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  1. Dodgers farm system : Angels farm system :: Sydney Sweeney : Melissa McCarthy
  2. There's how the roster looks to start the season vs. how it looks in June-July when we have a better sense of how good the team is, vs. how it looks in August-Oct for a hypothetical stretch run. Sort of like Billy Beane's old saw, "You use the first third to see what you have, the second third to get what you need, and then ride the last third to the playoffs." Or something like that. So, for the outfield, it seems likely that, as the author says, they start with Trout and Ward, with Moniak on the strong side of a platoon with Hicks and Adell. Trout and Ward can get DH starts, so after 50 games we might see games started like so: Trout 45, Ward 45, Moniak 35, Hicks 20, Adell 20 (150 outfield + 15 DH starts). Adjust for injury and performance. By June, you've got a third of the season in the bank and have a better sense of things, and can re-adjust. Adell pretty much has to start on the big league club, unless someone offers a similar "tarnished former top prospect with untapped upside" in return, which is very unlikely. You just can't trade him for peanuts, not at 25 years old (can't believe he's going to be 25 in a few weeks). That said, Hicks and Marisniak, despite strong springs, are unlikely to be anything more than the 4th outfield types they've been for most of their careers. Meaning, their upside is limited - and quite a bit below Adell's (and probably Moniak's) - so you really don't want to completely block Adell from getting his chances. The scenario in which one of them retains a job over Adell for the entire season is basically if all of the above happens: Trout and Ward are healthy, Moniak is playing well, AND the Angels are competing. Then you want a high floor 4th outfielder. But that's a lot of "ifs." Chances are someone gets hurt and/or disappoints, or the Angels simply aren't that good. Then Adell's sporadic playing time expands come June. And of course Adell could theoretically force the issue by earning more playing time. But unfortunately for him (and the Angels), he probably needs a solid 400+ PA of consistent play to un-tap his potential. Meaning, it is hard to see him mashing in a sporadic 100 PA in the first couple months, forcing a full-time gig. But I hope to be proven wrong.
  3. If Sano gets 550 PA, it will be something like .190/.280/.430 with 30 HR and 200 Ks.
  4. Trevor Bauer is the Colin Kaepernick of white wife beaters.
  5. As much as I dislike the money it is going to take to sign Snell, there's no doubt that it improves the rotation substantially - and not just in the rotation itself, but the depth. Meaning, not only does it replace Silseth with Snell in the rotation, but it replaces whichever shmuck is their first depth starter in AAA (Plesac, Rosenberg, Daniel, Mederos) with Silseth. In other words, signing Snell would mean: Snell/Silseth instead of... Silseth/Plesac
  6. Just a warning: Once that phase begins, it doesn't really end. Best you can hope for is "fond eye-rolling," but that probably doesn't kick in until late teens and maybe not until deep in their 20s.
  7. Should be self-explanatory - dark red is already paid (not including 2024), lighter red is still to be paid/played (including 2024). Money is adjusted using an inflation calculator, from the first year of the contract to 2024 dollars. I set it so that the $10M cells is slightly larger than 1 WAR, going with the idea that a free agent contract is "worth" roughly $8-9M per WAR, at least by market rate. So the idea being, that for a player's contract to be worth the money, the green part has to be about as tall as the dark red. All of these have fallen far from that, obviously. Matthews Jr produced -0.5 WAR as an Angel, but was paid $85M in 2024 money. But they're all bad, with Pujols being the worst so far. If he doesn't turn around, Rendon's will be similar to Albert.
  8. Jesus, it is March 3 - let's not worry about Trout yet. Plus, he talked about fixing a perceived problem with his approach, so maybe he's trying to figure it out.
  9. But it wasn't simply "suicide." It was a form of protest, albeit an extreme one. He sacrificed his life for a cause, and there was no sign of "mental illness" reported by people who actually know him. There is also a long tradition of this form of protest, at least going back to the famous Buddhist monk in the Vietnam war. Now I personally don't like the idea of this form of extreme protest, but I still respect the guy for giving himself fully to what he saw as extreme injustice and genocide. Not also who is doubling down on the mental illness narrative: Zionists/pro-Israeli. So we have BS like this: While a couple years before...
  10. Good to know you just lap up MSM propaganda ("mentally ill").
  11. And while I'm at it, Aaron Bushnell is a fucking badass. It was the most complete form of protest - he sacrificed himself for a cause, that of the genocide of Palestinians. And yes, he's having an impact: "If a man is capable of self-immolating, are we not capable of raising a united voice in Latin America?" - Nicolas Maduro calls for Global South Unity against Israeli barbarity citing the courage of the martyr Aaron Bushnell
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