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LA Angels Monday News Crash: Big Deal

December 22, 2025

Supposedly, all the buy low moves the Angels are making set them up to make one big deal. They are talking about Mike Trout spending some time in center field next summer.

Munetaka Murakami signed a two year deal with the White Sox that is worth $34 Million. The Padres will get Sung-Mun Song for four years at $15 Million.

The Red Sox will get Willson Contreras. Bobby Dalbec got a one year deal with the Yomiura Giants. Vimael Machin got a minor league deal with the Rockies.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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PedroCerrano

27 seconds ago

I’ve been busy elsewhere but the Murakami miss seams to be a head scratcher. He signed for a reasonable number and went to a crappy team. Angels check those same boxes but his life expectancy and weather would both improve in Anaheim.

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RexFregosi

34 minutes ago

ESPN Fan Misery Index –
Halos no longer #1?? I vehemently disagree that the Pirates, Mets and Twins fans have it worse than us.

4. Los Angeles Angels2024 ranking: No. 1
It never ends for the Angels. Let’s see what happened in 2025:
• A 10th consecutive losing season.
• The third-worst run differential in the majors and worst in the American League.
• Manager Ron Washington had to step down in June due to health concerns.
• Yusei Kikuchi publicly complained about the lack of air conditioning in the team’s weight room. (At least the Angels then posted a job for an HVAC technician.)
• The Angels finished last in the majors with a .225 batting average and first in strikeouts.
• The bullpen was one of the worst in Angels history.
• The ongoing Tyler Skaggs trial.
• The ongoing Anthony Rendon saga. He didn’t play at all in 2025 and is still owed $38.5 million in the final year of his contract, so there will be some sort of buyout. Don’t expect a goodbye ceremony.
Bottom line: The Angels drop in the rankings only because this chaos is now the norm. As one Reddit user put it: “This team has zero chemistry, a losing culture, a clueless GM, a terrible owner, way below average MLB pitching, zero grit, zero leadership.”

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max

27 minutes ago

Reply to RexFregosi

But 6-0 against the Ohtanis

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Fansince1971

1 hour ago

The Angels trading young talent for 35 year old expensive Arredondo would be so stupid and meaningless that it almost seems like something the Angels would do.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

1 hour ago

Reply to Fansince1971

It’s really inevitable, it checks all the boxes Arte craves:

well-known player with name recognition, the type of player that helps support the illusion that he (Arte) is trying to winplays at a marquee positionwas previously an all-starlikely (borderline?) Hall of Fame inducteeis still owed big money ($74 million through 2027)

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HalosFanForLife

54 minutes ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

What about something like this: (We could exchange either Schanuel or Burleson to the Yankees.) Just a thought.

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Jeff Joiner

31 minutes ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

Would suck to lose TGA but that at least fills multiple roster spots for a couple of years.

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clover_black

2 hours ago

“ It’s starting to become clear what the Angels’ strategy is this offseason.
They’ve gone after players with an element of risk but also with some upside.”

This is every offseason.

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Jeff Joiner

1 hour ago

Reply to clover_black

Moreso since Perry got here. And it makes sense to a degree. I’d rather see if Moniak, Peraza, and Grissom can capture their prospect ceilings than see over the hill veterans cashing one last check before retirement.

The constant is the lack of talent flowing from our farm to MLB to avoid having to acquire so many players each off season.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

3 hours ago

Oh no. Set up to make the proverbial “one big deal”…..also known as “Perry’s Next Big Splash”

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WallyChuckChili

4 hours ago

Don’t know what it says (paywall) but Title says it all.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2025-12-22/should-angels-fans-give-up-join-dodgers-bandwagon

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steelgolf

4 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

3 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

Wait…give up?

The LA Times – Chavez Latrine wiping material. Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!…

It ain’t over now, ’cause when the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’. We’re going to ride this all the way down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Who’s with me? Let’s go! Come on!

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CAoldskoll

2 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

It’s Ok to follow out of town teams, or because you like a lot of their players. Heck, some people I know became a fan simply because the ‘’Reds’ were their first little league team. But bandwagon’s just suck period. Shows you have no loyalty, and your priority is following the winning team. We’ve seen a bunch in LA, the from Bulls fans to all the Niners football. It’s also a flex thing; wearing that winners jersey or cap around. That article is stupid. If there are Angels fans that don’t have brand loyalty, go ahead and jump ship to the enemy blue. Thinking we already had one who everyone liked that did. Goodbye!