Chris

bending new ballcaps is tough...

This is one of the slower developing trades I can remember in a long while....

Angels Win With Help From a Fan By MIKE PENNER JULY 15, 1985 12 AM TIMES STAFF WRITER Had this game been played in mid-October, rather than on the final Sunday before the All-Star break, they’d be writing poetry about it. Maybe they will, anyway. This one, a 5-3 Angel triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, will be hard to dislodge from the memory of anyone who witnessed it. The setting: Two American League division leaders doing head-to-head combat before a roaring Anaheim Stadium crowd of 35,306. It’s a pitchers’ duel, heavy on managerial chess-playing, resulting in a one-run Toronto lead as the bottom of the ninth inning beckons. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-15-sp-7772-story.html I was at this game. I'll never forget Bell going into the LF bleachers with the ball in his glove and emerging from the bleachers without the ball. Game Winning Home Run Downing! Thank you fan who took it.

at least get a catcher...

I'm fine with Fletcher at 2B, and La Stella at 1B platooning with Pujols. Maddon likes to mix and match. Keep Rengifo, Thaiss, and Walsh around for depth or package in a trade.

This is a thread of sadness.

Angels were interested in Sabathia and Teixeira, and the Yankees got them. Will this time be different? I hope so.

I vote for Wheeler, Grandal, and Will Smith. oh wait...

Fletcher telling us to not jump to conclusions, is like telling water to not be wet. It's what we were born to do.

Great! That's plenty of money to cover Cole and Rendon now. Go for it! TDawg will need a much bigger Bunk Bed City here soon.

Maybe we could hire Astros fired Asst GM Taubman first, and then sign Addison Russell. Then Taubman could scream out for no reason he's so f'n glad we signed Russell.

5 of those guys have already been Angels...just come on back.

We've got Stassi and Bemboom. We've got this.

Sorry to hear about Vector-Launch. They were a client of ours at VectorUSA.

Jones and Yan

any news?

Hope Arte sells his yacht for cash.

I'm sure all teams have their phone line open 365 days a year for possible Trades!!

Sounds like Maddon will be lobbying Arte to extend Eppler beyond this season. Fine with me. I'm cool with 5 years of Eppler / Maddon, just no more 10 year contracts.

So much for our luxurious depth...

Boras Cap = $

1: Sign SP Gerrit Cole - 8/$280m 2. Sign C Yasmani Grandal - 4/80m 3. Sign SP Zack Wheeler - 5/100m 4. Sign Backup C Martin Maldonado - 1/2m 5. Sign 1B Kole Calhoun - 3/18m 6. Extend SS Andrelton Simmons - 5/$50m 7. Have Goodwin/Adell cover RF; Keep Marsh/Hermosillo as OF depth at AAA 8. Trade Jones, Ward, Thaiss for milb pitchers; Keep Walsh as 1B depth at AAA 9. Make La Stella everyday 2B (Rengifo as UT INF) 10. Make Fletcher everyday 3B Rotation: Cole, Wheeler, Ohtani, Heaney, Canning, Sandoval Bullpen: Robles, Middleton, Buttrey, Bedrosian, N Ramirez, Anderson, F Pena Lineup: LaStella, Trout, Ohtani, Upton, Grandal, Pujols/Calhoun, Simmons, Adell/Goodwin, Fletcher Bench: Calhoun, Goodwin, Rengifo, Maldonado 13 pitchers plus 13 hitters = 26 players Payroll = A TON

I also remember during that playoff series Hamilton saying he was allowing the team to inject "poison" (cortisone shots) into his body in an effort to get back on the field and help the team...

Astros Playbook: 1) Be Total Jerks 2) Lie about being Total Jerks 3) Get Caught 4) Apologize for Being Total Jerks

"If he wanted to offer support for Osuna, he would tell Osuna, not yell it in front of reporters and cameras. No, this was something darker. Arrogance, intimidation and a contemptible sort of nastiness. Something the organization easily could have disavowed. Instead, it tried to spin it -- and whirled itself into a corner from which there is no extrication." - Jeff Passan https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27901119/the-houston-astros-denial-just-made-bad-situation-worse