LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: All Stars – Crashing the Pearly Gates

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YOUknowulovetheIE

13 seconds ago

Hell yeah, I’m glad perry drafted mostly future savannah bananas, that should really add to the depth in the minors.

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

The only team that has signed more undrafted free agents than the Angels (7) at this point is the Padres (8). Which makes sense, given the number of lotto tickets the Pads stocked up on in this draft.

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Eric_in_Portland

1 hour ago

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Did we sign many udfas in the 5 round draft? Must have been the first Covid year so 2020

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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There were a fair number as I recall. The 2021 draft was pretty dense with college talent as a result of 2020, which partially explains the timing of the all-pitcher strategy.

The Angels took nine UDFAs in the immediate wake of last year’s draft. A few are still with the org, but no impact results to date. I expect there are a few more to come this cycle.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 hour ago

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Hurr Durr Dumsurrrr…. now that there is a 20 round draft I like a lot of the UDFAs out there. I think a lot of semi-solid guys go UDFA because FOs are blowing picks on prep kids they hope to sign. In the future I don’t expect to see dozens of UDFA stars, but I do expect more than in the past. There are just a lot of ACC/SEC guys who don’t develop an “it” tool and a scout following who all have the off chance of making a couple tweeks and becoming Andy Van Slyke.

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Turk's Teeth

57 minutes ago

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Yeah, the UDFA rules basically allow needful teams to extend the 20 round draft out to 30 or so, without the turn based competition.

The picks beyond 20 in the 40 and 50 round versions of the draft were mostly org filler anyhow, but occasionally you’d nab a Jared Walsh with pick 39, because a million monkeys and a typewriter gets you Shakespeare.

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Pineapple12

2 hours ago

🥹

Ryland Zaborowski story is pretty great, diagnosed with autism as age of 3, grew up baseball obsessed (and Angels fan), became one of best hitters in college for a half decade, now heads off to pro ball with Angels as NDFA — Halos got some feel good stories this draft

https://x.com/TaylorBlakeWard/status/1945176009546063903?t=SE3hXTLyYUb6tIf4QqUoIw&s=19

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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He was the SEC leader in most power metrics for half the season. I was following him closely, both because of the SoCal roots, but also because he played a lot of 3B at Miami before becoming the Bulldogs’ 1B/DH.

Probably a shortlived experiment, but the Angels could try to roll him out at 3B at TriCity for a bit and see what happens.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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Trumbo.

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

For fans of the Gauchos, they also picked up Santa Barbara’s leadoff hitter LeTrey McCollum.

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Pineapple12

2 hours ago

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He’s a beast, literally. 6’5 !

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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For a “nothing” pick up this is a great one. Likely a 4th OF hopeful at best, but if lightning strikes he is like Butler on the A’s. Fast. Fairly solid contact. Put some meat on him and he’ll hit 15 HR…. Rengifo’s career offense but a good OF. That would be the dream case with him.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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It says something that I’m always more enthused about Perry’s senior signs and UDFAs than I am about what he does at the top of his drafts.

But in a system starved for offense, beggars/choosers blah blah.

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DMAGZ13

3 hours ago

From a position player standpoint this who we have. Man, taking that Shohei deal for Junior Caminero (if that’s what was available) would have made everybody feel better.

C O’Hoppe/Laverde
1B Schanuel
2B Moore
3B nobody
SS Neto
OF Adell , Rada

Future bench filler
Paris, Lugo,

SPs Soriano (but turning into a dud) Klassen (but hasn’t been the same since getting hit in the head) Bremner (I expect 2-3 starter)

Deep in the pipeline we have j. Lugo TGA, Guzman, Davalillio, Alvarez

The organization will progress only if a couple from this group turns out : Detmers , Fontanelle, Dana, Aldegheri, Johnson, Munroe, Jackson, Slate, Foster,

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Kevin

2 hours ago

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Thanks for the post. The future has challenges but is a little brighter than painted above. First, I’m confident the Halos would say their future rotation likely includes Johnson and Silent C. That changes a bunch right there.

