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AL West Notes: Angels, Astros, L.J. Hoes, Athletics

By Jeff Todd | June 29, 2015 at 11:31pm CDT

As the Angels continue to hover around the .500 mark, internal tensions have arisen, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. It appears that the particular issue that has led to some discord involves the respective roles of the front office and field staff regarding the use of data in on-field decisionmaking. Of course, GM Jerry Dipoto and manager Mike Scioscia have had some well-publicized differences of opinion in the past, and Rosenthal suggests that there are signs of a new rift.

Here’s more from the AL West:

  • The Astros have a variety of difficult 40-man decisions upcoming, as they did last year when they ultimately left Delino DeShields Jr. unprotected in the Rule 5 draft, Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle writes (in a piece we cited yesterday regarding the club’s pitching needs). That could seemingly drive a deal or two this summer or in the future. GM Jeff Luhnow acknowledges the roster pressure, but rejects the idea that he’ll move valuable assets solely for that reason. “Yeah, I mean, you could argue that we have a lot of guys to protect, and we’re going to leave some unprotected, so why not turn that into something we can use right now? It’s a fair argument,” Luhnow said. “At the same time, we’re looking for the best 25 players, and we never know if that’s going to come from those guys that need to be added to the 40-man (roster) down the road or now. You have to balance the short term and the long term. We’re certainly going to be open to trading players. Whether they’re already on the 40-man or have to be added to the 40-man this offseason to ease the logjam a little bit, we wouldn’t trade someone just to ease it.”
  • Per Drellich, one Astros 40-man occupant who could conceivably be dealt is L.J. Hoes, who is currently playing at Triple-A. The Orioles have some interest in Hoes — who they shipped to Houston as part of the Bud Norris deal a while back — as well as Alex Presley, who is not on the 40-man. Likewise, the Angels are “thought” to be giving some consideration to Hoes, Chris Cotillo of SB Nation tweets. The 25-year-old Hoes has slashed an excellent .335/.417/.466 over 255 plate appearances at Fresno this year, with eleven stolen bases and three long balls.
  • Athletics GM Billy Beane is still considering his trade deadline options, as Joe Stiglich of CSNBayArea.com reports. Oakland had been on a nice run before being swept by the Royals over the weekend. “Time will tell, it’s an important time period,” said Beane. “Despite having played better in the last couple weeks, we’re still in quite a hole. Any definitive direction would be decided by how we do moving forward.” If the club does ultimately pull the trigger on a sell-off, Beane suggested that he may be inclined to seek younger assets to bolster the club’s prospect pool. “At some point, if we consider going another direction,” he said, “we’re probably best served to take a [look at] depth and rebuild our farm system. That’s the currency for us. We fully expected [the farm system] i not to be at its peak because we’ve traded a lot of players.”
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  1. Mark D

    10 years ago

    I just looked at Josh Donaldson’s away OPS: .703. Combine that with his career OPS at Oakland of .772 and I’m starting to think that trade isn’t terrible at all. Simply put: Donaldson would not have the same slash line he has now, had he stayed in Oakland. He’d probably be sub-.800, which is good but having an ever-improving-by-the-day Brett Lawrie and Graveman, as well as Nolin and Barreto, this trade looks like it will be a win for both sides, as long as the Jays don’t get a new stadium 🙂

    BTW since returning from the minors -cherrypicking I know, but he really was out of sorts before going down to AAA and has come back all guns blazing like a totally different pitcher – Graveman has had 8 GS, 53 IP and a 2.01 ERA. Not counting his bad first month, he even has a 3.77 FIP, no Jays starter has that low a FIP. Looks like Beane got a gem of a guy in Kendall Graveman.

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  2. dougf

    10 years ago

    The Orioles are having enough trouble finding playing time for Young and Reimold…. I am not sure why they would want another RH corner outfielder who isn’t a definite improvement

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