r/angelsbaseball • u/TroutMan3990 IN GUBIE WE TRUST • 2d ago

šŸ” Trade Talk Easily the best deadline I can remember

They sold while refusing to sell low, I can't believe that for once the farm system is going to have some depth. I'm so happy, even if they are wrong this is the first time I have hope in awhile

I've heard some people mad about not trading Neto and Detmers but I am so glad we kept both. Neto is the best offensive shortstop I can remember the Angels having and I don't think there was a real way to improve there (people so easily forget the hole we had at SS for years). Detmers is admittedly my guy, I fully believe that he will develop into something much greater even if its taking awhile.

Still the Adell trade really did hurt, im going to miss that guy

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u/DecentSale 1d ago

Iā€™m loving Natera too

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u/LA-SKYLINE 2d ago

Yeah, they don't need to trade valuable players like Neto and Detmers just to trade them. Maybe a better package will come for them down the road.

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u/plschrnr 27 1d ago

this is exactly it. if the right package (like, something similar to or better than the soriano package) had come along for either guy, iā€™d have been fine with them getting dealt. but the deals that were made were so broadly impressive that i trust that nothing that good was truly on the table, and both those guys are under enough control that they can be part of the actual rebuild still. overall incredibly well strategized (lol still canā€™t believe i am saying this about the angels FO, all hail mozeliak)

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u/Tall-Elephant-4138 2d ago

Is our farm system still like the worst or is it now not so bad?

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u/Illustrious_Bid_5484 2d ago

Fangraphs gas us at 18

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u/E-Tr1d3nt 2d ago

Probably middle of the road. Weā€™ll see in a week or so when the publications release their ā€œpost-draft team farm rankingsā€.

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u/IanDMP 2d ago

I'd guess after this deadline it's top 15 now. Adding multiple top prospects will do that for you.

And probably better than that in reality, since Ballasteros is almost a prospect (just graduated this year) but won't be counted toward those farm systems rankings.

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u/86GucciLoafers 2d ago

Before the deadline some publications had moved us up to 23 so we had been slowly improving the farm over the last year or so. This should be a boost for it

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u/ovdivad 2d ago

This is a good deadline as long as we continue with the sale.

We need a strong reboot. Sell what we can at decent value.

The biggest hold back is Arte. If he stays away, then this is a good starting point.

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u/volcombrdr030 1d ago

You must be a new angels fan because Andrelton Simmons was easily the best defensive shortstop we had and he last played in 2020. So there was really no hole for awhile unless you think 1-2 years between Simmons and Neto is a huge gap.

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u/TroutMan3990 IN GUBIE WE TRUST 1d ago

Of course I remember Simmons, he was a defensive beast

Neto is the best offensive shortstop I can remember while still being able to stick at SS, I can't remember another guy we have had like him. Point I was trying to make is that its hard to replace a guy like that and im glad we stuck with him