BTH

I think the most informative thing from that article is that the Rendon and Trout injuries have seemingly scared him away from spending.

I think the most informative thing from that article is that the Rendon and Trout injuries have seemingly scared him away from spending.

Ippei admitted to multiple felonies in the ESPN interview and implicated Ohtani in a criminal conspiracy. This is going to absolutely blow up.

Ippei changed his story.... First he said Ohtani wired the money to cover the debt and then when Ohtani's team denied that, he retracted his statement.  Sketchy.

We need to know the full story on this one. 

Fun fact: Shohei's attornies went after me for some journalism I did (unrelated to Shohei)... they are vicious and represent some really bad dudes (Prince Andrew, Armie Hammer, etc)

anyone know/remember who hired Ippei?
Was it Ohtani or the Angels.
If it was the Angels, that’s another black mark on Billy Eppler.

anyone know/remember who hired Ippei?
Was it Ohtani or the Angels.
If it was the Angels, that’s another black mark on Billy Eppler.

It was on 830 during Lodge show. Lodge asked Arte about Trout getting a lot of at bats in ST  and Arte started babling about the SS backhand and throw needs to be a hard throw.

Montgomery doesn’t have a draft pick attached to him.

Sign JD Martinez and trade Taylor Ward 

Saw this on Twitter, thought that it’s relevant…
Not sure I agree, but it’s interesting to see one projection system rate the Angels’ offense this highly.
 

Now that this is all over what I was told is that there were multiple offers that Boras presented to the Perry, Perry took each of them to Arte and Arte declined them all and told Perry to keep negotiating.  I imagine that the offers presented had early opt outs.  

Yes I know.  I thought he could just wait until after opening day to avoid having it attached to him again.  If it’s July, then I messed up on this.