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AZMike

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  1. Dipoto's policy of not signing players with draft pick compensation means we won't be able to bring back Santana =(
  2. Given the cost and expectations going in, I'd say 2013 should be given to Josh Hamilton, if not, it should be a tie between Hamilton and Blanton
  3. Perhaps this year we might have been in contention had we not been saddled with the least clutch player in the American League putting up great stats on papers but failed to deliver when it counted
  4. The least clutch player in the American League was Mike Trout
  5. The Angels led the AL in GIDP's with 150 http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=0&season=2013&month=0&season1=2013&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=18,d Pujols and Trumbo each hit into 18 GIDP's. Then Kendrick and Hamilton were tied for 3rd on the team with 16.
  6. Interestingly Howie was not the least clutch player on the Angels in 2013. Mike Trout was the least clutch player in the American League.
  7. I like the idea that has been posted of giving him something like 20yrs/$200M, very heavily front loaded, with an opt-out after 8 years. That keeps the AAV low for tax purposes.
  8. Last year the Dodgers were the offseason champs, and they didn't do too badly on the field.
  9. Hamilton will just lose another 50lbs and things will balance out* nicely *I'm referring to the position players v pitchers annual tug-of-war, captained by Mike Trout and Joe Blanton, respectively
  10. Angels will be taking it "up the Pujols" so to speak for 4+ years
  11. according to dWAR, the Angels best defensive player this season was Hank Conger
  12. It's unfortunate that of the teams remaining in the *LCS phase of playoffs, the Tigers -- for the second consecutive year --are the "good guys"
  13. Well at least the Dodgers got the same amount of significantly more offenisve WAR from Greinke than we did from from Hamiltlon. ...oh wait that's bad
  14. No way should the Angels trade Bourjos. IMO the Angels should go back in time, not sign Josh Hamilton for $25M a year, then run an OF of Trout, Bourjos and Calhoun
  15. I suspect the Angels bid $125M for Greinke. The Dodgers bid $145, and gave him an opt-out clause to boot. Hard to fault the Angels for not signign Greinke to that kind of money. The problem was turning around and giving that money to Josh Hamilton. We would have been better off doing nothing in the offseason and remaining comfortably under the luxury tax cutoff.
  16. Same story as last year. Two years straight the Angels have ended in 3rd place and every team I kinda liked got knocked out in the first round. I actually put a small bet on the A's to win the WS before the season started. I thought they were grossly underrated (and I thought the Dodgers and Angels were overrated) in the odds going into the season.
  17. The Pujols and Hamilton deals make the Vernon Wells contract look like a bargain...
  18. Best bet would be to give Vargas a qualifying offer (to make him less valuable to other teams due to draft compensation being attached) but, simultaneously, try to work out a longer-term deal for lower AAV (Better for 2014 luxury tax) IMO we either need to bite the bullet and pay luxury tax to go hard after pitching, or start to dismantle the team and rebuild. Half measures will just lead to more seasons like this one (mediocre ~.500 baseball).
  19. I'm of the [apparently unpopular] opinion it's better to go far in the postseason and fall short than to miss the postseason altogether. '08 and '09 had heartbreaking endings but the last few season have been worse overall IMO.
  20. Unfortunately that is not true:
  21. According to this article the Angels aren't even going to offer Vargas a qualifying offer because him accepting it would cause them to go over the cutoff for the luxury tax. If true then the Hamilon deal looks even more idiotic than it did during the 2013 season.
  22. If that happened and I were Arte I'd hire a PI to see if he's added extra stories onto his house from the kickbacks he's likely getting from Boras under the table. Re-signing Madson AGAIN would be eerily similar to the time Reagins inherited a wad of cash from some random unknown relative shortly after the Wells trade...
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