mulwin444

Yeah, they should have just not done anything at this point.

I'm sorry he isn't what you want him to be. I guess we'll just have to settle for having the acknowledged "best player in baseball" on our team and hope we aren't docked wins for him not being more outspoken and tiresome.

I see you are a man of culture as well...

Was Arte an assbirth?

(Stassi pretends to look busy in another part of the clubhouse..."Now where did I put that fungo?")

They could have done it with Trout as well...the only reason he started 2012 late with the team was due to illness: "Mike Trout showed up in spring training in 2012 with a mysterious illness. He had lost 15 pounds and was too weak to play in the initial Cactus League games. The Angels described the illness as a type of flu bug or virus. Trout was taking medication although doctors could not pinpoint the exact condition, after ruling out a thyroid disorder or Valley Fever. The result was that his chances of making the big league team shrank to nothing, and he was assigned to the AAA Salt Lake Bees to start the season." https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Trout

Okay

Fletcher has said on numerous occasions that the Angels don't try to manipulate service time...

Man, that's disappointing. What he really needs to say is: "Phew, I am desperate for starting pitching! Des-per-ate! I'm working those phones and talking to anyone who will listen 'Have you seen my rotation?! I needs help, yo! Won't someone help a man out?!' I've got my knee pads on and I am ready and am willing to do what it takes." It's professional and it shows he's really, really trying... Really..

3/13/2020 at 5:32 PM EST

This is me losing my mind (...)

Well, considering Rosenthal, Heyman, Passan, etc have been putting words in the Angels' mouth the past couple of weeks the Angels front office apparently had little left they needed to say.

Yeah, agreed, it sucks...I'd have love to have had Stripling and Pederson on this team, especially with 3 years of control for Stripling Either way, it tells me Eppler is still working and trying to find out-of-the-box ways to improve the starting pitching so I don't think we are done.

I just have trouble getting too emotional about something I have very little info about other than we heard something vague about Arte "getting emotional". Seems to me there was a deal in place, Boston was caught off guard by their fans extremely negative reaction, their asses puckered so they started "hmm"-ing about some medical records as the reason for the delay while going back to the Dodgers saying "we need more", so Dodgers go back to the Angels and say "agreed to terms have changed, we now need ____", and then Arte said "eat a dick" Should he have said "eat a dick" and just agreed to the changed terms? Don't have an opinion until I know the terms. I just know the people that usually like being angry at Arte are now enjoying their moment being angry at Arte...so, good for them.

I'm going to go with "Eppler will continue to try to improve the team up until 07/31/2020".

Because Arte is bad...

Maybe? In 2018, he wasn't dead so I was likely giving him the benefit of the doubt...

Skaggs accounted for only 79 innings last season and averaged less than 100.0 IP per season for the last 4 seasons...yeah, tough to replace that.

So, with the additions of Teheran, Bundy, and Andriese our pitching didn't improve? Weird...

Yeah, the pitching is none of that but do go on....

"Failed offseason" haha

Also find it a bit silly when I see comments like "why aren't the Angels/Arte/Eppler/the front office saying something about the trade?" when, you know, what if they didn't leak anything about the trade, would have preferred they kept it under wraps but now have this nonsense distraction. Eppler seems to work in stealth and, while you give up some control when your plan involves 4 teams, two of which are the biggest in baseball in terms of fish wrap hype, I don't think it was his style or goal to have it out in the wild. Or, to put it another way, why address anything when you can just shrug and say, "Ya got me, ask the Dodgers".

If that's ALL they had to do, then it would've been done...

Yeah, pretty likely... Dodgers-Red Sox terms change...so do Angels-Dodgers terms, likely less favorable for the Angels. I'll sure it will leak at some point.

Ah, so speculation and anger at Arte and Eppler...for reasons. Seems about right...