Comments like that make me proud to be an Angels fan. Was the contract a mistake? Of course. They could have moped about it, forced a trade and paid most of his salary, or allowed the whole situation to get ugly with regards to his playing time. Instead they have made the most of a bad decision and actually extracted some value from Sarge Jr.

GMJ has a lot to do with why the Angels are great.

After one year they realized they screwed up and went and signed Torii. Angels understand sunk costs as well as anyone.

They don’t whine that the player is overpaid, and the player knows to shut his mouth when he becomes a backup (see J. Guillen).

Teams screw up contracts all the time, but having tons of money and handling it like this is how you win.

Hud getting on GMjr’s case lately? On the radio while Trevor Bell was pitching, Matthews made an error on a grounder and Rex said he looked “lackadaisical” on the play and then followed it up with “Torii Hunter will be back out there soon.” And then last night when he missed that shallow fly ball, Rex brought up that same error again, and he and Phys continued to harp on the fly ball, calling it a play that a “big league center fielder should always make”. Kudos to Rex for calling it like he sees it. It brings more credibility to showering one of ours guys with praise when hes willing to call someone out like that.