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14 minutes ago, Lou said:

Trout has walked 25 times in March/April (Angels record)

MLB record is 31 by Rickey Henderson (1982)

Henderson was before my time.... I know he was a speedster so why did he get walked so much? 

49 minutes ago, bloodbrother said:

Including the end of last season, he's 1 for his last 54 with 31 Ks. He's still owed $51 million(not including the $17 million he's making this year) over the next 3 seasons

 

Could be worse I guess... 

8 minutes ago, robblin17 said:

Cozart should walk his sorry ass back to Cincinnati. 

“Knox, Gooo back to Cincinnati!!!!”

Don’t fans do this everyday? All Harper said was if it gets to 2020 he will be trying to convince Mike to be teammates. I have no problem with it. If that sways Mike Trout away, that is on the Angels. 

9 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Harper, Keuchel, and Kimbrel

"Well?    We're waiting!" 

10 minutes ago, NJHalo said:

I agree with him. How competitive is a league that has more than half it's teams incapable of making the playoffs year after year? 

 

Only a quarter of the teams do make the playoffs every year. I’m not disagreeing with you, you guys do have a point. We are just one of the teams “weary” of spending and hiding behind the rebuilding mantra.

15 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

No worries ... the team has Cahill and Harvey leading the way. 

As well as Skaggs and Heaney. Not a bad four if you ask me. 

2 hours ago, Stradling said:

So we’ve heard or Chuck heard and I kinda heard that the Angels kicked the tires on Machado early on in free agency.   So the Angels at least had some level of interest.  Since I’m sure the asking price is less than most anticipated, you don’t have to squint too hard to see the Angels may still have interest.   Sure they’ve spent a good chunk of change this off season, but it’s all one year commitments.  Just a thought.   I’ll wait for blarg to tell me to shut up.  

Not that I’m hoping for this praticularly or think this is praticularly going to happen BUT I don’t think we will have a “budget” for the “right” player. Like the old saying “you need to spend money to make money.”

“I heard there was also a fued.”  - 61* 

3 hours ago, Lou said:

he's made about $1.25 million in his career.

not poor kid 

What is with everyone’s fascination with money? Just because they made some good money in their lives does not mean they are immune to personal struggles etc. 

17 hours ago, Stradling said:

I don’t disagree but seriously how much do you give Corbin to play here?  Or Happ?  

That’s the thing here boys. What would be the greater plan? 

I am not saying I want to sign this guy, nor do I think it is a good idea. I’m just wondering about the significance of a “top  5 farm?” Once we reach D a “top 5 farm” is that when we are able to trade off assets? Does a “top 5 farm” guarantee wins at the big league level?

Maybe I am well off. I just don’t see the significance in a big retirement savings plan when a person doesn’t plan on using the savings in the first place. So I don’t see a point in the necessity in a “top 5 farm” if that means passing on the right fits IF that happens in free agency or through trades. 

2 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

it's not a given things will pan out if we wait.  it's far from a given if we throw a bunch of resources at the current team.  

playoff droughts and impatience and Trout uncertainty has caused a lot of people to convince themselves that we just need a couple of moves to make us legit playoff contenders.  

We want to make the playoffs so lets just do this and this and everything will work out fine.  

The reality is that we're coming off an 80 win season with our best pitcher needing TJ surg and out for the year.  Our second best pitcher is gone and wouldn't be available for 2019 even if we had kept him. 

We have question marks in RF, 3b, 1b, 2b, and C.  Not just, concerns about some guy producing 2 WAR instead of 3 WAR, but concerns that all five of those positions could be replacement level.  That's 5 of the 9 positions. 

And on top of that, our primary DH won't be ready to start the season. 

Our three main returning starters threw 435 ip combined with an era around 4.00.   The next guy is entering his age 29 season after we picked him up off the scrap heap and gave him 17 starts.  

Our pen is filled with young, unproven talent.  Some of which seems pretty good but 3 of our top 5 pen innings guys have been replaced.  The other two were pretty terrible last year.  

I try to be realistic and even somewhat optimistic, but the above is our true reality.  

So put yourself in a position where if thing go right, you've got an outside shot.  

Don't put yourself in a position where if things go wrong you are screwed for the next 5 years.  

How many of us expected us to make the playoffs last season? We were considered by many as the “winners of the offseason” 

That wasn’t the case. But you know who were the Oakland Athletics. 

Time will tell guys. It’s baseball. It’s unpreditible. 

2 hours ago, TroutField said:

Haven’t the ducks been pretty successful ? 

Somewhat yes. The Ducks do a really good job of drafting. They have great goaltending (Maybe the best in the league) and a solid young d core. (Could the Angels are following a more hockey model than Billy’s love of football one built on defence?) Both are similar in terms of prospects (Steel, Terry etc) vs the Angels (Adell, Canning etc.) 

The only difference is in hockey prospects and development are more of a sure thing. There is a salary cap. So it easier for “smaller markets” to compete. 

But I wouldn’t mind the Ducks and Angels being similar in that they are a near shoe-in to make the playoffs every year that is for sure. 

16 minutes ago, Second Base said:

Have the Angels ever signed someone after a PED suspension?

Cameron Maybin comes to mind. 

time will tell

2 hours ago, Stradling said:

Or you can wait to complain until Shoemaker is signed by another team and we don’t upgrade.  

At what time do we begin to worry? All offseason we have heard we are trying to improve. But at what time do you pull the trigger. You don’t want to wait for things to go south, and something irrational.... or risk not improving at all. 

2 hours ago, eligrba said:

Why?

The Angels have enough pitchers on the disabled list.

He’s a quality pitcher. It’s silly not to think he’d help out our team. 

You mention pitchers on the disabled list. I mention bringing up a pitcher to help fill the rotation.

If we don’t get him it would be massively disappointing. 

18 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

I hope we make the playoffs again before I'm 90.

 

Are you 88?

Such a weird offseason. I think it’s safe to say the Angels have made some questionable moves so far. I do like the Bour signing however, and with Billy it’s more of a trust the process type thing anyway.

One thing that hasn’t been brought up much as a concern is relief pitching... Am I the only one massively concerned about this? 

I’m down. 

3 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

Blue Jays just released Tulowitzki. I believe they still owe him like 50 million.

Does this make Albert nervous?

43 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

We're basically not going to get anybody, are we?

Except for that La Stella guy, or whatever his name is.

 

Could you imagine if he hits a pinch hit single to get us into the playoffs..

1 hour ago, floplag said:

The market is rapidly falling to the point where the guys we should be targeting will be in play, we cant keep saying "its early", its time to wake up. 

Is that the plan all along tho? Maybe Billy is looking for someone that falls through the cracks. Who? I don’t know.