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The Angels have acquired Huston Street (and Trevor Gott) from the Padres in exchange for Taylor Lindsey, Jose Rondon, R.J. Alvarez and Elliot Morris.Wow, the Angels are fucking idiots. They just gave up four of their top twenty prospects (Lindsey was the second best prospect in the system coming into 2014, Rondon was the fifth best, Alvarez was the sixth best and Morris was the 18th best) for a Padres closer. Even if Huston Street is one of the few pitchers who survived pitching his home games in Coors Field, this was a massive overpay and the shitty Angels farm system just got even shittier.Poor Mike Trout. He's the best player in baseball and yet he won't be getting a ring anytime soon.
It's worth noting though that the Angels' farm system has been getting shitted on for what seems like a millennium now, and yet every year they pull up more and more productive players from the minors such as Richards, Kalhoun, Efren Navarro, CJ Cron, Green, Cowgill, and Shoemaker. I left Trout off that list because unlike the others, he was actually projected to be a God. They're the second best team in baseball, and with a very young homegrown core plus some vets that they stole from Texas with fat ass contracts. I know that if anything, that should give them more incentive to keep Lindsey (ranked #93 on Baseball America, unranked pretty much everywhere else) since they're witnessing firsthand that their "shitty farm system" is pumping out good players, but I don't think they're concerned with their prospects rankings when it comes to who stays and who doesn't. The highest Kalhoun was ever ranked at the end of a minor league season in Angels' system was #11, and now he's their second best player offensively.
So the Rangers traded Joakim Soria to the Tigers recently in exchange for Jake Thompson and Corey Knebel. A pretty nice get for Texas considering how both pitching prospects were top 10 prospects in the Detroit Tigers organization.The price on Joaquin Benoit has just gone up (and from the looks of it it was pretty high to begin with).Also the Seattle Mariners brought back Kendrys Morales and sent Stephen Pryor to the Twins. Lmao.
I wish Dodgers went after Soria, we have prospects who we don't even give a shit about that are ranked higher than the prospects Detroit gave up for him. I wish our front office was in 2012 desperation mode again, they seem WAY too content with the team right now and they aren't realizing that all the contending teams around them are making moves to improve their teams, while we aren't taking advantage of team's fire sales. I know sometimes the best move is no move at all, but we have very clear problems we need to address on the team. Three of our relief pitchers, most notably Chris Perez, are useless. Dan Haren needs to be replaced and that's not even by choice; he gets a vesting option for next year if he reaches a certain amount of innings, and if you take away his amazing month of April, his numbers make him the worst pitcher in the league. And we also need to part with one of our 8,000 OF's. It's frustrating as hell because these are all guys who produce when they play everyday, but they have to rotate two different OF's every other game. At this point I'd take Edwin Jackson's horrible contract and just throw him in the bullpen if they take one of our OF's plus cash to make the salaries match, though I think Cubs might actually just release Jackson (that's how badly they want to move on from him).
Quote from: Halu Sination on July 25, 2014, 04:30:55 PMI wish Dodgers went after Soria, we have prospects who we don't even give a shit about that are ranked higher than the prospects Detroit gave up for him. I wish our front office was in 2012 desperation mode again, they seem WAY too content with the team right now and they aren't realizing that all the contending teams around them are making moves to improve their teams, while we aren't taking advantage of team's fire sales. I know sometimes the best move is no move at all, but we have very clear problems we need to address on the team. Three of our relief pitchers, most notably Chris Perez, are useless. Dan Haren needs to be replaced and that's not even by choice; he gets a vesting option for next year if he reaches a certain amount of innings, and if you take away his amazing month of April, his numbers make him the worst pitcher in the league. And we also need to part with one of our 8,000 OF's. It's frustrating as hell because these are all guys who produce when they play everyday, but they have to rotate two different OF's every other game. At this point I'd take Edwin Jackson's horrible contract and just throw him in the bullpen if they take one of our OF's plus cash to make the salaries match, though I think Cubs might actually just release Jackson (that's how badly they want to move on from him).Fine, then we'll give you Brandon McCarthy and David Robertson in exchange for Julio Urias, Yasiel Puig and Andre Ethier. We expect you to pay for $30,855,000 of the $30,856,000 owed to Puig between 2015-2018 and $70,999,000 of the $71,000,000 owed to Ethier between 2015-2018. And all of the bonus incentives and whatnot that we're not privy to, yeah the Dodgers are going to have to pay for those too. Deal?
To counter the Giants acquiring a second baseman who can't hit, the Dodgers have just acquired a second baseman who can't hit. Dawin Barney (who was DFA'd by the Cubs a while back) has been picked up by the Dodgers. Wow, the NL West sure is exciting.
As opposed to the AL East and the John Danks sweepstakes?
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