WEBVTT - 352 | Playing General Manager: LA Angels 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:18.479 Ms secker. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.919 By. We will see you. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.920 Tis the gunner. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:42.440 Welcome to hang out, Peter. Okay, let's talk about the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:47.400 La Angels. No, yes, time, dude. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.440 We do this every single year, Jack, You and I 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.840 we play general manager for the Los Angeles Angels and 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.160 we go in after we look at their roster, we 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.279 look at what they can do, and we think the 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.480 world of them and what did they do? Every single year? 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.160 This is the episode that I was dreading the most. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.240 With that said, they looked pretty good. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.760 They look great. So that's why we're knocking it out 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.559 as the third team as the GM series Just Baseball Show, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:24.600 Jack Peter. Today is Thursday, November thirty one, No December. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.759 One, December one, my birthdays and few days my birthdays 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.039 and two days. Thoughts on that. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.200 Happy early birthday? Chief, damn. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.039 Yeah, but we have an episode. We have an episode 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.160 on Friday, so save it. Save it? 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:36.479 Yeah? 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.200 Fine, all right, Jack Peter. Two days before Peter's birthday, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.240 we're talking about the La Angels Today. You're in Santa Barbara. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.760 I'm in Indy New Pad with the brick wall. The 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.480 brick wall is not going to be the background. I've 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:57.320 got I Okay, adult move here. Indianapolis and New York 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.640 rent are two very different things. While you are amped 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.080 to live in a studio by yourself, I was just 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.280 in a studio by myself. I was like, I wouldn't 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.560 mind more space because I can't just rip the bodega 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.320 and like go have fun every night. Sometimes I need 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.280 to be a hermit. And I was like, you know what, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.920 time for a one bedroom? So I moved into a 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.160 one bedroom. How about that. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.079 I'm very proud of you. I wish the brick background 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.880 could be your background because, as many people know, the 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:31.000 brick background for me kind of changed baseball media. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.960 Yes, and then you decided to abandon it with two 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.720 portraits from our guy Kyle Taylor, who I think is 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.280 still commissioning the burly one for me. So I'm really 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.480 excited to see that thing. But I will not be 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.680 keeping the brick. You had red brick. I've got yellow brick. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.840 If it was red brick, I would really think about it. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.680 Yellow brick. I'm kind of opposed, but that's the deal. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.239 That's enough to core. I promise we're going to have 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.640 some fun prints in the back and all that. But 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.240 let's talk about the La Angels here, because the Angels 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.440 for the unteenth year in a row, were just in 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.280 utter disappointment. There was nothing going on there when we 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.760 thought there was everything going on. Here, you have Mike 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:16.360 Trout and Sho Hao Tani. Trout again an abbreviated masterpiece. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.040 He doesn't play a full one sixty two. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.919 If he did, I. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.600 Mean, he's probably running away with ALMVP. He's probably smashing 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.480 a record that Aaron Judge doesn't. But here we are 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.160 talking about what could have been season for Mike Trout. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.800 Sho Hao Tani was arguably as good. He was a 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.120 better pitcher than he was when he won the MVP 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.280 in twenty twenty one. Everything else went to absolute shit. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.960 I think you're so right about them being probably the 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.200 most disappointing team in baseball, not just because they have 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.480 Mike Trout and sho Heo Toni on the same team, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.640 a sentence that you and I will utter for the 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.320 next forty five minutes again and again and again, because 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.080 those two still are the best players in baseball. Get 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.280 their judge, Mookie whatever. I'm not here to debate that 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.520 right now. What I am here to do is to 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.200 debate whether the Angels can actually make it over the 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.680 hump because the Astros finished one hundred and six and 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.160 fifty six, the Mariners finished nineteen and seventy two last year, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.760 and the Angels finished seventy three and eighty nine. But 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.960 in May, this Angels team was competing with the Astros 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.360 and everything looked really good, and then injuries just hit 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.680 this team. You mentioned Mike Trout, I mean there was 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.600 injuries to the starting rotation too, you know. But what 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.760 some exciting things like Redebtmers came up after kind of 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.919 struggling initially but kind of showed that he can be 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.400 a definite mainstay in this rotation. They made some nice 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.320 additions to the bullpen, you know. They got Aaron Loup 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.680 after that amazing season with the New York Mets, but 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.960 he did not replicate his success in Queens when he 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.960 moved over to Anaheim or Los Angeles. He had a 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.480 three eight four ERA compared to like a one something 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.200 ERA over there in New York. They signed Ryan Tepera, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.680 who was five for them. I thought he was decent. