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Berkman will bat 3rd and Holliday 4th now?
Freeze 5th.
Still not a bad heart of the order.

wart57 wrote:Berkman will bat 3rd and Holliday 4th now?
Freeze 5th.
Still not a bad heart of the order.

assuming berky maintains his 2011 numbers

plus craig, when healthy he's in there...

"I got this, brah"
-Matt Adams

Swingingbunt wrote:He's not the man I thought he was, and that's more disappointing than anything. Good job to Mo and the office for making a VERY competitive offer but not folding to him.

Yeah, that's where I am with this. It's just disappointing because it really changes my opinion of him as a person. I'm not going to boo him, but I'm certainly not going to applaud him ever again. But, it's not like he went to a team like the Orioles and went only for the money. The Angels are a good organization, with some pieces in place, and a good manager. I can see why that spot was attractive to Pujols. If he had gone only for the money, I'd be kind of upset right now.

And like you said, the FO did all they could, and worked as hard as they could, but they didn't go Jim Hendry and just throw stupid money and years like Moreno and company did just to get him.

JL21 wrote:"I got this, brah"
-Matt Adams

<laughing through the tears>

Does Matt Adams get promoted?

Also, I wonder how much extra income Pujols will bring in in regards to the Angels Media interests (their television contract and radio contract)

TLR to a front office job with the Angels in 3...2...1....

and if the team underperforms and Scoscia gets fired TLR to the Angels dugout in _____ (insert # of years here)

In baseball, you get paid in your 2nd contract for what you do in your first one. This is not new. It's also not new thinking that paying for that 2nd contract is incredibly bad baseball unless you are a team like the Yankees that doesn't seem to care about money. It sucks, this was a rare circumstance that I would have been okay with them breaking the bank for. But, if it was gonna be 10/230 that the cards had to put up, I'm fine with letting him walk.

It was good for Pujols and good for the Cards. The likely 'losers' though there may not be one is the Angels.

JL21 wrote:"I got this, brah"
-Matt Adams

..., he said as he stared down the last remaining sandwich on the buffet line.

It's funny to me how this just further cements the criss-crossing of the Angels and Cardinals franchises over the last decade. Cardinals made a mid-00's run off of guys like Spezio, Eckstein, Glaus, etc. Now the Angels have EX-CARDINAL Albert Pujols.

Get used to that.