15 Oct 2017 03:44:44
Angels offseason:

Bunch of contracts off the books: payroll flexibility

Resign Upton: add 1 year to current deal make it a five year 115 million deal.

Sign Moustakis to a 5 year 85 million contract

Sign Alex Cobb to 4 year 60 million contract

Trade for Ian Kinsler as Detroit continues to do their rebuild. Angels and Detroit seem to be on speed dial with each other.

Kinsler
Trout
Upton
Pujols
Moustakis
Simmons
Calhoun
Cron
Maldonado

Richards
Cobb
Shoemaker
Bridwell
Skaggs

1.) 17 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 01:42:23
They don't really have as much money coming off the books as it seems.

About $28-35M off, but you have $22M in raises going to Trout, Pujols, Simmons, and others. Not to mention arbitration costs. The Angels have multiple guys going to arbitration, and it's projected around $30M there.

That's a net loss of ~$17-24M.

They'll open up for one of those guys. You'd be hard-pressed to suggest they'll spend a quarter of a billion this offseason.

2.) 19 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 01:58:37
The market consensus is that the Angels will spend big on ONE guy and rummage for spare parts for the rest of their needs.

Moreno has had his fair share of upside-down contracts, Josh Hamilton being one. Pujols' deal looks terrible now. I doubt he wants to spend too much money on one guy.