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If he's getting his info solely from Boras, it seems like he's trying to push the Angels to grab one of his top 3 free agents, if not two. No one here would turn down Bellinger or Snell or Montgomery if the dollars make sense.

My other thought is just go back to two divisions in each league, East and West. That way the division winners get a bye, and it means something to win the division. Then you have four wildcards, which is 12 teams in the playoffs. If its Portland/Nashville AL West Angels, A's, M's, D'Backs, White Sox, Royals, Twins, Rangers NL West Dodgers, Giants, Timbers (Portland), Padres, Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers, Rockies AL East Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays, Rays, Tigers, Indians, Astros NL East Mets, Phillies, Nationals, Pirates, Marlins, Braves, Nationals, Sounds (Nashville). If its SLC / Nashville AL West Angels, A's, M's, Bees, White Sox, Royals, Twins, Rangers NL West Dodgers, Giants, Rockies, D'Backs Padres, Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers AL East Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays, Rays, Tigers, Indians, Astros NL East Mets, Phillies, Nationals, Pirates, Marlins, Braves, Nationals, Sounds (Nashville).

You're never moving Atlanta or the Padres to the AL. Here's my lineup with Portland and Nashville AL WEST Angels, Las Vegas or Oakland, Seattle, Arizona. NL WEST Dodgers, SF, Portland, San Diego AL MIDWEST Cleveland, Chicago White Sox, Detroit, Minnesota NL MIDWEST Cincinnati, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee, St. Louis AL SOUTH Texas, Tampa, Nashville, Kansas City NL SOUTH Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Colorado AL EAST New York, Boston, Toronto, Baltimore NL EAST New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington IF it's SLC and Nashville AL WEST Angels, Las Vegas or Oakland, Seattle, SLC NL WEST Dodgers, SF, San Diego, Arizona AL MIDWEST Cleveland, Chicago White Sox, Detroit, Minnesota NL MIDWEST Cincinnati, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee, St. Louis AL SOUTH Texas, Tampa, Nashville, Kansas City NL SOUTH Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Colorado AL EAST New York, Boston, Toronto, Baltimore NL EAST New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington

Yeah, but they supposedly wanted to move to the AL. I just think one Texas team in each league makes more sense than two in the AL West.

I like 4 divisions of 4, but they need to switch a few teams in leagues so that each team has an opposite league "rival" team and that they have divisions that make sense geographically. Tampa should not be with four teams in the AL East who play within an hour and half flight of one another. The reason a rival team is important is The A's moving to Las Vegas messes up the plan for a rival team, as the natural rival for Las Vegas wouldn't be SF, it would be Arizona. And I had Arizona switching leagues to the AL West. My big gripe is that Houston shouldn't have been the team to move to the AL in 2013, it should've been Arizona or Colorado. The Angels and A's have three hour flights plus to THREE division rivals (SEA, TEX And HOU) whereas the longest flight the Dodgers have in Division is Colorado (2 hours) and it is 1 hour to Arizona. SF has 2x two hour flights to SD and AZ and one 2 hour flight to Colorado. But moving Houston to NL West somehow didn't make sense to MLB.

There is zero chance Pomeranz ends up on the opening day roster.

When you see +15000, or what not, it's as others have said, based on a 100 bet. I like to use that number and divide by 100, giving you the equivalent of 150 to 1 odds. For example, I was checking this out the other day, Jauan Jennings before the Super Bowl +500000 to win SB MVP, but his odds dropped to +1500 mid game. Meaning he was 5000 to 1 odds before hand and mid game he had dropped to 15 to 1.

In So Cal, It hasn't happened since 1995, and that was Pro Football, which is a very very different experience having only one game per week and a national TV broadcast rights deal that is split equally among all 32 teams regardless of market size. The thought of a major market baseball or basketball team with a stadium deal until 2038 would move to market that is 1/11 of the size is laughable. The only reason the A's have proposed a move from a metro area of similar size (15M in NorCal) to one of smaller size (and similar to Nashville) is that their stadium and draw is the worst in the league with the possible exception of Tampa. Nashville and Salt Lake or Portland are likely the 31st and 32nd teams. Tampa if they built a stadium in actual Tampa is a better market than these three, or possibly move to Orlando.

I think blowing the lead is blowing the save, so its valuable to know when that happens and how much to a certain guy. The stat that literally makes zero sense is pitcher wins, especially for relievers.

There is zero chance, I mean zero, that this would ever happen. The Angels are not leaving SoCal. The valuation of a team in Nashville would probably be somewhere between 1.5-2 Billion. The Angels in Orange County are worth 2.5-3. And In LA or Long Beach, probably more than that.

OK, It's yours

Who wants my Saturday second Ticket for the game at CLE? @Blarg @Angel Oracle?