Lugo is likely viewed higher in their eyes than yours. And you have dismissed all veterans from the analysis while failing to include any additions from the slew of money freed up via same. Rendon will be off the payroll at the end of 2026. So that’s $38 million or so becoming available. Ward is getting paid. Rengifo isn’t free. Soler is $13 million. You can snatch up quite a bit with that money. You don’t know the names right now — and Ward might stay around. But the analysis is brighter than above.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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What do you see in Lugo and Koch at the moment that projects toward regular play? Lugo has an 83 wRC+ in a hitters paradise and is 24.

I think there’s many miles between “management thinks x” and “trust management” given 11 straight seasons of sub-.500 play, and an industry consensus worst farm system, and an emerging consensus that they had one of the worst drafts this year.

I mean, of course the Angels have a different view from others on their players. That explains a lot. 🙂

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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Paris…. still hitting under .230 in SLC.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

There’s a distinct possibility Bremner has a better MLB career than Anderson. He already has a 3-5 MPH edge on his fastball and his change up is the best single pitch among the two. Add in the fact Anderson has already had TJ.

I’m not being a Perry apologist, just trying to get inside his head.

We’ll know in a few years, but I think Jaime Arnold was the best combination of floor/upside and agree with Turk’s that he fit the organization best.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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yes, Bremner was arguably the best pitcher and he can also project as the best pitcher going forward

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

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It’s true that Arnold was the #2 fallback on my Sunday board should Anderson not be available. I did think there was not a lot of daylight between Arnold, Witherspoon and Bremner though, and Arnold was more or less a stand-in for “mid-rotation college pitcher”. That’s why when they announced Bremner, my first reactions was not “oh crap” but “I can work with this”.

If I were leading that draft room, I’m taking Anderson over Bremner everyday. I think he’s more polished, closer to the show, and has a weapon to get anyone out.

But after Kade, I can’t tell you that Arnold will be better than Bremner. Bremner just needs a fixed slider and some refinement of FB command in the upper zone to become a reliable #2/3. I think he’s Griffin Canning with better medicals.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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He does throw a lot harder than Canning…. which can matter a lot if your out pitch to both lefties and righties is a change up….

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Pineapple12

2 hours ago

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Canning’s lack of velocity differential between his FB and change always bugged me and probably limited his effectiveness. But a concern with Brem

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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His slider and curve were much more developed though, and he good spin and command – four above average to plus pitches. He also gained velocity in the MLB, which many projected.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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It’s not a 1:1 comparison – I’m more speaking to talent level and degree of polish at time of drafting. Two well known West Coast guys with a starters arsenal, multiple plus pitches and some things to work on. Bremner had more FB velocity but Canning had more FB command at this point.

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HalosFanForLife

1 hour ago

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100% Jeff. They could have easily had Bremner as their number 1 – or conversationally equal to the others. I don’t think there was that sure fire pitcher this year. I think this draft is a down year. If you don’t have much separation between all the available starters, which I think is the sentiment among many – cut a below slot deal and try to find some value. In my opinion, there was no Skenes this year. There was also no can’t miss college bats. I think Holliday was a good bet – but maybe 3 to 5 additional gets through slot manipulation will end up better. This is definitely a time will tell draft. While they all are – the moves in this draft will have to be graded multiple years down the line.

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

As I expected, the Angels have been more active on the UDFA front than any other team, signing six players already, including four outfielders, plus Georgia’s massive 1B/DH Ryland Zaborowski. Followed that guy all year and didn’t think he’d go unsigned.

Since they are going so deep on Georgia, they should grab Robbie Burnett as well, who is still unsigned, as far as I know.

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Turk's Teeth

3 hours ago

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I had carped that they’d probably fill all the offensive holes on the farm with UDFAs, but it really looks like that’s the plan.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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Any thoughts on Tobias at ASU? I didn’t watch much NCAA beyond them. Nine guys drafted (same as LSU & TENN 😮) and he wasn’t one of them.

He was as big a part of that line-up as Compton and Jackson.

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Turk's Teeth

2 hours ago

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I think teams are probably concerned with how much Tobias’s power took a step back vs his junior year. His ISO fell more than 100 points, he took fewer walks, he hit ten fewer HRs. Tough sell for a 1b only profile. He made more contact in his senior year, but for less impact. wRC+ fell to 102 from 141 the year before.

