If this is just a 3 month rental I don’t like it but If they can sign him, that would be a huge pickup. I like Kotchman a lot, but this is a big time power hitter we are talking about, someone who has proven himself in the AL no less. Let’s see how it plays out.

says Lyle Spencer.

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it’s Kotch and Marek for Teixeira

Welcome Tex!

This just sucks.

As long as we’ve got a backroomer setup with Borass to guarantee Tex in Anaheim for 3 years at least

for a rental.

Wow, I miss stoneman

but i like this pick up. definitely risky if we aren’t in the WS in the fall but what a trade, i can’t believe it.

There is virtually no way that we will be able to compete with the Yankees for Tex long term. We will lose him to FA and have a sub-par Morales playing 1B for us next year! Very short sighted of Reagans to do this. Kotch was having a career year!

I really like Kotchman. He’s a good hitter and a fine first baseman.

But even the most positive projections don’t indicate that he’ll ever have Teixiera’s power. Teix is also a fine 1B, so there should be no real dropoff from that perspective. Yeah, Casey’s got Angels blood in his veins (see Kotchman, Tom), but this makes the team – our team – better, and more likely to win a World Series.

Forget about the money. It’s Arte’s money, and he can spend it how he wants. Teix is not over the hill by any means (age 28 this year), and resigning him would not be a bad move.

Marek is perfectly expendable.

This is a good deal, people.

and I can’t use his nickname anymore.

Tex will be a great addition… but I can’t help think it’s a stupid move for a 2 month rental.

Krotch had a lot of promise for the future… We better do real well in the post season this year, or else.

if Teix leaves for NY next year, Kendry Morales steps in and probably provides just as much power at 1B as Kotchman would, so it’s not like they’d be up the creek.

a) we made a trade at the deadline
b) we lost a grea teammate in Kotch
c) we got Mark Teixeira!, a switch hitting power bat
d) is he a rental?

if rental means championship or at least World Series, it’s a good trade.

acuda is plotting now for Tex to leave and Kendry to get his chance to take over.

boo!

acuda is stoked

Lets think short term: we’re a MUCH better team THIS SEASON

breathe, people.

i can’t believe we did it.

i am STOKED!!!!!

I was hoping this was just smoke, Kotch is a great 1Bman with decent pop. If we can’t sign Teixera up to multi-year contract and he ends up being just a rental then I don’t know how I feel about this trade.

Guess I better go change my pregame picks.

I loved ya …

1) He said he wants to play on the east coast
2) Boras ALWAYS tests the market
3) The Yankees need a good 1B and always pay big for talent

We will not be able to resign him. We lost Kotch for a 2 month rental. That is a waste!!

Sentimentals (like myself) are going to be pretty bummed… :’(

who’s to say that the Yankees sign him?

Don’t they still have Giambi?

Don’t they still have Jorge Posada for 2 more years…and he might not be able to return as a catcher?

Didn’t they just pick up Richie Sexson?

happened. I just really hope we can keep Texiera. Though if both he AND Franky leave on us, we’re gonna get a LOT of first round prospects back.

Not bad

::sniff::

I was torn between my first jersey purchase: Kotch or Howie. Thanks for making that an easy decision Ninja.

Just to repeat what everyone has said over the past few days, the only way this works is if Tex hangs around for a long, long time.

Damn.

We couldn’t have pulled this off, say, 3 hours later?

Kotch and Marek is not a lot for Teixeira. Kotchman is a good player, but Teixeira is a stud. I get that.

But, right now I don’t like it. Casey was home-grown, young, cheap, GREAT with the glove. I was emotionally invested in Kotchman.

With Boras as the agent, Teixeira won’t sign before becoming a free agent – and this will be a HUGE contract…

2008 just got a little more interesting – 2009 is a different story.

Eh…

LamodafokinLey (6 minutes ago) Report Violation wow the angels just won the world series…....im a redsox fan!

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My god

hopefully everyone can stuff it about needing another bat now.

my mom’s sad, i just informed her the Angels traded away her “son” (as I jokingly refer to Kotch).

we’ll be on ESPN after Favre of course.

I lament the loss, but I would feel the same about the majority of this team. Sometimes you have to pay a price to upgrade the team as a whole. Honestly, this is the CHEAPEST upgrade I have heard about over the past 3 seasons. So, yeah, it is bittersweet, but it is still sweet.

Worse case scenario: Tex does not resign and Morales takes over 1B. The net loss is the delta between Kotch and Morales, in exchange for a serious run at another ring this decade. Yeah, I would do that.

And Olney’s bashing Atlanta for not getting enough.

We just traded JT Snow Jr for a stud.

