LA Angels Monday News Crash: Tayler Made

The Angels are signing left-hander Tayler Saucedo. It’s probably a minor league deal. He is a middle relief type. The Angels also signed Donovan Walton to a minor league deal.

Kazuma Okamoto signed with the Blue Jays. Those grapes were sour anyway. Kona Takahashi is going back to Japan, specifically the Seibu Lions.

Lenny Dykstra is in trouble again. This time it is unspecified drugs.

The Royals extended manager Matt Quatraros.

Minor League Deals

The Twins signed Orlando Arcia. Paul DeJong got a minor league deal with the Yankees. So did Adam Kloffenstein and Payton Henry. Scott Effros to the Tigers. Buddy Kennedy and Caleb Kilian got minor league deals with the Giants. The Braves got DaShawn Kiersy Jr.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Man. There are a lot of teams signing extremely unimpressive players to minor league deals.

Has anyone ventured over to any other team’s sites to explain to their fans how lost and useless their GM is?

Of course, you’d have to know who their GM is…. use Google and shit. That can be intimidating for some of you.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  Charles Sutton

The subhead quote for this time of year should be…

“Triple A is baseball team too guyz.”

GrandpaBaseball
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1 day ago

It would have been nice if PTP had a clue in how to draft instead of thinking he was the smartest man in the room signing picks starting in the second round and down, having just three first rounders hit the big time instead of just Neto would have helped this team out. When the new owner (Fingers crossed, sooner than later too) arrives his days of employment will be finished in SoCal.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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You worry a lot about people thinking they are smarter than you.

Eric_in_Portland
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1 day ago

I’ve been saying Jon Berti for 3b for a few days, not because that’d be good but because it’s a Perry kind of thing but Walton is even funnier

Jeff Joiner
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Legend
1 day ago

That’s too much of a dumpster dive. Willi Casto and Yoan Moncada are a bit better in the meantime.

Roy Hobbs
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1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

Moncada was 15% above average as a hitter which is far better than anyone else they have acquired and was horrible with the glove, but since they don’t seem to care about defense, he would be a much better choice.

steelgolf
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23 hours ago
Reply to  Roy Hobbs

When he was on the field.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
1 day ago

We like jack of all trades master of none players.

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Hey look. The Brewers developed yet another ace.

Man I feel for Brewers fans. They are the guy who is semi-good looking with a great personality that always has a hot girlfriend freshman year….

Then all the 25 year olds with cars and money and highly active Expedia accounts start circling.

They’ll trade Peralta to the Dodgers soon. Next will be Miserwalgoski or how ever you spell his name to the Yankees or Red Sox in 2027 off season or something. Just cultivating the young hotties for the next guy….

All those good ex-Brewer pitchers will always love Milwaukee in their hearts as they shack up with another teams money for the long term.

The Brewers are NOT trading Peralta…. this week.

Pineapple12
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1 day ago

Los Angeles Angels
The best word to describe the Angels is “lurking.”

After restructuring third baseman Anthony Rendon’s contract and settling the wrongful death lawsuit brought against them by the family of Tyler Skaggs, the Angels appear capable of doing something big.

Rendon will receive the $38 million he is owed in his final season over the next three to five years. The Angels’ payroll already was down considerably from the end of last season.

While owner Arte Moreno opposes long-term deals for starting pitchers, his increased payroll flexibility might make Valdez, Suárez or Gallen possible on a short, high-AAV deal (Valdez, the oldest of the group at 32, is the most likely to accept such an outcome). The Angels, after adding Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah, are less interested in middle-tier starters.

The outfield is another area the Angels want to improve. Like the free-agent starters, outfielder Harrison Bader will be attractive if his market falls to a certain level. And don’t forget third base, where a replacement for Rendon was always going to be necessary.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6941044/2026/01/05/mlb-offseason-latest-yankees-dodgers-mets-red-sox-blue-jays/?source=user_shared_article

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Reply to  Pineapple12

The only thing this “lurking” theory fails to explain is WHY? What good does signing one or even both a pitcher and Bader do for this team over all? Look out kids, here come the Angels. They may win 78 games now. Well worth 45M for the next three years or what ever?

