While most of baseball was seething at the Dodgers, the Angels, Reds, and Rays made a 3 way trade. The Angels get Outfielder Josh Lowe and give up pitchers Chris Clark and Brock Burke.
It’s a trade for a lefty bat that can play CF who was a former first round draft pick by the Rays.
The Angels did a thing! Was it a good thing? That’s for you to decide!
So Meckler and Lowe get to battle it out for CF with Teodosio as the backup/platoon?
Remember the days of the Angels being #1 at CF instead of #30?
Lowe is simply terrible at CF – -32 UZR/150 over his career sample there – no better than Adell, certainly. He’s a corner OF at best, and struggled in a corner the past two seasons.
Lowe had a .283 OBP last year. Fits right in.
Maybe due to a few HBPs?
This signing should get us to the playoffs 🤯
Bader still out there too. One more signing or are we done now?
We still need to move Adell, Kikuchi, and Soler.
Just here for the nonsensical bitching.
These seem to be the opposite type of moves that rebuilding teams should be making. Why oh why does my favorite baseball team do this. And yet I stay.
He is a left-handed bat!!!!
that’s one of the most important parts of this.
Lowe, Adell, Trout, Soler. That tandem will accumulste 500 to 600 K’s., or more.
Josh Groban?
Lowe will probably work out better than our last Josh….
Yeah. Josh Lowe.
Should’ve went after Josh High.
High…
Got anymore of those Watermelon Gummies?
Should’ve got Rob Lowe. At least he can act. Sorta.
Can I just say again how much MLB needs a salary cap! The Dodgers signing of Tucker is just ludicrous. There needs to be a hard cap and if there needs to be a floor to accomplish that then fine. And all television revenue should be divided equally between the teams with MLB in charge of negotiating the rights deals for television and streaming. It is the death knell of baseball if it doesn’t happen
I cannot believe the amount of money thrown to these players.
$60M/yr for Tucker, who, at his best had:
2021: 0.294 BA, 30 HR, 92 RBIs
2022: 0.257 BA, 30 HR, 107 RBIs
2023: 0.284 BA, 29 HR, 112 RBIs
In 2025: 0.266 BA, 22 HR, 73 RBIs
These are the stats that get you 4-yr/$240M contract??
For a 29-y/o player whose prime years (2021-2025) show the above stats?
Forking Dodgers!?!
Based on what others have gotten this year he probably should have gotten 35-40.
Winners do everything necessary to win.
Losers dumpster dive.
Nothing wrong with Dumpsters
This is a 27 year old who has had 1 good year in 5 seasons. He has produced basically 0 WAR for 4 out of 5 years he has played professional baseball. His one productive season was 2023. Why give up two young pitchers for this guy? Oh he makes $755,000 – I guess that explains it.
If you’re cheap and had a good year 2 or 3 years ago, you have a home in Anaheim
And a former first rounder
Derp. You really counting the year he had one MLB at-bat a “season”? He was a star-in-the-making and absolute stud in 2023. Regressed inexplicably the last two years. Seems like a good/likely reclamation, change-of-scenery project and certainly worth a “young” 29-year-old journeyman reliever and near non-prospect who has appeared in no Top 30 or 50 list that I have seen. I always get the Bradish willies when we trade minor league starters, but highly unlikely Clark becomes a Bradish… his nice run in high-A last year notwithstanding.
I mean the Angels have a great history of taking down players and revitalizing their careers, right?!
No derp here. This was a dumb trade.
My wife told me we are boycotting Home Depot so like the Angels we are all in with Lowe’s.
I’m looking for a HomeBase. As in guys that can find their way to Homebase more often this year.
Makes sense since Lowe’s bought out FBM, the sponsor that they wear on the sleeve of the jersey.