Angels Waive Taylor Featherston - Sign LHP Christian Friedrich

[Stradling]

My issue with the move is we dealt all year last year with the growing pains of Featgerston hoping to get some sort of payback on it in the future as he matured. He obviously wasn't ready last year and replacing him with a veteran at the deadline could have been the difference between the playoffs and not. So to release him kind of makes keeping him all of last year a total waste of time.

[arch stanton]

It was a waste of time even before they released him.

[Stradling]

Not if he turned into an affordable everyday 2nd baseman in the next year or so. At least not in my opinion.

Edited February 9, 2016 by Stradling

[arch stanton]

Nothing that happened last season advanced him toward becoming an everyday 2B in the major leagues. If anything it put him a year behind. Having him on the 25 man roster waste a waste.

[ettin]

Although we can certainly debate the validity of keeping Featherston on the roster I still think the kid has a good shot at being an everyday regular 2B. He's got above average defensive ability there and the kid has a strong history of power in the Minors. He never really had the playing time and probably the development time to show it. I hope he stays in the organization.

[Lou]

I've had the chance to watch Christian a couple times in the minors a few years back. Some guys you see and just know are going to be major leaguers, special ones at that. Off the top of my head, Richards, Shelby Miller, Sonny Gray, Tyler Skaggs, James Tallion

 

Which one of these guy doesn't belong?

 

if you said Tyler Skaggs, you get an Angels selfie-stick

[arch stanton]

Although we can certainly debate the validity of keeping Featherston on the roster I still think the kid has a good shot at being an everyday regular 2B. He's got above average defensive ability there and the kid has a strong history of power in the Minors. He never really had the playing time and probably the development time to show it. I hope he stays in the organization.

I won't disagree that he can be an everyday 2B but getting him 169 PAs and thousand innings of pine time was not the way to get him there. It was a bad decision for him and a bad decision for the team.

[Richard]

Phillies announce they acquired INF Taylor Featherston from Angels for player to be named or cash

 

 

End of an era.

[Homebrewer]

Cash baby!

Arte can put some fuel in the yacht.

[Jobu]

Ryan Howard

[disarcina]

I don't think there is any way to justify the Featherston roster spot last season.

 

It sort of became a situation of : well, we kept him this long, so why not wait it out.

 

sort of the same rationale of throwing more good money after bad.

 

oh well, mistake noted, move on.

 

hopefully this LHP can provide some over all pen depth - even if he starts the season at SLC.

[disarcina]

as for flexibility -- not a good glove guy but I thought we should have kept Grant Green on the opening day 25 man roster last year -- oh well, he, too is gone.

 

I saw he signed on with someone else -- going to ST on a minor league contract - is it the SF Giants??

[disarcina]

yes -- Grant Green a non-roster invitee in Scottsdale camp with the SF Giants.

 

going to be tough to find playing time in SF at SS or 2B........perhaps some 3B-OF.

 

Green has not played a lot of 3B -- oh well. I just don't see Green being a good fit on an NL team.

 

he needs to be a utility INF-OF with the possibility of DHing once in a while.

[Second Base]

Which one of these guy doesn't belong?

if you said Tyler Skaggs, you get an Angels selfie-stick

I think if you'd seen Skaggs when we had him and then in the AZ system you'd be whistling a different tune. He'd have games where you could stop watching after the first inning. His fastball would be sitting 94-95, blowing hitters away, his curve ball was downright comical at times. Guys would be swinging from their knees, falling over, jello-legged. Then every once in a while just to toy with guys, he'd drop in a change up and hitters would just freeze.

Skaggs very much fit in with that group, and the longer he has in the majors, the closer he'll come to reaching that status again. Keep in mind, he used to be the top LHP prospect for good reason. Same with Heaney too. Recent bullpens have flocked Skaggs at 91-93, so he's almost back to where he was before.