We’re getting the band back together.
Grichuk is an obvious replacement for Taylor Ward, who will be out for quite a while. First base has been in flux all year and Cron will look to anchor the position for the remainder of the season.
Mason Albright is a pitcher the Angels paid well over slot to skip college. He played his high school ball at the IMG Academy and is likely the headliner in this deal from Colorado’s perspective. Madden was the Angels fourth round pick from the 2022 draft and has put up middling numbers with the 66ers this year.
This trade seems to take the Angels out of a third base upgrade but who knows?
The one thing I have noticed with the acquisitions of these two, is that our line up is now very bottom heavy in the since that most of these guys hit best when they are at the bottom of the line up. But so do some of our other players who are in the starting line up. I am not heavy into statistics of the game but it would seem that the line up needs a reshuffling just to maximize everyone’s strength.
I get the move for this year. They already jumped in with both feet, doing a 180 would make no sense and be worse, arguably.
But if Ohtani leaves they really have to commit pretty decisively to a tear down rebuild. Neto/O’Hoppe/Trout stick around and everyone else is available. Use available payroll space to absorb some bad contracts with a minor leaguer attached like the Mets are right now. Sign some veteran relievers with upside you can flip at trade deadlines. That’s the only way to speed it up – use money.
I just don’t see Arte spending heavy on a team he knows is bad though. Hopefully he sells.
You keep Moniak too – plus any of the cheap controlled starters (Detmers, Sandoval, Canning, Silseth) and bullpen pieces like Joyce, Quijada.
If we weren’t down six infielders (Rendon, Neto, Drury, Walsh, Urshela, Fletcher), and our two best outfielders, along with Adell, this trade would not have been ideal. But without all those players, we desperately needed major league replacements. The bottom of our line up has been minor leaguers lately. We didn’t give up that much. Great trade!
As you noted, if they wanted to compete at all, they had to make a move to get MLB quality guys back in the lineup. Without the trade, you would be looking at the same thing we have been watching in prior years. Minor leaguers and over-the-hill waiver wire guys starting at multiple spots. That doesn’t work. Neither Cron nor Grichek are awesome. But neither were Moose, Drury, Urshela etc. You saw the difference when the lineup featured 8-9 real MLB guys who could hit versus what it looked like when the other team pitches around guys because Squid or minor league guys are coming up. At least the trade makes the rest of this year hopefully fun. The alternative is becoming the West Coast Pirates with every season done by July and fans watching for prospects to come up and change things in 2-3 years — which then doesn’t happen either.
4 back of the last WC, but only 5 back in the West. Seems doable for a generic team to be considered a contender. I think the Halos will need to at least finish 2nd in the West to make the playoffs. 3 WCs between Hou, NY, Sea, LA, Tor and Bos. Not gonna be easy to get that final WC if we finish 3rd in the west since 2 WCs will most likely come out of the East. Good on the Platypus for adressing needs Captain Obv. out.
BTW…your CA logo has always been my favorite
Is this Richard Brown?
If anyone wants to know a quick trick for quelling any excitement you might have built up from these trades, just go look at our remaining schedule. Only 4 series against losing teams.
We can also just read some of the posts from Team Doom
But more games at home vs road
If the Angels can compete and win, then at least they will be ready for playoff baseball. If we beat up over sub 500 teams and made the playoffs, the team would be worse off.
The Grichuk acquisition is pitch
perfect: Experienced veteran that can play all three OF positions and has been red hot this month. He fills an immediate need and at worst, he’s an ideal 4th OF once Trout & Adell return – though I suspect he’ll contribute more than Adell.
Cron will platoon at 1B and could see significant AB’s while allowing Moose to play more third or when he needs a breather.
Solid acquisitions for a team that is doing everything possible to get to the postseason.
I think Cron should start and Moose to 3rd. Let them roll the rest of the way.
I think that’s the way it’ll go and Rengifo backs up 2B, 3B, SS and OF corners.
Escobar’s playing time figures to shrink from this point forward, but we’ll see.
When Trout is back, we’ll have a nice rotation + positional flexibility in the OF with Moniak & Grichuk being able to handle all 3 positions.
CJ Tron walking to the plate
I used to be a boss at Intellivision’s Tron Deadly Discs game.