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RexFregosi

2 hours ago

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He is more than welcome to come back to Tempe for Yr 5

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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I know Ryland, Graeber and McGaucho… who else have we picked up?

I have a weird attraction to seniors with good track records… like Christopher Walken

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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Looks like it’s 7 now since the last update, including another Gaucho.

Jonny McGill, OF, British Columbia
Jakob Guardado, RHP, Pacific
Nick Putnam, RHP, UC Santa Barbara
Kendrey Maduro, OF, Central Florida

Plus the three discussed:
Aaron Graeber, OF, Delaware
Ryland Zaborowski, 1B, Georgia
LeTrey McCollum, OF, UC Santa Barbara

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Turk's Teeth

1 hour ago

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Putnam’s a two way guy. Don’t know if theyre signing him as a pitcher or catcher.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 hour ago

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Yeah, I was gonna say, they signed him as a pitcher? Interesting. I never saw him, but I heard he has some thunder in his bat….

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Pineapple12

1 hour ago

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BA has Putnam signed with LAD

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-undrafted-free-agent-tracker-agreements-for-all-30-teams/

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Turk's Teeth

28 minutes ago

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Looks like it was a typo at BA then – I was looking at the same source and they had it listed under the Angels section earlier this morning.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

So the Twins have said they don’t want to trade starter Joe Ryan and have picked up a scrub reliever from the Doyers. They will also get some players back from injury soon. Seem to be in on trying for a Wild Card and are 4 games back. This could change over the next two weeks.

The Rangers seem to at least be considering the odds and trading Adolis Garcia rather than hang on for a play off run. They are 3.5 games out of the Wild Card.

The D-Backs have had injuries snuff their hopes in a tough division. They have a wealth of good OFers. They are considering trading from that. They are 5.5 games back.

It remains to be seen if the Reds, Royals and Guardians will join the sellers group. They should. Too many teams to leap frog.

The clear sellers are the Rockies, Nationals, Braves, Orioles, Pirates, Marlins, A’s, White Sox….

The Angels are 4 games back. Tied with the Twins and behind the Rangers and Rays with the Royals and Guardians a half game behind them.

First, I am totally stoked to even be discussing this at this point. But I don’t think we can match any of those teams over the rest of the season, much less beat that whole field.

I’d say we need to build for the future, but we just had that draft, so we aren’t doing that, though we did not draft anyone who will likely be up this season either. all we got out of this draft is a good excuse to drink and Bremner. Go Choes.

I still want to pick up Matt Gorski from the Pirates. They just let him go. He is likely just a future star for the bees, but he has some tools we may find useful and he has a lotto ticket chance of going all Ryan O’Hearn/Brent Rooker on us. I follow the Pirates system and I’ve always liked this guy. He can play all three OF spots and fill in at 1B.

If you’re bored during the ASB I’d take a look at who the teams that are out have to trade. Get a sense of who our trade bait is competing with. Of course the stupid thing to do is “go for it” so I half way think we’ll just do that with what we have.

Go The Central Division teams!

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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Dbacks have a for sale sign up. Gallen, Merrill, Suarez…

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BruinsAngelsKings

1 hour ago

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What are the chances of trading for Suarez?

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 hour ago

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Why would we do that?

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Roy Hobbs

2 minutes ago

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Speaking for the organization, because if we’re going for it, we need to do that because we need a 3B and a bat to make the wildcard. He would be a great addition for the next 2-3 years as well if we resign him. We have zero hope for a 3B. I told you this would happen and you didn’t believe me. We’re not rebuilding anything and we’re certainly not trading Ward or Jansen or Anderson. Maybe not even Rengifo.

By the way, personally, I think we have almost no chance of making the post season and we should trade everyone who isn’t part of our 2027 and beyond future.

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BruinsAngelsKings

1 minute ago

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I have no idea other than that no one likes the situation at 3B, and he will most likely be available.

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Fansince1971

3 hours ago

B/R and MLB just issued their draft ratings. They were overall quite optimistic about the teams with the vast majority (in fact all except 1 team) receiving a grade of B or higher. There was only one C grade and it was the lowest grade of all other teams. That went to the Angels.

