Saturday night fireworks. The team has plenty of extra from not hitting home runs.
Angels vs. Brewers Game 2 Gamethread
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Legend
9 hours ago
Quakes game over, can hear the fireworks display from 12 miles away. Soto spotted San Jose 5-runs in the top of the 1st, Quakes came back to take it. Davalillo 11th bomb. Adam Fraizer (yes, still around) had a 3-hit night and Alvarez doing good lead-off work, 46-steals, 3-runs scored.
Last edited 9 hours ago by FungoAle
Super Member
9 hours ago
Wow, 6 pitches. Way to fight till the end guys.
Super Member
9 hours ago
I think Suzuki playing guys regardless of results like Soler and DFA’ing guys like Walton who was probably our hottest lefty bat leads the players to believe we aren’t even trying to win, I mean we aren’t. They have to lose a lot of fight seeing that.
Legend
9 hours ago
Mike’s bWAR will go up tonight ! LTBU!!
Legend
9 hours ago
You can’t convince me what the Dodgers are doing isn’t terrible for baseball. Don’t hate the player hate the game, but come on it’s a joke.
Bring me the salary cap
Legend
9 hours ago
Fwiw I blame Milwaukee and TB for not beating the Skubal offer. Can’t hate on LAD for having their offer accepted
Trusted Member
9 hours ago
It’s not a Dodger problem. Anyone could have acquired Skubal, and that package that seems pretty beatable. If the Brewers really wanted him, they could have beat that package.
The Dodgers don’t force the GMs and other teams to act cheap. To me, these recent years have only exposed that is more of an ownership problem that 1 single club.
Legend
9 hours ago
I acknowledge that. Beyond the trade, every other North American sport has a salary cap and is better off for it. It’s way past time for baseball
Last edited 9 hours ago by Pineapple12
Legend
9 hours ago
It’s that salary deferral shit that fries my toast but Friedman has had his share of stinkers, Snell, Glasnow and Kyle Tucker
Trusted Member
9 hours ago
What is about paying someone with tomorrow dollars which will be worth less, that fries you? I am asking because it’s a brilliant way to pay someone. Is it because the Angels didn’t think of it first and got spanked with Grandpa’s “personal services” BS?
Last edited 8 hours ago by Marcotor
Super Member
9 hours ago
Took a nap this evening and just tuned in. I see Neto still stinking up the top of the order. I was hoping to wake up to the news he was traded. 13 K’s tonight though. Great effort there!!
Super Member
9 hours ago
Dominoes are going to start falling…Moz it’s your turn to shine
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Legend
9 hours ago
Dodgers even won the trade on the sim, lol. (Though I think they’re undervaluing River quite a bit.)
Legend
9 hours ago
shameful smh
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Legend
9 hours ago
They know what (the fuck) they’re doing.
Legend
9 hours ago
Well ….until the Feds find out
Trusted Member
9 hours ago
Isn’t River Ryan like 28 and missed all of 2025 with TJ?
Have a hard time not seeing this as a fleece.
Legend
9 hours ago
Skubal, Yamamoto, Ohtani, Snell, Glasnow, Wrobleski, Sasaki
Am I missing anybody?
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Legend
9 hours ago
Well, they retained Sheehan, despite the early false rumors.
Trusted Member
9 hours ago
I’ve been wondering if Snell or Glasnow are offloaded in the offseason.
Legend
9 hours ago
Yeah. I was shocked at how low a value Ryan had. Still, even Skubal fell to below a 40pt value once he was down to 1/2 a season of control. Detmers will be a 7 or something.
Trusted Member
9 hours ago
He’s a 27 year old playing in AAA coming off TJ in 2024 and missing all of 2025. He’s only 2 years younger than the 2 time Cy Young winner he was just traded for. I’m surprised he even has any value on the scale.
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Legend
9 hours ago
I dunno – when he pitches, it looks like this.
Member
9 hours ago
File this under “Nobody asked me” but if ANY team offers their #5, 7, and 15th prospects for ANY of the Angels players – I say take it.
Super Member
9 hours ago
Let’s go Moz.
Super Member
9 hours ago
I think a core memory from the Angels this year will be Mike Trout running in for 3 seconds to field a ball when the go ahead run was on 2nd in the 8th inning. Like he didn’t want to have any chance of throwing him out.
Legend
9 hours ago
0% chance of baseball in 2027
100% chance of a salary cap
Legend
9 hours ago
SKUBAL TO THE DODGERS
Legend
9 hours ago
Of course.
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Legend
9 hours ago
There goes Zyhir Hope!
