Comments on: Is Arte Moreno blowing smoke about the Angels offer to Carl Crawford?

By: bc666

bc666 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:03:49 +0000

The guy sounds like a used car salesman. GM Reagins ( another joke in the Angels front office) says the team evaluates a player, decides what his worth is then sets a deadline for the offer to be accepted or rejected. The Angels have no idea how the free agency market works. They always work in secrecy. They never give details of who they are going after. That way when they make their usual lowball offers they can tell the fans that they offered a fair deal but things just didn’t work out.

By: bigharold

bigharold — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:32:37 +0000

“Arte Moreno claims that the Angels never made an offer to Carl Crawford. Why? Never had the chance, he says. By the time they got to talking to him in Orlando last week he had an agreement with the Red Sox.”

So the LAA owner is using the RS alibi for not signing FA? Priceless!

“Alternatively, Moreno says, he was too expensive and if they signed him the payroll would have been out of whack and he would have had to raise ticket prices.”

More RS excuses?

By: Detroit Michael

Detroit Michael — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:03:45 +0000

Did the Angels cut ticket prices when they didn’t resign Chone Figgins and John Lackey last year? I missed that announcement.

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:56:38 +0000

So they’ll have to raise ticket prices after the sign Adrian Beltre.