OldAndInTheWay

Great interview and great get! I don 't know if people on here realize how hard it is to get Perry for an interview. I would love to sitdown with him in the offseason to discuss things, but I am very happy that you got this for the site.
 
Additionally, I very much appreciated having both your commentary AND the full interview listed. That gave us both context and the overall response from Perry so we could see how you interpreted it and how he said.
 
Again, VERY happy that you got this. And, good job!

Nice. Appreciate the great work you do.

I nailed it! Very happy with this pick. We should be able to get several other players with over slot deals later on. 

Nolan Schanuel hopes to follow in the footsteps — literally — of Zach Neto.
Schanuel, who the Angels took with the 11th overall pick in the first round of the 2023 draft on Sunday, said he drew inspiration from Neto, the Angels’ first-round pick in 2022, in the way he swings the bat.
Schanuel also has an exaggerated leg kick. Schanuel, who is also from Florida, said he played with Neto in the summer before his freshman year at Florida Atlantic.
“I wouldn’t say he influenced me but it definitely made me more comfortable for what my swing is, especially how unorthodox it is and how different it is from other players,” said Schanuel, a first baseman. “Scouts were saying the same thing about his swing throughout college and he’s playing with flying colors. He’s insane. So it just shows that throughout my progression I could do the same thing.”
Neto, of course, went from Campbell University to the majors in nine months. Schanuel (pronounced SHAN-yew-EL) would love to do the same thing.
Tim McIlvaine, who took Neto with his first selection as Angels scouting director last year, said the similarities to Neto are a coincidence. He said they didn’t pick Schanuel to fit any sort of mold, but simply because they like what he does as a hitter.
“We looked at a ton of players, and in the end, Nolan did a lot of things that that we really liked, that we sought out to look for,” McIlvaine said. “He’s got power. He can hit. He knows his zone. He’s very patient. He doesn’t get himself out, rarely ever strikes out, took a lot of walks this year. A lot of extra base hits. He can hit the ball over the wall. He’s a good player. He’s a really good baseball mind.”
Schanuel, 21, hit .385 with 46 homers in his three-year career at Florida Atlantic. This season he led all of Division I in batting average (.447), on-base percentage (.615) and walks (71), on his way to winning the Conference USA Player of the Year Award.
Schanuel, who is listed at 6-4, 220 pounds, hit 19 homers and struck out 14 times during his junior year.
McIlvaine said they will start him at first base, but will also try him in the outfield at some point later this year.
One of the knocks against Schanuel is that he did not fare well last summer when playing with a wood bat in the Cape Cod League. McIlvaine said they talked to Schanuel about his performance, and came away convinced that he had made the proper adjustments.
“He’s better now,” McIlvaine said. “We watched him a lot last year, a lot this year. He proved beyond a doubt to us that he’s ready. He’ll do fine.”
Schanuel said another key to his improvement was that he was diagnosed with an astigmatism in his right eye last winter. He now wears a contact lens, and he said the difference in his vision has been dramatic.
“It was like the ball was not even in 3D, it was in 4D,” Schanuel said.
The slot value for the 11th pick is $5.25 million. McIlvaine did not indicate any concern about getting him signed. He said he expects him to start somewhere in Class-A.
Schanuel said he was “ready to fly out today” to get his pro career started. He was fully aware that Neto and Ben Joyce, the Angels’ third-round pick from last summer, have already been in the big leagues.
“I want to be right there with Zach Neto, Ben Joyce, Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani,” he said. “I’m ready to be a teammate of theirs and get going. I’m stoked to call myself an Angel.”
The Angels did not have a pick in the second round, because they forfeited their selection when they signed left-hander Tyler Anderson.
Their next pick will be in the third round, the 79th overall pick, on Monday. The draft will continue through the 10th round on Monday, and conclude with the 20th round on Tuesday.
Related Articles
Los Angeles Angels | Alexander: Once again, Dodgers and Angels are headed in opposite directions Los Angeles Angels | Dodgers hammer Angels for 10th consecutive win in Freeway Series Los Angeles Angels | Angels’ Brandon Drury gets good news from MRI on shoulder Los Angeles Angels | For MLB’s top draft picks, the minor-league trail is getting shorter Los Angeles Angels | Mookie Betts, Dodgers’ All-Stars lead way in 9th straight victory over Angels View the full article

Personally speaking, not always easy to not let your emotions get the best of you. 
I've fallen into that trap a lot and have been guilty of not being a good representative of the kingdom more often than I would like to admit.
I'm sure today Rendon regrets it and wishes he let it slide.
But I do admit, I do like fight in him to stand up.    

I like when you talk dirty to me.

Then give me a damn like you stingy bastard.

Some of you guys are soft. Someone calls you a bitch and you're just going to stand there and take it? 

I like Jeff Fletcher, very good writer….but I also like Sam Blum, raises some valid points, though I guess he does stir the pot….Is it ok to like both?

Why are we tagged in this? You must have missed the entire point. 
Jeff Fletcher wrote about it in the Arte interview with the beat writers, but he's not on Twitter making a big deal about it in an effort to cause an uproar against Arte with clickbait headlines. 
Like I said in my earlier post in this thread. I don't care if you feel differently than I do, that includes the great @Jeff Fletcher who I respect... a website community like this is to have debate over topics like these. If you can't see that Sam Blum stirs things up on Twitter vs. how the other Angels beat writers report and tweet, your head is clearly in the sand @Taylor.

I’m not here to change your mind

I will personally apologize to you Jeff for all the people indirectly calling you a twat in this thread.
We are very sorry.

Lol. Fletcher reports something and *crickets.* Blum reports the same thing and he gets called a twat.
This board has always been moderately antagonistic towards negativity. There’s a decent subset of posters who have been unable to get off Arte’s nuts while the man has driven the franchise nearly into the ground.

Thanks Jeff, always appreciate your insight and opinion. 
 
Can’t say enough how cool it is to have you on this forum.
 
Thank you for keeping us connected. 

I did report it as part of the Arte interview two weeks ago. 
 
It is a pretty silly thing for the Angels to do, IMO. I think there is value in having the broadcasters on site, which is why it’s been done that way forever. And the cost savings is minimal in the budget of a Major League Baseball team. 
 
The OCR, which has way less money than the Angels, sends me on the road because it’s necessary for me to keep the readers informed on what’s happening with the team. 

Local brew pub called the Stubborn Mule. 

Opener number 63 for me. 

Billionaires vs Millionaires.
What could go wrong?
 
 

Chico's Bail Bonds?

Yeah For the Pirates and Braves it was

The year we lost Yordani Castellano to the Pirates and Vance del Carmen to the Braves was fucking disastrous.

You underestimate the potential outrage over losing some A ball pitcher people had never heard of before
 

Fewer Italians than NY.

I wished we had signed Syndergaard to a 1 year deal with a vesting option for a 2nd if he hit a certain number of innings, but I think Syndergaard is the one who wanted to sign a one year deal then re-enter the market, so not like we could have forced him to take a deal like that.
As for being back to square one - I think part of the plan/hope is that some of the young pitchers continue to progress.  Maybe they do, and by next season, we have a "core" of Ohtani, Sandoval, Detmers, Suarez, Canning, with Bachman, Bush, Rodriguez (pending his health) on the horizon.
And maybe, if that's the case, and if we help Syndergaard return to form, we'll re-sign him, and he'll combine with the above core to be a solid rotation for years.