Legend
9 hours ago
The Los Angeles Dodgers are acquiring Tarik Skubal for outfielder Zyhir Hope, right-hander River Ryan and right-hander Brady Smith, sources tell ESPN.
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Legend
9 hours ago
Now maybe the River Ryan Twitter wars stop? Probably not…
Legend
9 hours ago
what do we think of the return for Skubal? Feels super light
Last edited 9 hours ago by Pineapple12
Member
9 hours ago
Yes he is a rental, but for Skubal you get A, AA, and AAA players. And obviously that is the HIGH bid.
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Legend
9 hours ago
Real nice return to my mind. River and Hope alone – 55 and 50 FV prospects, #22 and #57 in the top 100. Smith is more of a lotto ticket – big stuff, no control yet.
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Legend
9 hours ago
With a return like that, Moz has every reason to keep his bar high. Even with the scarcity on the market, that’s a big return for Skubal, imo.
Legend
9 hours ago
Get he’s a rental but that’s the best package Detroit was offered for their 2x Cy Young winner? Man.
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Legend
9 hours ago
I love the package – feels like a no brainer for two months of Skubal. If Ryan stays healthy, he can be very good.
Legend
9 hours ago
No Sheehan, I thought the Tigers would want one MLB starter back
Super Member
9 hours ago
Damnit
Legend
9 hours ago
Neto continues with the unprofessional ABs. Ship him off
Legend
9 hours ago
Pretty lame there Neto.
Legend
9 hours ago
Samy Natera
7/4 — 0.2 IP 4 ER
All other outings — 22 IP 1 ER 35 K
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Legend
9 hours ago
Currently has the highest fWAR on the team after the trio of Detmers/Soriano/Urena.
Member
9 hours ago
His only knock was 10 walks in 21.2 innings. He has looked very good each time.
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Legend
9 hours ago
Hilarious thing is that when I went to Baseball Trade Values to look at the Skubal package, the first trade proposal I saw that was not Skubal related was a D-Backs fan trying to trade for Natera Jr.
Someone just saw the same inning we did.
Super Member
10 hours ago
How much could we get for Urena and Natera. Whatever Natera’s trade value is it has to be low because it hasn’t figured out he’s stinking amazing yet.
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Legend
10 hours ago
I wondered for a year why he hadn’t been called up yet. He was dominant in the 2024 Arizona Fall League. I figured he’d be called up early in ’25 but didn’t happen.
Legend
10 hours ago
Natera with a 97 👀 ok ok
Super Member
10 hours ago
then that slider. oh man! Have the Angels EVER had a dominant lefty reliever. I’m trying to think….. I can’t remember any.
Legend
10 hours ago
Good question! Natera is a monster sheesh
Super Member
10 hours ago
Big reach, but I believe Ken Tatum was a lefty and pretty good back in the dark ages.
Super Member
10 hours ago
I was wrong, he’s a righty
Super Member
10 hours ago
Nice job by Kerry, 4 scoreless innings vs the Brewers.
Super Member
10 hours ago
I think Bauers hit the HR against him no?
Legend
10 hours ago
Joyce topped out at 103.8 in AAA
Super Member
10 hours ago
I think a scoreless inning in AAA hitting 103.8 qualifies to just join the big league club now. Don’t waste his bullets in SLC
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Legend
10 hours ago
Kirby and/or Suter gone soon and it will be an entirely homegrown pen next week.
Super Member
10 hours ago
I was looking over our salaries today and realized how much money Perry spent on nothing. We could have $100M coming off the payroll including a few trades.
Super Member
10 hours ago
But sadly there is really not that much that is interesting in the FA market. Teams are locking up their young players so frequently now. Maybe the Angels could make trades like they did for Iglesias where they take guys off of other teams hands that are going to make a good amount of money, but man the FA list looks bad next year.
Super Member
10 hours ago
Well, we don’t need to use much of it next year
Last edited 10 hours ago by Roy Hobbs
Legend
10 hours ago
Literally only Trout and Kikuchi lol
Legend
9 hours ago
Homegrown is alright with me
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Legend
9 hours ago
The Silseth trade still baffles me a bit in that regard – solid numbers under the hood for the most part, and the homegrown pen is starting to really come together.
Joyce, Natera Jr, Zeferjahn, Bachman, Fermin – a lot of hard throwers there. We’ll see if Murphy and Farris can keep carving out roles. Obviously Kerry may get a few more looks in a swing role.
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Legend
10 hours ago
In my Brewers mock exchanges, I keep pairing one of Gasser or Drohan (last night’s pitcher) with two of Milwaukee’s AA bats, and it tastes great, less filling… than the stodgy mess in the team’s current upper minors.
Super Member
10 hours ago
Trout ain’t catching that.
