Is No Adrian Beltre Good for Brandon Wood?

Understand why people are so thrilled that the Angels will have a starting 3B with a career .720 OPS (.393 SLG) guy instead of a career .791 guy (who also happens to be a much better defensive player).

“you’ll be dfa’d! CLassiC!

Really simple actually. Too bad the Angels don’t apply that principle to other players…

Beaten by DR.
Great minds?

their balls on their chin? interesting

At least it would be amusing to watch when he flailed at a pitch.

Up until now, for years, I haven’t been very critical of the front office. For the most part, it has made reasonable, sometimes incorrect but almost always reasonable, decisions on personnel and spending matters. Not this year. Basically, everything they’ve done is indefensible, assuming the goal is to compete for a championship, rather than simply maintain a certain payroll and hope for the best.

Woohoo.

Into Robb Quinlan!

call jesus? No. I really doubt they will trade him because he’s one of their better players.

Unfortunately, it may require that NOT having spent money on good players to improve the club then results in losing, such that losing drives down attendance. We would then have the antithetical form that proves your position.

The kicker would be if the Angels still missed the playoffs.

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He hasn’t done nothing since he got the team… very true, he’s been doing a lot of great things… He hasn’t done nothing, great.

“Outlook not so good.”

The Angels have players to fill in if he continues to suck. Right now, any offensive consistency that Wood can develop would be a major improvement to the team.

Note: I said consistency. Wood can have a multi-hit game or hit a grand slam or draw a walk here or there, but it’s pointless if we can’t expect it day in and day out. Let’s hope the winter ball has helped give him some confidence and/or help him find a groove.

The Halos front office continues to hit the beach on the presumption of the tide line from the previous hour.

Reagins could have this wrapped up in time for lunch tomorrow.

Wood is McPherson 2.0. At least Dallas could blame it on poor health.

it should be fun seeing our team lose a ton of 1-0/2-0/2-1 games.

Firing Tony Reagins this September will be the next step
2012 World Champs, Mayan Calendar be damned.

when you just straight write opinion, you’re pretty damn good. I mean, your post are always good, but entertainment-wise…this kicks ass.

Sports fanaticism is very much like religious fanatacism, particularly in modern society. Right now it looks like our high priests have been found to be preaching false prophecies and the faithful are calling for an inquisition. We all might be overreacting and venting a bit, but it’s hard to say they didn’t bring it upon themselves.

I never expected all three of those guys to be signed, or even two. I did expect one and I think deep down inside, the “high priests” did too. The 95 Theses are already on the door – hopefully the coming Reformation goes well.

Question: is the “broken power pitcher” Colon?

Like an abused spouse,

At this point, before the season starts, I don’t see any reason why any team would trade a starting 3B, at least not one who’d be worth acquiring. David Wright is really the only one worth acquiring who might be made available, and that’s only if Sandy Alderson decides to gut the entire team, which may be impossible to do (from a PR perspective) in New York. Wright, Beltran and Reyes for Aybar, Conger, Bourjos, Walden, Chatwood or Richards, and Segura or Amarista?

Bullpen is improved, there’s no doubt about that.

Offense: considerably weaker than last year’s, which wasn’t good enough. An additional four months of Morales is offset by zero months of Matsui. The return of Kendry means less Mike Napoli as well. Napoli is not going to get anything close to 75% of the starts. It’s clear that the Soth prefers Mathis, so there will probably be more of him. You can hope that Bourjos learns how to hit, but it would be unreasonable to expect anything more from him than he has shown (he has some pop, but don’t expect more than a .220 average from him at this point). Hunter and Abreu will be a year older. Abreu may have been unlucky last year, so if he “regresses” to his norms, it might offset age-expected declines from him and Hunter, but there’s no real net difference there. Aybar and Kendrick figure to be about the same. Juan Rivera could be better, but might not be. A full season of Callaspo is a marginal improvement over half a season of Brandon Wood, but nothing to get excited about. In sum, the offense should be just about the same as last year. The bullpen will be better, but Weaver had a career season and may regress somewhat. Santana has never pitched well in an odd-numbered year, so who knows what to expect from him. It’s unlikely that they let Kazmir suck for as long as he did last year, but it’s not clear that his potential replacements (Palmer, Bell) would be substantially better.

You’re still basically looking at a.500 team.