Tony Reagins

[Taylor]

Does he not get enough credit for being the GM who drafted Mike Trout?

 

Discuss.

[T.G.]

Mike Scioscia was the real GM then.

[Slegnaac]

No titles during his tenure. 

[Taylor]

12 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

No titles during his tenure. 

I thought his title was GM.

[TroutField]

30 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

No titles during his tenure. 

2009 was our year. 
 

fucking a-rod and Brian Fuentes 

[tdawg87]

He didn't draft shit. 

[Taylor]

49 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

He didn't draft shit. 

This is verifyably false.

[tdawg87]

4 minutes ago, Taylor said:

This is verifyably false.

Well said.

[Amazing Larry]

Eddie Bane had a lot to do with drafting Trout. 

[Taylor]

3 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Well said.

Damn not autocorrect.

[Taylor]

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

Eddie Bane had a lot to do with drafting Trout. 

So Reagins doesn't get any credit?

[failos]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

So Reagins doesn't get any credit?

He has a del taco credit card

[tdawg87]

4 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Eddie Bane had a lot to do with drafting Trout. 

Indeed. 

[Lazorko Saves]

4 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So Reagins doesn't get any credit?

He gets close to zero credit if he had no live in-person viewings of Trout before the draft.

I never saw any reporting that he traveled to New Jersey to see him.  Maybe he saw him at the area code games the previous summer?  Don't know.

Edited May 10, 2022 by Lazorko Saves

[failos]

Reagins did some good things, but he is perceived as being a Sosh+Arte puppet

[tdawg87]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So Reagins doesn't get any credit?

He gets credit, obviously. I assume he had a significant hand in signing him, since that's his job. That is, of course, if he wasn't late to his meeting with the Trout family.

[Second Base]

Tony Reagins had a personal conflict with Eddie Bane, who insisted upon drafting Trout. The relationship was bad enough that the year after the 2009 draft, quite possibly the single greatest draft for any team of all-time, Reagins fired Bane. 

Of course, the best draft also happened to be followed by the single worst draft in team history. The Angels had essentially five first round picks, and picked Kaleb Cowart, Chevy Clarke, Ryan Bolden, Taylor Lindsey and Cam Bedrosian. The result of this was one quadruple A player, one middle reliever and three kids that never made it out of the low minors.

A collosal failure. 

But if we're going to hold Reagins responsible for the drafts, we'd have to acknowledge that his highs were incredible and his lows were the worst I've seen. And Reagins was certainly holding Bane responsible for the drafts, and so the legacy of either appears to be mixed mostly. 

[tdawg87]

9 minutes ago, Second Base said:

The Angels had essentially five first round picks, and picked Kaleb Cowart, Chevy Clarke, Ryan Bolden, Taylor Lindsey and Cam Bedrosian. 

[Inside Pitch]

43 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So Reagins doesn't get any credit?

He gets credit for firing the guy that drafted Trout.

[tdawg87]

[Second Base]

33 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

 These are the players they missed that were all drafted before the second round, but after the Angels selected:

Nick Castellanos, Taijuan Walker, Noah Syndergaard, and Christian Yelich. 

That's just the first round. Even ONE of those guys could've changed the face of the franchise. 

In fact, of the 55 players the Angels drafted, only ONE developed into an everyday player for the Angels. Kole Calhoun, in the 8th round. 

[Docwaukee]

2 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

[bruin5]

Thankfully Jerry Dipoto was there to oversee Trout’s development.  

[Taylor]

49 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Wasn't it a foregone conclusion that Arte ordered the Vernon Wells trade?

[ten ocho recon scout]

7 hours ago, Slegnaac said:

No titles during his tenure. 

Read that as no titties during his tenure, and was gonna mention the sosh post just above it.