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July 28, 2026

Here is the Angels Trade Deadline Big Board by JJ.

The owners are apparently committed to a lengthy lockout if necessary to get their way.

I think I just found a good trade proposal for Jorge Soler. I wish I was worth 60 cases of beer.

The Brewers just released Lance McCullers Jr. I guess he wins the Alek Manoah award for July. Who will be the next pitcher to flame out catastrophically?

The Athletics designated right-hander Geoff Hartlieb for assignment apparently to make room for Scott Blewett. They are probably losing Shea Langoliers for the rest of the season with a torn meniscus.

Reds second baseman Spencer Steer will be out of action for a significant time due to a sprained wrist.

Blue Jays third baseman/outfielder Addison Barger just had season ending elbow surgery.

Pitcher Luis Contreras, formerly of the Astros, has announced his retirement from playing.

The Cubs just designated Jameson Taillon for assignment. It’s to make room for Andrew Wantz.

The Braves reactivated Ronald Acuna Jr. He had once again been on the ten day IL with a hamstring issue.

For Fantasy Baseball enthusiasts, here is today’s Roto Riteup.

The San Diego Padres are looking for a Software Engineer.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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Texan44

1 hour ago

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/07/top-50-deadline-trade-candidates.html

Only 8? Sounds a little light to me.

Perhaps those are all that can be traded without having to send 3 or 4 top prospects with them and some cash.

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

Actually, it would be awesome to see all of our traded players in the post season. We could live vicariously.

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Eric_in_Portland

2 hours ago

Kurt is inspirational!

“Obviously a tough way to lose,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “Definitely a tough one tonight, tough way to lose, just couldn’t make the plays. … Sometimes stuff like this happens. You’ve got to pick your head up. You’ve got to move forward. You’ve got to prepare again tomorrow and come back ready to play.”

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Perfect. Stuff just happens. Absolutely no accountability. If he had inserted Peraza and Peraza made an error, then his statement would be correct. But when you don’t do the right things and then something happens that might have been prevented. Grissom’s value is in his bat and that is not the 1st time he has made a big error. His bat put them in a position to win the game. Trout should have been replaced as well.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

53 minutes ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Let me run Suzuki’s quote through the universal translator:

“You can’t chase wins every night”

(Apologies to whoever requested that quote be forgotten)

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MikeHuggins

4 minutes ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

“Turn the page.” (Good God, this team is awful!)

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TrojanBoiler

2 hours ago

Cubs DFAed Jameson Taillon because he has been horrible this year. $18M contract and they let him walk.

Someone show this to Mo and tell him that Soler needs to go.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to TrojanBoiler

Give it a week, he’ll be gone and then you all can find a different pinata

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TrojanBoiler

1 hour ago

Reply to FungoAle

Suzuki will be the next pinata

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to TrojanBoiler

LOL…how could I forget. But seriously, a round of beers for all if Soler is on the roster in 7-days from now. Hoping we get 2-3 more home runs out of him prior to the deadline to enitce some team in trading a top 30 ranked prospect.

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TrojanBoiler

52 minutes ago

Reply to FungoAle

I hope you’re right.

Unfortunately, nobody would give us anything for him at this point. He could hit a HR every day between now and then and probably have no trade value.

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Roy Hobbs

48 minutes ago

Reply to TrojanBoiler

There are always people that think they can fix somebody.

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JackFrost

30 minutes ago

Reply to TrojanBoiler

let’s hope so….

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milehigh

3 hours ago

Lots of competition on the trade front.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49424586/mlb-trade-deadline-2026-expert-deals-skubal-miller-lindor-tigers-yankees-mets

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to milehigh

For teams interested in obtaining a SS, Jermey Pena is a better piece to get over Neto. Lindor is laughable.

