LA Angels Thursday News Crash: ABS

Kikuchi is rotation insurance that can be traded. Hendricks is Travis for young starters and can be put on an ice flow if he sucks. You’re spot on with Jansen and Travis. Soler is there to rest guys and not have to lean heavy on Kavadas if a bopper gets hurt and add power to a team that had no punch last year. He is also trade bait if he’s good. Trout is a shit DH and doesn’t want to do it. Adell or Moniak will win the CF spot in Tempe and the other will be OF4 since we have no OF prospects ready to go in AA/AAA as we sit now.

There’s just not much downside or long term entanglement to any of this and it’s how most rebuilds look now. The way things are set up now provides for development without a ton of risk with a lot of flexibility.

For example. Not sure how many options he has left but if Kavadas develops his hit tool a bit, just one starter prospects learns something useful from Hendricks and Soler provides a .700+ OPS when/if a hitter or two are out and we’d be down to just Neto and Adell for power otherwise, all of this is good. Even better if any of these guys being around leads to trades for more prospects on top of developed current MLB young men and roster depth.