LA Angels Thursday News Crash: Catch a Catcher

Hey! The Dodgers DFAd Austin Barnes. He is slightly worse than d’Arnaud by bWAR. Meanwhile, Matt Thaiss has over twice the bWAR that Logan O’Hoppe has for the season so far.

We won’t be seeing Ben Joyce any more this season. Let the kids convalesce. Sports Illustrated thinks Luis Rengifo has been benched because of brain farts and crappy offense.

The Pirates claimed infielder/outfielder Michael Helman off waivers from the Cardinals. The Astros designated pitcher Tayler Scott for assignment.

Akil Baddoo made it back up to the bigs and Jace Jung got optioned.

Cardinals pitching prospect Sem Robberse just had Tommy John surgery. The Mariners placed Bryce Miller on the IL with elbow issues and called up Jhonathan Diaz. Jose Quintana is on the injured list with left shoulder impingement.

A total of seventeen players have become eligible post mortem with that recent decision by Rob Manfred.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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clover_black
Super Member
20 days ago

I’m buying dodger merch.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  clover_black

I was gonna do that, but then I decided to just shoot myself full of Hep A and get really into reggae music played exclusively by white guys and collecting men’s diamond jewelry.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
20 days ago

Why not Hep B?

Angelz4ever
Super Member
20 days ago

Mia is MIA.

FungoAle
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20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Better check the Dodger Blog

DowningDude
Legend
20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Funny how nobody puts out an APB for people like me.

😜

angelslogic
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20 days ago
Reply to  DowningDude

You’re just a dude.

BannedInLA
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  DowningDude

At least no one WISHES that you’re MIA. Haha

Pineapple12
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

The Kyren Paris fan club beleaguered her to death after she said Paris shouldn’t have been moved to leadoff after two weeks.

A sane person can only take so much Paris insanity. For real, hope she’s good.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

Sounds like me with the Adel and Schanuel fan club.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

I was on the same page on Paris but not pleased to be proven correct. If there was a HOF I was great for two weeks guys it would be full.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
20 days ago

So later today Wash looks up out of the visitor’s manager’s office in LA tomorrow night and the two people that Halo management send are Guido & Vito to tune him up.

Wash: “Not the face guys.”

Last edited 20 days ago by Angelz4ever
Eric_in_Portland
Legend
20 days ago

so…thought I’d posted this last night but can’t find it…

since Acuna is disrespected by Snitker, and whereas Perry has the phone number, we should get Acuna and send Ward and uh….something else to Atlanta.

cookmeister
Trusted Member
20 days ago

ya… managers dont win out over superstars

FungoAle
Legend
20 days ago
Reply to  Charles Sutton

Perry for Alex A.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
20 days ago

We don’t have enough of something else to even warrant a call back from Atlanta.

DowningDude
Legend
20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

They likely changed the numbers so that when Perry calls he hears “we’re sorry, that number’s been disconnected and is no longer available”

Eric_in_Portland
Legend
20 days ago

now that Rich Hill has been signed by KC it makes me wonder which cap he’ll wear when he gets into the Hall of Fame. What?

Angelz4ever
Super Member
20 days ago

Rich Hill and Jesse Chavez have such a decision to make one day.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend

Would everything change if we just bat Paris lead off and send Detmers to the rotation while just releasing Rendon?

It would be fun, as long as it’s a lost season, to just have PTP/Wash implement all of CtPG Guy’s ideas… with attributions.

“Hurrr durrr couldn’t be any worse….”

Yeah. It can.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
20 days ago

After his unconditional release, Rendon will win the World Series MVP with the Yankees this fall while hitting exclusively left handed. His podium speech will be “Suck it Arturo, I was healthy the whole time!”

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
20 days ago

I would support that then Neto could hit 3rd. But, we need to fix Paris.

DowningDude
Legend
20 days ago

🤣

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

Okay, now it is time for the Halos to shock the baseball world and sign Trevor Bauer for league minimum.

