Angels Forum History

[vladdy#27]

I kind of got this idea from a different forum but thought it would be a cool thing to have here


2008 Trade Deadline
2009 Trade Deadline
2010 Trade Deadline
2011 Trade Deadline (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
2012 Trade Deadline

2008 Minor League Thread
2009 Minor League Thread
2010 Minor League Thread
2011 Minor League Thread
2012 Minor League Thread
2013 Minor League Thread

2008-2009 Off Season Thread
2009-2010 Off Season Thread
2010-2011 Off Season Thread (Thread 1) (Thread 2) (Thread 3) (Thread 4)
2011-2012 Off Season Thread (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
2012-2013 Off Season Thread (Thread 1) (Thread 2)

2009 Draft
2010 Draft
2011 Draft
2012 Draft

Tony Reagins Transaction History

Signings/Re-signings

11/07 Signs Torii Hunter 5 years 90M (Cant find thread)
12/08 Re-signs Juan Rivera 3 years 12.75M
12/08 Signs Brian Fuentes 2 years 17.5M
1/09 Re-Signs Mike Scioscia 10 years 50M
2/09 Signs Bobby Abreu 1 year 5M
2/09 Re-signs Ervin Santana 4 years 30M
12/09 Signs Hideki Matsui 1 years 6M
11/09 Re-signs Bobby Abreu 2 years 19M (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
12/09 Signs Fernando Rodney 2 years 11M
1/10 Signs Joel Pineiro 2 years 16M
12/10 Signs Scott Downs 3 years 15M
12/10 Signs Hisanori Takahashi 2 years 8M
5/11 Signs Russell Branyan
8/11 Re-Signs Jered Weaver 5 years 85M

Trades/Transactions

11/07 Orlando Cabrera & cash for Jon Garland (Cant find thread)
07/08 Casey Kotchman and Steve Marek for Mark Teixeira
08/09 Alex Torres, Matt Sweeny and Sean Rodriguez for Scott Kazmir
01/10 Gary Matthews Jr. for Brian Stokes
07/10 Joe Saunders, Rafael Rodriguez, Tyler Skaggs, and Patrick Corbin for Dan Haren
07/10 Sean O'Sullivan and Will Smith for Alberto Callaspo (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
08/10 Brian Fuentes for Loak Van Mil
01/11 Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera for Vernon Wells
06/11 Release Scott Kazmir

Jerry DiPoto Transaction History

Signings/Re-signings

12/11 Signs LaTroy Hawkins 1 year 3M
12/11 Signs Albert Pujols 10 years 254M (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
12/11 Signs C.J. Wilson 5 years 77.5M (Thread 1) (Thread 2)
1/12 Re-Signs Howie Kendrick 4 years 33.5M
4/12 Re-Signs Erick Aybar 4 years 35M
10/12 Re-Signs Chris Iannetta 3 years 15.5M
11/12 Signs Ryan Madson 1 year 3.5M (Plus 3.5M in Incentives)
12/12 Signs Sean Burnett 2 years 8M
12/12 Signs Joe Blanton 2 years 15M
12/12 Signs Josh Hamilton 5 years 125M

Trades/Transactions

11/11 Tyler Chatwood for Chris Iannetta
12/11 Jeff Mathis for Brad Mills
4/12 Released Bobby Abreu
5/12 Alexi Amarista and Donn Roach for Ernesto Frieri
7/12 Jean Segura, Ariel Pena, and John Hellweg for Zack Greinke
10/12 Ervin Santana for Brandon Sisk
11/12 Declined Haren's Option
11/12 Jordan Walden for Tommy Hanson

[GA16Angels]

Oh god. I thought Sean O' Sullivan was going to be a good pitcher. I think I might have been wrong

[GA16Angels]

I also said this:

I think we also need to keep Jeff Mathis. He's just a much better defender than Napoli and you need a good defensive catcher if you want a good team.

Wow I suck.

[BigGuy951]

Ah, I know where you got this from

Cool idea though.

[GardenGrove]

Wow I'm not trying to sound like a douche but I'm a ********n boss. I was right about everything. From figgins sucking in seattle to facepalming Rodney...the only things I sorta missed on were I liked Kazmir but everybody did and I liked vernon wells because he's one of my fav players but not on the angels.

[vladdy#27]

Wow I'm not trying to sound like a douche but I'm a ********n boss. I was right about everything. From figgins sucking in seattle to facepalming Rodney...the only things I sorta missed on were I liked Kazmir but everybody did and I liked vernon wells because he's one of my fav players but not on the angels.

This guy is a douche

[vladdy#27]

This is my favorite

I love you in the most heterosexual way possible. This brings a tear to my eye. Beautiful.

[vladdy#27]

I fully expect VladtheImpaler to go through all of these threads and quote (and put it in his sig) natepro when he was wrong

[GardenGrove]

This is my favorite

Gayy

[natepro]

This is my favorite

Back when that post was made, that lineup would've been awesome.

God, Robb Quinlan.

[natepro]

Gayy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5gAkna3jI&ob=av3e

[natepro]

I was completely wrong on Kazmir, and probably shouldn't have been if I would've paid more attention to his trends, but everyone was on that one, so I'm not going to take it too hard:

His numbers are probably more a product of his injury than the division he's pitching in.

Here's a good article on his value going forward, written at the end of July.

Excellent pick up. So awesome.

Saunders isn't ace material, and wasn't ace material last year either. He's a classic case of a guy getting really lucky one season, and his luck running out the next.

Also, this made me laugh out loud:

for a second there i thought you went to the dark side i wil use errors and what i see to evaluate a players defense sense i have no clue what Sabermetrics are

[natepro]

Didn't say much about the Rodney signing, except that our off-season sucked that year. And boy, did it. But this post seemed to get a lot of smilies clapping :

Sorry, but... you're wrong.

I'm not a blind supporter. If this team makes moves I disagree with, I'm going to say so. If the front office passes up on free agents and lets players walk that I think they should've gone after, I'm going to say so. If Scoscia makes a lineup move or playing time decision I disagree with, I'm going to say so. It's because I'm a fan of this team that I say this stuff, and saying it doesn't make me any less of a fan than you or anyone else that will happily accept whatever they put on the field because we've "come a long way." I want this team to spend money and improve because I want this team to win, plain and simple. We can cry all we want about East Coast teams spending money and "buying" championships, but if we want to be a team that regularly contends like they do, then we also have to spend money. Sticking to some ideology about not "buying" a championship may be noble, but at the end of the day it leaves us at home watching the World Series with every other team that didn't make the playoffs. Noble is great. Winning is better.

And as far as this whole "we've come a long way" stuff goes... who cares? This team sucked for a long time, but it's not been that same team since 2002, and there's no reason to look more than eight years back and be happy with this team simply making the playoffs now when we didn't before. Plain and simple, it's not the same team. So there's no reason to act like it's a team that has really improved from where it used to be, and be happy with only that. We're not the Reds or Royals or O's or Pirates. Simply making the playoffs isn't an accomplishment for this team anymore. You can't fall back on the "we've come a long way" thing anymore when we've made the playoffs 5 our of the last 6 seasons. We're past that now.

[vladdy#27]

Also, this made me laugh out loud:

I have come a long way, gives me hope for deadman

[Angels4Ever]

I also said this:

I think we also need to keep Jeff Mathis. He's just a much better defender than Napoli and you need a good defensive catcher if you want a good team.

Wow I suck.

Bad, but will never beat Natepro's Seattle Mariners prediction....