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.719 I mean, he had a three six twenty ARRA. It 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:08.880 was nothing to parade over. And they traded Rossie Iglesias, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.279 which was a guy that they signed for a big deal, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.280 and then they ended up trading and for Jesse Chavez 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.320 and Tucker Davidson. Tucker Davidson in front of the pod 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.440 mean a few starts for the Angels and possibly could 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.360 be someone that they look at in the rotation next year. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:28.280 But overall, just to summarize, it was incredibly disappointing because 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.400 it's one thing, Jack, It's one thing for you to 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.760 go in and to expect to win sixty five seventy games. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.960 It's another thing to come into the season expecting to 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:44.239 win ninety and winning seventy three. That's almost worse because 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.400 it's the expectations. It's the fall from grace, it's the 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:54.880 it's just the disappointment. And let's get sucked back in. Ah, dude, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.920 I hate this. We're gonna get sucked back in because 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.960 their roster looks great. It looks good. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.080 Let's make it great. And I will say that injuries 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.119 hampered them, right, Anthony Rendon had fewer than two hundred 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:12.159 played appearances. That's a big omission. But I have been 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.240 a denier of Anthony Rendon for a little bit. The 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.040 guy's gonna make thirty seven million dollars this year. And 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.200 you look at the payrolls in twenty twenty three, and 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.280 the Angels are already near the top. They've got about 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.479 one hundred and forty five million dollars committed before arbitration 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.440 and before you factor in the pre arm deals as well. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.960 So this team is gonna be flirting with the luxury 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.200 tax if they do nothing in free agency. I don't 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.400 know how the Angels feel about the luxury tax. I 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.480 don't think they paid the luxury tax this year. There 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.640 were six teams that paid the luxury tax. Anaheim was 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.280 not one of them. I don't think they're afraid of it. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.640 They're an LA team. They've got Mike Trout and Sho 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.520 Hail Tani. If there's one year to go over the 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.200 luxury tax, this is probably the year to do it. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.080 And you have show Hey for what he's giving you 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.800 on an incredibly raw deal. This guy's making less than 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.040 twenty million dollars, but you've got about seventy million dollars, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.600 maybe over seventy million dollars committed to Anthony Rendon and 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.720 Mike Trout. You feel good about the Trout. You don't 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.920 feel that good about Rendon right now, But do you 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.600 think we're having a different conversation on July fourth. Do 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.800 you think we're sitting here watching the fireworks, having a 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.680 libation and saying, you know what, Anthony Rendon has been 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:29.800 kicking ass this year. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.040 I think it's just if he stays healthy. I mean, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.560 I hate to put it that plainly, but when he's 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.440 on the field and healthy, he looks awesome. When he's not, 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.760 he's not. It's it's it's wide or black with him, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.400 and almost seems like there's no gray area. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.480 So what I will say, And I know that he 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.760 was dealing with some nagging injuries while he was playing 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.040 this year, but he slugged three eighty when he was 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:51.240 on the field, which. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.560 Is but nagging injuries, don't I don't. I don't put 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.280 that on him like I don't think, Oh, Anthony Rendon 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.440 now is just dropped off the face of a cliff 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.360 and is going to slug four hundred next year if 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:08.160 he is fully healthy. I expect top five, top ten 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.760 at least production from the third base position. I don't 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.400 see any reason why you shouldn't. I think he was 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.640 hampered by injuries. I really do. But it's not even 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.560 just ren Dome that we're talking about here who had 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.840 a step back. How about Jared Walsh, a guy who 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.320 we put in our top ten first baseman moving into 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:32.040 the year. That same Jared Walsh that in twenty twenty 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.200 one had an eight forty nine OPS with twenty nine 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.680 bombs and thirty four doubles. Last year six forty three 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:46.160 OPS with fifteen bombs in eighteen doubles. Granted, I mean 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.120 he didn't have the same number of vet bats. He 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.240 only played one hundred and eighteen games compared to one 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.760 hundred and forty four and twenty twenty one. But he 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.160 was expected to be an important left handed bat, which 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.640 the Angels really need, and he bare gave them anything 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.520 last year. And I dove into him trying to figure 