To put that into perspective, graded on a Bell Curve the Angels would get an F as the lowest score in the class.

I think this underscores the disappointment of most on this site except the starry eyed optimists. It’s not that the draft was completely awful- it is just that given the opportunity created by #2 draft position and high order in the subsequent rounds, the Angels laid an egg.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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draft grades are worthless immediately afterwards

while disappointed as everyone we didn’t focus on position players, Perry picked up some big arms. And when Nolie is your biggest hero, you dig the fastball. There’s a ton of upside with Bremner, Shores, Slawinski, Snead to start.

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Fansince1971

3 hours ago

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So what is the Angels history of development of young pitchers in the last 10 years?

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

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Well, who cares? Since they are obviously trying to revamp the way they develop pitchers I don’t. Does it mean what they are trying to do will work? Hell no. But what they could pull off in 2019 is not what they are doing in 2026, so I’ll just have to see what happens.

I’d just rather see what happens with Quintin Young, Gavin Turley and Taitn Gray along with some pitchers.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

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Exactly. For years the Angels had no pitching and now we have no bats. A more balanced portfolio would be great.

Even had they gone Bremner/Shores in the first two rounds there were intriguing bats with the next 3 picks that I would have preferred.

Slate Alford was our 9th round pick this year and is immediately the biggest bat in the system. He’s probably the 2nd or 3rd best position player prospect behind Rada and maybe Guzman.

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Roy Hobbs

2 hours ago

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And that says a lot more about our system than Slate.

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grichmanpoorman

49 minutes ago

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Slate Alford is a better position prospect that Joswa Lugo and Hayden Alvarez, or even Davilillo? Naw.

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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but now we have THE LAB!

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Roy Hobbs

2 hours ago

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Maybe. I agree with your first sentence, but we drafted a lot of guys who can throw hard but have no idea where it’s going as well as possible signing issues. I think it was a terrible draft but in 4 years we’ll have a much better idea. it literally did very little to improve our farm system in my opinion.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

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I think it was totally a bad draft. Not just “given our spot”. Are there ways it can work? Sure. But there’s a ton of IF/THEN that has to go right.

“If we sign those high school kids, if they don’t all get hurt, if the pitching lab is a thing, if they develop into solid prospects, if teams stop valuing position prospects way ahead of pitching prospects, if teams will trade us position players for those kid pitchers THEN this will work out great.”…. ‘If we also have a 50M bullpen for a 5M price tag then we can….”

Blah blah. When really we could have just done BPA across the board and restocked our farm significantly in those first 5 rounds at least, maybe 8 and drafted fastballs in the back half of the draft that become relievers if they fail as starters.

But what do I know? I am currently drawing and generating dozens of images of sea turtles for a company to use on a product line and making weird bird cyborgs for some band posters… my spin rate is 1200 RPM.

Fk the Doyers.

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2pints

4 hours ago

Imagine if you will, its 2027 and the Halos have an infield of homegrown players 1B thru 3B of Schanuel, Moore, Neto and Holliday playing every day. Would’ve been pretty cool.

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Pineapple12

4 hours ago

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Would’ve been sick.

Instead we will dream about a 2027 rotation of homegrown pitchers: Soriano, Bremner, Detmers, Dana, Klassen

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RexFregosi

3 hours ago

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The fastballs of Bremner, Shores, Slawinski, Snead 😍

Angels went for better or worse with BIG ARM
💪🏼 💪🏼 💪🏼 💪🏼

so it’s Munroe at 3b (OF is Ward/Trout/Adell) 😉

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Born_in_59

3 hours ago

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Bremner, Shores, Slawinski and Snead sounds more like a law firm than our future rotation, but I, like Rex, dig the fastball. And I suppose we can all hope for Schanuel, Moore, Neto and Munroe although no one’s going to write a poem Neto to Moore to Schanuel.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

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We also have an owner more than willing to pay for bats but reluctant to pay for arms.

So if Perry can build a cost controlled pitching staff with a decent amount of home grown position players, he’ll have money to buy what he needs.

Thing is, at this rate, he’ll need to buy most of the field.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

2 hours ago

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and some good players need to reach FA.