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milehigh

1 hour ago

Reply to FungoAle

Will be interesting to see which is chosen. Pena better overall offensively, Neto better overall defensively.
Pena strikes out way less.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to milehigh

I’m not a sabermetric dude but I got this off of the Red Sox fan site. They were talking about Neto’s defensive chops:

2026:
OAA: -8 (35th)
RunsPrev: -6 (35th)

2025:
OAA: -8 (33rd)
RunsPrev: -6 (33rd)

2024:
OAA: -6 (37th)
RunsPrev: -4 (37th)

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to FungoAle

*From Statcast

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Pineapple12

3 hours ago

Passan doesn’t say stuff just to say stuff … 👀👀🎱

Passan: “I think by the end of this deadline, Zach Neto might be the best player traded. All the big markets [NYY, BOS, LA, PHI] could be in.”

“The Angels are gonna want to hit a homerun on this. And considering the paucity of bats on the market, I think they very well could.”

https://youtu.be/A9IVwqVHiXk?is=w8Q5BzxIwVrkiRfQ

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Pineapple12

3 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

more Passan

“It’s going to be extremely interesting how emboldened Moz their interim GM is… And if he’s been told you can trade any of these guys, the real question is which of them will bring back the kind of value the Angels believe they can.

To me the Angels should be an all or nothing proposition. If you are trading Reid Detmers, you should trade Zach Neto, you should trade Jose Soriano, you should trade everyone you can short of Walbert Urena and just start over. Do it the right way. And it’s tougher to tank with the anti tanking rules that penalize especially large markets that wind up in the lottery, but where the Angels are at right now they need to power wash the entire place, get the stench out, and hopefully rebuild the right way”

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Roy Hobbs

2 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

This is exactly what I have been saying and I actually believe if they do it, they can be good much sooner than people think.

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FungoAle

2 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Yanks really do need to move off of Volpe. Red Sox have a fool for a GM, he still might be interested in Neto.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to FungoAle

Looks like Tampa Devil Rays are in the Neto hunt. Hope to see some AL East competitive bids beginning to take shape for Zachary’s services.

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Roy Hobbs

54 minutes ago

Reply to FungoAle

I saw that, and I believe if they want to trade him there are trade options.

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James

3 hours ago

Trade everyone Angels and start over. Last place is getting old

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FungoAle

3 hours ago

Reply to James

Yeah. I would push to trade everyone on the current MLB roster with more than 1-year of active service. Guys like Walbert and Denzer, keep them.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

I’m no scout but I am really impressed with Guzman. Watched his BP up close and seen him doing infield drills. He moves so smoothly, especially his hands.

He stands out for moving smoothly even among his peers.

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HalosFanForLife

2 hours ago

Reply to James

Clearly you haven’t tried the hot dogs.

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Roy Hobbs

3 hours ago

You nailed it with the big board write up. After blowing the Ohtani opportunity, we’ve been given a second chance. Let’s learn from our mistakes.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Thank you.

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Fansince1971

4 hours ago

People hate uncertainty. It’s the driving force in equity markets. It’s what guides people away from taking risks. Uncertainty is scary.

It’s why folks would rather go with the comfortable known players versus the scary and uncertain unknown players. Even against a 12 year tide of extreme suckage, known is better than uncertain. For most people.

Generally to succeed you need to take some risks. That is the position the Angels find themselves at this time. It’s time (and has been for awhile) to take some reasonable risks and build a stronger farm by trading away players. Accept and even love uncertainty and your life will be better.

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Jeff Joiner

3 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

I can understand the apprehension to a degree, and am writing a longer piece on it.

Soriano, Detmers, and Urena is a nice starting trio with years of control remaining.

Guzman looks good, Neto has been better than this, Schanuel is hitting. Trout is playing his best in years.

This is by far the best collection of young talent we’ve had in forever. But it still is far from enough and we are in last place with no end in sight.

We need 8 stud pitchers, not 3. We need a real center fielder, much better overall defense, several bullpen arms, and two catcher.

In order to get all that, we need to trade valuable pieces and draft intelligently.