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.400 out what happened. There's not a lot of statistics that 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.439 I can point to to say, Okay, if he fixes that, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.160 he'll be better. I really think it was just a 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.800 down year. I mean, I remember in twenty twenty one, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.440 this dude crushed sliders, crushed fastballs. Five run value against 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.360 the fastball, nine run value against the slider. Both of 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.040 those were in the negative. Like, it's just an enormous 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.840 drop off from production, and what can we say, like, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.280 I think he'll bounce back. You think, because you see 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.240 the talent, why can't he? But I don't know. That's 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.920 why there's so many things up in the air. But 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:46.120 I look at it. You know, the preseason Angels look 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.160 as good as anybody. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.080 Again, and here we are with the preseason Angels, so 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.800 you assume health. And my thing about assuming health with 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.120 the Angels, they they got very unhealthy, very quickly, and 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.760 even at the end of year. Right you saw Mickey 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.520 Moniac cry when he got hurt near the end of 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.360 the year. And Mickey Moniac was, you know, the guy 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.840 that came over straight up for Noah Cindergart at the 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.800 deadline when Cindergaard went to Philly and Moniac he was 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.880 showing flashes of not being one to one, but showing 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.000 flashes of being a serviceable major league outfielder, and then 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.640 all of a sudden, injuries just cut his season short 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.040 and he was so frustrated. I think that was the 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.080 frustration with a lot of guys with the Angels. So 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:36.600 I'm not forecasting injuries. Let's just forecast bad luck for 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.440 the Angels because they've had bad luck on the position 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:44.280 player health front in recent years. So where's your contingency plan. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.360 Let's look at Anthony Rendon. Where's the contingency plan? It's 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.480 actually great. Two minor leaguers. One guy that was previously 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.400 DF eight I think came or were sent away for 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.720 Giovanni Orshella. So Urshella is now the backup third baseman 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.120 slash third baseman. Roster resource at Fangrafts has him as 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.960 the starting shortstop. We got to fix that right now. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.800 But Urshella as a backup plan to Anthony ren Doon 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.160 feels really good. And as a brackup third baseman shortstop. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.440 I like having Adele and Moniac as the fourth and 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:23.000 fifth outfielders. When you've got Taylor Warden left, Mike trouton center, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.719 and Hunter Renfro acquired via trade in right, obviously Otani's 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.600 your DH, and then you loop around the rest of 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.840 the field. You've got Logan o'happy and Max Stassy as 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.560 your catchers. I feel great about that tandem. And then 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:42.400 here you are with Renhifo at second and Jared Walsh first, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.200 with David Fletcher waiting in the wings. We'll start with 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.840 the hitters and then we'll get to the pitching. Here, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.800 where are the sure fire. They are in the lineup 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.400 all year long if they're healthy. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.240 They have Mike Trout and Shoho Tani in the same lineup. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.840 Joe Otdi is going to be the d and that 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.920 he's gonna step on the mound and be a top 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.240 ten five, don't care where you rank him pitcher, one 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.640 of the best pitchers in all of baseball. You'd assume 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.240 that Luis ren Hifo will be the second basement, and 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.200 he deserves to be the second basement. He doesn't walk. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.440 He hit a two ninety four on base percentage last year, 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.120 but he slugged four twenty nine. He's a solid player. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.319 I think he's solid. He had seventeen bombs. Maybe solid 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.840 is even a bit much, but he's your second basement 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.240 and he should be. Taylor Ward. There is no reason 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.360 why he shouldn't play left No absolutely no reason at all. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.199 Had it over an eight hundred ops twenty three bombs. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.040 He's a twenty nine year old who was a previous 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.240 first rounder like this guy should be the left fielder. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.560 He earned it. If Anthony Rendon is healthy, We're gonna 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.079 say this again seventy thousand fucking times on this podcast. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.200 If Anthony Rendon is healthy. He is your third baseman. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.560 Hunter Renfro the newly acquired They gave up what Jansen 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:57.680 junk in that trade of his poguero, Adam Seminaris. I 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.280 don't even know how to pronounce that name. I don't 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.200 really know who that is, quite honestly with you. Jared 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.560 Walsh is gonna play first base, and Logan o Hoppy 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.640 is gonna play catcher, like that's your starting eight, and 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.959 then it's all about who's gonna play shortstop? And Geo Orchella. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.199 I watched him play shortstop on the New York Yankees. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.480 He can at least feel the position. If the Angels 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.600 want to work on pitching and starting pitching and their bullpen, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.640 and then their bench looks great. Like that's the problem 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.320 with the Angels. They don't have major holes throughout their lineup, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.000 except you could say shortstop. But am I excited for 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.000 Hunter Renfro and right, not really? Am I really excited 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.400 for Luis Renhifo at second base? Not particularly? Am I 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.440 crazy hyped? Am I expecting a huge bounce back from 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.840 Jared Walsh? I don't know? And then Logan o'happy. The 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.840 great thing is he is a great prospect and you 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.480 have Max Stassy, So I'm confident in the catching position 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.920 as a whole. But am I confident in a real 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.600 first year catcher at twenty three years old, not part particularly, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.440 So there is the problem here. It's not like like 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.200 there's no holes, but it's there's not a lot of 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.719 stuff jumping at me. But it's good. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.640 So via trade hunter Renfro is the right fielder. I 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.960 do believe he's the right fielder and he should be 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.320 the position. I I say there's nothing to be done 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.280 catching wise, because you've got a newly extended mac statsy 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.600 and one of the best catching prospects in baseball and 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.720 maybe the breakout prospect in twenty twenty two not named 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.120 Danny Rodriguez is Logan o hoppy, So I do feel 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.440 good about that tandem. I don't think they're going to 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:38.800 add to that tandem at all. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.600 My thing they should They definitely shouldn't. That's yea Dassi 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.600 could be good on his own, if Logana could be 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.520 good on his own and pulls at Jared Kelnick like, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:51.920 but I mean. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.360 Using those two is a ninety game seventy game, you know, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.080 like share or one hundred and sixty in favor of Ohapi. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.440 I feel really good about that. I mean too, they 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.480 need to get better at short I think that's really 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.440 the only spot. Maybe sign a backup first, Baseman. I 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.400 want to start there. I want to throw out some 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:19.160 really small names that could benefit from being like behind 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.960 Jared Walsh, or maybe if Otani needs a day off 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.120 once in a blue moon, might I recommend a Luke 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.960 Voight recently non tendered, Like that's a power bat off 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.440 the bench. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.080 I love that idea, not only because I think Luke 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.720 Voight is somehow becoming kind of underrated. I think he 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.080 got shipped off to Washington. I don't think there was 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.000 a lot of reasons too for him to be motivated. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.080 And then if you put him in a lineup here 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:52.080 where you can platoon him Jared Walsh against righty's Voight 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:57.200 against lefties, that feels a lot better. The only issue 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.120 is show he O Tani plays d H so. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:01.680 You're gonna force. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.840 You're going to force Voight to play first, and then 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.520 you don't have Walsh in the lineup, which could be 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.240 a good thing. I don't know. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.200 Yeah, other names that could jump out, how about like 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.760 a Yuli Guriel is he gonna is Are they gonna 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.440 be priced out of him as a platoon first baseman. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.680 He's thirty eight years old. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.800 I'd rather have Luke Voight. I think Luke Voight makes 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.880 more sense there than Yuli Gurriel does. I think Juli 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.960 Gurriel is going to go somewhere where he can be 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.960 the first baseman. And I don't know if Guryel, at 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.880 this point in his career, at thirty eight years old, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.680 is still trying to win. I wouldn't put it past him, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.120 But I also wouldn't put it past him to just 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.400 take a bag with Voight. You know, he wants to compete. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.520 I'm assuming I think he would take a little bit 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.080 less in order to get put on the Angels in 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.880 a good spot where they're gonna use him correctly, rather 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.400 than a Yuli Guriel where it feels like Gurriya would 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.000 go to whoever gives him the back. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.560 Yeah. Last one that I want to throw you Trey Mancini. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:15.520 Again, Hm, I just I want to see what the 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.720 open market thinks of Mancini, because Mancini was good on 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.560 the Orioles before going over to the Houston Astros, and 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.320 then he didn't really get much of a shot. I 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.520 mean he did kind of, but he never really performed 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.240 with the Astros either. I'm very curious to see if 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.679 the market goes back to his Orioles days rather than 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.800 thinking of him as a platoon because he still is 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.880 a good player, and I think a team is going 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.960 to want to sign him to be their full time 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:46.760 starter rather than being a platoon guy. Also, Mancini could 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.200 play the outfield a little bit. Angels kind of backed 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.439 up on outfielders at the moment, so I like Void. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.200 I think the first name that you brought up is 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:54.720 the best one. