Why would the Angels become buyers at the MLB trade deadline?

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Today, the Reds last five games on 0,500, and one of the four teams that seem to participate in the three points in the National League. They added a starting launcher, an elite defensive third goal player and a general public of public services that strike. 298 before the deadline on Thursday.

The angels are halfway through.

They have three games in less than 0.500, four games in the American League race, with four teams to spend, in the hope of putting an end to the longest drought of the baseball playoffs at 10 years.

The Seattle Mariners, tied with the Rangers of Texas for the last point of Joker, exchanged the corner championships to the main line in the third basic player Eugenio Suárez and the first base player Josh Naylor. The Rangers acquired Merrill Kelly to complete Jacob Degrom and Nathan Eovaldi at the top of the starting rotation.

The angels have made two professions, picking up two men of veterans configuration and an inner field player striking .152 for three minor leaguers slightly considered.

Why slightly strengthen a team with 1.3% chance of making the playoffs, as planned by the baseball prospectus before Thursday professions, when you could start building the 2026 list in the many fields needing improvement?

“Give them a chance to play this thing, compared to what has been presented [in trade talks]had a lot of sense, “said the director general of angels Perry Minasian.

In large part, he said, they were young players.

“The development of our heart is obviously very, very, very important,” said Minasian. “Being competitive in August and September is really, really important for this group, not only for the now but for the future – playing significant games, understanding that there is an expectation of winning, presenting yourself at the ball stadium every day by feeling that you have the chance to win a six -month period.

“It is difficult to quantify, but I had the impression that it was very important for this group to go through that, to see what the game in August demands, what the game looks like in September.”

Does he see the Angels 2025 playing significant games in October?

“I don’t make predictions,” he said.

Beyond the Zach Neto Copped Stop, no one on the Angels’ current list was likely to order an elite perspective in return.

However, the angels could have exchanged agents who will soon be free such as the Kenley Jansen and Tyler Anderson launchers, or the Yoan Moncada and Luis Rengifo Infielders, to meet the needs in 2026: a rear starter, a superded help, an inner field of the defense, an Outfield First De La Défense, a superior depth in the minor leagues.

Perhaps Oswald Peraza, the prospect of New York Yankees, once medical, with the average of .152, begins for the third goal of next year, or ensures this work of public service. Minasian called him “a classic guy in the change next”.

To do so, however, the angels made $ 73,766 in silver of international bonus that could have been better used to sign the prospects of Latin America. Minasian said the angels used what they needed with their $ 6,261,600 basin that they needed this year – and the best prospects cost much more than $ 73,766 – but they cannot afford to close tracks for the acquisition of talents.

In 2021, the Angels wrote all the launchers and failed to draw a collective war. The Dodgers have mainly done the same thing: 20 choices, 18 launchers, the same war of the under 1 years old, although they received great moments from Ben Casparius, Emmet Sheehan and Justin Wrobleski.

But the dodgers spend everything they need, then some, on deep and talented lists of players, coaches and executives, and on the development of players and the acquisition of players.

It is not a matter of money. It is also creativity. The Dodgers inserted themselves into a trade with three teams on Wednesday to strengthen their agricultural system by exchanging an excess minor league prosecutor for two launchers in the minor league. Last year, the Dodgers inserted themselves into another three -team profession to grasp the lifter Michael Kopech, then injured Tommy Edman for a deep bat and two minor leaguers.

The last time the Angels were part of a three -team agreement, the president of the Dodgers of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman also made it easier. The Dodgers obtained four players from the Miami Marlins, then exchanged the launcher Andrew Heaney in Angels for the inner field player Howie Kendrick. It was in 2014.

The angels nowadays do not spend as much, or also, on free agents. They are not distinguished in scouting, analysis, development of players or international signatures.

This forces them to reduce their objective to write academic players who cross the minor leagues. A weak draft class hurts Anaheim much more than in the

The angels have their children, but the optimism inherent in their speech on a young heart obscures the fact that they are about to pay the children – and, apart from money, they lack time.

The Zach Neto Corner Stop has become a young star for the Angels, who are fighting for a place in the playoffs this season.

(Mark J. Terrall / Associated Press)

Neto, the only star to emerge so far from the young nucleus, is eligible for wage arbitration this winter. The angels control it for only three more seasons – perhaps less, if part or the entire 2027 season is lost in a collective negotiation war.

The receiver Logan O’Hoppe and the launcher José Soriano are also eligible for arbitration this winter. The first goal player Nolan Schanuel is eligible next winter.

Overall, nothing has changed much on Thursday. The plan today is the same as in spring training: hopes that enough young players flourish that, when Anthony Renduon’s contract expires next fall, Minasian can persuade the owner Arte Moreno that spending big for one or two players in a free agency could make the difference. If playing significant games in August makes these young players much better, perhaps this deadline for trade was worth it.

Moreno resists reconstruction, as a defender of fans who, according to them, deserve to see a competitive team. No one in Orange County should look at what Colorado Rockies offer – or what the Houston Astros offered before their success of success. Reconstruction could mean seasons of 100 lost and an even greater drop; The competition could mean sneaking in the playoffs with 84 victories.

The angels could do this this year. It could work. However, this has not worked in the last decade, and in the meantime, the angels have become an involuntary child for a union of players against a salary ceiling to say: “Market size is not fate. Look at the angels. “

You can say that the match plan is to face each year, in the interest of the fans, but you should not try to win each year on a wing and a prayer.

Your most dedicated fans – represented by the hundreds who decorated in wings and halos during the Wednesday match, beating their arms like angels in the outside field – did not hesitate to let their feelings be known.

You could hear them loud and clear, in the game and on television broadcast, “Vendez the team!”