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So we're already down Skaggs and Heaney to injuries and set backs and now Richards. Good thing we traded Newcomb for a guy who hits like a pitcher

Why are we doing the same exact thing with Choi as we did with Featherston last year. Probably cost us the playoffs keeping Tay Tay around.  Why are we always so slow to learn from our past mistakes?

Franchise defining move really. Should have gotten Scioscia fired. Did get Reagins fired. Not only did we take a contract nobody in baseball would take, we gave up a better, cheaper player to do so. Hilarious level of ineptitude.

We've done this pretty much over and over since signing Torii...almost every big acquisition since signing him has been a bust on some level. 

I'm not even defending the move. I'm OK with it if the team had addressed LF/2B, but since they didn't I see it for what it is, trading uncertain future assets for low cost certainty.

Yeah totally agree.  I think everyone said that at the time, "Well this means we're going to go after it in FA" and we were all pretty baffled when we just signed has beens. Doesn't make sense.  

That would have been a pretty shitty future.

Well yeah..but now it's worse than shitty, whatever that is.  With Richards looking more and more like a #2 at best, Newcomb would be very nice to have in AAA right now. 

I disagree.  We are a legit LFer and 2bman as well as a good pen arm from being a much better team.  All of which were readily available last off season.  

Agreed but those are some pretty big holes (hehe).  Also I think we need several pen arms and a #1 starter. 

Choi looking to end the game again. Get this bum off the team. 

The Simmons trade makes sense because he's signed for 5 years at a reasonable salary. He will come cheaper than whatever alternative we would have ended up going with.

Dude is going to hit .240 for us at best.  Guys don't come to the Angels and get better offensively. He's basically a better Rey Ordonez and we gave up our future for it.  Dumb.

Bottom of the order is just brutal with Simmons, Perez, Gio/Pennington and Cron

Alvarez has been just awful so far this year

Just tuning in...the problem with being an average team at best is the nights when the bats show up the pitching won't and vice versa. We're finally starting to score more than 4 runs in a game yet our starting pitching decides to go in the toilet

Agreed Gio is not the answer but I can't believe Pennington is the next best option.  

It's starting to sound like the group covering the Lakers where it's just a lot of losing but "hey we played pretty well tonight, we only lost by 8!"

The mentality of organizations in disarray

I saw team that didn't quit ... battled

 

Neat! I don't much care how hard they play when they're losing this much. 

LOL the post game show leads with, there sure is no quit in this team! I cannot stand this media just lying to us constantly  Tell the freaking truth for once. And now they're making excuses for Weaver

Losing sucks, but the worst part is we're just wasting Trout with the absolute garbage around him and zero hope for things to get any better in the next few years, likely worse. Trout has to be counting down the days until he can pick a team that is interested in competiting

He's not a bad prospect, just not an impactful one. .400 OBP in the minors isn't bad.

Yeah I'd just rather have someone with more speed as the late inning pinch runner (like Ortega).  Guess it doesn't matter much since we never run anyways. 

Wow!

Choi hasn't been given a chance. He had 9 ABs entering the game.

Why should he be given a chance? We're not talking about a good prospect.  

How does Salas only have a 3.09 era? I've seen him give up at least 28 home runs this year

Choi is this year's Featherston.  If Nava gets back and Ortega gets sent down instead of Choi...

I freaking hate the shifts

Trout is good

Completely shocked that this AAAA lineup can't hit Chris Young.  

Escobar's arm is a big issue