Glen

But for fuck's sake, Eppler, do some more shit. The board is boring right now. I'm not talking about Dipoto-level shit, but give us something new to talk about. 

7 hours ago, m0nkey said:

You think they'll throw in a recent draft pick since Samardzija is making so much?

I'm not a smart man but I can't believe this little gem went unnoticed.

Right now, we're relying on a bunch of pitchers being better than they were last year - Heaney, Canning, Bundy, Teheran - and one guy bouncing back from TJ surgery who will only pitch once a week.  I don't see Eppler using a lot of the farm to trade for a legit ace, assuming one is available and the Angels can make a better offer than other teams.  Getting Redon was great.  However, we still need pitching and a catcher or two.  Hopefully January brings us help on both fronts.

We got Rendon.

On 12/15/2019 at 9:18 PM, Lou said:

Wheeler

Cole

Kluber

Bumgarner

Keuchel

Ryu

Heaney

Welp.

1 minute ago, AngelStew43 said:

I think we're close to Hubs' projection.  Bundy and Teheran alone should improve the starting rotation by 6 wins, mostly because they will pitch behind great infield defense.  

Trout playing a full season instead of missing a month should easily pick up more than 1 win.  

If we add another starter, either via FA or trade, and a catcher, we are plus 3.  (averaging 1.5 each.)

Bouncebacks from 1 of Simmons or Upton, and we'd be in the 90's, win wise.  Just one, not both.  

Everything that happened last season can happen again next season.

26 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Well yeah, no GM has the green light to sign anyone without the owner's approval. But the GM negotiates the contract.

As for your second point about him having no track record of signing "TOR" pitching and only liking one year deals, I present to you this picture:

Who was the last one before him? I think it was CJ Wilson and that was a different GM.

3 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

We aren't getting 2 more starters. You don't use funds or prospect capital to bring in extra pitchers because the ones you have "might get hurt". That's what depth is for, and we have Sandoval, Barria, Peters, Suarez and even Pena for that.

I agree we do need another pitcher, hopefully Ryu. But beyond that we likely aren't adding much other than MAYBE taking a cheap flyer on somebody.

This means if we don't get Ryu - a distinct possibility given the way the offseason is going - we have Heaney as our opening day starter and a lot of "hopes" in our rotation. We have the latter regardless. Pitching was a priority and we've added Bundy and Teheran when much better options were available. 

It's frustrating.

I look forward to us trading for Price, and hearing about his career stats as he continually declines a la Pujols.

47 minutes ago, Lou said:

the first one. 

sigh, white people....

Wuh-HITE people.

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

No way.  I’d be very surprised.

Surprise.

3 minutes ago, Lou said:

how many pages before 2:00pm?

9

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I don’t think I have seen a single person that isn’t worried about Ryu being an age or injury risk.  

Keuchel and Ryu are the last two women left at the bar at closing time. We have our beer goggles on but we know it.

4 hours ago, VariousCrap said:

 

No way Ryu gets 30 million a year or Keuchel gets 20 million a year.

Keuchel will almost certainly get $20m+ a year.  

8 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

Absolutely. 

We're trading for Kyle Freeland!

1 hour ago, Angels_Make_Me_Drink said:

 

Haven't the Padres been on the verge for about five years now? I constantly hear about how loaded they are with prospects but they haven't seemed to improve.

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

Sounds like Angelswin.

Especially the repeated "stupid" parts.

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Depends on the price of sale. But, if we could get price on sale, that would be good, too.

I think that ship may have saled already.

No. Hell no. He's had one good year and in his head he's an ace and should be treated like one.

1 hour ago, mymerlincat said:

Why is Rendon?

My turds are famously huge!

20 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Russo just said the Angels are barely a 82 win team in adding Rendon, they have no pitching (no shit, we're not done), the bullpen stinks and Ohtani won't pitch until June 1st, if he does. 

Last night I heard them talking about how bad our bullpen is. We were ranked 16th by fangraphs and that was without Middleton. 

This thread aged well.

4 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I’m surprised he’d cost Marsh and Rengifo coming off his injury.  

Other teams know we're desperate.  They can ask us to overpay and if we refuse, they'll get a good package from another team.  It's a seller's market.

So we're not getting him then.

I'm tired of hearing about who we're interested in.  I'm interested in a threesome with Charlize Theron and Rosario Dawson but that doesn't mean it will happen.  Just give us some results.