LA Angels Thursday News Crash: Heading to Oakland

Let’s hope not. Call me crazy but maybe — maybe — a team that has underperformed for as long as we have should hold out for more than a shiny record on May 13th to commit to a guy who until 3 weeks ago perhaps looked like part of the problem.

But it would be in line with how impulsive the Angels are. We did pick up Eppler’s option early in the year and fire him at the end of it after all.

Joe can stick around if we make the playoffs. I don’t see how you can reward 3 failed seasons with more rope.

He’s starting on Saturday afternoon

For what ? Some old big league chew and a fungo bat? He/We need to maximize his trade value he needs to work on his defense to have that happen.

Nah. They aren’t trading him till he’s close to being out of options. The only thing he costs us right now is time and frustration. But best outcome wise we get a 15-30M a year outfielder pre-arb out of it if he just learns to be average with the glove. It’s not even a gamble yet unless someone out there wants to trade us an established starter and he’s part of the ask.

I’m offended. Debbie Downer is way too close to Downing.

Should be Team D&G … short for Team Doom & Gloom.

One fellow insists his pessimism is him being pragmatic. Good for him.

Trust me – I’m one of the doom and gloomers also but suddenly find myself being a full-blown Pollyanna (or GPB) when facing the depth of doom & gloom expelled from the orifii of Team D&G.

I ignored it for two reasons:

1. It’s the NY Daily News
2. “The Los Angeles Angels of Orange County of Anaheim”.

That joke is SO 2004.

hear hear! Bring back the bank teller!

Things have changed around here, we’ve already forgot the last shitty decade +. Exciting Times at CTPG, winning baseball great start to the season, young stud prospects called up from AA to start, because we think he is good, passionate Angel fans willing to glue themselves to something in protest of Soggy Joe’s get away day lineup decisions.

Good times! And yesterday we heard about a possible scheduled 15 round Heavy Weight fight between JackFrost and Grandpabaseball. All to prove which Angel fan has the most grit.

That’s my secret, Cap, i’m always angry.

Dude, you’re suggesting that you are capable of determining what a real MLB mind is?

Based on the quality of your posts, you have as much baseball acumen as a piece of turd on the side of the road.

Meh. If we’re really in this thing then we will go back and forth with the Astros all year… and it will be awesome.

I’ll be honest, I’m a little dubious of this. Doesn’t this mean we have to add him to the 40-man? And you can’t take him off again without risking him? Or do I have the rules wrong.

First player from the 2021 draft to make the bigs and he is an 11th rounder. Crazy!

I guess it’s a must watch pitching event. Going to get out the cheese and crackers and use the nice charcuterie board.

I’ll bet you Mike Trout preferred to take off Wednesday’s game at the Big A versus tomorrows game at the Oakland Mausoleum. After the incident in Texas, its obvious to me that MNT hates late afternoon games due to the intruding shadows since he dives over the plate and doesn’t pick up the ball well in those conditions. If you recall he got really pissed the other night (The maddest I’ve ever seen him) when his exposed but now padded hand almost get hit on a runaway inside pitch.

So it may not have even been Soggy Joe’s call.

This is awesome. What I really want is a breakdown of everything he is doing defensively. He’s down there because he literally was the worst defensive outfield in MLB by most statistics.

How many balls have lodged themselves firmly into his mitt?

I think somebody needs to track his games at AAA and document in great detail what happens when he touches the ball defensively……details on everything. Only way he’s getting back up here is his defense becomes almost average.

Great. Who are we going to trade him for? There is no room for him.

1. How’s his D coming?
2. Maybe he belongs in AAAA
3. Tradebait?

He needs like 50 games minimum down there with daily outfield drills before I want to even think about him back up here.

Guy is a freak athlete yet plays worse than Manny Ramirez out there.

You might be right

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/angels-chase-silseth-could-start-friday-in-oakland/

I’ll alert 2002..

Here’s my unsolicited take: Soggy Joe Maddon manages every game weirdly. Unfortunately thats part of the whole package.

Well…at least nobody is getting free rent in your head.    

Nice post, man! 😀 I agree 100% with you. I wasn’t happy either, but realize that the human elements may have been at play. Trout confirmed it. But we as fans are welcome and ENTITLED to kneejerk to our heart’s content. Fandom comes with its own built-in Bipolar Disorder. #MHawareness

Are you saying you’re not gonna fan the way I fan???

Bah!!! And you call yourself a fan!!!!