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Fansince1971

1 hour ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

I would argue the players you mention are okay but their familiarity to us give them greater value to us. In reality to the rest of the league these dudes are meh+. Maybe one will develop into an All Star. The familiarity makes it all scary. But it’s time to take that step into the abyss and see what happens. The whole place smells like crap. Time to throw away that old familiar chair and couch and have the cleaning crew come in.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Nothing really scary about baseball trades, might be just me

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

Reply to Fansince1971

71, he is agreeing with you.

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Fansince1971

1 hour ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I realize that but I think he is overstating the value of the players like Soriano, Urena and Detmers. Those names have familiarity to us and we therefore assign greater value than reality.

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JackFrost

21 minutes ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

We have young talent on the big league club, and I have been saying this, but it is not about the players ! It is the culture and all of the small, mostly intangible things that entails…of course Suzuki’s stupidity is a big part of it as well…. Last night was a perfect example — should have been a W, easily. But for some inexplicable reason the idiot manager decides to try and give Fermin his first save of his career… he hits Trammell on the FOOT (snakebit Angels badluck etc ) and not being a Closer Felix cannot recover and we lose. A well managed game gets us a win, but once things start to go against us we can’t stem the tide… That is emblematic of a losing culture ; you find ways to lose even when your talent got you a late lead.

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Jeff Joiner

2 minutes ago

Reply to JackFrost

I get that. And it likely starts at the bottom of the organization.

What’s funny is I was looking at defensive metrics with a buddy last night and we were both amazed at how bad Grissom has been.

Then an hour later he blows an easy double play.

If a guy in the press box knows Grissom is bad at defense, why doesn’t anybody on the field?

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

5 seconds ago

Reply to JackFrost

Stupid Zuksuki should hah known Fermin would throw a pitch, hit a guy in the foot, then loose his mind.

Here. I’ll fix it.

FERT

There you go. A whole new culture. All will be well now.

I can tell you aren’t the kind of pool turd that sits there bitching about culture and invisible magic right up until the team is in the play offs. Then wanks about grit and tactics if we lose in the play offs. No way you’d do that.

But it’s gonna be OK. I went and got us a new culture.

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Pineapple12

4 hours ago

Walbert Urena (22 years old)
93.1 IP
2.2 bWAR (35th amongst SP)
1.5 fWAR (50th amongst SP)
2.75 ERA
3.18 xERA
3.85 FIP
4.32 xFIP
22% K rate
53.3% GB rate

All of this to say Wally a ⭐

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Pineapple12

4 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Amongst rookie SPs Wally is
— 3rd in bWAR
— 5th in fWAR

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Roy Hobbs

4 hours ago

Reply to Pineapple12

And he started late.

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Pineapple12

4 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Perry forced him to begin the season in the bullpen and Suzuki immediately let him die in his 2nd major league appearance.

Briefly sent down to AAA for a few weeks and returned as a demon possessed. Makes 0 sense but who cares, Wally counts as a homegrown SP even if we got lucky.

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Fansince1971

1 hour ago

Reply to Pineapple12

We have seen this over and over and over. Flashes of brilliance from a young kid and then the league catches up. Maybe he is the real deal but that eval is at least 1 to 2 full seasons away.

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MarineLayer

5 hours ago

The Minasian is really, really Stupid Department nuggets for the night:

Apparently we’ve blow 9 games in the 9th this year. If instead of buying a lot of junk free agents, he could’ve re-signed Kenley for the same money and won eight of those games. And he wanted to stay, amazingly.

Not that it matters, but Minasian really was the Mount Everest of dumb.

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Fansince1971

4 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Unclear whether he asked for money to sign Jansen and it was denied. We dont and won’t know. But Jansen could have made this team into a 75ish win team probably.

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Jeff Joiner

4 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

The fact of the matter is Perry needed to sign 4 guys because he had failed to draft and develop internal options and traded away Burke.

This was a problem entirely of his making.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 minutes ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Burke’s lookin good on the Reds….

