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Brixton
One of their younger MiLB pitchers would probably go back.
Brixton
deal is done – heyman
slider32
Good move by the Angels they can platoon Murphy and Victorino in LF.
alex navarrette
he’s a good platoon player, but I hope we didn’t give up anything too valuable.
vamosbravos
Wrong, Alex. Murphy is a ‘great’ platoon player & better yet, is one of the classiest pro’s in the game today, as well.
Brixton
They got David DeJesus too. 3 outfielders acquired in 2 days.
Matt Galvin
how did they get the other David?
MB923
Traded Eduar Lopez for him
punchandjudy
Nice work by the Angels here to get a viable LF platoon now. We don’t know what they are giving up, so I’ll take my shot in the dark and say Cam Bedrosian.
cc36
Eric Stamets.
cc36
Stamets and Lopez are all we gave up. Awesome job by Stoneman.
Brixton
Eric Samets for Murphy
Eduar Lopez for DeJesus
willm
a Murphy/Victorino platoon makes sense. As much as I wanted Cespedes, Bruce, Gomez or someone else, it is widely documented how thing our system is. Also, with tons of money still being paid to Hamilton, this seems like the budget-wise solution to Matt Joyce’s failures this year
MB923
Now they just got DeJesus. I wonder if the Trout injury is more serious.
Matt Galvin
Joel Sherman @Joelsherman1 1m1 minute ago
#Angels person told me Victorino/Murphy/DeJesus are for LF/depth and not because of Trout injury.
The Ghost of Bobby Bonilla
Oh good. A slap hitting SS that bats under .250 in AA ball. Excellent work once again Chris Antonetti. Couldn’t you have at least got 300,000 hot dogs and a couple boxes of Fireworks for Friday nights?
alex navarrette
His defense is elite and he has some impressive speed. He’s a great bench piece at worst, ok starter at best.
Tribe82
We don’t have a need for a SS…especially one who can’t hit his way out of a wet paper bag.
Monkey’s Uncle
Murphy is a good pickup. He’s a guy who knows how to be a role player and make the most out of his contribution.
A'sfaninUK
Solid pickups by the Angels – no scrubby minor leaguers will have to sub in if Trout has to miss any time. They can just DFA Joyce, he’s toast as a big leaguer.
bjsguess
Great day for the Angels. All three outfielders will be contributors and an improvement over what is there today. And they were all acquired with very little cost (just a few million in salary and a couple of low ceiling prospects). Would be nice to land a bigger impact player but keeping the best talent we have in the farm system is more important.
Joyce can now be DFA’d. We can platoon in LF and spell Cron when a platoon split would be in our advantage.
As for Joyce … what a bummer that didn’t work out. I was real excited to see Joyce as Angel. Historically he was a complete masher of RH pitching. Have no idea what happened to him this year. He was just totally lost. Fun fact, his OPS against LH pitching this season … 262. That’s a triple slash of .048/.167/.095. Granted that’s over just 24 PA’s but still. The guy is a major league baseball player that is known for being a bat first contributor. I’m fairly certain that with 6 months of training I could hit that well against LH pitching.
Tribe82
I understand the Tribe is throwing in the towel on this season, as they should. But I would have expected to at least get a player we could eventually use in the future for Murphy. Stamets will never see a single day in a Tribe uniform as long as Lindor is here. Not to mention he doesn’t have a bat, which is the Tribe’s biggest concern as a whole. Seems like a really dumb trade by the Indians…a fleecing by the Angels.