Comments on: Scott Kazmir has a 36.00 ERA at Triple-A after second straight terrible rehab start

By: purdueman

purdueman — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:17:24 +0000

A MUCH bigger example of a team reading too many media reviews on their hot prospects is Joba Chamberlain. The Yankees could have gotten a mother load back in return for him back when he first broke into the big leagues, now they’d be lucky to get another back end of the rotation reliever in return for him.

The Yankees though did move Ian Kennedy at the right time. Prospects are just that … prospects. How many times have we seen “can’t miss five tool guy” miss… and miss badly?

Kenny Williams has moved more prospects than any other GM in baseball over the past 10 years, yet none of them he’s moved have ever blossomed into perennial all stars. Per my earlier post, the Angels four untouchable “can’t miss” prospects (Kochman, Mattis, Wood and Mc Pherson), all have turned out to be more or less busts.

By: Elwood Larf

Elwood Larf — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:59:09 +0000

When the Rays traded Kazmir to the Angels I remember thinking it was a horrible decision on the part of the Rays. Why trade such a good pitcher to a fellow AL contender? sure, he’d had a few bumps in the road, but a pitcher that good was sure to rebound, right? Guess they were a hell of a lot smarter than I thought. Looks like they knew how bad things were going to get and dumped him while he still had value. Wish the Yankees had done that with Phil Hughes.

By: purdueman

purdueman — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:25:13 +0000

I just laugh and laugh at the Angels inept management. The Angels blew a second (or even third), shot at the World Series (after 2002), because then do nothing GM Bill Stone-less was scared to death to trade any of his precious “can’t miss” prospects in order to fill a few big holes that the Angels had at the time. His “untouchables”? Mc Pherson, Kochman, Mathis and Brandon Wood, and of course none of them ever even came close to stardom.

Then Angel owner Arte Moreno started to meddle in by throwing and extra million and guaranteed year at Bartolo Colon and then Torii Hunter in order to simply outbid the field. Colon was a disaster in years 4 and 5 of his Angel contract, and now we’re seeing a rapid decline in Hunter as well.

Then old Arte got burned by Scott Bor-ass on Texeira and set a “take it or leave it” policy on bidding for free agents, and that cost him any shot he had at Beltre and Crawford last offseason (and Crawford has since said had the money been roughly equal he would have signed with the Angels).

The Angels thought that they were “stealing” Kazmir and then made that inexplicable trade for Vernon Wells and assumed his absurd contract in the bargaining. To make matters worse, they gave up Rivera (who’s now starting for the Blue Jays), and team sparkplug and fan favorite Napoli (who know haunts them being with Texas). Scioscia, being a former catcher, couldn’t wait to unload Napoli though which considering the Angels anemic offense wasn’t too bright on his part.

The one thing keeping all of these gaffe’s under the national radar is that both the Cubs and Mets have been even MORE inept during this time period, impossible though as it may seem.

By: captainwisdom8888

captainwisdom8888 — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:45:36 +0000

Could just be me, but does he slightly look like Jared Loughner?

By: jimbo1949

jimbo1949 — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:38:20 +0000

Wha hoppened?
Man, he fell off the cliff.