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No prescription necessary.

I feel like it wouldn’t be bad to have separate college and high school drafts. I mean, they are pretty different. One you are trying to entice a high schooler to choose to go pro now, and the other you are drafting all guys that are ready to go pro. Maybe I just want more events to entertain me.

I am so confused why people think the Angels record over the next 7 games have anything to do with pursuing a quality starting pitcher controllable past this year.

Underpaying top draft pick? Where are the yacht fuel comments? Come on fellas, you have lost a step.

Aaaaaaaand this is when Angel fans have a temper tantrum over what the real world price is for a controllable starting pitcher who is “not that good” and say it’s crazy to trade quality for him, and then end up with scrap heap desperation signings that end up fully sucking and another year is lost.

You sure you didn’t mean section 8?

The three have to work together in concert. You don’t rush these things. It is important to police the process if you want a nirvana result.

Sometimes I don’t fully understand some of these rehab assignments. If Mike Trout is actually healthy enough to play in a competitive professional baseball game, why not just put him in the major league game? I assume (?) much of it is that they may not have 100% of their normal timing in their first or second game back. But I would rather have Trout in the lineup with MAYBE his timing off a little than give another 4 plate appearances to a definitively inferior, less offensively dangerous player.

Maybe. But the attention comes from him being potentially available. Enthusiasm for Barrios is at least more rational than fantasizing about trading for players that are realistically unattainable. And the fact is Berrios would make the Angels rotation better. If the Angels acquired Berrios, who would you predict would lead the team in innings pitched and wins in 2022?

All good. Just don’t confuse me being “OK” trading “marginal assets” for pieces that would keep the Angels in the race with being OK making dumb trades. The bottom line is the GM has to be good at making trades, otherwise every trade will be a bad move.

Two questions: 1). Do you think the Angels are ever really going to be two replacement level players away from having a championship caliber team? 2). If they are, don’t you think they could find a way to acquire a couple of replacement level players to be a championship caliber team? Listen, my number one objective in this trade period is to be aggressive in trying to acquire a starting pitcher that would be top half of the rotation for multiple controllable seasons. Thats a tough project and they may not be able to do it regardless of how hard they try. But entirely separately, I am fine if they trade “marginal assets” to hang in there for this season. You never know what could happen if you sneak into the playoffs somehow. To me, that would be well spent “marginal assets”. . .

I don’t care if they decide to trade “marginal assets” for key players that could help them have a shot at the playoffs this year. The fact is marginal assets are never going to get you premium players in trades, so trading marginal assets will not keep the Angels from having what they need to acquire premium, controllable players. And if they are “marginal” prospects, then they are very unlikely to ever be significant major league players in your own teams future. The only trades I don’t want to see are those where the Angels trade premium prospects for a rental, and there is basically zero chance that they do that.

Don’t worry. He bought a rocket that worked really well for ten years in St Louis. What could go wrong?

So you saying you are open to an extension of this discussion.

Yes we will see. Also, I find it kind of annoying how people cite his specific comment about really wanting to reach free agency but then totally ignore that he also openly said he would consider any extension the Twins presented to him. The common sense conclusion based on these two comments is he is going to do what is best for him, and is open to that being either free agency or an extension situation. But yes we will see.

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Wait. At the last second, Arte meddled and vetoed the deal

Ugh. He will either sign an extension (if he thinks what is offered to him is his best move) or he will wait for free agency. That is the situation.

Wasn’t picking at you by the way. Just reiterating that an extension deal pretty much always is, a “full value” contract. . . for an extension.

I am confused. Which version of Eppler is this?

Exactly. Thanks for getting my comment.

I saw my face in my beer too.

Maybe I am not picking with this comment but. . . I don’t think teams really expect a player to take a “discount” in signing an extension. The negotiation is correctly going to include some factor of the value of securing your money now versus risking injury between now and reaching free agency. That, to me, is not a “discount.” It is simply an element that is openly negotiated to hopefully reach the actual fair market for the player today versus waiting. The idea is for the player to prefer to sign the extension than to wait for free agency. If they sign the extension (showing they prefer to sign the extension rather than wait for free agency), it is really hard for me to categorize the contract they sign as at a “discount” even if experts project that they may have been able to land more raw dollars in free agency. I would love for the Angels to acquire Berrios and work out a “full value” extension to lock him up for more years, meaning they offer him a deal that he wants to sign now RATHER than waiting for free agency. So my basic point is the word “discount” is a hypothetical and out-of-context distraction to this discussion.

I now feel vindicated calling Eppler nothing more than a skinny Minasian.