Cosmo_Kramer

I'd take the ghost of Justin Upton over Juan Lagares

11 minutes ago, Hubs said:

Whitfield came up before because they didn't want Adell playing part time, and they knew they were going to have to send him through waivers.. They want the defense going into the rough stretch of games here. 

None of the other guys who are in AA or AAA are on the 40, and they also have to get down to 13 pitchers (not including Ohtani) by the end of the month. That's a 8 man pen, and they had been running 9.

It was Iglesias/Tepera/Loup/Ortega/Bradley/Mayers/Barranclough/Barria/Warren with the rotation of Ohtani/Sisleth/Lorenzen/Sandoval/Syndergaard/Detmers.

 

They extended the rosters a few more weeks

If the Dodgers release him, would you sign him?

Suddenly the bullpen is looking really solid

Not a bad deal

Age obviously a factor but Freeman got 6/162, Olson extended 8/168, Bryant 7/182. Weird

I hope this happens

On 1/20/2022 at 11:47 AM, Chuckster70 said:

Facebook for Angels fan interactions is just awful and Twitter is not far behind based on some of the dialog I've seen and the replies to some of our tweets. 

Ftfy

14 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

John Heyman reports this morning that multiple teams are engaged in trade talks with multiple players involved.  Some included teams are the Red Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Reds, Mets, Royals, Marlins, Rays, Rangers, Astros, Giants, Dodgers, Angels, and Padres and talks are heating up on starting pitchers, middle infielders, corners, catchers and outfielders.

Relief pitching market must be dry

Interesting contract

So you're saying they will *add* Stroman?

1 minute ago, Second Base said:

A little bit of an overpay, maybe by 3 million per year, but not bad. 

Depending on how they structure the contract, it looks like the Angels payroll is now sitting around 172 million (assuming Iglesias'salary is even across the board). 

They've gone to 190 before and likely even may go to 200, as long as it's under the luxury tax, which it is. 

I don't see any reason why they can't afford Marcus Stroman and a backup catcher and stay under 200 million. 

And a shortstop

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

98.7%

Who knows the limit of their success after this series of moves. Should converge to a playoff berth at the very least

4 minutes ago, Lazorko Saves said:

The dude has faced four hitters in his major league career.  Immediately gave up two solo home runs.  Then walked the next two.

He thew 15 pitches.  12 balls.  2 strikes hit for HRs.  One other strike.

And that's the entirety of his major league career (so far).

How did he expect us to react to his signing?

This is hilarious

6 minutes ago, Lou said:

You just increased it to 98.3%

Castillo would be an integral part of the Angels success this year

Angels signing Correa would be peak Arte Moreno

Just now, mmc said:

 

Pass

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

I'm having problems connecting three realities.

1. Robbie Ray was predicted to sign for 5/130.

2. Robbie Ray was atop Angel's want list.

3. Robbie Ray signed for 5/115 on a division rival.
 

How can all three be true? 

Dodgers signed Daniel Hudson for 1/7. Who would you rather have?

Michael Lorenzen

29 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Of all of them, Detmers is the one Im least excited to lose. Who knows, he could be the next newcomb(?). 

But he likely ends up a solid middle of the rotation guy, if not better. And its been years since we made one of those, let alone had one we could rely on for several years.

Would love to get Castillo if they can keep Marsh and Detmers

23 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

What the F?

We. Don't. Have. A. SS.  

You take a flyer on this dude when our most stable MIer is someone who produced 0.3 WAR?  

If we end up with who we've got at SS/2b after spending 7m on a project then I'm gonna lose my fucking mind.  

They better do a lot more after this.   A lot more.  

Don't worry Arte will get us Trevor Story

14 minutes ago, totdprods said:

I think at this point it's pretty safe to say Robbie Ray (maybe Stroman) is probably the target and, if they miss out, they'll make a strong pivot towards Luis Castillo, in which yes, including a MLB-ready SP will almost be necessary, if not two. That's where Lorenzen helps us.

1. Ray/Castillo/Stroman
2. Syndergaard
3. Ohtani
4. Sandoval
5. Lorenzen
6. whoever is left of Suarez, Canning, Barria, Detmers, Bachman if there's a Castillo trade

Might as well get both Castillo and one of Stroman/Ray

Castillo Ray Ohtani Syndergaard is a real playoff rotation