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Twebur

5 minutes ago

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some good players need to reach FA

….. and then we’ll need to convinced them this is a good place to sign.

-Shohei’s Mother

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steelgolf

3 hours ago

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? Did you just list an outfield with Trout??? For how many weeks would that last before he was back on the IL with another knee issue? Shores and Snead may be able to be bullpen pieces for a couple of years. Slawinski could bounce either way, he may or may not ever see MLB time. I’m kind of rooting for him to make it and become an MLB starter but he has a long road ahead of him.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

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This seems to be the dream Perry is buying. Our current offense is fairly potent at its core. We don’t have The Mariners Disease. So if we get the Mariners pitching pipeline going hurray for us. Trade bait. Cheap arms when we need to start paying guys like Neto.

I see the “best case” they are going for. It’s just not likely to work out that way and we could have just, you know, gotten some solid prospects.

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Fansince1971

4 hours ago

I am the first to say that scouting is an imperfect science at best and that top rated prospects often fall flat. Meanwhile guys like Cal Raleigh rise up from relative obscurity to become All Stars.

With that said, the Perry and his team went way off the beaten path on this draft – completely anti-establishment. It’s super high risk with questionable rewards – a true wait and see. But if either Anderson or Holiday or a bunch of other highly rated players who were clearly available and an obvious choice at the time Perry picked in the first 5 rounds pan out while these outliers do not, the Org will have missed an enormous opportunity of Beltre proportions.

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MarineLayer

4 hours ago

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I wish we had a better GM who stayed on the path and picked Holliday or one of the higher ranked pitchers when we were given the chance. Other than Neto, none of his previous picks have impressed me, and we continue having one of the worst farm systems.

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Cowboy26

3 hours ago

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So what you state in your first paragraph pretty much invalidates everything you state in your second paragraph.

Got it.

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Fansince1971

3 hours ago

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Not really. It’s all about opportunity when you have top draft position. When you have the #2 pick in the draft and high picks in all subsequent rounds, you have access that you don’t otherwise have. You have a chance at a franchise player who can reshape the Org. I think the chances of that are higher with consensus analysis rather than off-the-reservation analysis. But admittedly it could work out. I just think odds are against it.

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Cowboy26

3 hours ago

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And you also have a larger draft pool to sign a larger pool of developing talent and than you would otherwise.

But even the consensus analysis for this draft was there were no obvious “franchise players” available in this draft . And like other Pro sports leagues the ultimate franchise players aren’t overwhelming drafted in the first few picks. If you want a list I will be more than happy to share it.

Look at the Rams for example. Their last implemented player drafts of 2023 & 2024 have reshaped their entire defense while filling other needs with quality players. They did this with limited early round picks but ZERO draft experts and pundits gave them stellar grades .

I get everyone enjoys performing their own draft analysis and many spend lots of their valuable time evaluating and scouting players but considering the percentage of those drafted that produce positive WAR from a probability standpoint we are mostly performing a fools errand

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Roy Hobbs

2 hours ago

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True but Perry has no record of success to give him the benefit of the doubt and in fact has quite the opposite.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

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Perry the punk rock platypus. Well, no one can say he doesn’t try stuff. In the long run I guess I am more in favor of a try guy than a “just draft the huge bat off the Longhorns” guy. But damn. He is way off on a limb here. He will either be a genius or road kill after this.

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2 hours ago

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“Perry is a punk rocker” is catchy.

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Angelz4ever

4 hours ago

We drafted another Chase. I guess the Halos want to be leaders in two different Chase categories…..

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steelgolf

4 hours ago

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Makes sense since they have spent the last few seasons chasing a .500 record. Maybe this is the Chase that gets them to that lofty goal.

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RexFregosi

4 hours ago

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I’m happy for a new Slate

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Angelz4ever

4 hours ago

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One rec for the high brow humor.

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Cowboy26

3 hours ago

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Ivan thinking, Its probably a little early to try and Gage this Angel draft

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2002heaven

5 hours ago

My overall grade for a draft that needed to be GS HR is just a C. Zach Neto continues to be a one man team.

