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He said “not rule out.” I mistyped it.

Yeah, they need another lefty. Not really a fan of any of the internal options (Ingram, Kolarek, Suarez). Anderson could end up there I guess if they add a SP. I think they want to keep Silseth in the rotation, whether in AAA or the majors. Sandy, Detmers, and Canning are locks, yes.

I wouldn’t go after Chapman, and I don’t think Perry will either. But I did list him because he is a free agent lefty who’ll land somewhere.

They’re not wrong, but let’s see how this season plays out. At least Stephenson has good stuff. If Stephenson is good and Anderson bounces back, things don’t look as bad. Clearly, the Angels pitching support staff didn’t help Anderson as much as the Dodgers did. Now working with Enright, I’m hopeful Anderson will be better. One thing Enright mentioned, and you can see it in the data, is that Anderson overexposed his changeup early in counts. With LA, he used his fastball to set up the changeup later in counts. With the Angels, he used the changeup more earlier in counts, chasing whiffs and overexposing the changeup. Same goes for using the changeup a lot early in the game and then not having an out pitch to use later in the game.

I think the Snell thing is dumb because, from the sounds of it, teams are all waiting for Snell’s price to drop. But then when it drops, all these teams are gonna come in, bid against each other, and raise his price back up. If you want the player, offer him the $180-$200M it’s gonna take and get him.

But the Mariners have been crying broke, with their TV mess. Their provider moved Mariners games into a higher subscription tier and the M’s will likely have to takeover broadcasts themselves (and the costs associated with that).

I’ll say Chapman. Bellinger and Snell seem like they’ll be a while and Montgomery seems to be waiting for Texas.

The Braves don’t, and the stuff about López got out.

They changed that rule.

I thought about that too, but the reporters tend to say in the initial tweet that they will he used as a starter (if they are).

I don’t see them releasing Quijada after they just guaranteed him $800k. Rivas, Soto, Warren, Ingram, and Cabbage are all more probable DFA candidates IMO.

Agreed. It also seems like the Angels front office was retrospective, recognized that they made mistakes, and are handing the keys over to Barry. This really stood out to me in the Enright Q&A from a couple months ago: One of the biggest things in the interview they said to me — which was great — they said, “Barry, you have full autonomy to say no to us. And we’re going to need you to do it. Because we’re going to come down with suggestions.”

Need a lefty IMO. 5 options, gotta get at least one. Alexander, Chapman, Diekman, Moore, or Peralta.

Something worth noting about Estévez: 1st half: 29.3% K% 12.2% BB% 91.6 mph EV .293 BABIP 2nd half: 26.1% K% 9.7% BB% 89.3 mph EV .397 BABIP His second half was bad, but it’s not like his peripherals dropped off a ton. I think it had to do with regression to the mean, poor BABIP luck, and exhaustion from a heavy 1st half workload.

Depends on the young starter.

Altuve feels like an Astro for life. Bregman is repped by Boras and isn’t as attached to Houston as Altuve (also a Boras client), so I think he bolts to like NYM.

And let’s just ignore Jankowski’s .589 OPS from 2019-2022? There’s a reason he’d be cheaper.

Glad you’re not GM

He’d probably playing LF/RF for the Angels, where his defense was better. But I agree that offensively and overall he just screams “meh.”

That would explain all your… interesting… takes on here.

I find it interesting that Perry would pitch Arte on Bauer, despite Perry’s knack for caring about a player’s makeup. So is Perry desperate because he’s in the last year of his deal or is the public perception on Bauer wrong and he doesn’t have bad makeup? Perry always talks about makeup, then he signs guys like Strickland, Tepera, and Plesac that make me question whether he does. I wouldn’t care if he didn’t constantly say things about a players makeup, but he does.

Same. Maybe Arte isn’t even gonna give Perry money to sign depth signings now?

This just tells me how stupid Arte is. Even if we as fans had some level of hope that he’d come back, we weren’t surprised when he left. He’s also the guy who didn’t match the offer. He’s literally the guy in the hot dog suit saying, “we’re all looking for the guy who did this.”

Not really sure what foreign teams can give the Angels in return if the Angels don’t want to trade him. Could they give the Angels a few million in cash so they could hire Clint Hurdle and an assistant gm? Lol

Anyone thinking that is setting themselves up for disappointment.