“The Angels and their extremely medium pile of available money” just seems like a stalking horse to me. Though I suppose Arte hates his own money enough to overspend on a Hyundai Genesis just to look like he’s rolling with the big boys….

Last trade deadline the Twins swallowed the worm, as did the A’s. Both teams are more interesting than the Angels now. This next draft, if the Rockies do well, they will officially pass the Angels on the “maybe they are up to something” scale as the White Sox did recently.

Guys on Angels sites have been throwing around the term “moribund” and stroking their own vocabulary nipples for years and years. Most of those years the team was out of the play off picture more from terrible injury luck and stud pitchers wanting to play back east than anything else.

THIS. These last three seasons. We’ve hit moribund. From the farm, to the MLB team, to the stadium situation, to the fact that the Strike Force Girls aren’t hotties anymore, to the Rally Monkey being a tired as fk gimmick, to our stupid played out uniforms and our suicide hotline ads on TV…. this is finally moribund.

“Lurking” with a few million bucks to spend so we can get the payroll for a losing team back up towards 200M? Have another hot delicious moribund with your Sanka.

MarineLayer
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1 day ago

What did signing Kikuchi and trading for Soler do?

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  MarineLayer

Absolutely nothing, say it again!

Phil
Trusted Member
18 hours ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

It helped the Angels get the #12 pick.

Jeff Joiner
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1 day ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

We can lurk all we want but look at the current third base market: Suarez, Bregman, and blah. Signing Suarez to see his home run number cut in half while playing meh to bad defense would be a very Arte move. I just can’t see Bregman coming here.

Bader is another guy certain to regress offensively Steve Finley 2.0.Last year’s breakout campaign raised his career OPS+ to 96 but prior to that he was at 91. His glove is legit, but with OBP being such a huge issue I’d rather just give Rada the shot as his floor seems to be Bader’s normal.

Lots of pitching to be had. Outside of Gallen’s QO I love all the options listed.

jco
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jco
1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

im hopeful for Rada long-term, but projections for next year aren’t great. Fangraphs has him projected for a 620 OPS. He’s only 20 years old, so I don’t really want to rush him. He can play a capable CF, but I don’t want his bat overwhelmed at the big league level. They need a competent CF defensively. Teodossio can do that, but I’m not at all confident in the bat. If Bader is cheap enough, I want him so that he can be the starting CF this year and perhaps turn into a frequently used 4th OF as Rada develops.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  Pineapple12

Lurking? Lurking? As in remaining hidden so as to wait in ambush?

Perry could be lost or loitering, or he may be lurking around garbage dumpsters and Arte’s hindquarters. However he’s absolutely not some Ninja waiting to ambush a GM or agent to make a shrewd acquisition.

Jeff Joiner
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1 day ago

Perry went behind a bush to pee and got lost.

steelgolf
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1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

🤣🤣🤣

gitchogritchoffmypettis
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Didn’t one of us kinda sorta think Walton wouldn’t be a bad depth/AAAA pick up?

The Angels are doing what I hoped they would do, nothing. Just bolster AAAA.

Next play and pitch some kids. See how bottom of the barrel that situation is. Maybe Maddox fixes up some guys and gets the head of the snake (the MLB/AAA team) pointed in a direction the tail of the snake (The Lab/Young arms) can wiggle towards.

In two years the pointless security blanket of Kikuchi’s contract ends. Then we have pretty clean books other than Trout.

We should trade Adell, Neto, Detmers and Soriano as well as any other current player who turns it on this summer and Kikuchi if we can. Get a load of prospects that can work out and play during the strike. Also try to have a good college position player heavy draft. It’s a gamble, and it will be a bummer, but this team already sucks.

