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What's not to love right with all his new free agent bats yet again failing miserably and a rotation featuring Chris Stratton and the 11 million dollar dumpster fire that is Matt Harvey And enough with the troll talk assholery, I've been on this site since it was an idea on an ESPN message board. I think this team is a train wreck. You don't and it realllly upsets you that people do. This discussion is the reason a message board even exists.

Doing my monthly check in here, we all still loving ole Billy and everything he does? Carry on

He hit .125 in September and October. How's he doing so far this year? Keep on swingin

Calhoun didn't actually "recover" I think his last two months of the year were worse than his first two.

Lol, you're cute.

We're going to be 1-5 to start the season. Bitching is pretty goddamn normal. Why do you feel the need to push the I'm better than you superfan attitude.

Bourjos has got to be gone soon right? Can they send him down to AAA or does he have to be DFAd Same question for Cozart, Calhoun, Bour, Smith, Fletcher, and Pujols

2 freaking hits again. After this game we have to be last in baseball in every offensive category right?

Pretty nuts how many dudes in this lineup consistently try to pull outside pitches

Vicor and Gubi mentioned Albert's career stats...drink

Holy mackerel that's one hell of a lineup

Well that settles it. Nevermind that he's been a 5.5 WAR player over his past three years whereas La Stella is 1.1 for his career. PS Harrison went 0-4 tonight so he's actually hitting .067

Than La Stella as our freaking starting second baseman? Cmon man this isn't hard just look at the other team, Tim Beckham would have been a way better acquisition. Josh Harrison got 2 million this past offseason. Clearly him. Hell Derek Dietrich got a minor league deal and would have been way better than La Stella. You really want me to do this for every disastrous Eppler choice to be a starting baseball player on this team? He's royally screwed up at least six of them in 3 years. I have a six hour flight in a few days, I will get you a list. Bour I actually thought was a good get but of course in true Angels fashion he's started horrendously. Who was the last free agent we brought in that actually didn't have a horrendous offensive start? I guess Ohtani.

No one better than them available this past offseason right

And I'm the troll... The point is there were better options available nearly every offseason than Nava, Gentry, Soto, Espinosa, Kinsler, Valbuena, etc etc etc.. This has been argued ad nauseam. Most love Eppler. Some think it's okay to point out he's made some bad decisions. It's okay that we disagree.

You're asking me to list every player for the past three years that signed for more than 500k that was better than awful? May take me awhile

No it's not. He's missed on the majority of the players he's chosen. I'm not expecting above average production from these cheap signings, but if he's going to sign a guy to be a starter, they need to at least be average-below average. So many of the guys he signed were just awful for us.

I said this four days ago, albeit in a slightly harsher tone, and was labeled an edgy troll. All I'm saying is it's time to place some of the blame for the losing on Eppler. He's been far from perfect

How is Bourjos our 4th OF? He was awful last year. Eppler totally knows what he's doing though It's these small acquisitions that he has constantly fucked up since he's been here that have cost us games

Cozart sucks

I just can't get enough of Victor and Gubi reciting Albert's career stats, I need more! moreeee!

When is this organization going to realize Kole Calhoun should not be a starting MLB player, much less leading off and hitting in front of Trout. 79 RBIs on 40 HRs last year for Trout should have gotten Kole DFA'd

Is Tommy La Stella seriously our starting second baseman? My god.

I understand what you're saying, I'm not saying Eppler is awful and every move he's made is a disaster. I'm simply saying he deserves some criticism after three years of the team being under .500. I'll try to simplify my gripe with Eppler. The vast majority of players he has brought in to be a part of the major league roster have not just been below average, they have been completely awful. I get that they're all one year deals and their contracts haven't hamstrung the franchise going forward, but I would have expected someone he signs to perform at a below average to average level. These guys have been so atrocious that it likely cost us the playoffs at least once. I don't see it changing this year, I dislike pretty much everyone he signed yet again (Harvey, Cahill, Lucroy, Bour, La Stella). It's more of the same and absolutely hilarious to me that they're acting like this team is going to compete for a playoff spot.

the middle one seems to be clearly the worst of the group and yet after checking his stats, that's Stratton...makes no sense. 1.42 WHIP...good lord. And that's actually the lowest WHIP of his career.