Post-2010 Free Agents by Team Part 1

troy glaus back would be interesting, he’d come inexpensive and maybe sign for a hometown discount, giving us a 3b/DH. I look back at the top angels of all time and I want that description of him as the table setter back!

    T. Lilly is not a 5th starter. He is more like a #3.

nothing will say “slow summer memories” like watching Glaus play the field like Root Beard the Ent, then get up to the plate, squint some, whiff twice, and then, once on base, ooze slowly toward second as the first out in a double play.

It’s like every great baseball mind has said since the founding of the game. If you want to turn your team around, go get old, slow guys who can’t field. We can have Juan Rivera DH and get 18 doubles, 16 HR and .240 out of him. Even Troy himself looked shocked that he’d pulled off that play against the Giants.

Webb we don’t really need…. Downs I’d pull the trigger, primarily because we need to get lefty relief somewhere, which means we’ll need to take some sort of “risk” to get it, and he’s got an OK track record.

Darn it! I knew as soon as we started out not even trying to sign Oliver we were making a huge mistake. Now we need a lefty and we’ll have to pay out the nose for him. I miss Oliver more than Lackey/Vlad/Figgy.

I loved him back in the day, saw that three-homer game at Anaheim Stadium, dude was of course key in 2002, but i think he’s pretty much done. He can’t play a full season of baseball at starting level. The Angels need to get younger and more mobile, and Glaus is neither.

I’d say Webb is interesting, but we already have our own expensive project in Kaz.

I like Scott Downs just fine, but I remember our mostly-anonymous 2002 bullpen and think that unless you’ve got Mariano Rivera or Dennis Eckersley, you’re betting off going with what you’ve got instead of paying too much for far too little.

Looking at you, Fuentes and FRaud.

For Glaus, I’d wait and see how the market goes.

For Webb, I would hope we could sign him to a deal with lots of incentives. If it works out, then we get quite the steal. If it doesn’t work out, we still have Weaver, Haren, Santana, and Pineiro anyways.

Downs and Frasor are fine, but I’d rather save money and see what a full season of Walden, Kohn, and Thompson can do. Plus, if we get Webb, I think Kazmir could fill the role of overpaid reliever quite well.

I have not checked any stats (recent or during his Angels career), but when I think of Glaus (Angels third baseman) I remember: lots of time on the DL, and choker in critical situations. (And I agree with Kernel, too old).