Hey! Davis Daniel got a minor league deal with the Reds.
The Rangers signed Austin Gomber to a minor league deal. He’s a lefty pitcher.
The Blue Jays signed Connor Siebold to a minor league deal.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
LA Angels Monday News Crash: Davis
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Legend
1 month ago
https://youtu.be/QBeucCzAYt0?si=AvDm1Wsp39YN6dfA
Good watch.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
It’s so you. I think most people would watch it and think: “That’s some hyperbolic simp-bait.”
Legend
1 month ago
Zack Neto wants to take on Mookie Betts in a Battle of LA match
Super Member
1 month ago
Does anyone know if we are still also facing a court case with the prospect in DR that we backed out of signing and he claimed we had made a commitment?
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Legend
1 month ago
I’ll look into it.
This kid might be the one guy who really wants to sign with the Angels.
Super Member
1 month ago
But that no one else wants as bad as the Angels.
Super Member
1 month ago
Thanks
Legend
1 month ago
Here’s some fun facts about your beloved Doyers that I haven’t seen much anger over. Did you know the Doyers get to keep about 66M dollar’s a year from their TV deal that they’d otherwise have to turn over to the revenue sharing program because of their 2011 bankruptcy? Did you know they get this break until 2039? Beloved massive market team MUST be saved from financial ruin…. so let them be the richest team by far AND cut them a break on revenue sharing….
Don’t believe me, just Google Dodgers revenue sharing exemption and enjoy. Fk baseball.
Super Member
1 month ago
Did not know that. Whoa.
Legend
1 month ago
Don’t let Arte hear this.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
That was a great article this morning, recommended reading for all.
Since everyone else gives up 34% of their media revenue, does anyone really think BOS, NYY, CHI are going to be OK with 100% of it going to everyone else and getting back their fair share” ? Even with a cap/floor there will be those who skirt the rules at the top and bottom.
Just ask alleged Angel savior Steve Ballmer about “caps”.
“Sure we lost a whole championship season trying to protect our teams from their owners, but it all worked out. Look, we can only pay you $20 million a year in “salary”, but we own a significant percentage of our marketing partners who want you as a Brand Ambassador at $35 million a year.”
Last edited 1 month ago by Marcotor
Trusted Member
1 month ago
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/giants-sign-harrison-bader.html
Bader finally off the board. I’m interested what he settled for on the contract.
Legend
1 month ago
2 years, $20 million
Legend
1 month ago
Feels a bit underwhelming to me to be honest. I had concerns his bat would regress again but Bader the player is a great guy to have on the roster.
Last edited 1 month ago by FungoAle
Legend
1 month ago
1 year to many for the Angels.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/trey-mancini-angels-agree-to-minor-league-deal.html
I love the story here but 34, hasn’t seen an MLB pitch in years, perfect Angel signing.
I think he’s a big buddy of Brady and maybe good to have in the clubhouse with the guys. I’ll root for him being a cancer survivor, but he shouldn’t break camp
Legend
1 month ago
We also landed Nick Sandlin.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
We are in full dive mode now.
Legend
1 month ago
Stove is Burning!
Just on low heat…
Legend
1 month ago
Uhhh, that’s just the pilot light flickering.
Legend
1 month ago
Solid get on an MiLB deal
Legend
1 month ago
Really? Have you seen his statistics? Dude would not be on the roster of most teams other than the extremely desperate.
Last edited 1 month ago by Fansince1971
Trusted Member
1 month ago
Enter Sandman can be his entry music.
Legend
1 month ago
The MLB Pipeline Top 100 (Jim Calis) was released a couple of days back. In summary:
Bremmer (#81) is our sole representative.
- The Athletics have three in the top 100 (DeVries, Arnold, Jump)
- The Mariners have seven in the top 100 (Emerson, Anderson, Sloan, Montes, Arroyo, Farmelo, Cinjtje)
- The Rangers have one in the top 100 (Walcott)
- The Astros have none.
The Dodgers have five. The White Sox have five. The Rockies have two.
The top 100 rankings of the players drafted after Bremmer:
- Kade Anderson #21
- Ethan Holliday #24
- Liam Doyle #34
- Seth Hernandez #29
- Aiva Arquette #47
- JoJo Parker #45
- Steele Hall #83
- Billy Carlson #73
- Jamie Arnold #41
- Kyson Witherspoon #84
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Legend
1 month ago
The A’s have 3 in the top 100 plus the reigning AL ROY plus the runner up in the AL ROY the year who I think might be better long term than the ROY.
Super Member
1 month ago
They are both dudes. Wilson is the real deal. I think he’s going to be a tough out for his whole career. A great approach for a rookie. Top notch.
Legend
1 month ago
Love Jacob Wilson. Props to the A’s for taking him at No. 6 in 2023. Then Kurtz in 2024. Very transformative drafts.
Legend
1 month ago
Yeah. The A’s have a really good farm and a great young team. They are also a weirdly positive fan base for a bunch of people whose team is either moving, also moving, or waiting for their arrival, with an owner that is worse than ours. I like a lot of those players and the A’s as a whole. They have clearly passed us on both the interesting meter and the likely standings.
They have owned the Rachel Leigh Cook ugly duck who is actually a hottie underdog card really well with their MiLB park, etc. The only really stupid thing they’ve done is fail to just BE THE SACRAMENTO A’s for a couple years. Do just one City Connect release there. That whole area would follow them with their hearts to Vegas if they did. But hey, who needs a bonus market of 1 million people rooting for you?