That’s cool. I played that game as a kid. Then me and my friends played it at school with real frisbees.
so this doesn’t happen w/o ward gettin injured?
Man. Perry dealing like his job is on the line.
I can see the Cron part happening either way but the Grichuk move had to be due to Ward’s injury.
I’d like this pickup
even if Ward wasn’t out because guys like Moniak & Renfroe are playing EVERY day. He’s a solid contributor during the dog days.
That’s because it is !!
The outcome did not affect the Angels march towards the pennant but digging the Reds kicking the shit out of Dodgers today. Matt McClain looks like a good one, Angels passed over him for slinging Sammy.
Meanwhile
https://twitter.com/trashpandas/status/1685808762555080704?s=46&t=9okrAC405BGuMUJ9RAKfkg
Nice start!
Cron better produce before Schanuel takes his spot lol
Do you have any doubt Perry would pull the trigger ?
Nope, not at all!
Perry has been nails on his moves since the off-season, and I fully expect Cron to be another hit.
I always liked Cron.
I as well, I’d just put him at first the rest of the way.
Me too. Cron is like Napoli to me. Always liked Napoli. After he left our team, he destroyed us.
Escobar has been the only thing I haven’t liked and ghosting Fletch
Glass half full ?
I don’t think Escobar can be any worse
could make him more effective. Use him strictly vs left handed pitchers
ShamWow!
The acquisition of Cron means that we can let Schanuel have a shot at developing in the minors and not being thrown in over his head. Less pressured development is always better (see Adell).
Perry is all about keeping the floor of the team moving upwards. Like all the Gm’s say at this time of the year, if we have a chance to make our ballclub better we will do it. Yes we gave away assets, but our team needed help with the injury to Ward and others who still aren’t 100% yet.
This also gives Trout a bit more time if he needs it.
This is going to be one hell of a DOG Days of Aug!!
5 back of the division, go get it Halos!
If we get Trout and O’Hoppe back in Mid-August, I think we might have a big September.
Still need Neto back too.
We do, but I’m guessing an IL stint is almost inevitable with Neto at this point.
I guess you have to hope we’re not 5-6 games back of the division and WC by the time September rolls around …To have a chance I think we have to be within 2-3 games of a playoff spot on September 1st..
Wow. Perry is probably done now.
I expect one more pitcher
I think so too. I still think they might surprise and trade a surplus starter.
Hader and Tatis Jr (Padres free up salary) for Bachman, Joyce, and Rengifo
isn’t Tatis Jr one drug test away from being banned?
Probably lol
I would not touch the primadonna Tatis. Don’t do the Padres a favor by taking him.
Angels are best at doing that
No way Cheap Arte takes on that Tatis contract
I could see a SS as well….
Starter or reliver?
I think a reliever
How do we acquire Hader?
Hader would be awesome, but at 33% playoff chance by FanGraphs, I believe Padres are going for it with their current roster with an exception of one IF to replace Ha Seong Kim, who is likely to be on IL.
Padres need to raise the white flag like the Mets lol
Ky Bush
Coleman Crow
Jake Madden
Landon Marceaux
Mason Albright
Connor Von Scoyoc
Janson Junk
Adam Seminaris
No drafted pitchers until the 5th round this year. Suarez, Rodriguez and Daniel on the IL (along with Bachman and Joyce).
There’s a unique philosophy about starting pitching in here somewhere, alongside an incredible optimism for the durability over the next two months of the team’s current rotation.
Eppler dealt from the Angels (very weak) pitching pipeline often, but outside of Edgar Quero, Minasian does so almost exclusively.
{For now} we still have
Silseth
Bachman
Erla
Mederos
Kochanowicz
Dana
Marcheco
Bachman’s not a starting pitcher, and there are many doubts (not least from the Angels themselves) that Silseth will remain one.
I don’t view Erla and Mederos as starting pitching prospects of note. Erla’s been injured for a month, and Mederos’ future, if he has one, is almost certainly as a middle reliever.
I have to see Marcheco perform at AA before I believe his current performance – undersized righties with 91mph avg fastballs tend to get exposed at higher levels.