Then, sign Julio Urias at the all-star break.

Then, re-sign Jose Suarez.

Then, contact Rich Hill too late

Then, contact 62 year-old Jamie Moyer and see if he’s been throwing the rock lately.

Then, pay someone to watch when Jesse Chavez gets DFA’ed for a day or two and snatch him up.

Lastly, contact that ShamWow guy he can pitch all day.

Last edited 21 days ago by Angelz4ever
Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

Wash has gone public now, calling out to Angels ownership.

The atomic clock moves forward two minutes.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

You can do anything you want on your last day…

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

LOL, Wash is at the stadium right now backing up his Subaru Brat as we speak.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Wash employing the George Costanza methodology:

https://youtu.be/210z3FRgTPU?si=KpToppMGq5mM8OI5

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

Too funny, I have not seen it, is Wash talking shit again? Last September he called out his GM.

clover_black
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  FungoAle

“Hopefully, the people up top who make the decisions continue to look around and get us some help,” Ron Washington said. “I know we’re supposed to get (Robert) Stephenson back at some point this year. But, it would be nice if they could find us some more help.”

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  clover_black

Yep, that’s it.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  clover_black

Thanks, Clover. Ok, same message as last September after acquiring Jack Lopez and a couple of other fence posts.

cookmeister
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  clover_black

that isn’t the entire quote

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  cookmeister

Hopefully the people at the top get us some help and it would be nice if they find us some more help. He followed it up
with, ‘I just made a statement, I wasn’t saying he needs to go out and do that.’” Really, what does that mean then?

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  Roy Hobbs

He saying he doesn’t NEED to do it, but Wash hopes he does it.

Kevin
Member
21 days ago
Reply to  clover_black

Wash is right. The entire bullpen was built around having Joyce. So that’s a huge hole.

The starters were always going to be mediocre.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  clover_black

I like Wash. But this isn’t gonna happen. At least not HELP… just help. The team is crap. Why buy 10,000 wheels for your 1994 Dodge Stratus?

BannedInLA
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  clover_black

Seriously? If so, I love it. Haha

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  Angelz4ever

Well he’s correct.

When you’re 73 years old with a contract that is guaranteed, you can speak the truth and not join the rest of the team executives with their heads firmly between Arte’s cheeks.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Link?

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago

George Klassen is out of the hospital, the Angels said, and he is improving.

He is on the concussion IL.

https://x.com/SamBlum3/status/1922780586323702217

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Angel’s code for his head just exploded

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

He’ll be back soon….

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Is there a gravity-free hat for Klassen to wear?

RexFregosi
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

you know you’re the Angels when the highlight of your May is your top prospect is released from the hospital.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  Twebur

So applying the Angels injury factor, we’ll see him in 2027

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago

I’m as checked out as I have ever been on Angels baseball. The lack of give a shit on every front from them has completely worn me down. I was always the kid that you could poke in the chest fifty times, call me all kinds of names with no consequence and then they would say the one wrong thing and I’d lose my mind a start swinging. I don’t know why but the Joyce announcement after all the downplaying of his injury pushed me over the edge. This team sucks and I really wish I could hit the reset button on my allegiance.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  PedroCerrano

Time to just enjoy baseball. Watch the Angels try and grow… fine, I am. But the AL Central? The NL West? There’s lots of fun shit going on out there. The Angels are my team, not my wife. I’m gonna watch the Tigers play the better AL Central teams. I’m gonna watch the Reds and the Snakes. Next week I go to two Cal League games and the Angels Sacramento game. I am actually more interested in the Cal League games…. Cause I like baseball.

Gonna check out some Kellon Lindsey, Eduardo Quintero, Joendry Vargas, Myles Naylor, Kash Mayfield, Cobb Hightower, Felnin Celestin…. prospects on small fields baby. Cheap hot dogs. Strange contests between innings. Maybe some wildlife on the field…. get mugged in Stockton….

