I’m pulling double duty this week while John Henry gets some much needed family time. So let’s see how I do without a full week to prepare.
We’re in July so the trade deadline is looming. Who could the Angels trade this summer? We can scratch Patrick Sandoval off that list but pretty much everybody else is on it.
And what would a Taylor Ward trade net us anyway?
One guy we can have for super cheap is Tim Anderson, who was DFA’d by Miami yesterday. Just let him pass through DFA purgatory and become a free agent and he’ll be an Angel. We might even be able to find some old #16 jerseys and save some cash.
Mike Scioscia is turning the page on his waterfront home in Newport Beach. If only there was a realtor/lender writing this article…..
Several relievers turned into starters this season. How are they doing? Most not as well as our own Jose Soriano.
I won’t be doing 4th of July links. A huge thanks to all who keep us free and safe. And I’ll leave you with a perfect ode to America and baseball.
Heefy should just go ahead and get rid of all his facial hair now – Yankees need him oh so badly ever since June.
We will get something from Cashman or he will be thrown into the East River.
Platypus needs to act. Start trimming up the beard Heefy.
Tonight’s Lineups
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/angels-vs-athletics/2024/07/03/745643/preview
#27 hasn’t had a 100 rbi season since 2019 and won’t again in 2024Remember I was the only member at HH along with Max Kellerman at KSPN 710 who dissented at his record contract deal.
Yeah, but lot’s of people like me and I have a shit ton of talent, intelligence, charisma and I piss standing up…. so I’d still rather be me.
Just about everybody on here knew the Trout deal would rot at some point, just not this point. I doubt you did either.
Angels stuck in Oakland for the 4th of July firework show. One can only imagine that show given the lack of spending that is the A’s. A sparkler or two, a couple ground flowers and maybe some snakes.
Id be more worried about getting Mugged. Too bad Rendon didn’t come along for protection.
They key at the Coliseum is to pretend the pops and bangs outside the stadium are firecrackers.
Plenty of gang members with guns in the area to provide all the noise needed for a festive 4th.
Trade deadline Prospect acquisitions under Perry’s purview:
2021 Ivan Armstrong, Jose Marte, Janson Junk, Elvis Peguero
2022 Jadiel Sanchez, Mickey Moniak, Tucker Davidson, Logan O’Hoppe
2023 None
Other than O’Hoppe which was a trade of young assets not impending free agents, which prospect listed up produces any hope that we are going to get a great return that would ever produce positive WAR for Estevez, Drury, Pillar, Moore or Garcia? In fact I would be suspect of trading players with multi year control like Anderson Canning, Ward or Rengifo for that matter.
If Arte was truly serious about improving this club he would eat salary of the departing player in order to get closer to a real prospect.
Eh. They also traded very little of value. The Marsh/Ohoppe swap was the only “real” trade on there…
And Estevez, Drury, Pillar, Moore or Garcia are much more valuable?
Bullpens again…. 😆. Why did the Rangers let Will Smith go?
Because he slapped Chris Rock
Estevez, Rengifo, Ward, Anderson, Pillar, Calhoun (maybe), Canning, various pen arms…. all will get back better prospects/prospect than the guys you listed.
Without eating payroll?
Me hopes you are right.
Charles that bi-line got me excited for news about Arte selling. Turns out it’s Sosh selling his house 🙄
Jeff.
Ooops – I didn’t even look.
I pulled off my first clickbait? Entirely by accident, I assure you.
The Scioscia news came across my work socials. Ironically, I know a guy who either sold him that house or showed him others in that area. The agent is not a baseball fan and Mike was apparently really quiet during the showing. The agent saw an Italian guy with thick forearms and thought Mike might be a mobster guy ha ha.
Or WitPro….
Hahaha. – Sosh a mobster. I love it!
Mikey Hit-and-Run
Add this to his trade résumé.
https://x.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/1808515256790155426
Perfect timing
Okay then, tell me what player or players you would like/expect to get back in return ….
I don’t have a name to throw out but the moral of the story is, enhance the farm and the long-range prospects of the organization. Closers are expendable and short-lived commodity. More importantly, he is on his final contract year and I would not extend him with even your money.
I like the idea of trading one of our guys for one of their overpriced vets + higher level prospects.
It ain’t my money.
I don’t think guys like Esteves will get us much in return otherwise.
If we want value from Esteves we either pay his salary for the rest of the year or take on salary in return.
It isn’t my money, either, but even if it was I’d want to accelerate the rebuild process.
Yes. If spending equals 2 more top 20 prospects from a good farm? Yup.
If we are certain that O’Hoppe, Neto, Schanuel, Soriano (and the PTBN next week) can form a potential core then the best way to get better prospects is to eat some moola.
I’m pretty certain we will need about 20 guys from our current farm, trades, and this next draft to get a core of about five guys to add to the fellas already on the 26 man roster…. so yeah, let’s trade.
Bingo.
I know I sound like a broken record here, but our High A team is dreadful and our AA team has little in the way of MLB level talent on it outside of Caden Dana.
We need to focus on adding as much talent at those two levels as possible between trades and drafts for the next two seasons if we want any hope of turning this thing around in 2026 or even 2027.
Most of the Ward packages I posted would add 2 high quality prospects to AA. Rengifo and Anderson should each add 2-3 more. Now we’re at 6-8.
A college heavy draft adds another 2-3 at AA and a few guys at High A.
