LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: LDS Later Day Series

Here’s a fun game. It isn’t gonna happen, but I would loaf it if the Angels moved their High A and Triple A teams from East Washington and SLC. Both are such goofy places to play that we barely use them to develop what passes for top prospects in our system.

We are moving A Ball back to Rancho Coockaracha. That’s cool. But where could we move those two teams? This may even become an issue soonish for the SLC team since their owner is bidding on an MLB team. He just built a new Bees stadium. It is set up so they can expand it to fit an MLB team if they get one and, in a crazy cool move, the SLC MLB team and the SLC Bees would actually share the stadium with different club houses and offices. The SLC team’s AAA team will be RIGHT THERE. So the Angels would have to move.

Now you can’t just decide Ventura is nice and plop a team down there. It has to be part of a league (Cal League is A Ball and we have that covered.) So you’d need to look at where A+ Ball teams/leagues are located. Where perhaps past teams have played and facilities may be built/upgraded easily. Partnerships with a local ownership group or a large group like Diamond Sports would be needed for that. Same with AAA. So the pickings are slim, especially if you are trying to avoid high altitude places like Colorado Springs.

AAA options in California would work for the Pacific Coast League. Maybe an ambitious up and coming town in Texas? Or we could look to Mexico? I doubt we can move far enough east to have an Intl League team.

Where do you think we could either put a team, start a team realistically, or upgrade a Cal League facility to AAA? I have some ideas, but since the pickings are slim I’ll leave em unsaid and see what folks come up with first.

But when I think of getting a “real” GMofPOBOandEIEIO baseball manz into the front office one of the first things I’d hate about our development pipeline is the fact that two stops on it are bull’s tits useless. I know that they have actually started to put some work into the stadium in Pasco so that it’s less of a death trap for hitters. But still, I’d find us an upgrade. The question is how?