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago

Agreed. If were my wife I’d be paying spousal support by now while hanging out with her replacement. Its about putting a good enough product on the field to earn my money.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Mikeal1st

Both great perspectives. I’ve joked that my spirit animal is a golden retriever, loyal to a fault and it sucks that I picked these guys when I was nine.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

My spirit animal is an albino Narwhal.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  Angelz4ever

I am spirit animal.

Twebur
Legend
20 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

CTPG spirit animal

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Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
20 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

I really would like to know who this is. I’ve got an idea but…

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
20 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

I’d have to go with the Golden Retrieve also, but I want it to be Weaver.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Not feeling sorry for myself, just questioning my own allocation of time and caring. We are all still mostly who we were when we were twelve and my inner twelve year old wants to pummel whoever is responsible.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

I know, just a failed attempt to introduce some levity into our dark moods.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Nice my youngest son, now 30 is a ginger and that video put me in the way back machine.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

That is and will always be one of my top five YouTube videos.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

And it’s not like before when they were bad but you could root for Mike Trout to win the MVP.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

I’m right there with you. I spend more time checking out this site (and I’m unsure about that to a very minor degree) than I do Angels highlights lately and spend more time checking out other games than I do Angels. It’s like turning off a bad movie. I just don’t want to waste my time with the low quality of product. Hopefully, when or if they do get more interesting, I’ll care.

Last edited 21 days ago by Mikeal1st
PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Mikeal1st

Same

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Mikeal1st

Following the Angels minor league system is a dead end this year too. Yesterday’s organizational results are pretty normal.

Yesterday 
AAA Salt Lake lost, 6-2
Single-A Inland Empire lost, 12-8
High-A Tri-City lost, 11-8
The ACL Angels lost, 10-2
Angels lost 5-1 

outscored 43-21 

—————-
AA won 9-0, they aren’t playing well most nights

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  PedroCerrano

That’s why I think change is needed, if for no other reason than to be able to lie to the customer base that things will be different. Perry has been here for 5 years and nothing is significantly different than when he arrived. The farm Sucks, the major league team is worse than it was and plays fundamentally poorly aside from just losing, Trout is washed up and has another 6 years left on his contract, Rendon has another year after this to get paid for not playing. It’s hard to see the light. Realistically, we’re 5 years away from winning even if we had smart people running the organization making good decisions, and we don’t. We’re not even one of the better teams that didn’t make the post season anymore, we’re one of the 3 worst.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

Any Jose Suarez sightings in the OC?

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Angels could and have done worse

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend
Reply to  FungoAle

No. I have it on good authority that having Suarez anywhere near your team, even in Spring Training, is apparently up there with beating a baby to death with a frozen puppy.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  FungoAle

Only when they didn’t try to.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend

So. No Ben Joyce. We’ll be seeing some more kid arms and reclamation projects in the months to come… especially if Jansen’s IBS clears up and he manages to pitch well and get traded.

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago

True story.

Brent
Super Member
21 days ago

At least we can look forward to next season’s lockout to spare us from this bullpen.

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Brent

Like looking forward after game 1 in San Diego….watching game 2 and 3 play out, then the rest of road trip still in front of us. So never look at what’s behind you…. you can’t chase wins is what I’m trying to say. Turn the page.

https://x.com/InternetH0F/status/1922684036746498123

BruinsAngelsKings
Trusted Member
21 days ago

I’m not even sure when I last watched the Halos on TV. It’s gotten to that point. I read this site daily for updates about the team and the latest game.

BannedInLA
Super Member
21 days ago

Credit where credit is due, Aaron Judge is posting mind-boggling numbers:

https://www.mlb.com/player/aaron-judge-592450

Pineapple12
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  BannedInLA

When it’s all said and done, who will be higher all time — Trout or Judge?