The problem is next year we likely won’t have much to trade.
We can sign free agents to 2 yr deals and trade them at the 2025 deadline…if they’re doing well
Pay the back half of a $6.7 million salary? That’s squat. He’s got value.
That $6.7 million equals about $10 million to a luxury tax team or $13 million to the Dodgers.
Reducing that hit definitely increases the prospect return.
The Mets did the same thing last season when they traded guys.
We want winners
https://youtu.be/0GxYF9lieQk?si=YK-JLu5YjUs0JjiI&t=17
You can name any top 10 prospects in any organization and I’ll take them in a trade. Estevez is not part of the future and his stock is at an all time high. Last month it wasn’t.
So We should demand a top 200 prospect? or even a top 100 prospect?
Good luck with that.
it would work better if we could find a GM like Minasian on the other side of the trade who would be willing to overpay.
I love how CtPG guy thinks the guys we traded away last deadline to make the most of their crush on Ohtani were an “overpay”. They weren’t. We just had a thin system.
Boo hoo.
Top 300, definitely yes. Closers and good relievers fetch good returns from playoff teams.
A team will totally cough up one top(ish) prospect for a closer if they think their pen is the key to a deep play off run.
Hurr Durr Deee Durr Den….
Here, I’ll just pull these out my ass…. no sim or anything….
Josh Knoth, Mike Boeve and Craig Yoho from the Brewers.
Owen Murphy and Allen Winans from the Braves
Nick Yorke and Brandon Walter from the Red Sox
Zach Dezenzo and Alonzo Tredwell from the Astros
Gavin Cross and Spencer Nivens from the Royals
Kyle Hurt and Jose Ramos from the Dodgers
Gabe Gonzalez and Zebby Mathews from the Twins
Drew Gilbert from the Mets
Will Warren and Ben Cowles from the Yankees
Mitch Jebb, Tres Gonzalez and Jase Bowen from the Pirates
Graham Pauley and Henry Baez from the Padres
Jose Corniel, Joe Montalvo and Abimelec Ortiz from the Rangers
Dylan Beavers and Trace Bright from the Orioles.
Plenty of teams, even teams with a closer, want a closer. Hit em all up with a list like this and get em prospects so we can start complaining about the new kids. Offer “Good closer” to many teams, take best prospect package. Huzzah.
I thought we were told that Soth commuted from Thousand Oaks?
Must be nice to be so rich that you forgot you had a beautiful home in Newport Beach. Could have saved time and money.
He has lived in this area … I have bumped into him several times around Westlake Village and Agoura Hills over the last ten years …. He may have moved recently, or perhaps had a second home in Newport Beach…
2nd home. My boss knows him
The Newport home is his second home. That is where he would stay on game nights, etc. unless his kids had something going on.
Yep. I have a customer who knows him well from church. Their kids went to private school together.
Mike split his time during the season and was up there most of the off-season.
His last contract was for $50 million. Buying a home in Newport is a sure fire winning investment.
I’ll bet Scioscia still has the first dollar he ever made as a player.
$10,396,499 earned as an MLB player…he earned every penny.
Also bet he invested that dollar smartly…seems like that type.
The precipitous downfall of Tim Anderson is one of the fastest, most shocking declines I think I’ve seen.
I assumed last year was an anomaly because he was so consistently good before that. Glad the Angels didn’t end up signing him.
Precipitous downfall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDpNwem0Vo
Ha. I was one of those advocating that we sign him. Further proof that most fans make poor GM’s.
NAHR! WE DUH SMARTZ! PERREEE ES SOH STOOPIDZ!
It is obvious (to me at least) that Ward was re-traumatized by the recent fastball to the helmet. He is backing out of the box on any pitch remotely inside, even slowly-thrown curveballs.
He is also constantly making bone-headed plays in the outfield. His fielding is fine, but it is what he does AFTER he makes the catch that is disconcerting, almost as if his synapses fail to fire. He seems to have no clue where to throw the ball.
Physically, Ward is fine. Mentally, both in the batter’s box and in the field, he is a basket case.
I saw the same thing in the batters box. He was turning his body or stepping out of the box on pitches right in the zone.
Yeah. I hate it, but it looked that way. We’ll see if he straitens out. If not, Angel Fan Ju Ju nixes another trade piece. Go fans…. you know best.
Keep keepin real real and shit.
I fear that you may be right ….
Even though AJ Hinch and the pitcher who hit him did apologize I am not sure I buy it…
Ward had been hot with the bat prior to being hit. I suspect it was a purpose pitch inside, even if the intention was not to hit him in the head. F_ the Tigers and coaching staff !!
Boy do we miss that guy!!!
Who? The manager who led teams to under .500 records in 2001 and 2003 with basically the same players as the beloved 2002 team?
The architect of trading for Vernon Wells?
Sulking in the dugout and dropping his own style of baseball for sitting back and waiting for HR’s?
The person who banished Mike Napoli because he didn’t like the way Napoli “relaxed” and had a roving eye for the ladies at Goat Hill Tavern?
Not that Mike……..but we liked 1999-2009 Soth. It was a decades long page turner……….good times.
-Jeff Mathis
But I thought he married an Annie ?
My favorite
MartianMike?-Anne
https://youtu.be/7piG2V17cH8?si=coz6aUlqL4Ku4fW4
Savage truth pills. I like it.