lindholmie
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doing good despite all those injuries. Sucks seeing so many people talking about trading trout lmao. this must be how the oilers fans feel with mcdavid
I'm still okay with the Simmons trade. We have no idea how Newcombe will end up, and Simmons might be this generation's Omar Vizquel. If we were to rebuild, the guys I would keep are Trout, Calhoun, Simmons, and maybe a few of the younger starting pitchers.
Don't follow the Angels that closely ... but why is Mark Trumbo not still in an Angel's jersey? Those weren't homers, they were like GBU bunker busters from a B-2.
Traded to them, not signed.Angels' owner decided he was done play fantasy baseball after forcing the club to sign Pujols and Hamilton in consecutive years. Then out of nowhere, the owner said, "we're on a budget."
So the GM was forced to make lemonade out of nothing. He traded Trumbo for two pitchers - Skaggs and Santiago. It also opened up a spot for Calhoun.
Trumbo then went from Arizona and signed with Seattle Mariners.
Well, the Angels GM that traded him away the first time, then became the Mariner's GM this past offseason. So he traded away Trumbo once again, but this time as a salary dump.
Trumbo hits HR's. But he doesn't walk often, strikes out a lot, low average, and weak on-base percentage. GM Dipoto is a stats guy.
It was a great move to acquire pitchers b/c signing Pujols and Hamilton cost the Angels back to back first round picks. So GM Dipoto kept trading for pitchers.
Our new GM just traded away our #1 and #3 pitching prospect, with the #1 ranked a first round pick. Our pitching situation moving forward is a mess now.
Short version for tl;dr
Trumbo can only hit homers, but nothing else and not often enough.
Pujols has 96 RBIs!?!?
So Josh was released by the Rangers and now gets to just sit around and collect his money from Anaheim. There is a possibility he comes back, but I think this last injury is the end of him.
Does Trout live in Newport Beach? He got in a car accident tonight on the 55.
Trouts going to get robbed of what should be his 5th MVP in 5 full years because this disgraceful team can't make the playoffs.
His plate discipline is remarkable this year.