LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: Skaggs Family vs Arte Finale

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Skaggs Trial is now in the hands of the jury. After years of this stuff, this should settle it all finally. Skaggs family vs Arte Moreno, Jury will now decide things, uh, ask Charles, he is the lawyer here.

Oh yeah, and the Angels signed 2 bullpen guys to 1 year deals. Drew Pomeranz and Jordan Romero will be in the bullpen as we all wait for what else will happen.

Around Baseball

How valuable are sports teams? Yes. As for MLB, they are mostly grouped together, besides the MFY and Dodgers of course, and Cubs and Red Sox up there as well.

Is it sad that MLB is the most closely valuable to Hockey than anything else?

Twins are partly for sale. Only PARTLY. Family still wants to keep them. Twins fans in shambles.

SP Adrian Houser is off the board. To the Giants on 2/22M.

Ha-Seong Kim is now a Brave. 1/20M. No, the OTHER one.

Reliver Chris Martin remains with Texas on a 1 year deal. Dude is 39 and yet still in it.

What do managers REALLY think? Well, ESPN has a survey and they go off. Brewers manager seems most fun.

The MLB executive who made MLB Replay a thing as well as push forth the pitch clock has left. From 2008-2025 he was a part of the league office, and now, he is gone. No comment at this time.

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Pineapple12
Legend
1 hour ago

What is Perry cooking?

Perry Minasian on adding players with some risk: “We won 73 games, right? So we need upside and to be able to add what we’ve added so far, spending limited dollars, we have a lot of holes, and we need to fill those holes. And we still have opportunity to do a lot of things.”

https://x.com/i/status/2001349593259450491

Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend
56 minutes ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

I wonder if he’s still counting the 15 wins associated with Washington………

Pineapple12
Legend
46 minutes ago

That darn quadruple bypass kept the Wash 15 WAR from hitting 💔

RexFregosi
Super Member
49 minutes ago
Reply to  Pineapple12

more Angel math:
73 games + “what we’ve added so far”
so far, it’s the same lineup minus Ward, Giffy, Moncada

steelgolf
Legend
45 minutes ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Plus, they really think Trout will play an entire season in the field ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Which is why “The Breeze maker” Soler is still on the roster.

Pineapple12
Legend
44 minutes ago
Reply to  steelgolf

Trout injured himself last season stepping on 1st base. Who cares if he DHs or plays the field at this point? I’ll always love Trout, but it’s over

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
20 minutes ago
Reply to  steelgolf

Soler isn’t going anywhere we just have to pray his back is healed and he’s his normal self.

But assuming that best case scenario, that still leaves 3 guys who should only play RF and Trout should only be out there occasionally. One of Trout or Soler should DH.

This is just horrible roster construction on Perry’s part.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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41 minutes ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

Perry is delusional.

MarineLayer
Legend
1 hour ago

The bullpen signings make sense because Loup and Tepera apparently aren’t available.

steelgolf
Legend
58 minutes ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

😆

Jeff Joiner
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Legend
1 hour ago

The Mets clearly have a bigger fetish for former Yankees than Arte:

Luke Weaver heading across town, joining Juan Soto and Devin Williams.

Pineapple12
Legend
1 hour ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

Another overpay for a reliever

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
1 hour ago

Those jurors have been on that trial for months and the holidays start next week. I’d think there would be a desire to get this thing wrapped up this week and get on with their lives.

Will be interesting to see what they decide. Obviously none of us know everything they know but I think we all have some idea how we’d lean.

2pints
Trusted Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

$2.5 billion judgement for the plaintiffs, making Arte give the franchise to the Skaggs family. What could go wrong???

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
1 hour ago
Reply to  2pints

Unlike Arte, Skaggs mom has run a winning program and won a championship.

You might be onto something here, ha ha.

Last edited 1 hour ago by Jeff Joiner
Charles Sutton
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Super Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

Lots of judges take off that week between Christmas and New Years Day.

Pineapple12
Legend
2 hours ago

Phillies sign Brad Keller to 2 years, $22 million. The relief market is mad expensive. I have no issues with Pomeranz or Romano at their price points.

RexFregosi
Super Member
2 hours ago

after three years of watching what the NBA does with the NBA Cup (an in-season ‘tournament’), though I am old and completely embrace and hold fast the traditions of baseball, I’d be completely fine with MLB doing something similar at the end of May.

Seed the teams according to geography like West Coast teams play each other random series in late April/May that not only count in the standings, but also as tournament play. Regional winners (four) play for the MLB Cup, a tournament championship Memorial Day weekend in St. Louis.

Yes, I’d be OK with this – add some juice to the early season.

Pineapple12
Legend
2 hours ago
Reply to  RexFregosi

This year’s NBA Cup was fantastic! +1 on adding something similar to the MLB season. 162 can really drag — would be cool to add something new before the ASG

Kevin
Trusted Member
5 hours ago

How is signing two old guys that aren’t good for $6 million a better idea than bringing back Kenley or making other moves? I don’t get it.

Senator_John_Blutarsky
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Reply to  Kevin

Remember, the plot isn’t to win, it’s just to stay competitive enough to sell tickets while spending the least amount of money.

Cowboy26
Legend
3 hours ago

Then they need to fire the script writers because their last 12 pictures have been abysmal failures.

AnAngelsFan
Super Member
4 hours ago
Reply to  Kevin

Neither Kenley Jansen for a year at twice the cost nor Drew Pomeranz is going to make this team competitive. And honestly, looking at last year’s stats, do you think there is much of a difference between these two players:

178 ERA+, 3.36 FIP, 1.067 WHIP, 3.80 SO/BB
165 ERA+, 3.98 FIP, 0.949 WHIP, 3.00 SO/BB

By the way, those numbers are Kenley Jansen’s best numbers since 202. It’s unlikely he’ll be as good this year as he was last year. Not to mention Jansen is the oldest of the 3 guys…

FYI – Jansen is the bottom line, better WHIP but overall worse than one-year younger Pomeranz last year.

Last edited 4 hours ago by AnAngelsFan
steelgolf
Legend
2 hours ago
Reply to  Kevin

To help put this in perspective: The Angels have drafted 55 pitchers from the 2020 draft through the 2024 draft. And they are relegated to signing these two guys. Yeeeeesh.

Last edited 2 hours ago by steelgolf
RexFregosi
Super Member
2 hours ago
Reply to  Kevin

Simply Angel math:

two 8-7 guys are always better than one 16-14 guy.

BannedInLA
Super Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  Kevin

Concur.

I’m now firmly in the “burn it all down & start over” camp but, if you’re going to spend money, I’d prefer to have one proven player (Kikuchi) versus an assortment of hot garbage.

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