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YOUknowulovetheIE

3 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

He could’ve signed chafin as well but nope

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

19 minutes ago

Reply to Fansince1971

How? More sweat? Cooler hair? He’s basically the same pitcher as Yates. Just look at the brefs….

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Jeff Joiner

4 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

With Zeferjahn emerging as a solid bullpen piece, the Angels could have had a solid combination at the end of the bullpen.

Add in Brock Burke who was traded for a negative WAR outfielder and the Angels have a solid trio.

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Born_in_59

3 hours ago

Reply to MarineLayer

I can’t argue that Jansen has got the results this season, but would he have achieved them on this team? A cursory look at his stats indicates he hasn’t pitched much better than Yates has. Jansen has a FIP of 5.06, WHIP of 1.229, RA9 of 4.23 and slash line of .179/.293/.337. Compare this to Yates FIP of 3.56, WHIP of 1.095, RA9 of 4.01 and slash line of .184/.298/.333. Seems fairly close to me, so instead of cursing signing Yates we could be cursing signing Jansen at nearly twice the price.

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MarineLayer

3 hours ago

Reply to Born_in_59

At the end of the day, it didn’t matter at all. I’m just pointing out Minasian took a bad situation of his own making and made it worse.

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Reply to Born_in_59

I don’t fault them from moving on from Jansen and investing $11M but when the ex-GM singed Yates for 1-year @ $5M, a healthy Paul Sewald was available. Mike Hazen swooped in and brought back Sewald for 1-year @ $1.5M. In 2026, Paul Sewald: 24 saves out of 26 opportunities. a 0.94 WHIP. He was healthy and Yates has had issues from day 1. The ex-GM read the room wrong, again.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

23 minutes ago

Reply to FungoAle

In the case of Sewald, we can say the same thing about what? 25 GMPOBOEIEIOs? As long as we’re picking cherries we could have made moves to get Jake Bauers or Robbie Ray. Hell, if I wanna completely tuck my package and have a go for it I could list all the guys we drafted instead of Cam Schlittler. That’s always fun.

Perry may have sucked, but not signing Sewald or Jansen (who sucks as much as Yates, take it from a guy who has been watching both all year) has nothing to do with it.

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Born_in_59

18 minutes ago

Reply to FungoAle

But this is the same issue with Jansen. Sewald, despite an abnormal BABIP of .198, is still surrendering runs with a RA9 of 5.06 this season. On this team, he wouldn’t be near as successful giving up that many runs.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

6 minutes ago

Reply to Born_in_59

The Angels can make Mason Miller look like a hobo.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

22 minutes ago

Reply to Born_in_59

Totally true. But why not wahhh?

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Jeff Joiner

5 hours ago

Buzz from the press area last night:

No sight or sound from Arte.

Mo making himself available to the media the other day was a bit of a surprise.

All speculation but the feeling is that if Mo is expected to stay he’s being given power to do things his way.

Most still think Mo will be a POBO or similar and hire a day in day out GM.

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Roy Hobbs

4 hours ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

Don’t know why it took him so long to realize but this is perfect for Arte with Mo as the teams face.

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TrojanBoiler

5 hours ago

Did we trade anyone yet?

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Texan44

5 hours ago

Reply to TrojanBoiler

Nothing reported yet. I saw we offered a 3 legged dog, and their counter was a one-eyed cat but that trade fell through.

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Charles Sutton

15 minutes ago

Reply to Texan44

We should see if Jerry Dipoto will take a couple of opossums for Jimothy.

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Fansince1971

5 hours ago

“27 looking more and more like a lost season. This could either create a “win in ‘26” type attitude among the competing teams (good for trade deadline) or a hesitancy to make any deals since years of control means way less with a lost season looming. It’s going to be very interesting!

