Morning Angels fans, last News Crash of 2025. Have some links before you drink.
Angels News
Anthony Rendon has been bought out. His last year of his deal will be paid off in the next 3-5 years as Perry and Arte paid him to just F off. Worst contract in Angels history? Or was Hamilton worse?
Want to know how bad Rendon was? Here is the tracker to see how much money he made by being injured.
The Angels sign Kirby Yates for 1/5M. He had a bad 2025, but maybe he can be fixed?
Around Baseball
Sarah Langs looks back at 2025 about the fun things from MLB this year. Needless to say, nothing Angels made the list.
The MLB HOF tracker is now at over 100 public ballots. So far it seems that Felix Hernandez is getting the biggest jump in votes compared to last year, while Beltran and Andruw Jones lead with over 80%. While non public ballots do skew fewer names, my best guess is that these two will be the ones who get in this year.
As 2025 comes to a close, I want to say thank you on behalf of everyone here at CTPG. Yes, the Angels have brought us pain for a long time now. But we can bear that pain together as a community, free from cooperate overlord bootlicking and being able to be honest with ourselves and others. This site will be 6 years old next month, and seeing how many have stuck around is very heartwarming. Some things will change, as it always does. Jeff will be working with Sports Illustrated, the Angels may have one final chance to be not terrible before the lockout, and I am now an uncle, which still feels weird for me to type.
Thank you for being here, because we literally couldn’t do it without you. Let’s have a great 2026, no matter how bad the Angels are.
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