that he thinks the Teixeira deal will happen this week and he is predicting he goes to Boston.

According to all the reports/rumors out there, he’s been pushing for a long term contract the whole time, initial reports/rumors were the Angels wanted to go only 6 years and were pushed to go to 8 by the market.

Why is it the Sox are the only one that can present and offer of 6 years and it’s automatically the one that will be accepted?

god forbid people play in an area with amazingly beautiful people, perfect weather and the beach within driving distance of nearly everywhere. torii knew what was up…if Teix wants to go to Bean town so be it…f-him.

Welcome.

Wait a minute! I voted no too…for reasons already stated. But this whole “he’ll play in Boston because they have a better chance of getting to the World Series” thing doesn’t hold water.

The fact that we have holes now doesn’t mean we still will have them on Opening Day. LF will be filled. K Mo is a competent hitter. And even WITH Tex, I think we can add Fuentes to the pen. And do you really think that Boston has NO holes at all? They’re losing their Captain, fer cryin out loud. They need a catcher and TWO starters! OF, SS, and depth are also question marks. I don’t see why they would walk to the WS with Tex any more than we would.

Teix was asked if he was going to pay attention to what teams did in the off-season and he said definitely. So far we have done nothing but let players go…that cant look good on paper. shit. I change my vote.

If Tex really wanted the Angels we would have heard some encouraging news by now.

His clients take a LONG time to settle on one offer or another.

That said, I do think we’re getting pretty close to the endgame here.

apparently is that the Angels are making such a last stand with this offer, thinking its a big deal. They sent to owner to Boras so he could offer it personally, like it was the biggest contract of all time or something. Basically the 8/160 deal was pretty much a standard discussed before the season even ended, and the fact the Halos front office makes it look like its the end all offer from heaven presented by Jesus himself is whats silly.

I can’t wait till he tears us a new on in bawstin in another first round sweep.

But then again the Rays and Yankees could somehow take the division and wild card, good god I hope so.

depends on the salary, but unless its a steal id rather sign dunn

Bleccch bleccch.

they dont need Tex. The only possible way this makes sense is if they get rid of two of Anderson/Lowell/Youkisuck/Ortiz. I would asume they would hold onto Youkisuck cuz he can play 1B and 3B. So they would probably have an infield (IF they sign tex) of 1B-Tex, 2B-Pedroia, SS-Lugo? 3B-Youk and a DH of Ortiz. That leaves anderson and lowell out. And unfortunately they could get alot with those two players (peavy, if they involved a third team and get propsects for lowell, then flip those prospects to the padres. If the Sux get Tex and Peavy, i will murder someone, and then the pressure is back on us to respond)

He is infallible, we should know this by know.

Cheers to his holyness, Pope Olney!

pull the trigger on Peavy, sign Dunn, look into what figgins could bring us in a trade

While he won’t produce those for an entire season, he is clearly valuable.

Every player you named as an alternative is signed to a LT deal. We can’t them

Rocco Baldelli – As much as I like hs potential, with his medical condition, he would be an overpriced platoon player
Brian Fuentes – Bullpen is set, really don’t see a need for another reliever.
Pat Burrell – Getting up there in baseball years, Prolong slumps… really not appealling
Manny – Last resort if we can’t get Tex

That my opinion take it for what it is

I’d take Fuentes at a discount. I’d take Dunn over Burrell. And my hatred for Manny is a matter of public record.

We can’t afford to pay someone that isn’t named Albert Pujols 200 million. Though Tex is part of the solution to improving the Angels chances of going deep into the playoffs, it will take a lot more than him which was evident in yet another first round loss to Boston.

The thing that worries me about the Angels is that with their recent success and willingness to not stand pat in the free agent market, the ownership and front office will make a move or sign someone just to say they did something in order to appease the fans that now expect them at the very least to win the AL West or Wild Card and make the playoffs every year.

By signing guys like GMJ in the past or entertaining the thought of signing someone like Burrell, you block the development of a prospect or a younger and cheaper player with potential that may not become a Salmon in his prime or Glaus in his prime, but could eventually become a Chad Curtis, David Eckstein, or JT Snow. Such a player could prove to be a very valuable trading chip to a small market team that may have a player hitting 230-300 with a high OBP and a 500 SLG, but is due for a payday either in arbitration or pending free agency that the team isn’t willing to pay.

I guess what I am trying to say is that since it takes time and patience to develop young players that are going to make mistakes, we may have to endure seasons in which the Angels don’t make the playoffs in order to provide the on the job training needed in order to find out if these players will be the ones to provide a strong nucleus to build the team around or are going to prove to be the next Lee Stevens, George Arias, Dallas McPherson, or Todd Greene for the Halos. We also have to find out if some of these players at the very least end up to be serviceable, cheap, spare parts to trade to other teams as part of a package for a player that could put us over the top.

I am not sure if we have the young nucleus to eventually become like Tampa Bay (I never thought I would be saying that) in Wood, Kendrick, Aybar, or Morales or the cheap spare parts that could help us get a player to build around to replace Vladdy. I just know that we won’t find out by benching them in favor of some overpriced veteran like Burrell.