Last edited 21 days ago by Pineapple12
Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  Pineapple12

Although it pains me to say it, Trout’s best years are behind him. Judge is the future and has the opportunity to pass Trout’s totals in WAR, AVG, OBP, SLG, HR, and RBI’s.

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago

Who’s Trout? Asking for a friend.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Used to be the GOAT.

PedroCerrano
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Mikeal1st

Kid from “Angels In The Outfield”: Didn’t you used to be Mike Trout?

tanana40
Super Member
21 days ago

Judge is 33, and you know what they say about “father time”

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

Too soon P12…..too soon….

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

Here comes the judge, Mikey doesn’t heal well, plus low threshold of pain and after a while you just burn out trying to get to playing condition.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

ALL RISE! The Judge is phenomenal. He’s put up some killer OPS and slugging percentage, higher than the fish. If can replicate 2022, 2024 a couple of more times, Judge is looking pretty damn special.

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  FungoAle

If he stays clean, his HR single season AL record is the real deal. I hope it stays that way too. He may not be a Giant, but he stands tall in accomplishments and good for him as he seems genuine.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago

Even with the juiced balls and short porch, it was an incredible experience, that season has to be up there with 61 and 60, but I still would have given the MVP to Ohtani because of pitching. 10 Wins beats 25 HR’s in my mind.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  FungoAle

Yankee fans are annoying. But Judge actually seems like a cool dude. It’s weird to contrast him with Jeetah. Jeetz was supposed to be cool and I still just disliked him. He gave me Eddie Haskell with secret herpes vibes. Fake everyman. Forced greatness from goodness. Judge really is great. Plus he also really does seem like a nice normal dude… not George Clooney on a Harley.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago

So true. I have the same vibes with Jeter, stil do. I hate the Yankees but I cannot hate on Judge, real down to earth guy.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
21 days ago

I think the Jeter negativity is driven more by the NY fans and press. He was a very good player and he was savy and stepped up at big moments. He’s a player you would want on your team. The NY fans and press were just obnoxious with the PR.

BannedInLA
Super Member
20 days ago

Jeeter is a phony but Clooney isn’t? Interesting.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  BannedInLA

???? read again.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

That, sadly, has become an appropriate question.
I’m biased so I’m not answering until it’s more obvious.

dontbatvlad4th
Member
21 days ago
Reply to  BannedInLA

I certainly find Judge suddenly becoming non-injury prone and putting up better power numbers after age 31 interesting.

Mikeal1st
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  dontbatvlad4th

I’ve been thinking it but you’re the first to say it.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  dontbatvlad4th

Should be no more interesting than Trout breaking down physically, so often. Similar physical degradation brought on by anabolic steroid abuse, adverse side effects to the musculoskeletal system. Quite more pudgy now too.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend
Reply to  FungoAle

Yeeeaaaahhhh… if he weren’t “mine” I’d be kind of curious about the sudden disintegration as soon as he got paid…. it does look like someone used a lot of something to get very strong for a few years and then stopped using the stuff that forced fast recovery so all the overworked body parts could fall apart.

FungoAle
Legend
20 days ago

I suspect I’ll be banned from the site, JJ is already typing up the paperwork, the black sheep, the infiltrator, infidel…get him out

BannedInLA
Super Member
20 days ago
Reply to  FungoAle

A Fatwa denouncing your blasphemy is being drawn up as we speak….

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

At this point I just feel they should rush Trout back onto the field so we can get the inevitable “…reaggravated his [Insert specific injury]…….out the rest of the season” out of the way.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend
Reply to  Angelz4ever

It’s sad — but who cares if Trout plays or not? It no longer matters. Beyond the meaningless HR with no one on base, what does he prospectively bring to the team? He’s a shell of what he was and can’t be depended on to remain on the field.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
21 days ago

Sadly, this is true.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Roy Hobbs

I just hate the annual obligatory, “This season Trout demands trade” drivel stories. No one would trade for Trout unless he went on an unfathomable wicked awesome tear for an extended period of time (Not holding breath) and the Halos ate a significant and painful amount of his salary.

