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Now we will be acquiring Price to help the Dodgers with payroll and complete Joe’s nostalgia rotation.
Rengifo/Ward for Price.

I mean, do people actually think guys like Joc, Eaton, Schwarber or Rosario wanted to come to our OF situation? Everybody and their mother knows our RF spot is a placeholder. Why would guys like that go for it on a 1-year deal when they need to parlay this next year into a multi-year deal? It's not that we didn't go after guys like that; it's that they would be pretty dumb to take a deal to keep the seat warm for Adell/Marsh. Fowler costs $1.75 million, is a LH bat, a good locker room guy, and a BB machine. That's bad in the 8-9 hole? Huh? Can you imagine relying on Ward and Schebler to platoon all year? It's another floor-raising move. And when you raise the floor, you reduce the margin for error. 
I get it. I wanted a top-notch starter or two, 2-3 elite bullpen guys, and a good catcher. But we've spent $29 million this offseason (all of which expires after this year), and filled 4-5 holes. We are most likely not done. Bauer is about to get $33-35 million a year. We really would rather have Bauer than 2 back end starters, 2 relievers, a backup catcher, and a stopgap/4th OF? I'm good with filling multiple holes in the boat rather than installing a turbo engine and hoping everything else works out. But I get why fans wanted more, so I'm just speaking for myself. 

MLB left off Adell, but Baseball America and other publications haven't. 
If you take the averages of all of the prospect ranking media groups that gives us three in the top-100. 
Arguably I would have ranked Chris Rodriguez in the top-100 and had him ahead of Detmers on our Top-30 Angels Prospects list. 
So to me, we have 4 in the top-100 but at the very least 3.
Suck on that, Maria! 

Minasian's front office hasn't had any leaks yet, and I have a very difficult time believing that Maria Torres, for the LAT is going to be Minasian's mouthpiece for the media. 
Torres has never been an impressive reporter. Calling it like it is. She never struck me as bad, but as an Angels beat reporter, she's been pretty non-impact, comparatively. 
So Maria Torres' source, likely isn't from the Angels and if it isn't from the Angels, the only other possibility in regards to Bauer is that her source is Bauer himself or Rachel Luba.
Spoiler Alert: They aren't talking to her either. 
Torres' isn't wrong in her assessment. She's wrong in pretending it's coming from an inside source. 

Yep and these two...
 

Brad Hand pls.
Hand and Iglesias in the 8th and 9th...

Padres get another pitcher, Pirates get Head, and all I've got are blue balls.

Ohtani. Hasn't been healthy but is still a good signing.

Vladdy and it's not even close. 

Torii Hunter.  Simply because he was my favorite non-Angels player at the time.
For mid-season acquisitions - getting Greinke and Teixeira were both pretty exciting at the time each of those seasons.

Pujols, easily. The old forum was on cloud 9. When CJ Wilson and LaTroy Hawkins happened in the following hours everyone wanted to suck Dipoto's dick.
 
That didn't turn out so well.
 
The happiest i've been outside of that was Mike Trout's extension.

The first "big splash" for me as a fan was Mo Vaughn.  Who promptly sprained the ever-loving shit out of his ankle on what seemed to be the first play on the first home game. 

Racist.

Whoever takes over for Victor has some big shoes to fill! But for the love of God, please don't let it be Terry Smith! He is constantly behind on plays and it is agonizing. Trent Rush is better but he may be too much of a Homer. We would be better off with an outside hire. 

That is a lot of money for Schwarber

I'm not surprised, based on some things he's tweeted and posted over the last few months.  I got the impression broadcasting didn't seem as fun for him anymore.  Wonder who'll replace him?

I truly hope Terry Smith does not slide over to the TV side of things.  

I sure hope Terry Smith slides into the TV PBP role!

Yep, I really like Victor.  I think he has bigger ambitions.  

I'll miss Victor Rojas "Big Fly!" and "Drive...home..safely!" calls.  Best wishes for the future, family always comes first.

Well that sucks.  2021 is picking up right where 2020 left off.  More bad news.
I'll really miss Victor Rojas calling games for the Angels.  I valued his ability to make the games entertaining, even when the team wasn't playing well.  And more importantly: I valued that he was blunt and called out the team when it wasn't playing well.  More of that, please, when they recruit a successor.
Thank you to Victor Rojas for 11 memorable years.  

I think you mean, National Treasure.

I don’t know if bringing Bauer’s personality into the Angels clubhouse would be an issue, but I do believe that there’s no GM who will take that more into consideration than one who literally grew up in a clubhouse. 

Love this deal. The money saved on Robles, Andriese, Middleton, and Noe is used on Rasiel.