LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: Rolen into the HOF

Does it make sense for the Angels or any team to spend $500 million on any player, when the majority of that contract will be performed as the player is declining in his 30’s. How many times do we repeat the same mistake before we learn this lesson.

In the case of the Angels, where does Mike Trout play when his back prevents him from playing the OF in the next couple of years. How can we have a balanced roster with three players consuming more than half our budget. Whoever is running the Angels will need to consider these roster construction isues.

Interesting- my former Angels rep reached out to me today. He asked if Arte’s recent announcement made a difference and maybe I want to reconsider whether I want to buy some tickets. This is all clearly a marketing strategy.

What are arte’s profits every year from the Angels? Any link? I’d love to check it out.

Bullshit alert: MLB’s new Top 10 shortstop prospects list excludes Neto…. https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2023/ss/

It’s galling, to be honest with you. Brooks Lee at No. 10? .850 OPS in A+?

Pfft. Bitch, our dude bested that in AA. Same age, same draft class. No respect!

My suggestion is do not believe anything written from “floated” information. My understanding is that offers were not due until Feb. So, no one knows how much was going to be offered. It serves Arte’s narrative to have everyone believe he pulled back from huge potential offers because he suddenly realized he loved the team and had “unfinished business”. These articles serve that narrative and is likely PR spin.

No one knows except maybe the very inside crew what was truly going to be offered. So, the press being fed PR is not something I would listen to.

Day 1- “Obviously Arte wasn’t getting the massive offers that his ego demands. Also, he’s cheap, so he wants every last dollar he can get. His pride was hurt when he wasn’t offered as much as he expected so now he’s staying but he’s also lying to me about why and won’t be transparent about his billion dollar business. Obviously it’s all about money. He’s an asshole. I hate him hate him hate him.”

Day 2- “Arte was offered a record amount of money to sell the team but then realized he doesn’t want to sell it yet!?! That’s unpossible! I’ve never heard of anyone ever deciding to look into selling their business and then deciding not to do it. This is intolerable! And it’s all about his megalomania. His ego is so huge he doesn’t even care about the money. But I’m also sure he hates championshits and won’t buy me one because it’s all about money. He’s an asshole. I hate him hate him hate him.”

All I know is that if our self made billionaire owner was as smart as I am he’d understand that the key to success is giving up as soon as some faceless twerps on the internet are mean to you and you can make some money getting out.

The guy wants to keep trying. He likely knows more about the situation than I do. And most real fact of all, it’s HIS friggin team. So whether I like it all that much or not, it is what it is. Here’s hoping Fletch can play short and Renfroe hits 40 mighty dingerz.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10063019-shohei-ohtani-rumors-new-angels-contract-far-less-likely-after-moreno-decision

Shohei Ohtani may not be a member of the Los Angeles Angels much longer.
The Moreno family, which owns the team, announced Monday that it was no longer exploring potential sales of the Angels. That could have a ripple effect, as Andy Martino of SNY reported Wednesday there is belief around the league Ohtani will be gone after the 2023 campaign.

“The strong perception around the league was that Moreno’s decision to walk away from more than $2.5 billion made it far less likely that Ohtani, a free agent after this season, would stay in Anaheim,” Moreno wrote. “He was already viewed as a likely goner, but one never knows what a new owner could have done to convince him to commit.”

Arte changed his mind when the alternative sunk in. He didn’t want to become the new Mr. Irrelevant.

The HOF has become a total joke. Let Bonds and Rose in and I might be interested.

Uh…not to be nitpicky but domestic violence “allegations“.

And it’s his 10 month old daughter. Which is even more unfathomable.

One thing that seems clear is that Perry probably isn’t going anywhere anytime soon and any post-Nevin managers won’t be big names. Maybe a good thing, who knows.

If Arte’s volatility scared some of the premium names off from interviewing in the past, you gotta think that is exponentially more true going forward with the industry knowing he could rage quit and bring in new ownership and financial uncertainty from a sale at any point.

Cleveland pitching staff a few yrs ago had Callaway as coach with Bauer and Clevinger on staff.

Oh my.

Speaking of future HOFers, the WBC USA team is stacked compared to earlier squads.

I can easily imagine 8 of them. Previous teams had no more than 5.

Trout, Goldy, Arrendondo, Kershaw, Wainwright, Harper, Mookie, Turner?, Realmuto? Griffey Jr is a coach.

And Dino is a HOF coach and all around major dude.

There have been no player signings since Arte decided to keep the Angels.