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Dalton Rogers pitching line- 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K, 54/90 strikes (60%). The 22-year-old lefty has a 2.79 ERA over 9.2 IP with 19 strikeouts to 5 walks.
For sure, they were DUMB for not resetting last year. All they had to do was trade JD for a low A prospect at the deadline and the would have reset. Big time fail on FO for that.
Prospects are never a guarantee. You can move a signed SS to 2B or elsewhere. You can move Mayer to a different position or trade him in a package for a starting pitcher if he really develops.
How many players did he get rid of again?
Xander 11 @ 280M
Mookie 12 @ 365M
Nate 2 @ 34M
JD 1 @ 10 M
Vaz 3 @ 30M
Renfroe 1 @ 12M
Seems like he's committed to SLASHING money and not spending it?
I could see the Mets or someone going crazy and giving him a monster deal. I don't see this ownership doing that for him. When have they done that for anyone? Devers didn't set the market at that position.
If this was the case, he wouldn't be ranting against Mets ownership with every last breath right now and fighting for the rights of small market teams to not pay their players.
They also have a really bad Rendon contract and have had a consistently bad farm system. Even Chaim could make that Angels team better than what it currently is.
Why didn't they just go over again this year and sign one year deals? Why not reset next year when more young guys are projected to be promoted from the minors?
Ah, so they slashed and slashed and slashed and then spent under the cap again, but that's a win for you? That's how a large market franchise acts to you? They were forced by their fanbase to sign one franchise player because their tickets are the second highest in the game and the owners were letting every great player leave for greener pastures, but the Sox are still acting like a large market franchise to you?
That's what years of an apathetic ownership will do. There was excitement around the team last year, then they traded away Mancini and their best bullpen piece rather than even pretending to go for a WC birth. Embarrassing. The owner spent the whole offseason looking like an entitled idiot (even more than Henry did) in front of the fanbase too.