The only legit SP prospects I see on that list are Kochanowicz and Dana, and their success is recent, and they’ll need a couple more years of refinement to throw them into competitive MLB action.
Thanks for insight TT !
It would be nice if Silseth could stick as a starter, especially if Bachman can’t.
It’s possible – I’d like to see him with a longer leash.
But even when he has a run of success, the FO seems to want to entrust the ball to anyone – Anderson, Canning, even Barria – but him, given the opportunity. The FB velocity is down year over year, and its command is inconsistent – I think they don’t like hitters getting second and third looks at it.
If Bachman turns into a dominant reliever, we should be pleased IMO.
To each their own, but I think most teams are looking for more value from a top ten draft selection than a set-up man. That’s what you hope, say, a 5th-10th rounder, or late-round flyer, becomes.
Guys like Ty Madden and Gavin Williams were on the board when they took Bachman. Either of them, even Jordan Wicks and Michael McGreevy, look more likely to become rotation regulars than Bachman. (Not to mention high ceiling position players like Brady House or strong college performers like Sal Frelick and Matt McLain.)
Folks that follow the draft here will remember that I found it an odd, fairly risky, selection at the time. Not unjustifiable, but there were many names on my board above Bachman.
Bachman’s ceiling seems to be high leverage reliever at this point, but his delivery and health suggest he could be an only intermittently successful one, like Jordan Walden or Cam Bedrosian.
I think Bachman could be the next man sent packing. Dead right, he is a reliever like we all thought on draft day. Or most of us.
There are at least 2 articles I read recently that three teams (Rangers, Astros, and Blue Jays) have used or at least have been considering 6 man rotation. Angels use of 6 man rotation is accidental, but they may have now accepted that is the key to keep starting pitchers healthy. Due to restrictions, I will leave link just for Rangers.
https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2023/06/10/rangers-considering-using-sixth-starting-pitcher-to-give-rotation-extra-rest-again/
This may be due to global warming, but the 40+ year history of 6 man rotation in humid Japan may have changed some of the old thinkings in MLB.
I’d say the age of the Rangers rotation makes the 6-man model wise.
Ohtani-Detmers-Giolito–Sandoval-Canning-Anderson
It’s hard not to see 2-3 of those having issues down the stretch, and their current substitutes are Barria, Silseth, then… Rosenberg? Diaz? Valdez?
It’s one of the most stepwise drop-offs in viability imaginable – like worse than Oakland.
Sandoval and Detmers worry me the most. Both of them seem always edgy, one mistake away from going bonkers in any inning. They could probably benefit the most from sports psychologist. If I were to choose one to be dropped from starting rotation (conversion to 5 man rotation late August), it will be one of them. Surprisingly, Anderson and Canning in my opinion appear to be able ‘to turn the page’ as needed during the game. I am not worried about them.
If Sho can replicate what he had done as pitcher last season, he will do well for the remainder of the season. But, I think that his bat will suffer significantly with many IBBs that he will face until we have at least 2 reliable protection batters behind him.
Paging Dr Fieldstone …
Canning has already pitched more innings than he has the last three years combined. Or he’s very close to doing so.
That doesn’t bode well.
Minasian operating like he knows he’s getting fired if we don’t make the postseason. Our farm system has a few interesting position players left but otherwise we’re pretty much wiped clean.
It means the Angels now have 9 players they drafted in the first round on the 40 man roster (5 are on the IL). That may be the most in baseball, but I’m too GA to check.
Perry is preparing us for WAR.
Angels vs. everybody
Can we move to the AL Cental for just this season?
Now, I always liked this CJ in a Halo uniform.
Straightedge Racer didn’t do it for ya, huh?
“Whatever, dude”
Skanks just lost so that’s helpful
It’s been a marvelous day.
Cabbage sent to Tri-City as a corresponding move, make it happen.
Haha. Cabbage back to the corn field
Nice, rec for you
Where grand sombrero winners go to rest.
Cabbage is a good dude, don’t get your head down Trey
Lettuce hope he will romaine there for the rest of the season.
Seasoning you mean.
He was too green so he’s gotta leaf
Hopefully he’s not to saur about it.
He has to get kraut of town for a while. Needs time to ferment in AAA.
I’m sure jicama back to the majors within a couple of years.