I changed my plans and am coming in super late on Thursday night so I don't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to get to LAX in time to make the Friday game.

Rendon needs a course on talking to the media. "My top priorities are of course my family and my faith, this is just a job. But this job is the best job in the world and I am lucky that God has blessed me to be able to do it at a high level so that I can provide for my family and use my platform to spread the word of God." "Of Course, I am a bit tired of being injured, of course, and of course I want to win for my family and my Angels family. I am absolutely psyched to be here working with Wash and the guys and hopefully, it's in God's plan for me to stay injury free this year and be the player I used to be." It's a little preachy but its essentially saying the same things as he said, but with a more positive outlook.

Did you get a ticket for Saturday day game?

They also don't have a backup 1st baseman other than Thaiss. I'm pro-Urshela on a cheap deal, but they really need a lefty thumper in the middle of the lineup, so unless they get that, I can't even be optimistic with this teams offense.

Right ok, looked it up Designated for assignment (DFA) is a contractual term used in Major League Baseball (MLB).[2] A player who is designated for assignment is immediately removed from the team's 40-man roster, after which the team must, within seven days,[a] return the player to the 40-man roster, place the player on waivers, trade the player, release the player, or "send outright" the player from the 40-man roster into Minor League Baseball.[3 They dont have revocable waivers anymore, so if they put him on waivers he's gone or assigned to AAA if he accepts the assignment.

They have a week to trade him or put him through waivers, but can't they just revoke the DFA on the 14th to put Quijada on the 60 Day IL, and then do the same with him?

I thought it was Feb 8 for everyone. And I'm pretty sure you can put a player on the 60-day IL whenever you want.

Agreed. I like Quijada as a 2nd lefty so I wish he was back sooner. He was pretty good in 2022. Herget by contrast was all smoke a mirrors in 2022, and he showed it in 2023. Shocked that they kept him over Livan Soto and Ingram.

At first, Quijada and Estevez alternated closing, but he was out by like Mid-April. I would expect them to put both Quijada and Warren on the 60-Day IL tomorrow, which is the first day they are eligible for such.. I do not expect these two to be back until the All-Star Break. Both had TJ in early May, and well, it's a 15 month recovery on average.

Saturday night is the shindig at Four Peaks. You will want to come to that.

Quijada was out after the first few weeks with TJ. He pitched in 10 games.

Challenge Accepted.

The Mariners would have Griffey in his prime, A-Rod and Ichiro. They'd also have a lot of other random seasons like Bret Boone's 2001 37 Hr season at 2nd Base. Their rotation would be good with Randy Johnsons 1995 at the top, followed by Felix Hernandez 2010, and then you drop into Jamie Moyer, Mike Moore and Mark Langston next. Pretty good lineup but rotation not that great. The O's actually with Cal Ripken (91) and Brooks Robinson (68) playing next to one another with Bobby Grich (73) at 2nd with Eddie Murray (83) as the 1B? With plus Frank Robinson (66) in RF, with Paul Blair in CF, and Rafael Palmiero in LF? But their rotation probably falters after Palmer and Mike Mussina. Our top 5 Pitching Seasons (by bWAR) are actually Dean Chance (64), Mark Langston (93), Frank Tanana (77), Nolan Ryan (77) and Chuck Finley (90). Then you have some repeats before getting to Jim Abbott (91) and Jered Weaver (11), John Lackey (07) and Shohei Ohtani (22). For the position side it's literally Mike Trout (12, 16, 18, 15, and 13) before you come to Darin Erstad's (2000), Jim Fregosi (64) and Andrelton Simmons (17) are next before you get to another Mike Trout (19), Then its Troy Glaus's 2000, and Chone Figgins (2009). Since we can't do repeats, Tim Salmon in RF (95), DeCinces' 82, Kendrick's 14 and Grich's 79 are all great seasons before you get to Ohtani's (23) and Vlad's 2005 -- not 2004, and Brian Downing (79) and Jim Edmonds' 1995. So you stick Mike's best year is 12 where he played LF, then Erstad in CF, Salmon in RF with Fregosi at SS, Troy Glaus at 3rd and Grich at 2nd? At 1st, it's actually a longer scroll down before you get to Pujols' 12 or Rod Carew's 82. Downing is your Catcher with his 79 season. I'm trying to fit guys where they actually played in the year that is the best, so no Erstad at 1st and Vlad at DH. Ohtani's 23 as a DH is likely ahead of Vlad. Crazy that the one HoF from this team doesn't make the starting lineup. But he would be on the bench with Figgins, Simmons, Kendrick, and Edmonds. This was fun. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ANA/leaders_bat_50_season.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ANA/leaders_pitch_50_season.shtml