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Yep. It's called "Perry Me Away."

That 28th ranked farm seems to be holding it's own.

I'm watching/listening via youtube.

I'm starting from the beginning and just just finished episode 1.  Just wanted to come here and say that I love it.  Keep up the great work fellas. 

Plot Twist:  Taylor was home schooled.

1) put an much money into scouting, development, analytics, etc. as Perry thinks necessary.
2) attempt to extend Shohei. If you can't get it done this offseason then allow Perry to field trade offers and give him the blessing to do what he sees fit.
3) regardless of whether he's able to extend Shohei he needs to open up the pocket book without any budgetary restrictions.
Essentially, allow Perry to do whatever he wants throughout the organization without any thought to a budget. Anything short of that is failure.
He can reinstate an mlb roster budget when the farm system is functioning at a high level.

Arte ain’t the problem. The problem is all these modern day stat nerds. We won a championship playing old fashioned baseball and listening to fat boys gut. Yes we fell short a few times but we were respectable. We started playing nerd ball and have sucked ever since. We need to get back to signing a team full of tobacco chewing  boys that ain’t afraid to get dirty. 

What is worse I come back before  Feb 1 or Arte not selling team?

I think a new stadium in LA county is on the table, but realistically the Angels are already in the best spot possible for them geographically. Anything north of Cypress is already Dodger country and south of San Clemente is a whole lot of nothing until you get into San Diego. Moving north takes them further from the fan base. and moving south doesnt really get them any closer to anything.

Hey all.  I was wondering if my friend could join us?
He's pretty shy but he'll come out of his shell once he gets to know you.
@cals?
Hey buddy.  Just thought you might want to stop by.  

Yes, it is.  That changed with the last CBA (or maybe the one before that I forget).  First round picks are protected for all teams.  For us, it would be our second highest pick (round 2), then third highest pick (round 3), and so on.

I am a little more interested to see if they are also considering having 9 hitters in the lineup.

They're premium in the sense that there is a Del Taco across the street from the stadium.

At this point I'd be happy about the Phillies, Padres, or Guardians.

Everywhere?  

I used to have a pretty good feel about how Baseball America would rank guys -- they were always tools, tools, and more tools.  I used to understand how FGs came to their rankings, like Baseball Prospectus they leaned heavily on the stats end of things.  But for the life of me I've never really known what the guys at MLB.com (Pipeline), look for what doing their rankings.
They currently have Harry Ford ranked 68th, one spot behind Logan O'Hoppe, but that's not the ranking that makes me wonder.  Take a look at Ford's size, age, the league he's playing in and the park itself.  Compare him to Edgar Quero and tell me what exactly it is that Quero is lacking other than a lofty draft position?  This isn't a slam on Ford, he's a great prospect putting up excellent numbers in another pitcher's park -- they seem like they would be very closely rated/ranked.   
In a less apples to apples comparison -- what makes Jace Jung a top 100 guy but not Neto?  Jung's glove at 2B is iffy.  He's got this weird upright stance that I doubt carries over into pro ball, as it stands he's currently fighting the Mendoza line in High A, albeit he's getting on base like a champ.  Meanwhile Zeto's glove is legit, he looks like he's a lock to play a more demanding position and he's done very well offensively in AA.  Neither guy has a sample size big enough where the numbers matter at all.  I don't think Jung isn't a prospect by any means, I just don't see how he can be ranked above Zeto.   They have Zeto as a 50 overall despite a breakdown of 60/50/50/55/50 .vs Jung at 60/60/40/45/45 for a 55 overall.  They must really value power potential.
I really have no clue what it is MLB.com bases it's rankings on.

If, as has been speculated by some, he pressured Reagins to make that trade, then yes, he deserves blame….but no, if his GM makes a bad trade without Arte being overly involved (he is the owner so he obviously needs to sign off on most things), then he doesn’t deserve any blame….If his GM suggests a FA signing that works out and Arte agrees to raise his budget to get it done, he deserves a lot of credit….if the FA signing is a bust and Arte raised the budget but he lets his GM make the baseball decision, then no, it’s not his fault….seems pretty simple to me…credit where it is due, blame when due…

Why would I give him blame if the trade went through?
 
I don't blame Arte Moreno for trading away Mike Clevinger for Vinnie Pestano, I blame Jerry Dipoto for that.
I don't blame Arte Moreno for trading away Kyle Bradish for Dylan Bundy, I blame Billy Eppler for that.

Who the hell would blame Arte for a trade? 

I'm more than willing to give credit when credit's due.
I just don't believe credit is due in this scenario, for the reason I outlined above.

No, he does not.
I'm not gonna give him credit for meddling with the front office, even if the end result was positive.
It was a bad process that ended up with a good result.
That same bad process has ended up resulting in many bad results, which is why I'm not gonna give Arte credit for that bad process.