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Honest question because you've forgotten more baseball than I have ever known. I have just assumed that since being inserted in the leadoff spot, he's been trying to take as many pitches as possible (data supports this). Thus, my assumption is that he's trying to embrace the leadoff role by giving others a chance to see the pitchers offering in exchange for his own AB's (if you will). I agree with your take in terms of him being less aggressive than in the past, but can't some of that be due to what he's being asked to do? Truly wondering about your take.

I'm rooting for the guy and hope he does well.

I may be off, but I suspect Arte will spend when attendance and fan interest wanes. Our owner is a businessman first and always has been, imo. He'll ultimately make sure his product sells.

I love Wash's response. It's so anti-Mike S., but I love it.

FFS!

Really nice piece. Very measured. Two thoughts. 1. Rushing Dana would be the most Angels-thing ever. Let him cook, we are not winning it all this year. 2. I'd be really interested to hear IP's take/thoughts. I know he references a lot of predictive data that might be useful in continuation of this thread.

I wonder why not? This team, as constructed, should put it's resources towards the future and pitching. I want to barf when I see the Snell rumors.

School is in session for us, but I hope like hell you do something like this in 4+ years when I able to retire. Would love to join all of you!

Man, thanks for sharing this. What a wonderful kid and someone I hope we treat the right way moving forward. You can just tell he's got it together and is super respectful. In this day and age, its refreshing.

No interest whatsoever in Yellich. The bill will come due and we'll have to watch and suffer. When will we learn these long-term contracts given to 33+ year old position players rarely, if ever, work out? I'm exhausted with this approach.

I'm in the minority for sure, but I have no interest in signing a player to a 500 million dollar deal. We've been, and continue to be, down the road of having a few high-priced star position players that hinder our ability to complete a roster (read: resources towards high-end SP and BP). I'm exhausted with the approach.

Now THAT's the totdprods I am accustomed to. Well stated and agree (almost) wholeheartedly (as the decision to not trade Othani the last two deadlines still chaps me!). But I totally get where you are coming from, so thanks for clarifying.

I respect your contributions, totprods, but just can't agree with this. No organization came overcome those obstacles long-term regardless of a short-term plan (of which, I agree with you on). Winning organizations don't have meddling owners reluctant to spend on the farm or analytics, and fire people who don't perform under their "keep the revenue streams going" approach. None, in any sport. The idea we can properly evaluate any GM knowing the parameters our owner puts in front of them is almost comical. As fans, we just clamor so much for the next season that I sometimes think we lose perspective of the big picture (forrest from the trees, so to speak).

I can appreciate your faith in our organization's abilities. I wish I had the same faith, but two decades of incredibly questionable decision-making has me quite down. And yes, I believe it starts with Arte, but that has been regurgitated to death.

You couldn't have worded my pending reply to MMC any better. To me, it's more about what we are "protecting" in terms of potential help versus the rather small chance of what he could become. Entirely different discussion if we were loaded at the younger levels. But we're not. As has been stated, we should be looking for guys from other teams with this profile given our baren organization.