FanSince'98

I agree that Eppler has missed many opportunities or been beaten in deals with competitive teams that could've traded with us, that doesn't mean our players aren't desired, it means we missed our chance. HOPEFULLY there are other teams we aren't thinking of willing to work with us, but it seems once again the league has passed us by while we have our heads in the sand. Agreed on that.

The options are limited now that teams have added infielders and made trades but I thought BOS was a good option I'm sure there are other teams who could use an above average hitter who averages about 1.0-2.0 WAR per season in his career. You may be down on him but he's not worthless and Norris/Hernandez are even more valuable so don't give up on that yet, the only mistake we can make is not making ANY rebuild/restructure trades.

Judging by their stats what makes you think those 3 aren't of value to other teams?

I'm surprised you took the time to respond to that one haha, we should never release Albert as long as there's a DH in the AL.

True...so... Norris: 3.12 ERA/1.116 WHIP Hernandez: 2.34 ERA/1.01 WHIP Escobar: .271 AVG/.328 OBP No reason at all we shouldn't get some mid tier strong potential prospects for those guys.

So your argument is players can't have a bad first half of the season on bad teams they can only do that on good teams? Oh okay sure....or it just happens to everyone on all teams even guys like Bryce Harper. Would you have traded Harper last year after he hit .240? lol

Agreed, if he doesn't trade off obvious pieces like Norris, Escobar, Hernandez, etc I'll lose a LOT of faith in our front office.

Are baseball fans really this ignorant and impatient? Calhoun has spent 3 full seasons with us producing 80+ runs or RBIs each season depending on where he hit in the lineup and also a gold glove....then 93 games into one bad season for him and you want to give up. Then go ahead and give up just stop talking about every player who ever has a bad first half.

You're right, for a guy like Myers they'll expect 2 top prospects or 1 top prospect and some young MLB ready talent.

I never thought CJ would be a "superstar," but I thought he would be an excellent 1B like a Trumbo + who could hit for better average and equal power, defense would never be great for either player. Frankly, I think Cron has done exactly that!! It's Scioscia who can't handle power hitters like Cron, Trumbo, Napoli, etc. and he is so impatient he sends them to AAA or trades them before they achieve their potential. Look at Cron's first 3 seasons, WAY more consistent than you'd expect, in 120 games on average over his first three seasons he was basically a lock for .260/.310./15 HR/65 RBI. Instead of playing him and letting him achieve that this year if not better over 120+ games, we sign a sunk cost like Valbuena and once against mess with Cron's confidence and ability. This is 100% Scioscia and I'm SICK of it. We lost trumbo and napoli on terrible deals, what next with Cron? The way the Angel's work I'm surprised we didn't trade Cron for Sandoval before he got released like we did with Napoli and Wells.