Angels in 2030

Eppler did quite well picking up Goodwin for nothing....got good production from him....and turned him into two P prospects. That's a job well done.

really looking forward to the PTBN...

Well he's a P -- so that's cool

three trades isn't bad. Keeping Bundy smart. We badly need him for 2021+. Can always be traded next season is we continue to suck. Simmons must not have had much of a market all. Who knows what's behind the scenes. Maybe Simmons said he didn't want to be traded and would want to resign here for less if we allowed him to not be uprooted and stay perm in OC. Likely his recent history of injuries just made him not worthwhile to the mall amount of teams looking for a SS upgrade.

Upton playing this year is a win-win. He sucks and the tanks grows stronger. He does well and it increases the likelihood (from current 0.00000%) that we could attach something to him this off-season to a sucker.

Absolutely NOT

It's not just a line of thinking, it's factual -- Trout makes this team too good to finish bottom 5 (except for this weird season...i still think they will finish 6-9). But yes, they had the thinking too that they are better than they were. Understandably a bit considering they've hovered around .500 mostly the last couple of years and dealt with really bad injuries/issues to SPs. Also, they had to try to win in order to resign Trout. Don't tell me we should have traded Trout -- that's not reality for a team like LAA. You sign that guy LT and have him be Mr. Angel.

that's the problem for this team -- we're in the middle ground. Not good enough to get into playoffs, but too good (Trout, etc.) to tank & rebuild. Since the farm has sucked for 10+ years, we do not have players other teams really want....except for overpriced vets and/or ST rentals. The few guys we do have are those that we need (trout, Fletcher, Bundy, Heaney, Othani, Heaney). We are not setup to do some major selling off. Pretty easy to see that. Complaining doesn't change the facts.

We should be adding to our prospect pool -- not selling off. I question whether we can actual contend in 2021 even if we add a couple SPs. Maybe we can, but for right now, we need to act like the sellers (not buyers/contenders) that we are.

I hope Clevinger is great for the Padres and they are successful. But IDK man, i'm not too high on him going forward (performance & holding up injury wise). Then again, he's proven me wrong to this point in his career. I like the Padres, so hoping that trend continues

For 25 games of a backup C who’s a rental - I’ll take it. Not bad actually. Expectations

Let’s go Bundy tonight! Hopefully his best start today with Angels in case there’s true interest in a trade. Personally I hope we keep him. But if the price is right then I’m all for it. Simmons 3-4 hit game would be great too.

I’d love to have Logan White in the Angels FO.

No. That’s not what I mean at all. I’m saying this trades helps us for 2021 - so less of a need to RESIGN Simmons or some other MI.

While I want Ps back in trades, I have no problems with this return. Gives us a super cheap MI option next year. with letting Simmons go, we’d likely had to spend $5m or more on a depth MI. Now they don’t have to - thus allowing more money to either a SP or RP option next year instead. Freeing money next year from Simmons and/or a LaStella type pickup next year is a big bonus. Plus he’s got upside to turn into more potentially.

I’m not trading Bundy unless it’s at least two 19-24 yr old top 150 or so Pitching prospects- one of which ready to contend for rotation spot in 2021.

I got it - my phone made it hard to read the graph. Looked like March 2020 high price was the 2019 one.

Huh? You’re analogy here makes no sense since IPs point was we sold something that we got for cheap and got something back that has some LT potential. It would be like trading a penny stock for a start-up tech company or CV19 research stock.

I’m going to miss seeing LaStella thrown out inexplicably at 2/3/home.

Not a pitcher

That's my point. He's continually zigged with his GM hires. I fear not only a zag this time, but it'll be a hard zag. Dombrowski would fit the hard zag description. I just get this feeling it'll be some old, dinosaur GM type. If that's the case, i'd rather keep Eppler. Hopefully my concerns are unwarranted and, if a change is made, we'll hire a very bright GM on the rise....and everything will turn out to be successful. Then again, my Angel cursed mentality feels that even if we go the young up-and-coming route it'll turn into:

So who would be up for the Angels as a potential GM replacement to Eppler? For some reason i fear it'll be an old-guard, retread type. Like the position requirement ad from Arte will read: must have been fired as a GM at least twice previously.

Imagine the comments for Josh Donaldson here. Age 24 he got 34 ABs and put up a mighty .487 OPS and 32 OPS+. Age 26, he played 74 games with 274 ABs with .687 OPS and 91 OPS+. Trade him for anything....bust...not a star...get him out of here...get the pitch forks...etc. The following year he is 4th in the MVP voting.

It's interesting that the top teams in the AL record wise are Oak and TB (with Minn and CLE following). Yet big spenders Bosux and LAA and currently the two worse. Wonder what the other 2-4 teams are doing so well? Hmmm

I was posting in the wrong thread. Great day today for the angels. As you mentioned the pirates sweep....and also the Ms getting one win in their SD double header. We need the bosux to get in a winning streak here soon.