BTH

49 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Haha. You never cease to amaze me.  

right back at you

2 minutes ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

it's not a bad idea, but Schanuel has not been able to drive the ball much. personally I prefer Adell, in the hope he can fit into a similar role as Betts and Acuna.

I guess it depends on what you want out of your leadoff hitter.

I’d prefer someone who can get on base ahead of the middle of the order.

He excelled in that spot last season, and I would’ve just left him in that spot to begin this season.

14 minutes ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

Move Adell to the lead-off spot and rengifo to the 3-hole.

 

I’d like to see:

Schanuel

Trout

Adell

Ward

O’Hoppe

as the 1-5

32 minutes ago, AngelStew43 said:

Cisnero and Suarez both need to go.  They can option Soriano, if they want to.  I’d like to see them do that, then bring him back in 15 days as a reliever.  He hasn’t been consistent as a starter, but he’s dominant as a reliever.  

I admittedly didn’t watch today’s game, but:

Soriano’s 1st start, he got screwed by bad luck/defense. He was fine after the weird 1st inning where the ball kept pin-balling everywhere and Thaiss couldn’t locate the ball.

His 2nd and 3rd starts were good.

His 4th was bad, it appears.

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

Suarez and Hicks gone, Amir and Paris up.  

1 hour ago, jsnpritchett said:

I almost made the Hicks/Paris prediction, but Paris has been SO BAD this year that they might not bring him up even though he's on the 40-man and they need IF depth. He's hitting .085 so far, with 29 K in 59 AB.

What makes you guys think Hicks could get DFAd and Paris get called up? Sano’s injury?

I don’t see them cutting Hicks this early.

I think they phantom IL Cisnero or Fulmer and call up Bryan Shaw.

Move Rendon to the 60-day IL for space on the 40.

37 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

 

This shouldn’t even be a thought processed by anyone with the Angels.

What an embarrassment that’d be if they option Soriano after one bad start, while keeping a bunch of bad pitchers (Cisnero, Suarez, Fulmer).

It’d be a stupid move and send an awful message to the clubhouse and fans.

7 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

He's been hurt since 5th grade.  Meanwhile you know who's made 7 appearances throwing 11.2 IP while putting up a 1.54 ERA at altitude?  Chris Rodriguez.  Glad they kept Herget over him.

But Perry isn’t a bad GM, according to some on here.

2 hours ago, Second Base said:

I thought it was pretty smart actually. With 1 million guaranteed, no team is going to claim him. Guaranteed pitching depth. And if for some reason he’s actually good, then you’d have a good major leaguer at a huge discount. 

It’s fine if you have an unlimited budget, but they don’t. Or at the very least, a substantially higher budget.

22 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Hard to imagine Bachman ever becoming anything. We'll probably all forget about him and he'll eventually resurface somewhere else and maybe have a decent year or two as a reliever. But no way he becomes a starter.

He’s the new C-Rod, unless something drastically changes.

He’ll stick around for a few more seasons and then unceremoniously be gone.

Good thing the Angels delayed Bachman’s start of the season to “manage his innings.”

Everything related to Bachman has been moronic. The pick in the first place, moving him to the pen, Nevin overusing him in a short stint, “managing” his innings.

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

Sure if you say so.  That horrible player development looks like it has at least helped Detmers become a very good major league pitcher, made Thaiss a serviceable back up catcher, turned Ward into a very good player, saw Soriano become a good major league arm, saw big growth in Rengifo, and now it looks like Adell (SSS) has become a good major leaguer.  But of course you are on one, again, so please feel free to continue to emotionally rant. 

That’s why it’ll be interesting to look back years from now.

Some of the guys you mentioned appeared to stall out, but now are contributing (some in a big way).

Hopefully that’ll be the same for guys who are currently scuffling. Neto, Schanuel, Moniak, Bachman, Paris, Kochanowicz, Mederos, etc.

45 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

No, unless he has head he is not walking away from the money.

If any baseball player were to walk away from the money, Rendon checks a lot of the boxes.

Retiring could mean him working out some deal a la Strasburg (although I don’t think Arte wants to defer money).

1 hour ago, OregonLAA said:

Anyone else think it’s weird when guys go off for a couple years into a contract year then they get paid and can’t produce or stay healthy? Rendon. Jayson Werth. Josh Hamilton. Many more. Anyone know what would cause that? 

Aging curves.

Most players don’t hit free agency until their 30s, and most players start declining in their 30s.

8 minutes ago, Stradling said:

The core of the Angels moving forward will be because of Perry’s drafting. It’ll be the best core group of young players since the late 90’s early 2000’s. But sure hate him because they have released Suarez and because he only signed bullpen guys.  

I’ll be interested to revisit this in 3, 5, 7 years from now.

It’s also possible the Angels will be bad for the next half-decade plus because Perry made bad picks and ran a horrible player development program for 4 seasons.

I honestly think he’s a serious injury or two away from retiring.

Despite what people say, he’s clearly fed up with the injuries and out of answers.

1 minute ago, Jason said:

Is it even possible that Minasian has had a lot of restraints placed in him by Arte? 

Of course he’s had restraints, but Perry has made poor decisions when he has been given the freedom to make his own decisions.

It’s only fair to judge Perry on the things he is controlling, which is why I‘m not gonna blame him for things like the team only spending $30M this offseason or not trading Ohtani.

Perry’s drafts, player development, and free agent signings have been poor overall.

You think Arte told Perry to go spend $5M on Cisnero, Suarez, Plesac, and Kolarek? No, Perry chose to use $5M of his budget on those guys.

You think Arte told Perry to draft Sam Bachman? No. We saw the picture of Perry scouting Bachman in-person. Perry and his staff made the pick.

You think Arte told Perry to hire Joey Prebynski and all the people under the player development umbrella? No, it was Perry.

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

Or it’s one.  

It’s both.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

That alone doesn’t mean he’s awful. It is awful Suarez is still here though. 

Continuing to roster Suarez, in addition to the all the bad moves/decisions he's made mean he's awful. Yes, it's not just the Suarez thing. But the Suarez thing is another in the pile of bad decisions Perry has made.

Sonny DiChiara with 2 Ks and an error in his first game with IE.

Yikes.

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

I actually like what Minasian has been trying to do. He has improved the analytics,

How, exactly, has Minasian improved the analytics?

The guy he hired (Tamin) had conflict with Maddon and others in the org, then got shown the door at the end of last season.

4 hours ago, Chuck said:

Sorry but while Arte takes most of the blame, there needs to be push back from the GM on the team's future success. So he gets part of the blame. 

I you want to blame Perry, there’s plenty of things to blame him for.

Blaming him for not trading a generational player when ownership prevented it is not one of those things.

I think most everyone is ready to DFA Suarez.

We’ll see if the guy who makes that decision agrees.

45 minutes ago, Tank said:

not sure how many more chances he deserves

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3 minutes ago, EDinTUSTIN said:

That is two games in a row that Sano made a great play at third. If he can keep that up and get that bat going, Rendon can take all the time he needs. Eternity comes to mind.