LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: Roki Dokey

ZOMZZ! Sasaki to have another meeting with the Doyers to get their story strait as to how neither side knew he was signing with Big Blew until just hours before Sasaki announced he is taking his talents to fake beach. Get ready to be shocked! Where will he sign!?!? Let’s all play like we don’t know!

It’s Jan 14th and still no big splash. I am enjoying the dryness.

There are still plenty of solid pen arms out there that won’t require 10M a year for three years. It’s just a dream, but between what a lot of our pitching prospects appear capable of (I mean this in a positive way) and what we have already I really wish we’d just let Kikuchi and Soriano act as traditional starters and throw bulk relief pen games the rest of the 5 game rotation. Go out and sign a couple more guys who you know can go one time through an order clean and give it a shot. Plenty of prospects can get 30-50 innings by being shuttled up to rest and replace injured and tired arms…. or those that fail. A delicious buffet of pitching delights.

Like just go out and sign me Jon Berti. Can likely hit 10 HR with 400 ABs and is also fast. He can legit play 3B, SS, 2B and LF. Added to Newman that’s pretty good utility depth that will have an OPS+ right around 100, which is great for depth guys.

Then go sign some left/right tandem with good first time through the order numbers, like Marco Gonzalez and Cal Quantrill or Alex Wood and Domingo German to use as bulk relief/openers.

This, of course, makes trading Rengifo, Ward and Anderson easier. Yay! Prospects!

A line up stuffed with kids, Soler, Newman, Burti, and hope for Trout and Rendon isn’t gonna light the world on fire but it will be flexible and allow kids to play without a huge drop off to no where when an “adult” starts at a position. The pitching will be unexciting, but may actually perform better than it has in years if the “don’t let a hitter see most of your pitchers twice” theory that is statistically sound works out.

Of course you’ll have the ol’ coachdad types that will complain that starters went eight and women kept quiet back in their day (which actually wasn’t true for a lot of teams like the Big Red Machine or late 70s Pirates), but a no name pitching staff could work great for us and be easier to build up fast.

The goal is .500 and a better farm for 2025. Just adding Santander or getting lucky and landing Alonso on “just a two year deal” doesn’t really help us with a lot of that.