Cowart Recalled

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

2 hours ago, red321 said:

If Cowart stays up and hits it's not Escobar who needs to worry about getting run out of town, it's the crapfest platooning at second

They Both have to go. I think I will pull my hair out if Escobar is still throwing balls into the dugout next year.

Cowart is a 3Bman!

[Chuck]

9 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

They Both have to go. I think I will pull my hair out if Escobar is still throwing balls into the dugout next year.

Cowart is a 3Bman!

I would rather have Cowart ast 2B and Moustakas at 3B next season if I'm being greedy. 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I would rather have Cowart ast 2B and Moustakas at 3B next season if I'm being greedy. 

As long as Escobar is gone?

[Blarg]

Your getting wound up on a player, again, and that never turns out well.

Either A, the Angels never aquire him and you get disappointed or B, the Angels do aquire him and your more disappointed because the guy is on the career downside. 

[totdprods]

10 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I would rather have Cowart ast 2B and Moustakas at 3B next season if I'm being greedy. 

Who hits leadoff?

[Chuck]

Just now, totdprods said:

Who hits leadoff?

Maybin! 

I'm all in for an extension with him.

[Chuck]

Maybin

Calhoun

Trout

Moustakas

Pujols (DH)

Valbuena

Simmons

Maldonado

Cowart (2B)

[totdprods]

3 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Maybin! 

I'm all in for an extension with him.

Juuuuust checking! Escobar's leadoff capability gets overlooked too often.

I love that lineup but concerns are we'd be sinking anywhere from $70-$100m on Maybin and Moustakas without addressing pitching and I'm not sold on Cowart as a 2B. I think if he was good enough defensively (or offensively) we would have seen him there already. 

If he can up either of those parts of his game in the bigs I would be happy to have him manning 2B next year though.

[Chuck]

Just now, totdprods said:

Juuuuust checking! Escobar's leadoff capability gets overlooked too often.

I love that lineup but concerns are we'd be sinking anywhere from $70-$100m on Maybin and Moustakas without addressing pitching and I'm not sold on Cowart as a 2B. I think if he was good enough defensively (or offensively) we would have seen him there already. 

If he can up either of those parts of his game in the bigs I would be happy to have him manning 2B next year though.

He hasn't had a lot of time there in the big leagues, but I noticed he hasn't made many errors this season in AAA and has gotten in a bunch of games at second base. 

With his range and arm, I think he could be a great asset there. He just needs more time.

I think the reason we haven't seen him there yet is because they're still holding out hope that Espinosa turns it around offensively. 

As far as the pitching, with the amount of $$$ coming off the books, we may be able to add enough payroll to add Maybin, Moose and a solid arm. 

Let's just pretend that we get minimal innings to none from Skaggs and Richards. 

We'll have JC Ramirez, Alex Meyer and Parker Bridwell, all who will have had some good innings of work this year in hopes of them becoming better options in the rotation next season. 

Add in Shoemaker and a solid #2-#3 type via FA, with our lineup and bullpen, I think we could be a force.

Also, Nate Smith is back and Barria and Long are looking like great options around the corner as well. 

Just thinking out loud, but you could also go all in for Yu Darvish and sign Maybin at 3/30 w/ an option. Give Fletcher (who I really like) the 2B job and Cowart the 3B job. 

 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

35 minutes ago, totdprods said:

Who hits leadoff?

MAYBIN, We need to extend him.

[NorCal Halo]

I like !!!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

35 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Valbuena

Can't we do better than him? Eppler has been great at picking players off the trash heap, but they all can't be winners. Espinosa, Valbuena, and Escobar need to go.

[Chuck]

Just now, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Can't we do better than him? Eppler has been great at picking players off the trash heap, but they all can't be winners. Espinosa, Valbuena, and Escobar need to go.

Escobar has been good outside of his mental relapses on defense. Espinosa needs to go, but I'm OK with giving Valbuena a longer leash since he basically had no ST. He's been better of late. 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

On 6/25/2017 at 11:07 AM, AngelsLakersFan said:

As much as you guys hate on Cron, he's slugging .723 in Salt Lake this year.

I like Cron a lot, but as long as Valbuena is an Angel Cron just won't get the regular ABs he needs to stay sharp. Valbuena was a mistake. Cron has improved his defense to a point where it is slightly above average. Last year he proved he could be productive at the plate given regular playing time.

Last year against RHP he slashed .290/.336/.490/.827 with 14 HRs. So what do the Angels do this year, platoon him against LHP where he slashed .237/.287/.387/.674 last year. Brilliant...

 Luis Valbuena slashed .258/.362/.479/.841 last year against RHP,with 11 HR, in the band box in Houston. And that was his good side of the plate. He hit .193/.286/.321/.607 overall last season.

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

40 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

MAYBIN, We need to extend him.

I hope we do. Perfect world we sit him down, tell him were trying to build long term, gentlemens agreement to trade him for prospects and resign this winter.