Former All Star Ryan Pressly announced his retirement after thirteen seasons.
Former Giants right-hander Sean Hjelle has signed with the Orix Buffaloes.
Reliever Yacksel Rios got a minor league deal with the Cubs. The Nationals signed Trevor Gott to a minor league deal. The Astros signed both Carlos Perez and Amos Willingham to minor league deals.
Wilbur Wood passed away. Not a physical specimen or flamethrower, but a prolific knuckleballer who started as many as 49 games in a season and threw over 370 (!) Innings in a season including for the ’72 White Sox.
Angels strategy decoded:
Look, you all know I’ve been critical. Everyone has. But they’ve clearly thrown in the towel and here’s the actual play:
They’re running a call option strategy:
If 2-3 pop off, you’re suddenly sellers with leverage in July.
The farm is DEPLETED. This is how we get some prospects back. Zero long-term risk. Pure asymmetric upside. It has merit and it’s clearly their unofficial strategy.
The smarter move? Do what they’re doing AND sell the guys with value NOW (April/May) when premiums are HIGH. Throw in the towel and get actual prospects back. Can’t be emotional about players we love – there’s no other path. We don’t have Dodgers/Mets/Yankees money or a strong farm to build around.
But they won’t. They’ll hang on to the guys with value too long and go from getting top prospects to flyers. You watch. (Or of course they will overpay to keep then in Angels red and the cycle will continue.)
It’s a solid strategy. The problem is the org is being run by people allergic to honesty.
In fact, I’d argue what they will do is put lipstick on the pig and sign some well known person just to make the unknowing fan feel better.
I agree and have pointed out this being the direction we’ve taken post Ohtani.
It hasn’t always been executed correctly, which I’ll place the majority of the blame on Arte — i.e. not trading Kenley at the deadline.
To trade or not to trade Neto, Adell, Soriano. I am an emotional fan and want all 3 extended. The worst case scenario for us is that the 2027 season is heavily truncated or entirely locked out and we lose Jo for nothing while Neto and Soriano get closer to FA.
Dude – you really think there is an actual baseball strategy being employed by this 2-bit Organization? The only strategy they are capable of is marketing and that means selling tickets and merchandise to fools like all of us.
Arte has lost the certainty of television revenue and therefore the budget has come way down. That is what is happening here.
Let’s just say that the strategy is …… uhhhh…. “Fluid”!
Fluid – like diarrhea? 😂
What gets me is they are giving us Ramen noodles and will still try to pawn it off as Linguine alle Vongole. Just admit the rebuild. Sell the new guys getting reps. In baseball – a horrible team still wins 4 out of 10 games. Win 6 out 10 and your easily in the playoffs.
No news today. I thought we’d see something like “Angels Sign Free Agents Mark Appel and Tyler Kolek.”
Tyler Kolek is doing pretty well for the Knicks right now 😂
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