JackFrost
Legend
21 days ago

I think he is still a very good baseball player if we consider things like his knowledge of the game and his ability to change a game with any single at bat — he actually did this in the Pirates game on April 24th when in the 4th inning with the Halos trailing 3-0 he fought back from being down in the count with an excellent AB… He lined a triple to right which ignited a three run inning and the Angels went on to win that game.

He was the main reason — I know cause I was there. That said, if he can’t stay on the field he won’t be able to do that. So, it is not that his talent suddenly disappeared. It is that the guy can’t stay healthy. It is that simple.

Last edited 21 days ago by JackFrost
Twebur
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  JackFrost

It would be interesting to see what his numbers would be if he played 150 games (never again). I think it would be a shell of prime Trout.

JackFrost
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Of course he would not be prime Trout. But I believe he could definitely contribute to a Major League team, even if not the Angels..

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago

And free agency in 2031. Imagine the world in 6 years from today.

toad2065
Trusted Member
21 days ago

I wonder if he caught this disease from Rendon?

RexFregosi
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

they should rush Trout back onto the field so 

Arte can sell more tickets!!!

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Should we alert the OC authorities for the annual Angels season ticker holder suicide watch?

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Yeah. It sucks a lot. But I don’t even think about Trout much anymore. I’m just glad he’s not pulling a Pujols where he’s a shell of himself but wants to rack up stats and collect his money so he keeps showing up and grounding out to third for several seasons in a row. Making a career of warning track power etc. Then I’d be frustrated with him instead of just ignoring him.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

No loss tonight!!!!

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

  :wpds_smile: 

BannedInLA
Super Member
21 days ago

Trout’s status is now “late May” meaning that the 10-Day IL was BS.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend
Reply to  BannedInLA

“Late May” really means mid-June at best.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago

We just got to get him ready for the WBC

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend

Yep. If he’s out more than 15 games he’ll need to “ramp up” for, in his case, will be several days at least… not to mention he has to survive ramping up.

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago

Then a trip to San Bernardino…..that’s where the set back happens. Set backs always happen in SB… that’s true for most people.

Last edited 21 days ago by Twebur
steelgolf
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Sage wisdom.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

June is the new May?

cookmeister
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  BannedInLA

are you suggesting he should have gone on the 60 day? How is the 10 day IL BS?

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago

I am positive that Perry Minasian is in over his head as Eppler was. The Frustration felt by Jedi is now understood. He was about sell/trade to keep trying to excel. He has done much improving the M’s while we just stay in free fall. I feel what he one time felt-frustration-for different reasons, but still the same.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

Now there’s one positive G-Pa.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend

I’ve never seen a modern GM get as much rope as Jedi while still handing in a bologna sandwich at the end of every season. Sure, the mustard on it gets better, but NINE YEARS. Look at us with Perry. He’s been here half the time, and half of that was working with Joe Maddon and The Unicorns. We’re already sick of him, though CtPG Guy was over him in December of 2020 because CtPG Guy is brilliant. JeDi has had a free hand from day one, to the point where he even hired his douchy Servais to manage from the jump.

Jedi has to deal with what we may wind up with soon. A smooth and shiny corporate ownership that hands him a spread sheet that tells him what he can and can’t do. Signing Rodriguez to a long extension was a win, but all in all the robots that run the Mariners never let him get ALL the pieces they’d need to take on a better team, and they are gonna lose most of those pitchers they have now over the next few years. When Arte finally sells, it will be just as likely we end up with OptiBaseball LLC as our new owners than Insane Billionaire Who Will Spend 400M So We Feelz Wins guy.

