Fish Oil

Updated, last 28 days:
.280/.333/.680/1.013 with 8 HR and 17 RBI
Average up to .196 on the year and OPS up to .602. Quite an amazing turnaround.
I ❤️ you Kole. Sorry I ever doubted you.
 

Sucks to lose obviously, but I like where this team is going. I think Eppler has by far done more good than bad. He’s been extremely resourceful considering the salary bind he’s been in. He sees the big picture, and where he wants to steer the ship. He’s done a good job in the draft, which to me says a lot. He’s made great acquisitions with Ohtani and Maitan which nobody seems to give him credit for. The moves people feel are his “bad moves” have never hurt the team long term, and I felt we’re caluculated risks with upside. Many people on this board were so excited and praised the kinsler and cozart signings. They didn’t work out, so what. They very well could have had great seasons and suddenly he’s a genius again. Bottom line, the trade and signing didn’t hurt the team or effect his long term goal in my opinion. 

No. He's come exactly as advertised. The defense is probably worse than expected, but his bat has definitely been a plus. 
He's not going to be a 1.000 OPS player, and he never has been. He's a guy who will bat around .250-.270 with an .800 OPS and 30 HR. Pretty much exactly what he's on pace for. 

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Slater's?

Well, the diagnosis is the elbow so...

the luxury tax started in 1997 but it was sort of half assed.  It went away till 2003 when the threshold was created.  The yankees have won a single WS title in that time.  2009 because fuentes threw Arod a fastball.  
They've paid out $319.6 mil in taxes during that period.  Not payroll, but taxes.  
On top of that, their WS teams before that had a tremendous core of home grown talent.  They just had amazing flexibility in supplementing that core.  
no one has bought themselves a WS victory in that time.  Yes, teams that spend more money typically give themselves a better chance.  
but look at the new narrative in baseball.  It's the same as the old one.  penalties, restrictions, taxes, caps etc. force you to build from within.  Teams with more financial flexibility can extend their window or shorten the internal of a rebuild.  
big market teams try to stay competitive during their rebuild.  maybe win 87 games and sneak into the playoffs.  trying to maintain their fanbase.  they might have to endure a couple 90+ loss seasons in the interim.  But they try not to.  Small market teams get a pass for a while.  
we are a large market team that hasn't been quite as good as the yankees at rebuilding while staying competitive.  They're actually living off a couple of things.  Some highly shrewd trades of relievers which was quite brilliant.  The second is signing as many international prospects they could while there weren't restrictions.  A loophole that's been closed.  And finally, they drafted and traded well to create a nice young core of players at the major league level. 
The international loophole being close is huge.  
So, going forward, you're going to need to be smart.  You can't get there anymore without Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer, Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, Chris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Kyle Hendricks, Jake Arrieta, and the supplementation with Lester and Verlander and Morales, and Cueto.  
Is Billy smart?  Valbuena, Cozart, Espinosa, Maybin, Kinsler make him look like he needs work.  What about rebuilding the worst farm ever.  seriously.  ever.  in less than 3 years to top 3rd?  Or wooing the best international players ever?  
Could he be more successful on those short term deals?  sure. But is that what is going to make or break this franchise?  
2018 sucks so far.  There's a lot I'm not happy about.  But maybe he doesn't have our fan glasses on.  Maybe he felt it probable that the Astros would win 95+ games and that our best chance was to sneak into a WC slot with 87 wins.  Maybe that's why he didn't commit money and prospects to a low probability outcome.  
If all went right, we'd be 3-5 games back right now.  That was best case.  But damn I'm glad he didn't trade Adell and Canning for Cesar Hernandez.  
There's one way for him to look really really smart right now.  It's to turn a 2 year window into a 7 year window.  And we all know how that happens.  
 

As someone whos been all over the country, and the earth, anaheim is LA. If you make the drive at night, with no traffic, you can leave angel stadium and get to downtown in about 30 mins...
The only people who know the difference are locals. 

I put in a bunch. Thanks for the link.

He also has a horse named DogFood. Just sayin.....

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I’m sorry, you are right.

The highest OPS of his career came at age 37. His second highest OPS came at age 39.
Perhaps you should follow your own advice before opening your idiotic mouth.

One of the dumbest posts I’ve ever seen on AW.
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One could throw Aaron into this debate. He certainly peaked late.
 

Offseason NOT spending on relief is also not working - see us.

I’m probably one of the few here to see Mays play live in his prime. Too bad he lost almost 2 years when drafted during the Korean War.

Figured you would say that.  You only look at the final results in the box score.
I am not going to try to explain it to you because it's a waste of time.  I just will go on and say outside of 2012 Scioscia team usually over achieve.  They either didn't have the talent or had injuries.   Despite that and consistent poor starts they usually battled and had winning seasons. 
Your free to disagree.  

By the way, Eppler never actually said what is being portrayed. He never said the word “likely” or “no matter what.”
He just said it’s possible for him to be cleared as a hitter even if he can’t pitch. 
Yes, today is the day. 

God I am so sick and tired of this false narrative. Joe Maddon was part of the most disasterous collapse in Angels history. He was on the Collins team that self distructed taking out the coaching staff and led to Edmonds being traded and sparked Disney to consider selling the team.
He had zero success moving the Angels anywhere towards a playoff until Scioscia came aboard and changed the entire philosophy of the Angels. Maddon learned under Scioscia how to be a manager. Up until that time he was just a coach, a nice guy and someone you may want on the bench and that's why he was the only coach Sciocia kept from the purge.
Had Scioscia ejected him with the rest of Collin's squad he'd probably still be some teams bench coach without any World Series experience. The resume he took to the Rays (the bottom feeder franchise) was the one built on Scioscia's managing. He then instituted every thing Scioscia does to make the Ray's successful including 120 different lineups every year. 
Shit people get a grip.