The Angels are coming off the worst season in franchise history. The farm system isn't highly regarded, while the team didn't get much out of its two highest-paid players. No team has a longer active playoff drought and that's unlikely to change in the next season or two.
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FemboySportsFan!
What I think the angels should do this off-season:
Something
Bauer? But I Hardly Know Her!
Sign 6 of the top ten FA at over-market prices.
Improve the Farm System.
Go 80-82.
No Soup For Yu!
So these are subscriber only articles now? Is that a timed exclusivity thing, like for the first week, or is that just how they’re going to be forever? If it’s the latter, then what a load of crap. These are some of my favorite articles each year and they’ve always been free, to add a price tag to them now is just dumb. I mean, is the site really doing that poorly?
prov356
They’ve always had subscriber specific articles. They decided a few months ago to make them visible so non-subscribers can get a small taste of what they are missing in an effort to encourage more subscriptions.
bjtheduck
I don’t recall the offseason outlook articles ever being subscriber exclusives before this one. I too hope this isn’t how they’ll be in the future.
No Soup For Yu!
I’m aware they’ve had subscriber exclusive articles for a while now, and that’s never bothered me. What bothers me is taking a series of articles that has been a site staple every year and locking them behind a paywall without warning. And why stop at these in that case? Are “The Opener” and the podcast going to be paywalled too? What about every weekly chat instead of just one?
And as far as giving people, “a small taste of what they’re missing,” a single three sentence paragraph that doesn’t tell you anything about what the article actually entails isn’t going to encourage anyone who reads it to get a subscription. It’s like if movie trailers were limited exclusively to showing 10 second teasers. At least unblock the first few paragraphs so new people can see what these articles are actually about, because no one is going to read three sentences about how bad the Angels suck and think the article has anything more informative to tell them than a random Xwitter post that says the same thing.
Blackpink in the area
I said this back in July and still think it makes some sense to trade Trout to Philly for Walker and Castellanos. Some money could exchange hands as well but what that would do would increase the Phillies chances the next couple years while hurting them long term. And the Angels are even more screwed the next couple years but at least they can move on after 2026 with Rendons contract also ending at that time.
prov356
…and I’m sure when you said that in July, many of us reminded you that Trout has a full no-trade clause.
Blackpink in the area
He’s from the Philly area. The Phillies are a legit WS contender. I think he would wave his NTC to go there. If you don’t then keep thinking that.
YourDreamGM
Pillar for some reason wasn’t traded sonhe can retire a Angel as last team played for if he follows through.
Farm would be better if they traded Ohtani Anderson Ren. No idea why they didn’t. They could have simply signed other players to replace them.