Jedi’s not a bad GM. And the Ms look good right now. But NINE YEARS. And they are still an org that has to celebrate like it’s Easter when Victor Robles makes good and Carlos Santana turns out to be an Ageless Male. He has frustrations.

Twebur
Legend
21 days ago

But I enjoy hating Jerry… it’s fun and no F’ing logic will change that.

Eat it Jer Jer!

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend
Reply to  Twebur

Oh yeah…. anything Mariners can suck it.

FungoAle
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  Twebur

Suck it, Jedi!

ihearhowie3.0
Super Member
21 days ago

100%

Jerry is the personification of Wooden’s line “don’t confuse activity with productivity”

hockey_duckie
Member
21 days ago

We haven’t seen a .500 finish since Dipoto. We haven’t been to the playoffs since Dipoto. His owner continually has been limiting his budget, but Dipoto keeps on churning. It’s not his first owner that meddles too much. Seattle have a good pipeline that keeps them above .500 regularly now and will be adding the #3OA in the next draft, which will likely be another pitcher. Too bad their owner doesn’t want to afford them some bats.

Despite Arte’s meddling with Dipoto, he still got things done here. Eppler and Minisian haven’t done the greatest job on supplying our pipeline with much. Eppler packaged our 1st round pick in Wilson to get rid of salary. What a waste.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  hockey_duckie

I think Seattle’s owners let Dipoto do what he wants…. they just don’t let him spend above X amount per year. Narry a splash, even if it will get em past the wild card round. The robots have crunched the numbers. They have said NARRRR!

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  hockey_duckie

Even Friedman (Dodgers) has a budget – GMs having a budget is not unique to Perry/Arte.

The Angels’ issues can be distilled to two hard truths: 1) there is too much payroll tied up with players that add, at best, minimal performance-related value; and 2) the farm system has been weak for the past decade and has not consistently produced players that generate above-average results.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
Legend

The issue Jedi faces is that his budget is a lot smaller than Friedman’s.

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
21 days ago

Lugo now has a HR,3b, and 2b, good start.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago

Yes, either Neeeeefo or Paris will start losing everyday ABs to Lugo soon.

Send Paris down for God’s sake!

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Just like they should have done with Paris when he was hot, Lugo should play everyday until he cools off. All of the youngsters need to play every day but can’t until we trade Rengifo and Ward.

HaloLew
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Roy Hobbs

Agree. Let Lugo play until he cools off and becomes Paris 2.0.

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  HaloLew

Lugo’s swing is significantly better than Uppercut Paris.

Pineapple12
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Angelz4ever

Lugo is related to Carlos Beltran = baseball bloodlines.

Paris was drafted an elite athlete, not a natural baseball player.

That is a core difference between the 2. Not too mention Lugo having a better minor league career.

Last edited 21 days ago by Pineapple12
cookmeister
Trusted Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

Lugo does not share a bloodline with Beltran

But growing up around a big leaguer definitely has it’s advantages

JackFrost
Legend
21 days ago
Reply to  cookmeister

I think his sister is married to Betran. So, not a bloodline, but you could say they are family.

Pineapple12
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  cookmeister

No shared bloodline, but def family.

Matthew Lugo was 3 years old when he went to his first MLB All-Star Game.

That’s one of the benefits of having a star major league player as his uncle who flew him to Minute Maid Park for the Midsummer Classic in 2004.

“I went to a couple of his series that he flew me to,” Lugo said.

The Red Sox prospect is the nephew of Carlos Beltran, who invited Lugo and his family to games in Kansas City, St. Louis and New York.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/02/red-soxs-matthew-lugo-carlos-beltrans-nephew-proved-he-can-hit-for-power-in-2022.html%3foutputType=amp

Last edited 21 days ago by Pineapple12
Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

Thanks P12

Angelz4ever
Super Member
21 days ago
Reply to  cookmeister

It didn’t help Pete Rose Jr., the youngest Griffey son or Dale Berra too much.

Last edited 21 days ago by Angelz4ever
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