It would be a bold and musky move if the Angels use the strike to jump a rebuild while everyone has to sit tight. Acquire and draft a pile of AA/college position players to go along with all the young pitching. If possible, send MLB coaching and training guys to work with the MiLB crews. Establish a philosophy for the whole pipeline. See if we can get a few arms and position players ready to give it a go after the strike.

If that develops well, be ready to spend some money and add horsepower and veteran stubble to the roster heading into 2028. If the Angels could sort of get to where the A’s are in two “seasons” that are warped by the strike AND have a much improved farm that would be a serious Hannibal style move.

DMAGZ13
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1 day ago

Only works if you can draft, and Perry can’t draft even with the #2 pick.

MarineLayer
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1 day ago
Reply to  DMAGZ13

This is such an important point. Does any pick other than Neto even come close to rebuilding a championship nucleus. Picks like Moore annd Schnauel
seem so meh, and others like Bachman feel downright awful. We can’t rebuild for real unless this is way better and Minasian is clearly not the answer, even with all the built in excuses. His buffet skills feel strong, the rest, not so much.

Jeff Joiner
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1 day ago
Reply to  DMAGZ13

The Angels drafted all pitchers in 2021. Those guys have had 4 full seasons to develop. Absolutely none of them are expected to be contributors of note for the 2026 Angels.

Zero.

We had to sign Pomeranz, Romano, and Yates and pray they perform because we couldn’t milk 3 middle relievers out of 19 draft picks.

We had to bring in injury rebound candidates Rodriguez and Manoah because we didn’t get even a back end starter from that draft.

Zero for an entire draft for the Angels with the only real possibility of a stud, Ky Bush, traded for a few bad starts in a doomed playoff push. And even he is recovering from TJ.

RexFregosi
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1 day ago
Reply to  DMAGZ13

😑 Chase Shores is going to be huge!!!

Just wait.

steelgolf
Legend
1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

He is tall, so maybe you can use huge instead of tall. I have my trepidation about his control.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  RexFregosi

Huge like our 19 year-old catcher known as “Jabba”?

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RexFregosi
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1 day ago

counting down to spring training ~38 days.

I finally decided to start posting my photos from the last 20+ years on social media at Instagram:
@angels_in_tempe

I am at two followers as of now – is that good?
give me a follow if you are on that platform – there are thousands more coming.

Jeff Joiner
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1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Make that 3.

2pints
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1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

up to 6 now

tanana40
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1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

I am following, think you are up to 8!

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

I’m going to do a Spring Training series on Angels On SI similar to the ones I’ve done here.

Is it cool if I post this as my favorite site for pictures from Tempe?

Last edited 1 day ago by Jeff Joiner
RexFregosi
Super Member
1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

Absolutely of course . Thank you!

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Will do. I need to pump out a lot more content over there but I’m still going to hang out over here.

steelgolf
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1 day ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

Guess I’m going to have to keep checking SI

RexFregosi
Super Member
1 day ago
Reply to  Charles Sutton

Hello, Carol. This is a recording. At the tone, you can leave a message to request anything you might need. We’ll do our best to provide it.

repeating this, I think it plays out like Paul Allen’s death:

  • Died in 2018: Paul Allen passed away in October 2018.
  • Estate’s Mandate: His will directed that his sports holdings, including the Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks, be sold, with proceeds going to charity.
  • Jody Allen: His sister, Jody Allen, became the executor of the estate and has overseen the teams since his death. 
  • Formal Process Started: The formal sales process for the Blazers began in May 2025.

Carole will get the team just like Jackie and will sell it eventually. Let’s hope she immediately gets baseball people involved but likely Kuhl and Carpino will continue to run things. Let’s hope she’s a bit quicker than Jody (7 years?!!)

MarineLayer
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1 day ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Rooting for Arturo to die isn’t my favorite, so I won’t say publicly that’s what I’m doing.

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