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milehigh

5 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Is it a done deal that players will lose a year of control if no ’27 season? If the CBA expires then there is nothing in place to govern the control of players? It would be in the new CBA to keep or lose the year of control? I really don’t know. If so, though, doesn’t seem like a hill the owners would die on. Again, I don’t know what the rules are. Just spitballing.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

5 hours ago

Reply to milehigh

Yup. The owners will almost certainly not try to maintain an extra year of control through this. The new CBA will include MLB players getting their gold stars and smiley stickers on the wall chart for 2027.

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HalosFanForLife

5 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I agree.

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HalosFanForLife

5 hours ago

Reply to milehigh

I think likely the team control will be hard for the owners to pull off. Imagine you waited to sign a deal – because your arb year was scheduled to end after the 2027 season. Now you want to add a year? Homie don’t play that.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

5 hours ago

I wonder how much the lock out is impacting the trade deadline.

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Jeff Joiner

5 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Same. I’d imagine quite a bit.

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milehigh

5 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

So many ways to look at this I wonder, too. Buyer could look at lost ’27 and say I want to go as deep as I can into the playoffs and make as much money as I can now. Or a buyer could say I’m not going to make enough money to make a big difference for ’27 so I’ll keep my prospects and see what the new CBA brings. Maybe I’ll move some high price veterans and promote my prospects.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

4 hours ago

Reply to milehigh

Yeah, the conversations taking place must be pretty interesting.

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Roy Hobbs

4 hours ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

Especially with so many team still in it.

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Jeff Joiner

6 hours ago

Both Chicago teams are looming into Detmers.

Which trade package is better?

https://www.si.com/mlb/angels/onsi/cubs-or-white-sox-which-chicago-trade-package-speeds-up-the-angels-rebuild-best-01kykjytd9mh

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Texan44

6 hours ago

The White Sox are yet to win anything this year, but they lost 102 games in 2025. When you look at their roster I have never heard of most of these guys. But starting 2 years ago, they got rid of all their over paid none producers. At the end of 2025, their highest salary was $2.5 million. (In business there is an old saying – “If you can’t cut it, you can’t stay.”

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Fansince1971

6 hours ago

Reply to Texan44

That’s what a rebuild is supposed to look like and had Ohtani been traded when he should have been, the Angels would likely be much further along as opposed to having this rag tag roster.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

5 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

But but…. generational players! Must make Ohtani smile. His mom knows things. Who will I watch at least I can watch. Right? Reload?

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Terry

6 hours ago

Another milestone for our boys. The Halos became, in last night’s game, the first team in mlb history (!!) to lose nine games while leading going into the 9th inning, prior to the end of July.

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Terry

6 hours ago

The new Red Sox infielder, Mead, just acquired from the Nats, took a fastball to the hand last night in his first ab for the Sox. Neto may be just what the doctor ordered for them.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

5 hours ago

Reply to Terry

That actually bummed me out. I like Mead doing well…

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

6 hours ago

Come on Angels. All the suck will feel a little less bad if you just act like you’ve decided to switch things up and do what teams with a brain do. TANK.

There will never be a better time to trade anyone on the team than now. Seriously, only Walbert has a shot at being around when we are good again. I would actually feel encouraged if our MLB roster was completely torn apart and we were heading into 2027 and the lock out knowing that we have a pile of kids who will still be developing while the Big Boys squabble over who gets the biggest glob of caviar. Add to that we have a couple young pen arms like Fermin and a solid support cast with the Meckler, Peraza, Grissom, Siri type guys…. oh, and actually Schanuel’s not looking horrid either. Is it me or did he figure out how to run like a human? I don’t mean fast, not al all, but he doesn’t look like a wounded T Rex anymore. If he stays hot and manages 3 WAR then good for us.

THAT. That is a perfect “extended work stoppage” roster. A pile of MLB guys none of whom are established enough to just sit on their asses with all the down time. Give me a minor league system with five or six 50 grade prospects in it and I’ll feel like “OK. We suck but clearly we are trying a long term plan here.” That’d be great.

Or, well, you know, as good as we can get right now. And I say that knowing that if we have a dozen solid prospects in the system four of them will actually work out.