ScottM

Might as well go sign Bellinger and pay him until 2050

How the fuck is that allowed?

Not as bad as JP Hoornstra

I hope Shohei has a fantastic career and I hope the Dodgers never even sniff the NLCS.

I spent years preparing for this and it still hurts. No opt-outs is going to be painful but it's hard to imagine that this Dodgers team doesn't win a ring or 2... Man. $700M is just insane, I don't care how much is deferred. Go get Yamamoto.

Are we talking about White or Fletcher?

$300M to Snell incoming

Don't think he'd be going unless they had a verbal agreement

I hope it's wrong just so it ends Hoornstra's career

Much better idea than Garcia. I like this one.

Ron Washington setting us up for the biggest buttercup ever

If you're going to go all-in this offseason then Yoshi + Montgomery for 80% of the price of Ohtani, give or take, makes way more sense.

Such a bad idea

depth is good but Rengifo always seems to get the short end of the stick. He should get 500 ABs one year to see what he can do..

makes a lot of sense given that the Angels young core is all on the infield.

coaching clean house feels good

Was going to say this. He’s had his ups and downs but just let the guy run baseball ops through 2027 and see what he can do with autonomy.

Kapler?

Among every other department, the comms department for this team has been dreadful since Mead left

I know he sucks but its hard not to root for Phillips

Oh god I made the mistake of looking at Quero's line since being traded

Victor’s rant at 29:30 is what everyone needs to listen to. Dude gets it.

I’m not saying it’s the reason he got injured (though the way I phrased the first post was sloppy and wrong) I’m just trying to point out that they squandered his six years here with shit teams and it’s only fitting that he blew out his elbow after we sucked all the life out of him. There’s no doubt that he must’ve felt like he had to be superman to try to get this garbage franchise to sniff the playoffs. All around depressing shit.

L take. Everyone in and around this org has put all of the onus on Ohtani to carry the team for the last handful of years and he has had almost zero legitimate support, besides Trout, around him on the field. The beginning of this year, I’d argue, was the only time in his tenure here where we actually had a real major league baseball team around him. How many “Ohtani and Trout homer but the Angels lose 9-8” memes did we see?

It’s a fitting final chapter on this era of Angels baseball. Shohei picked the Angels, we absolutely wore him out with zero support for six years and now he leaves with a blown out elbow. We screwed ourselves and we screwed the best player of all time. We mortgaged the future for a few washed up rentals who look like absolute dogshit and will likely walk in 6 weeks. And Mike Trout is signed forever but can’t stay on the field and has already regressed to just being Very Good when he is on the field. It’s about as bleak as it can get. From the top down, this organization needs to be cleaned out. Maybe then, we will have a chance in 2027.