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[redsox907]

yeah, let's hire the guy whose managed the only team WORSE than us

never liked Baldelli but I'm biased

need to have Art sell the team while we tearing it down

[Caesar]

yeah, let's hire the guy whose managed the only team WORSE than us

never liked Baldelli but I'm biased

need to have Art sell the team while we tearing it down

That was AI hallucinating. Baldelli got fired in 2025. He working with the Dodgers in real life. Fixed.

I'm sure Rocco knows a guy who can speak to you about your dislike of him.

[Caesar]

MLB • Roster News

SOURCES: Angels attempt to bring back Stephenson before exclusive negotiation period ends

By Jordan Reyes • Staff Writer • November 5, 2026 • 5 min read

Robert Stephenson was the only impending free agent the Halos wanted back. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Angels made one offer during the exclusive negotiating window and got turned down.

The Angels offered right-hander Robert Stephenson a two-year deal worth $8.5 million annually before the exclusive period closed. Stephenson declined and will enter free agency, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

"They made a real offer to the one guy they wanted back. He wants to see what the market says."

Stephenson, 33, was one of the few things that worked in Anaheim in 2026. He went 5-4 with a 3.05 ERA and one save across 79.2 innings, striking out 79 against 20 walks. He was the primary bridge to closer Ben Joyce and handled multiple innings when the Angels ran bullpen games in the second half after trading Yusei Kikuchi.

The market for him is likely to be active. Relievers with his strikeout profile and durability typically clear the Angels' offer in both years and dollars, and Stephenson has been through free agency before. He signed a three-year, $33 million deal with the Angels in January 2024 after a breakout season split between Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay, though he missed all of 2024 following Tommy John surgery.

The larger news is what the Angels did not do. The club did not extend contract offers to any of its other impending free agents, meaning Jordan Romano, Drew Pomeranz, Yoan Moncada, Miguel Castro, Hunter Strickland, Brent Suter, Anthony Rendon, Jeimer Candelario, Travis d'Arnaud and Chris Taylor will all reach the open market.

That is a significant amount of roster turnover, though most of it is by design. Romano went 6-6 with a 4.31 ERA in 94 innings. Pomeranz was 3-4 with a 3.56 ERA and struck out 113 in 93.2 innings, the highest strikeout total on the staff outside the rotation. Moncada was the club's most productive hitter by average, batting .272 with 23 home runs and 57 RBIs in 389 at-bats.

Letting Moncada and Pomeranz walk without an offer is the clearest signal yet of how new general manager Kim Ng intends to approach the winter. Both would have commanded real money on multi-year terms. Neither fits the timeline of a club that just hired Rocco Baldelli to develop young pitching and figure out what it has.

Rendon's departure ends one of the worst contracts in franchise history. He signed a seven-year, $245 million deal before the 2020 season and played more than 60 games in a season only once after that.

The Angels entered the offseason with payroll set to drop sharply as long-term obligations come off the books. The moves, or the absence of them, push that figure lower still. What Ng does with the room is the next question.

[James]

Ng is a woke but good choice for GM.

Gotta do something respectable for Trout here.

[redsox907]

Gotta do something respectable for Trout here.

yeah, trade his bum ass like they should have done five years ago

Baldelli still sucks

[Caesar]

Ng is a woke but good choice for GM.

Gotta do something respectable for Trout here.

We gotta stay woke in LA!

And by respectable, you mean make him as comfortable as possible in his final years?

Gotta do something respectable for Trout here.

yeah, trade his bum ass like they should have done five years ago

Baldelli still sucks

No one's taking on a $35M/year contract for a declining Trout imho.

[Caesar]

MLB • Roster News

Los Angeles offers arbitration to 13

By Jordan Reyes • Staff Writer • November 5, 2026 • 5 min read

Zach Neto headlined the arbitration offers. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Angels tendered contracts to 13 of their arbitration-eligible players Friday, keeping the roster intact for now while general manager Kim Ng works the trade market behind it.

Zach Neto, Jo Adell, Grayson Rodriguez, Logan O'Hoppe, Ben Joyce, Nolan Schanuel, Chase Silseth, Oswald Peraza, Josh Lowe, Rafael Marchan, Alek Manoah, Reid Detmers and Jose Siri were all offered salary arbitration ahead of the deadline.

"They kept everybody because they have not decided who they are keeping. Those are different things."

The volume of cases is unusual, and the leverage is unusual too. Arbitration hearings weigh individual production against comparable players at the same service level, and a 65-97 season with a .229 team batting average gives the Angels a favorable set of numbers to argue from. Most of these cases are expected to settle before a hearing, and the ones that do not are likely to break in the club's direction.

Neto is the exception in every respect. He hit .246 with 32 home runs, 75 RBIs and 81 runs scored in 585 at-bats, the only regular in the lineup who produced at a level a contending team would want. This is his first year of arbitration eligibility, and the Angels are expected to pursue a long-term extension rather than go year to year and watch the price climb through 2029.

