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dodgersrdbest
Depending on how this season turns out, Angels really should consider what Trout could net them(as crazy as it sounds). From worst to one of the top 6 farm systems.
jmac70
why? They have abot 50mil coming off the books this after this year. Then Hamilton coming ofc the books a year later. Plus the luxury tax should go up, giving them plenty of mony to spend.
dodgersrdbest
In your opinion, which players with that money freed up, will allow them to be a top team then?
theo2016
Overpaying free agents is what got them in to this mess. Also when hamilton comes off the books trout goes up 14 mil and pujols goes up a mil a year, so really only half of hamilton comes off the books. They have so many holes and nothing to help from the minors. The inly positions they are set at are ss, cf, dh, rf, sp1, sp2 and closer. Thats assuming heaney is legit. They have skaggs who maybe can be a third starter, but by that time shoemaker and santiago are non tender candidates. Filling 2 sp’s, basically a whole bullpen, and 5 positions is expensive, even if they have 100 mil to spend
cxcx
How about Trout for Betts, Bogaerts, Rodriguez and Owens? Or I guess swap Moncada for one of them to make it more prospecty.
bigpapi4ever
Man, that’s a really tough call. I think I’d do it with Betts, Bogaerts, Erod, and Owens but not if you swapped Moncada in for Erod or Owens. Betts, + Bogaerts + Moncada + Erod/Owens is too much for even someone as amazing as Trout.
Clutchp
I’m done…… I’m really done.
cxcx
Wow so if you, who seem to be a big Sox fan, approve (if barely), I’m guessing others will find it wildly pro-Sox, while that wasn’t my intention, though admittedly it wasn’t thought out for more than a few seconds.
With how often I hear mainstream people say Betts is one of the best players in baseball, and that Bogaerts isn’t terribly far behind (though certainly a good ways), and that Rodriguez could emerge as an elite pitcher over the next couple of years, top 20 or 30 or whatever that means, I forget that these guys have about a year’s worth of track record of major league success on average between them, and that doesn’t really make you elite, or elite in the sense that two or three such players would be worth close to Mike Trout.
dodgersrdbest
I can only imagine what praise the Red Sox would receive if they would have had Kershaw, Trout, or Harper in their system compared to others.
theo2016
Trouts valuable, he isnt that valuable. Remember those guys are still making the minimum and are already all star caliber players. The angels would snap do this. Basically this year those guys make 2 mil bucks and project for 10 war, trout projects for 8 and change but u pay trout 16 mil, so ur down 2 war and 14 mil bucks.
jipp15
You’re comparing 3 guys combined to a total 10 war to just one player making almost the same amount of war.
Philliesfan4life
Trout isn’t going anywhere. I think Arte is waiting for money to come off the books and then they will spend again on pieces they need.
lukeski4
Ian Diamond?
TheAdrianBeltre
Please link Ian Diamond’s name to his Baseball Reference page, I do not believe I am familiar with him : ) Have a great Easter guys.