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Angelz4ever

4 hours ago

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I’m going to grade with Credit/No credit. Grade: Credit

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milehigh

5 hours ago

I would be quite surprised that any team got two above average starters. I didn’t think that kind of talent was in this draft. We’ll see, I can definitely be wrong.

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steelgolf

5 hours ago

Most likely get one starter and a whole bunch of bullpen arms with varying success and issues. Meanwhile the farm system is devoid of bats and impact position players. Not sure how many you can get by trading bullpen arms. The only way they can fill that out now is on the international market.

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Cowboy26

5 hours ago

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Which they have been much more invested in the last 3 years than the previous regimes ( except for the Baldoquin The God era of course) Unfortunately I doubt you will see any dividends for the international free agent investment for another couple of years. This should match well with our new found Prep pitching yute movement.

But I hope they got a shitpile of stations at that pitching and hitting lab . they’re going to need all of them for sure

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MarineLayer

4 hours ago

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I agree!

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HalosFanForLife

5 hours ago

The McCollom FA pick out of UCSB is definitely worth a shot.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

3 hours ago

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Yup. He’s pretty cool. Ryan Zaberowski from Georgia was a good pick up too. Plus OF Aaron Graeber, pride of the Fightin Blue Hens….

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Cowboy26

5 hours ago

If they sign all their draftees I’ll give it an A.

Why not? no-one else is and by the time enough time has passed to properly evaluate this draft I’m sure we will have many more issues to complain about here.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

5 hours ago

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There’s always a place on the team for a contrarian….

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Terry

6 hours ago

I’m continually amazed at the knowledge of everything baseball, Angels and this draft you guys on this board have. Outstanding. Turks Teeth’s knowledge, study and insights of the drafts are better than I’ve seen anywhere, including national outlets. Definitely helps me to follow each of the draft picks more closely.

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Terry

6 hours ago

I completely with Grandpa Baseball.regarding the all star game, it’s lost all luster and fun to me. Used to be not miss TV, nows it no watch or listen period. The same ugly unis for everyone, bad idea. I have long term memories of the games years ago. Clyde Wright pitching to Jim Hickman who got the base hit that brought Pete Rose home and barreled over Ray Fosse. Nolan Ryan blowing away Dave Parker. Dean Chance and Fregosi starting the game in Shea Stadium in ’64, the game a neighbor of ours from Bakersfield – Johnny Callison – hit a three run walk off blast. Fred Lynn’s grand slam in ’84. The first all star game at Anaheim Stadium – 1967, 15 innings. The second all star game at the big A when Vin Scully and Ronald Reagan were announcing and Bo Jsckson crushed one way up the batters eye. Aww….nice trip down memory lane.

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Terry

6 hours ago

Reply to Terry

Meant to say “I completely agree with GrandpaBaseball”

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RexFregosi

6 hours ago

Reply to Terry

Maybe a little luster is off it. The HR Derby doesn’t help. Definitely it was better when the leagues were separate. But its still a big deal.

However my biggest reason for lack of interest in the 2025 All Star game is the Angels don’t really possess any of them “All Stars”.

Also, the recent run by the American League appears to be over. THAT was fun, but now the NL seems to be much better.

I got to go in 2011 here in AZ. Jered started. I definitely would like to go to another one.

The uniforms at least rep the Leagues again, but I don’t like the design – petty ugly

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Terry

6 hours ago

Reply to RexFregosi

It seemed the players cared more about it then. Of course, many of them needed the extra dough for being there. I love baseball, but not into the constant hot dogging. I saw a guy the other day hit a double, his team was down by five, and he’s doing the happy dance toward his dugout, as it he just hit a walk off.

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GrandpaBaseball

7 hours ago

The All-Star Game for some reason no longer seems like “Must see TV” as the Big names are really seeming to disrespect the value of being chosen for the game. It’s not the lack star power that makes it seem irrelevant; it was MLB making the two different leagues change to NFL style of just one league. American League vs National League is not the same any longer. Newer MLB fans do not appreciate the sport having two different leagues doing battle. How can they say hey this is special when an any given day their fav could be playing a team from the other league? This is just imho.

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MarineLayer

4 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

They should’ve replaced Kikuchi with Kenley. We deserve at least one rep, and unlike Kershaw, he actually deserves to be there. I won’t be watching.

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