Super Member
1 month ago
That would have been smart – the Sacramento thing.
Here’s what I expect from them – they next big Japanese star – they sign. Here’s the thing about the Las Vegas market. High rollers are so valuable to the economy. All the casinos will have suites for their high rollers – many being Japanese. Baseball will be a huge lift for the casinos. Dodgers come to town – those suites will be filled with Gamblers. Those suites will negotiate in pre-game BP field access – etcetera. They will go from a poor team to a team that generates huge revenues in a small market. Also – a big number of high rollers are these farmers that live in remote areas that don’t have a team nearby. The budgets these casinos have for high roller marketing would blow you away.
Super Member
1 month ago
By the way – why do you think Trump bought the Miss America pageant? They invite in the high rollers. The high rollers get invited to private parties. They take the girls out on the floor as their good luck charms and throw money around like it’s only paper showing them they are players.
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Legend
1 month ago
This is a perfectly fine comment.
But let’s not reply to it a turn this into every other comment section on the web, folks.
Super Member
1 month ago
No problem.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
Actually, what Trump bought was the Miss Universe Organization which include Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe. He never owned the Miss America Pageant. Miss USA and Miss America Pageant are separate entities.
All neither here nor there as the casinos he owned have been gone for years.
Super Member
1 month ago
My error – but I know that’s why he bought them originally. I have a friend in the pageant space who explained why they are all in Las Vegas. It was pretty interesting. He first saw the potential at a Hawaiian Tropic he hosted at one of his casinos and bought Miss Universe the next year or so.
Legend
1 month ago
Yeah. The A’s ownership is kinda sulking through this Sacto thing when really it’s an opportunity to embrace a “spare” fan base that no other team is likely to get. I went to two A’s games in Sac last year and they were actually a blast. The A’s could have shown up and just said “POP UP BASEBALL PARTY!” and thrown a three year BBQ where a whole new pile of fans from Redding down to Fresno gets into you.
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Legend
1 month ago
Agreed. And there is also an airport in Sacramento with flights to Vegas and TV out there.
Ingratiating themselves to a couple million vagabond fans would’ve had some long term advantages as well.
Super Member
1 month ago
If a team did the Mississippi State BBQ suites in the outfield- they would kill it. One of the coolest things you’ll see at a ballpark. People rent out the outdoor suites for the season – long waiting list. Some have smokers and grilles. Very cool. Smells amazing.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
I get it but why don’t we see who actually makes it in a few years and go from that. All of the guys above have behind the scene stories, their own issues, etc. No one knows all of them plus the system is odd in that if helps to draft guys for less in round one. Unless they are Skenes or the like. Only Seth Hernandez might have been that and he was a high schooler.
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Legend
1 month ago
If we’re going to go cheap, and we are, I took at look at some bargain bin players the Angels should target.
And thanks to Turk’s for the idea, but I posted how the Angels could use a lockout to their advantage.
Legend
1 month ago
Nice work!
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Legend
1 month ago
Thanks. I have to kick out quite a bit of content over here so I am hoping for some news.
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Super Member
1 month ago
The Angels picked up Trey Mancini on a minor league deal.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
Love the articles, gives me another reason to check in to CTPG.
Legend
1 month ago
Exactly. Have a weak ass farm? TRADE EVERYTHING YOU CAN. get prospects. Sign nothing, not even cheap players. Spend the money on scouting and development NOW. Apply those investments to the draft, then to developing players. Maybe snag some dudes who are 40 man casualties that you think you can teach over a season and a half.
Steal a march on the rest of the MLB. It’s the least sexy move ever, but it really could jump start a rebuild, and it’s the only chance we’ll have to do it this way in a long time.
Though…. how will we then be competitive in 2026? Who will we watch?
Trusted Member
1 month ago
I think they should still sign cheap players even if they’re rebuilding. They do two things at least with a well run organization.
- allow prospects to develop in the minors.
- allow a team to trade for lottery ticket type prospects. If Kirby Yates is having a good year at the deadline, he could be traded for a youngster with some promise (not a blue chip prospect, but something useful).
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Legend
1 month ago
Agreed.
A rotation of Kikuchi, Soriano, Quintana, Saguno keeps guys like Dana and Klassen in the minors until they are truly ready.
Legend
1 month ago
Sure, yeah. Cheap players that make good can also be traded in July. Just don’t buy “pieces” that “will help you win” because you are “in it”.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
Taylor Rogers signed with the Twins, just fyi
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Legend
1 month ago
My first big blunder On SI.
Won’t be my last.
Legend
1 month ago
and at $2M > Yates or Pomeranz
Legend
1 month ago
Both links go to the bargain bin article.
Legend
1 month ago
Here’s the correct link for the lockout article.
Trusted Member
1 month ago
They link to the same articles.
Legend
1 month ago
A fantastic article on our new hitting coach
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6997896/2026/01/26/brady-anderson-angels-hitting-coach-orioles/
Super Member
1 month ago
Nothing gets by you Charles. 😂
Last edited 1 month ago by HalosFanForLife
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Legend
1 month ago
It is slimmer than slim pickings right now.
I can’t remember an off season that was this slow. The only action for the Angels has happened in a courtroom.
Legend
1 month ago
It is NOT good for you. I do love it though. Finally. The off season where the FO stops wiggling around trying to act like the team’s mostly dead, spending millions on bargains to look like we have a shot if God winks at us. Embrace the suck.
