading Santiago for Ethier at 18 million retained, and Micah Johnson. Which is almost equally as ridiculous

No, that would be an embarrassing return for an asset under club control at a reasonable rate for the next 4-5 years. I would especially not do that trade when you consider we gave up Newcomb to get him. Again, if you're going to try to trade for prospects - why not just go full rebuild. If you want to win - why not just go into the damn luxury tax to do it? Lol at that fantasy trade of yours propelling us into the playoffs. Micah Johnson and Andre Ethier...lol The Dodgers would never in a million years retain on Ethier to get Santiago. They have Kershaw/Iwakuma/Ryu/Anderson/McCarthy/Urias/De Leon/Montas/Wood who need more innings...they don't need average starting pitching. Think before you post

Gentry has been embarrassingly bad the last two years. Expecting him to be anything more than a defensive specialist/pinch runner is a recipe for being mediocre. He's another Victorino if Victorino was 4 years younger and never great at baseball at one point in his career Nava was terrible last year and should be seen as a reclamation project to see if he can get back to .340-.350 OBP territory. Again, leaning on him to take 500 at bats is embarrassing Long story short: I agree, LF is unmitigated disaster that is going to be just as pathetic as last year and even worse than when Hamilton/Wells were running around out there