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.920 Yeah, and Void is undoubtedly the cheapest option. And you're right, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.000 they are backed up out field wise because they do 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.480 have Adele and Moniac as the fourth and fifth outfielder. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.440 One of them is going to be in Salt Lake, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.160 which is kind of brutal. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:11.720 Who would you put in Salt Lake? 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.280 I guess Adele. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.119 I guess Adele, but I feel like it should be 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.679 Montiac that I agree with you. I guess it's Adele. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.040 I know, Alwa, he's so talented. Oak went first overall. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:29.919 Okay, now the big question are they in play for 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.159 a top four shortstop? 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.920 Not with the needs that they have at other places. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.200 You just said to yourself, they're on the brinks of 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:40.960 the luxury tax. I mean, if they want to pay, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:42.520 they want to have a two hundred and fifty two 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.120 hundred and seventy million dollar payroll. Sure, I just there's 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.280 no indications that that's the case. I mean, we have 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.960 the pucketbook. We're playing general manager with the Los Angeles Angels, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.240 and they're there's a shortstop that I want to throw 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.240 at you. Who I think would be relatively cheap. It's 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.440 a reunion. I don't or I don't know if we're 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:07.160 thinking about the same guy not anymore. Jose Glacias. Okay, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.800 so I would I would sign Jose Glacias. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.720 Okay, so I would sign Elvis Andrews. 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.360 Okay, we're on the same That was the second name 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.240 that I was going to bring up. The reason why 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.440 I like kind of the Jose Glacias reunion there is 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.840 I still think that he's a good defensive player, while 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.160 Andrews like, I don't know if they need his bat 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.040 as much. I mean, they still could use his bat. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:36.840 I like either or hmmm, I think. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.760 Remember you got Fletcher on the bench too. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.320 I mean, who cares who cares. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.639 But like he can also play a little short and 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.840 give an old guy some breaks. And that's why I 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.080 feel okay with Andrews. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.080 He can't play short stop. David Fletcher played shortstop no 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:59.040 way this year? I know, but no way, Like that 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.040 can't be. I'm not saying he can't. I'm just saying 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.200 he can't. Like, no way, David Fletcher is going to 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.399 be taking reps at short for the Angels. They can't 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.800 do that. I'd rather put her Shalla there. You can't hint. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.439 David Fletcher finished seventeenth in al MVP voting in twenty twenty. 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:20.240 That's awesome. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.800 Congrats, That is awesome, and that's why he has a 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.679 cult following. And probably Angels fans are like, stop disrespecting 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.800 David Fletcher. And I'm just like, sorry, do you want 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.600 to win or do you want like, do you want 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:31.440 a clown show? 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.960 Listen, arm and I disrespected Nick Madrigal yesterday, so we're 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.760 disrespecting David Fletcher today. That's just how that works. 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.360 Yeah, but we don't have a short bias. We think 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:45.159 Ozel too is Hall of Famer. Yeah, and we like 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.160 the short pictures, so Droman. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:58.440 Lighter all right, Andrews, Andrews or Iglesias. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.280 Who's going to be cheaper, because I don't see much 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.320 of a difference there. I want to sign whoever is 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.280 cheaper because I want to add big names to the 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.879 starting rotation. And I want a bunch of bullpen guys because. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:11.280 I Glasias is two years younger. 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.480 All right, Let's sign Andrews to a one year deal. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.679 You think you take a one year because I think 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.040 Aglacy is going to be two or three. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:21.680 I think Andrews takes a one year deal. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.639 Let's sign Andrews then, because I want to spend Yeah, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.439 I want to spend as least money as possible on 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.840 the shortstop position because they Orchella can play shortstop, so 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.399 if you're gonna kind of use both of them at 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.399 the same time. I kind of wish Elvis Andrews hit 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.960 left handed, but whatever, like a short stop platoon. I 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.240 think that's hilarious. But like with this day and age 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.720 in baseball. Also, one more thing about Jared Walste while 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.400 I'm on the subject of left you righty. I think 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:50.960 the shift is going to be big for him getting 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.280 rid of it because he was crushed by the shift 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.160 last year and he's always been crushed by the shift. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.360 He's a guy who, you know, he's not necessarily pull happy, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:04.720 but I've noticed that, Like one of the things I noticed, 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.560 like when he's pull happy, I mean, he crushes balls, 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.080 but when he's trying to, you know, shoot the ball 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:11.959