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The problem is you'll never know unless the Angels win the bid.

This thread took a nasty turn after page 30.

Actually when I wrote my Howie Kendrick trade article back in July I mentioned that if we traded Kendrick to the A's that Sonny Gray (and Grant Green) would be the targets. He has good stuff for sure and I think he will do well tonight overall.

Although I like Price, the Angels need to be building young cost controlled position players and pitchers not trading them away for MLB ready players who are essentially short term rentals. It is the only way to shed salary in future years, imo.

The best part is that he could also double as the strength and conditioning coach!

I don't know where Brian Downing is at but he has my vote!

This is why I think Trumbo is even more likely to be traded as Calhoun can DH and then spell Hamilton or Pujols to "rest" (rest = DH'ing them) them. I could easily see Trumbo traded and Calhoun picking up 4-5 games a week. You could also rotate Conger's bat through DH as well when he isn't catching.

I originally summarized my thoughts here: http://angelswinblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/strategic-reload.html However, I think Trumbo and Kendrick are the two most likely targets to be traded rather than Bourjos or Aybar and I think it is absolutely necessary to acquire the pitching depth a team needs to make it through an entire season. Trumbo doesn't really have a position to play regularly with Hamilton in RF and Pujols at 1B. On top of that Calhoun can support both of those positions making Mark a potentially tradeable piece. He has value in a market that is looking for corner OF and 1B power bats. I like Mark and you can't easily replace his power but he would, in my opinion, bring in a young, cost-controlled top of the rotation pitcher. Kendrick has a bit more value than Trumbo. With Howie we have players like Green, Lindsey, Field, et. al. who can potentially replace his position. Kendrick could net us a young top of the line starter and a relief pitcher (or another piece like a 3B). Again Howie does well on offense and is above average on defense but the "downgrade" to one of the other options is more than made up by the upgrade to our pitching staff, making Howie expendable if we have to move him. Aybar to me is less likely to be traded simply because we don't have good options (Field and Romine) to take his place. Erick would bring back a Kendrick-like return in trade but it seems less likely at this moment in time. As far as Bourjos is concerned I think we would be selling low on him and Dipoto has stated that he believes Peter will be in an Angels uniform at least through his club-controlled years. People call him injury-prone but only his hamstring issue was "self-inflicted", while the other injury was caused by an errant pitch. I think he stays unless the Angels get a really good offer for him. I think Iannetta might go too if Dipoto can find a taker for him. His defense is lacking and his only main offensive ability is his OBP and the occasional long ball. In the end I think the Angels will pursue Tanaka and try to resign Vargas. If they do both I still think they will deal Trumbo and/or Kendrick, first, and Aybar and/or Bourjos, second, for additional pitching depth. Most teams want to be at least 8-9 quality pitchers deep in the rotation, i.e. no scrubs, only real talented pitchers.

Quote Love how you cherry picked that one statement out of his blog to make your point!

In a separate tweet, Alden Gonzalez passed on that Tim Mead has cancelled the annual spring training meeting.

How long have you been waiting to use that one?

You might have to revoke your Troll Daddy name if you couldn't see that barbed comment.

Is that stinging comment really called for?

The Boston fans were throwing themselves? Wow!

I remember watching that on TV.... my mom was cheering cause she loved Dick Schofield! Good memories!

Yes a lot of people passed but not a lot of teams have free 40-man rosters spots at the moment either. The Angels can afford to take a flyer on the kid and see if he has something. They can always DFA him later. A live arm is a live arm right YOT?

Pulled from FanGraphs: ettin > Mark68+Tank+Remainder of AW.com Community See! Mathematical equations in action!

Here is the Rookie ball list too: http://www.fangraphs.com/minorleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2013&team=176&players=0&sort=1,a I'd take a lot of these with a grain of salt as most of the drafted players only had a limited number of appearances. Better to see what they do in a full season next year.

Here is a list from A-ball: http://www.fangraphs.com/minorleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2013&team=51&players=0&sort=1,a Krehbiel, DeLoach, Crowley, Santos, O'Grady, Sporner, Keudel, and Efferson all had pretty good numbers and/or peripherals. Of course this is just the A baller's and it is A ball so take it with a grain of salt. Also note I'm not sure if all of those were drafted in the last draft.

Yes and when we do use exact, real numbers they eventually get ridiculed.

Although Wall may not be a great catch I think every team in baseball is hoping the Marlins mess of a front office makes a mistake and DFA's the wrong player. That team is really mismanaged at the moment.

They will be called the Los Angeles Oakland Raiders of Anaheim to take advantage of three different economic markets. Brilliant!

It would kill two birds with one stone.

They missed a category of "Fans seriously injured or killed in their ballpark" and "Is the song 'Buttercup' played during the 7th inning stretch?"