It’s really interesting to watch the Royals work. Nailing down Witt long term was great. Extending Garcia was also a slick move. That left side of the infield is gonna be a steal for years now.

They have a bunch of pitching. Will they sign any of it? They also have a bunch of needs. They are shuffling around a lot of talent for talent right now trying to get some sort of outfield production. They have a pretty lame farm so they can’t make a ton of trades. They don’t have a lot of money so they can’t buy their way to success even if Doyer fans say they can. They have a couple really good prospects they hope bloom. Will they be able to develop them?

I like the Royals. I feel like they are an example of a pretty well run team that would kick ass if they had the Angels money… but they don’t. And they do have failures they have to suss out, which again mostly goes to not being able to just buy and discard Teoscar Hernandez and Michael Conforto and try again.

I wonder if they’d like Jorge Soler back?

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Jeff Joiner

23 minutes ago

There may be a connection between the lack of moves and the fact none of the Asian third basemen have yet signed. All of their posting windows are getting close to closing, though.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

18 minutes ago

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We should probably sign the one that costs the most and can’t really play 3B.

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Jeff Joiner

11 minutes ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

Murikami’s posting window closes a week from today. He K’s the most and hits the most dingers while being the worst defender and likely costing the most money. Arte has to be all over him.

Okamoto’s posting window closes on Jan. 4.

Korean guy Song Sung-um’s window closes on Sunday.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

27 minutes ago

Oh no. We didn’t sign Jansen. Who will the the baseball mouths glop all over while the team wins 70 games this year? The sweat. The ninnypussing around with infielders. The phobia regarding having a man on second base. The allowing men to reach second base. The fact that there is a rule where a guy starts out at second base sometimes. Why even watch this season without that?

Plus! The chase to being only 150 saves short of the all time saves leader. We could have watched that! Celebrate all those saves he’s had for the Dodgers. Kinda like getting to buy a beer for the dude who knocked up your girlfriend because he happened to stay in the same hotel as you one night. All of that could have been ours, the countdown, the attention, the thrill…. all gone now.

What is this org thinking? We should have just given him 15M. After this current reload we surely will need a closer for the pennant chase.

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GrandpaBaseball

1 hour ago

More Christmas shopping on schedule for today at Bass Pro and Dick’s sporting goods. Walk around open-air mall in Rancho and end up at Citrus Plaza in Redlands for a Santa Barbara Burger. Tomorrow starts homemade tamale making but cutting back to 150 instead of the usual 600 to give out, it’s the economy stupid 😂 , not really, it’s our backs we learned last year that hurt too much, besides gift cards are easier. Our list for our kids and grandkids is smaller, but of cost is higher, go figure.

“White Christmas” need not apply this year. Not lying, yesterday was 63 degrees with no snow on the ground, I’ve seen this happen only once before in 47 Decembers prior to to this year. Dasher and Rudolph were seen playing Golf on Saturday past.

Angels claim to be done shopping for help, this ’26 team will once again compete for the top draft choice in June ’27. There will be a shortage of hopeium this coming season, I think.

In NFL news it looks like three teams picked by a lot of pundits have hopes of next seasons with the Chiefs, Lions, along with Ravens and Colts playing catch up and hoping for some other teams to crash a burn. NFL games in the next two weeks showing up on pretty remote streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, and others, so check out the dial.

There is a former Orioles and Reds OF I would like to pick up on a 2 year deal who is a FA. I wanted him this past Winter and we sure could have used him, so now maybe he getz signed. We’ll see.

Everyone have a super day and have a smile for everyone you meet. 🎅

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

35 minutes ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

Do you mean Hayes? Yup. I’d like to sign him too.

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Jeff Joiner

25 minutes ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

I’ve been part of the tamale making assembly line many times. Glad you are keeping it going. That’s a ton of work.

High school/college me would mix the masa in the buckets we’d use to bus tables. My friend would spread the masa on the husks, a mom would fill them, another mom would roll them, then we’d have people putting them into the correct pot for steaming. Took about 8 of us a full day.