You have to realize, this may be our year to compete for the world series. Think of all the talent that is going to be a free agent after this season (frankie, lackey, chone, juan), our team could look very different next season. We needed to do something to seriously compete this year. I applaud management for taking that risk.

And even if Tex walks, we still get to high drafts picks. Which is a bonus.

My only worries is what this does to our chemistry, Im not sure how much of a clubhouse guy Kotch was, but it will be interesting to see how this affects how we’ve currently been playing.

Great deal.

As much as I like Kotch, and I really, really do, Teixeira is in a different league.

The Angels are simply saying: Word Series, here we come!

That’s an awesome bunch of hitters right there!

Kotch pulled off the field during warmups. I’m assuming the deal is done and Kotchman is already a Brave. He’s packing his shit.

It could be a short as a one-week rental, if we don’t fare well in the playoffs.

I’m not sure how I feel about this deal. I really liked Casey, and if we don’t win it all and/or re-sign Tex, I’m not going to like it one bit.

If we dont win the WS now, then this was a bad move because we will lose Tex, Kotch, and K-Rod after this year. If we win the series, well then Im happy. Although we will still lose those players I mentioned

Here’s my reply:

What's with all the worries, Eyebrows ?

I’m not sure I follow you. The Angels FO is basically saying; Let’s make 2008 our year. We understand we got the division (no offense, A’s, M’s and Ranger fans), but let’s NOT get beat in the first round ALDS this post season.

I am stoked – and I love Kotchman! But Teixeira is awesome in his own way. More awesome than Kotch.

I’m not concerned about the big contracts for GMJ, Hunter and possibly Teixeira – as a matter of fact I hope he resigns with the Angels.

A lot of baseball fans are going to be ticked off right now, as the best team in baseball just got even better. They FINALLY added the power bat they’ve been talking about for years now. Much like the earthquake today, we were long overdue for this.

I LOVE YOU REAGINS!

seriously guys…. this is great for us. we all love Kotch and hate to see him go, but we just got a S.T.U.D. in exchange for a small price.

the ninja strikes again!!!

have any thoughts, Rev?

He basically said there were other very good players in the Texas clubhouse who wanted to play for the Angels.

I do not by the East Coast Teixeira BS. It is all about the $.

Because they’re playing in ATL and he can just run home and pick his shit after the game?

Take that Youlk.

If we dont win the world sires this is a mistake.

“I’m just trying to see the ball and put it in play.”

...Mark Teixeira is going to be an awesome pickup for 2008. He will make us very tough to beat.

Nevertheless, if we neither win it all nor resign him, I suspect that there will be an awful lot of bitching about this deal on these boards for years to come. Kotchman was developing into my favourite Angel – the right mixture of skills, the right attitude and some quirkiness.

Sometimes though, you just need to take throw the dice. You’ve got to be in it to win it…

Best of luck Casey. Tex, welcome to the party…

They are talking about the Brewers and how great they are. Hello?? We are the favorites now. We would crush the Brewers

This is an unbelievable team now, but I gotta admit I am a little worried about the future and the fact Tex will probably leave.

Oh well it’s gonna be a helluva run this year!

Hello Halos

Trying to quantify everything, and mentioning how it doesn’t make sense, it costs money and players, etc, etc…

I don’t worry or care about any of that. Is Teixeira an upgrade over Kotch ? Yes he is, and everybody agrees. Then why worry about the rest for now ?

Let’s go Angels 2008!

So all this trade stuff is new to me…

Goodbye Casey, we loved you here.

In his 157 games in Atlanta, Teixeira hit 37 home runs and drove in more runs (134) than any player in the major leagues except Ryan Howard.

From ESPN article linked above.

it is a total rental.
we were going to make the playoffs with either kotch or Tex
so basically we are renting tex for the playoffs.
if we don’t win the world series or at least go to the world series i think this trade will have been a failure.
i will suspend my final judgment until then

... it’s because I love Casey Kotchman. He was my second favorite Angel behind Ervin and right in front of Jered.

Kotchman was one of my favorite Halos-just the way he played, the way he was finally starting to show his true potential (like at the beginning of the season) after that midseason slump, and especially the connection with his dad (who seems somewhat disappointed but resigned to it as well, from the article-“if you’re happy, then I’m happy” to paraphrase). He just shined Angels ball.

But I love Tex, too. He’s a fantastic player. I really wanted us to go for it at this time last year, but now I don’t know. Is he really going to make a significant difference here? What will his VORP for us be vs. Kotch’s VORP for us? If Tex leaves after this season, I can see that the FO believes things will work out either way, and they’re right.

But I’ll still miss Kotch. It’s like Saunders said, it’s always disappointing to lose a teammate (even if he wasn’t my teammate in the strict sense). I guess it’s just a matter of letting go…