The Los Angeles Angels had another disappointing season. Although Japanese player “Second Sword Style” Otani Shohei won the American League MVP award, the team was still rejected from the playoffs. The biggest reason was their dilapidation. Pitcher lineup. The whole team is actually only Otani pitching more than a hundred rounds, how do you want to win? Therefore, the main goal of the off-season reinforcement is the pitcher.
This year’s off-season will expire on December 1st due to the card to the labor-management agreement. In order to avoid uncertainty, many free market players or players who are preparing to enter the free market have signed long-term contracts in advance. The entire off-season has become more popular than before Open the heat 1 month earlier. But among them, the Angels only signed contracts with three pitchers until November 30, namely “Thor” Noah Syndergaard (21 million in 1 year), side-thrower left relay Aaron Loup (17 million in 2 years) and Michael Lorenzen (1 year 7 million), although it is still a long time away from the season, there are still many big fish waiting to be sold in the free market, but the angels’ operations so far have disappointed their fans. So where is their problem?
In the past, the angels used to search for players who had actual performance in the past but now need to seek a comeback due to injuries or low tides. Well-known cases include former New York Mets pitcher “Dark Knight” Matt Harvey and former Atlanta Braves ace. Pitcher Julio Teheran, earlier there was former San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum, but the results are not good, with a farm system that can never raise a pitcher, the Angels are trapped in a vicious circle of not finding a good pitcher every year.
When the market opened this year’s off-season, the Angels immediately asked Syndergaard to join. Compared with the past routines, the Angels’ operation is more refreshing. Although Syndergaard has only shot 2 games in the past 2 years due to Tommy John’s surgery, consider him. The season before the start of the knife, I just pitched the highest number of rounds and WAR of his career, so Syndergaard’s problem is simply injury, not the above-mentioned injury, and the pitcher is willing to sign a one-year appointment to bet on his own resurrection. For the Angels It is a relatively good choice. After all, the healthy Syndergaard’s ball power is a 3-digit fireball. If he can shoot 150 rounds, it will be a great help to the Angels.
But in the next week, the Angels let go of a lot of high-quality free market pitchers. During this period, people like Steven Matz, Anthony DeSclafani, Kevin Gausman, Jon Gray and others all found their next home, except for Gausman’s annual salary. In addition to being higher than Syndergaard, the average annual salary of other people is less than 15 million, but the angels have all let go. It is incredible. The common point of these four pitchers is that they have proved that they have a certain pitching ability this year, but they are not strong enough. The strength of being the number one starter may not be as high for the angels as Syndergaard, but the risk is much lower than that of Syndergaard, and it can be held for a long time. For the rotation that blows in the wind every year, it is indeed necessary in the formation. For such a pitcher to join, as mentioned earlier, Syndergaard is a good choice for the Angels, but it doesn’t mean that they don’t need to make up the starter.
As a result, after a week, they replaced Lorenzen, who was born in the Cincinnati Reds, and made him a starting pitcher. You must know that his career is still in the minor leagues, and he has only two years of pitching more than 100 games. He previously served as a full-time starter. It’s already in 2015, and this signing has made people see Angel’s funny one-year engagement team in the past. Can the Angel fans not be angry after a long time to strengthen the overall reinforcement? I can only pray for the top management to bet resources on other top starting pitchers.
In terms of backup, he only signed 1 Loup. He is a good pitcher, but the asking price is a bit high. The angels should first get the contract of Raisel Iglesias, the patron saint who shines this year. I hope that signing Loup is not because I don’t want to open Iglesias. The contract only made this strategy.
Note: On December 1, Taiwan time, Angel and Iglesias reached a four-year $58 million contract agreement, and Iglesias will continue to stay with Angel.
To sum up, the angels’ current free market signing method is still puzzling. They bet on two starting pitchers, and one of them has a ceiling score different from the previous pitchers, which is expected, but they let go of too many low-risk first pitchers. The starting pitcher’s switch to open the lucky bag to bring another name starting pitcher has made people feel uneasy. If the Angels finally find other Lorenzen methods to find the remaining starting pitchers, the team’s pitching results in the next season will still be worrying. .
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