Locking up Neto is the single clearest priority of Ng's first offseason. He turns 26 in January, plays a premium defensive position and is the only piece on the roster with an obvious place on the next competitive Angels team.

The rest of the tenders are more complicated. Sources say the Angels are actively shopping Adell, Peraza, Lowe, Manoah and Detmers, and tendered all five specifically to preserve the option of keeping them for 2027 if nothing develops.

Adell led the club with 27 home runs and 78 RBIs but hit .228 and struck out at a rate that has followed him his entire career. Lowe hit .252 with 19 homers in 524 at-bats. Peraza hit .191 in 199 at-bats and is closer to a roster decision than a trade chip.

The pitching is where the market may be more receptive. Manoah led the rotation with a 3.97 ERA over 154 innings and went 11-11, and his name still carries the weight of a former Cy Young finalist. Detmers went 7-13 with a 5.13 ERA but struck out 150 in 156 innings and remains under club control.

Rodriguez, who went 8-14 with a 5.04 ERA and 159 strikeouts, was tendered without any indication he is available. Neither was Joyce, who converted 27 saves with a 2.18 ERA and is the most valuable reliever on the roster after Robert Stephenson declined the club's contract offer earlier this month.

[Caesar]

MLB • Trade News

Halos ship Manoah to Baltimore

By Jordan Reyes • Staff Writer • November, 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Yanquiel Fernandez has been on the move a lot recently. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Angels traded right-hander Alek Manoah and infield prospect Arol Vera to the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday for outfielder Yanquiel Fernandez and right-hander Elton Telshaw.

Fernandez was the target. The 23-year-old Cuban outfielder has had an unusual 12 months, going from Colorado to the Yankees on waivers before New York flipped him in-division to Baltimore. The Angels now become his fourth organization, and they get him with multiple years of control and a clear path to playing time in an outfield that has none of its long-term pieces settled.

"They have been looking for a corner bat with a real hit tool for two years. That is what this was about."

Manoah goes to Baltimore after leading the Angels rotation with a 3.97 ERA over 154 innings, going 11-11 with 149 strikeouts against 48 walks. He was the most tradeable arm on the staff and had been shopped since July,.

Vera, 23, is a switch-hitting middle infielder who has spent parts of four seasons in the system without breaking through. He was expendable with Zach Neto entrenched at shortstop and the Angels working toward a long-term extension with him.

Telshaw is the secondary piece, a young right-hander who gives the Angels another arm to develop under new manager Rocco Baldelli.

The deal is the first significant move of general manager Kim Ng's tenure and follows the pattern she signaled at the tender deadline, moving veterans on short control windows for players who fit the next competitive roster.

[Caesar]

MLB • Trade News

Adell dealt to Cincy in return for young arms

By Jordan Reyes • Staff Writer • November 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Rhett Lowder joins the Angels with a chance to get significant big league time. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Angels traded outfielder Jo Adell and minor league pitcher Marlon Quintero to the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday for right-handers Rhett Lowder and Connor Phillips.

The deal is the second in a week for general manager Kim Ng and brings back the rotation piece the Angels have been after since the tender deadline.

"Six starts is six starts. Cincinnati saw enough of him in 2024 to believe it, and so do we."

Lowder, 24, is the return that matters. The seventh overall pick in 2023 out of Wake Forest, he reached the majors barely a year after being drafted and made six starts for Cincinnati in 2024, posting a 1.17 ERA over 30.2 innings. He has not pitched in the big leagues since, losing 2025 to a forearm strain and spending most of 2026 working his way back through the minors.

The Angels expect him to slot into the middle of the rotation immediately. He throws a low-90s fastball with a changeup and slider that both graded as plus coming out of college, and the profile has always been command and pitchability rather than pure stuff. That is a different kind of arm than anything else on the staff, which has been built almost entirely around velocity and swing-and-miss.

Phillips, 25, is the secondary piece and the more immediate one. He appeared in 67 games out of the Cincinnati bullpen in 2026 with a 5.05 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP across 76.2 innings. The strikeout stuff is real and the walks are the problem, which puts him in familiar company in this organization. He gives new manager Rocco Baldelli another multi-inning option in a bullpen that lost Robert Stephenson, Jordan Romano and Drew Pomeranz to free agency.

Adell leaves after leading the Angels with 27 home runs and 78 RBIs in 570 at-bats, hitting .228. He was the club's first-round pick in 2017 and spent seven seasons trying to become the player the organization drafted. Cincinnati gets him with two years of control remaining.

Quintero, 21, is a right-handed pitching prospect who has not yet reached full-season ball.

With Adell and Alek Manoah both gone, the Angels have moved two of the three players they were most openly shopping. The outfield now runs through Mike Trout, Josh Lowe, Addison Barger and Yanquiel Fernandez, acquired from Baltimore in the Manoah deal.

[redsox907]

this is only the beginning of the Exodus of the Angels



i dunno anything about any of those guys, so good trades I guess lol