Angels Claim Nolan Fontana

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, Turd Ferguson said:

Man, this team is depressing. 

Why?

[Stradling]

23 minutes ago, CALZONE said:

Are you new here? 

 

When you see a depth move claim like this, a guy who is basically filler for our minors, a claim no different than a ton of teams do all the time, but you see the Angels name attached to it, how hard do you get?

[ukyah]

why does no one like his obp? even in AAA where his babip was underperforming, he still put up a 369 obp.

only going off the numbers here, never seen him play.

[Glen]

This guy immediately moves to a starting spot on my all-name team.  Good lord, he's an imperfect cross between Nolan Ryan and Frank Tanana.  I love it.

[Ohtaniland]

34 minutes ago, Stradling said:

When you see a depth move claim like this, a guy who is basically filler for our minors, a claim no different than a ton of teams do all the time, but you see the Angels name attached to it, how hard do you get?

[Stradling]

So, like Roughned hard?

[ukyah]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

So, like Roughned hard?

there's no h in rougned, but there is in his world famous handjobs.

[Turd Ferguson]

46 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Why?

Because.

[ten ocho recon scout]

2 hours ago, Homebrewer said:

Nickname?

Nolan Methville

[Stradling]

57 minutes ago, Turd Ferguson said:

Because.

Because a bunch of us nerds are talking about a small waiver claim like it means something? 

[Homebrewer]

33 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Because a bunch of us nerds are talking about a small waiver claim like it means something? 

It's all we got so we're making the best of it.

[Ohtaniland]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

So, like Roughned hard?

This team is so hilarious it cured my E. D. 

[Billy_Ball]

Better than Nolan Williams?

[Tank]

6 hours ago, Erstad Grit said:

We should release Nolan and sign 3 other minor leaguers who could equal his production together. 

In time, grasshopper, in time.

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

All this talk about circle jerks. I guess, I'm a little disappointed. I was really hoping that Ian would make this thread...... 

[Chuck]

8 hours ago, Dochalo said:

or this is our util guy and the rumor of pennington in the Philips deal are true.  Personally, I'd rather have Valbuena at 2b on a 2-3yr deal.  

What rumored Phillips deal?

Link me, I've been out of dodge lately. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

I talked to Eppler today about this guy (among other things) and it sounds like he's just a potential utility guy. And he's got options, which is a big deal for roster flexibility. 

Gregorio Petit has no options so he's essentially gone (my opinion, Eppler didn't say that). This guy can come up if Pennington or another IF gets hurt and then he can go back down. 

I didn't get the impression that there's any scenario in which they view this guy as an everyday 2B.

Also, I wouldn't think about Brandon Phillips too much.

[ukyah]

21 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

I talked to Eppler today about this guy (among other things) and it sounds like he's just a potential utility guy. And he's got options, which is a big deal for roster flexibility. 

Gregorio Petit has no options so he's essentially gone (my opinion, Eppler didn't say that). This guy can come up if Pennington or another IF gets hurt and then he can go back down. 

I didn't get the impression that there's any scenario in which they view this guy as an everyday 2B.

Also, I wouldn't think about Brandon Phillips too much.

thanks for the input.

i'm glad to hear about phillips, i feel that would be a step in the wrong direction.

[Hubs]

Halos Heaven actually had a legit post the other day about 2b options. Deitrich, Garcia, etc are all low key options. It's like when they acquired Adam Kennedy and David Eckstein. Neither had a lot of major league experience, but pretty much came in and played their way into a job. We don't have the assets for Dozier.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Try as I might, when I saw the name, the first thing that popped into my head was this:

 

[ukyah]

that opening guitar riff is highly underrated.

[ELEVEN]

Living in Fontana, I hope he makes it to the MLB. Then I can get a jersey with my hometown on the back.

It's also pretty cool we signed Fontana's Jesse Chavez. We have tailgated with the Chavez family in the past, when the A'th were in town.

[ELEVEN]

>meth joke<

/obligatory

[Brandon]

never have seen anything good attached to fontana

[Brent Maguire]

Interesting option. I'm sure he'll be an up and down guy for the Angels next year. What's weird is he has a nice little MiLB track record of playing solid defense at SS with a great plate approach but he was putrid in AAA last year. Still, he has enough of a skill set to be a potential utility guy in the future.