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"So far, two years into their respective contracts, Fielder>>>>>>>Pujols." Ah yes, comparing him to Albert Pujols. What a stellar way to evaluate baseball transactions. Signing Mathis to a 1 year, $12 million deal would be much less detrimental than the Pujols signing. Shall we do that too?

I don't care how Fielder was in the postseason, I care how he was overall...a 1.7 WAR player. Over 8 full seasons in the MLB, he has one excellent season, two very good ones, a pretty good one, three mediocre ones and a bad one. Only 3 out of 8 times has he had a WAR above 3.5. He's gigantic, seemingly declining and was never THAT good anyway. And you're telling me Texas effectively just signed him to a 7-year, $138-million contract? That, my friends, is brilliant. Even they are capable of stupid moves...thank God for that.

Even Tony Reagins laughs at garbage like this.

You think other teams are going to view a slugger with a career .299 OBP who plays every position he attempts rather badly and someone who has compiled a total of 1.9 WAR over the past two seasons as 'awesome'? Gee, talk about rose-colored glasses.

There's no use selling on Bourjos now unless there's a team that really values him and is willing to give up quite a bit. If anyone gets traded it should be Trumbo, with Bourjos, Trout, Hamilton and Calhoun serving as our OF/DH four (and I guess Shuck backing up, but hopefully playing a pretty limited amount).

Since my time of being too busy to post too much, it seems people (thankfully) ignore much more of what you say. But this is just too ridiculous to let slide. You want to give Mike Trout a deal significantly worse than what Torii Hunter got? If Jerry Dipoto went to Mike Trout with that, there's no way I could fault Trout demanding for a trade. As for extension talks, it is going to take a REALLY long deal to get Trout to sign, I think. 12 years might be not far off. He's hitting free agency really young and is the best player to enter the game since Pujols (if not even better than that). If he hits free agency he's getting way more than $300 million, so any extension is going to take a big pile of cash and some damn good security to go with it.

One would have to think so. Whilst it wouldn't totally stun me to see someone give up far too much in a deluded evaluation of Trumbo, we'd be wrong to hold our breath for it. Teams aren't lining up to give up quality, club-controlled pitching for a poor defending first baseman with a sub.300 OBP and a sub .750 OPS.

I would have this pretty close to the mark. It seems like there's a strong appetite to overpay for relief pitching this offseason. The likes of Wilson and Balfour are going to get some pretty crazy deals.

Every valuable asset the Angels have not named Trout may not even be enough to get Miller. Deals like that just aren't going to happen.

But those six played for contenders. I thought that's what mattered?

Is Callapso alive? Ideally he returns and Jimenez plays 3B.

Our bullpen went to work with a stellar job of protecting leads.

To anyone who suggests trading Bourjos for pitching, who rounds out the lineup once he's gone? Either Trumbo plays in the OF and we find a DH or Trumbo stays at DH and we find an OF. Given Calhoun is injured for five weeks, who is it? Schuck? Conger? Either way, shit. Trading an outfielder only makes sense if you have more than you need. We don't.

I seriously considered Engelbert Humperdinck.

We're nowhere near as bad as we've shown, the RISP peculiarity has made things seem worse than they are. But teams with crap rotations and bullpens rarely do well.

Pay scientists as much money as possible to develop talent transplants, which we can then use on all of our pitchers, bench players and everyone in the minor league system.

^That might be the worst post in AW history. Yikes... Lifetime got there in between. I meant mp's post

Yeah that's the one downside. I don't mind the Callaspo option though and Bourjos could do it if he's going to keep hitting well.

The longer Aybar is injured, the more hated Harris will be. He sucks at all aspects of baseball.

Having Trout and Pujols hit consecutively sounds pretty damn good to me, especially if Hamilton ever stops sucking. Trout will get some damn good pitches to hit.

Blanton for $1mil, competing for a rotation spot with Richards, would have made sense. Giving him $14mil above his market value was kinda dumb.

He had an OPS above 1.000 before tonight's game. Basically, you're an idiot.

Hamilton has looked like that plenty of times in the past. He'll come good soon enough. Trumbo, on the other hand, could be being exposed as a one-tool hacker the league has figured out.

Trumbo. .552 OPS in his last 59 games of last year, .570 OPS from 74 spring training ABs, looks completely lost at the plate at the moment. Since July 21 last year, including spring training, he has six home runs and 13 XBH in 334 ABs. Take out spring training and it's still six homers in 260 ABs. This is well beyond a slump and it's hard to hide when you're a DH who is horrible at every position you try.

While it's a lame cliche, he's right on the hitting. The only problem so far is the lack of situational hitting and the vast majority of that is luck. The problem is he's been given a f**king awful pitching staff to work with and there's few ways to polish a turd.