The Angels are reportedly considering Corey Kluber. They are also in the hunt for Nathan Eovaldi. Steven Duggar has a minor league deal with the Dodgers.
The Mets also have concerns about Carlos Correa’s physical. They are trying to work it out, so I am not quite ready to start a kickstarter for the guy. The Diamondbacks needed a catcher while the Blue Jays needed a left handed outfielder. They addressed those needs by trade.
Austin Dean went to the Twins; the LG Twins of the KBO that is.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
Amazing how much payroll is dedicated to 3B on this team if you include Rendon, Gip and Drury. Rendon has been an absolute failure of historical proportions given his yearly tariff. Maybe he will make up for it in 2023. We can only hope. At this point, in 3 Angel seasons, he has played the same approximate number of games as he did in 2019.
You would have a point if they were all going to play 3B at the same time. But Drury will probably get way more starts at 2B than 3B and Gio will be spending alot of time at 1B (even if Walshie is healthy he cant hit lefties) and even SS. Probably alot more so than anyone is really contemplating right now.
I don’t think I’m comfortable with Gio being the alternative to Walsh. But mostly Perry seems to love signing/trading for infielders. Like when in doubt get another infielder.
Let’s say Rendon and Walsh are healthy. That would give us two of Gio, the Muffin Man, Rengifo and Fletch on the bench. Ok, we’ve had worse. I’ll relax and see what’s next
Much the way Arte is just skin for the evil being that is Andrew and his championish hating marketing loving MiLB player murdering essences, Scott Boras basically has his hand up in John Heyman’s guts all the time so….
Breaking news guys. Other teams GMs (It couldn’t have been POBOs, they are waaayyyy to smart for this because they are completely different from a GM) have been checking in on Correa. So the Mets better actually offer Correa more money, not knock down their offer due to Correa’s scary leg or what ever.
Also, we signed another guy who plays corner infield…. why? Don’t know. Apparently we need twelve of them.
It’s like we keep buying boxes of cereal everyday when we’ve been out of milk for a month.
I’m comfortable at every other position but SS is a huge hole and has been for over a year.
The club is better going into 2023, but fill the obvious SS hole before worrying about anything else.
But I like cereal without milk.
I thought if our Offense was good, we wouldn’t need a hitting SS. So Squid would do just fine there, no? Having a Top 3 defensive SS with our on paper starting lineup all Healthy would be ok.
Definitely agree with this, the line up is stacked and I think if everyone hits, you can afford one position as defensive-first position like Machete in Ho-town..
Squid would be fine if Stassi and Walsh hit like they can, but just don’t want to chance this
Basically the Angels are not happy with Tucker Davidson as the sixth man and want to bring in a mid tier veteran to replace him.
Good.
I know the sixth man isn’t going to get a lot of starts as long as everyone is healthy, but the sixth man will be the first man up to replace a starter who is hurt. I’d be happy if that guy is Kluber, Eovaldi, or Rich Hill (in order of preference).
Yeah. But none of those guys feel like they will make me a champiham sandwich. That’s why I am demanding a trade for one of the Brewers starters, cause that’ll totally happen and we can do it for Jo Adell and some bottom 30 pitching prospects for sure. If necessary I intend to allow the Brewers to also have Yunel Escobar.
In the real real world, I’d prefer to get a #6 who will cost less and just not walk guys. Give up a HR every now and again? Sure, I expect that. Just make em solo. Probably not gonna strike out guys? Yup. Just don’t give up seven runs in five innings all the time.
Eovaldi will cost the most out of these guys but I’d kind of be willing to do it, even if it costs extra years. Why? Three of the last 4 years he’s had a WHIP well under 1.35. He also has a K/BB rate over 5 most of the time. Even with his K rate dropping a little. This gives me hope he can be effective, even as say a #3 starter, for a couple of years.
But we could do worse than 18 starts of Rich Hill next year for half the price.
I agree and I like your order of preference. I personally prefer the next starter to be a righty.
If equal abilities, I like lefties, more useful now against lefty pull hitters after the end of the shift.
Well, other than Ohtani that’s basically all we’ve got. Since most MLB hitters are righty, we will be at a disadvantage almost all the time.
When he is healthy, Eovaldi is still a really good pitcher. Red Sox gave him a qualifying offer so the price tag there isn’t cheap. Kluber is a wildcard. He pitched some decent innings last season here and there. Had some klunkers too. He needs to be a one year $7 million type guy. Hill is on his last legs and has no ability to stay healthy. He is a stop gap only. I really only want to see Eovaldi based on talent.
Canning!
My thought on SP is we are ok for now, but need a 1A Ace for the playoffs.
Maybe it’s Detmers or Sandy, or maybe we need to go external but I’d rather save here.
Eovaldi would be my pick but I wouldn’t spend on Hill. I won’t complain about Kluber.
Happy Boxing Day everybody ( Not sure what the hell that is though)
It looks like the Angels have struck first today https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/angels-sign-kevin-padlo-to-minor-league-contract.html
Not what I was looking for but it definitely feels like with this acquisition and with last weeks signing of Luis Barrera to a minor league deal, The Angels have the need, the need for speed with the new 2023 pitching and base running rules.
I’m surprised Kevin was still available! This is a coup, not the Russian kind, but a savvy GM “steal an All-Star in the making” coup. His 2022 and career stats seal the deal for me:
OBP
2022: .147
Career: .163
SLG
2022: .152
Career: .152
OPS
2022: .299
Career: .315
OPS+
2022: -14
Career: -9
Ah – sarcasm. 😂
Yeah he’s a career below- league-average guy. So definitely not a firework worthy signing. But he is cheap and has a pulse.
His minors numbers are decent and he’s only 26. That said if he’s playing at the MLB level it is not a good sign for the Angels.
It’s gonna be an incredible year for our new kev kev.