Reveille1984

But Pujols said he would void his contract if he can no longer play at a high level!  We all believe that will happen, right?  Right??........

Chuck, I'm sorry, but that's the same kind of ra-ra b.s. we were all (myself included) spouting this time last year.  Any rotation looks good when you project the best case scenario for every pitcher.  I swear I'm trying to simply be objective and not just a pessimist - I see a rotation that needed to be vastly improved from 2013, and is now looking only marginally better, if at all.

Summary:  All of our pitchers are either in decline or have a mediocre arsenal of pitches, so hopefully the defense is good enough for us to not have five 4.00+ ERA starters.  Optimism!

To keep it plain and simple, I'm tired of watching him hit into double plays.

Seriously.  This isn't the NBA where Trumbo could have a Lebron-like season and carry a team to the playoffs.  Too many combinations of things have to go right in baseball for a team to have a great year.
 
Trout has been 4-5x more valuable than Trumbo for the past two years, and we still weren't even close to clinching a spot in the postseason.  I'd say Trumbo's peak year could possibly be one season as a 3.5 or 4 WAR guy, and that's being generously optimistic given his weaknesses as a player.  More likely he'll continue to be a 2 WAR player, which is great at league minimum but not anything special or worth holding on to when you can get SP with some upside.

If we had pitching and traded a substantial SP for Trumbo, I wouldn't be happy. 

In all fairness, everyone knows AFL stats are anti-Semitic.

Buehrle is gonna be 35 and is owed $30M over the next two seasons.... and there's no way they would take Blanton.  They know Hanson is washed up as well.  And it would provide them what, $4M in salary relief?  Iannetta makes $5M and Hanson will make around $4-5M in arbitration. 
 
We're looking for cost-controlled young pitching.  The last thing we need is more bloated payroll for another guy in his mid-thirties.  

One of the gayest things in sports is when the bullpen runs in the field.

He is supposed to have such a high baseball IQ yet he was wrong on platooning Kendrys and now Calhoun.  Really can't wait until we dump this schmuck.

Nothing worse than the Debbie Downers that think everyone and the team will suck. Props on the thread, I hope it comes through.

The guy turns 28 in a few months, how much potential does he really have left?  AJ pretty much nailed it in that he's a one-tool player that is only valuable because that one tool is very good.  He walks a little more every year, but his K rate increases along with it.  His arm is nice, but who cares if he has a plus arm really?  He's played a total of 27 games in the OF this year and has racked up a whopping 1 assist.  We don't need him in the outfield with our current logjam, so 80% of the time he's playing 1B/DH anyways.
 
All in all, I don't really care if he stays around or gets potentially packaged for pitching.  I feel like he's more valuable on another team honestly.  A nice player, but not a building block.  The future of the team is going to be guys like Trout, Bourjos, Calhoun, Lindsey, Conger, Green, etc.  

I just hope we make the playoffs before 2057. 

ever try exercizing personal responsibility for what you do in front of your 8 yr old?

Angels are playing spoiler..........................on their own draft pick.

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

These "hindsight" threads have hit an all time low. Amazingly ridiculous.

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

Stop with all the stats and stuff, I rate players by raw emotion brah

Aybar is not too expensive to move. His contract is quite club-friendly. It was a good signing by Dipoto

Large sample - 2011 - hit well
Small sample - 2012 - did poorly
Small sample - 2013 - hit well
Super small sample of 4 games from the DL recovering from wrist injury still painful - hit poorly
 
Throw out 1 and 3
Bourjos Sucks!!

That right there is why I NEED medicinal marijuana