Prospects Don’t Look So Good Now
Now that the Angels’ season is essentially over, I want to be the first to congratulate Bill Stoneman for a job well done. It is clear, from listening to Stoneman, that a general manager’s job is to hold on to every single prospect in the organization and not trade him for anything unless part of a one-sided deal (viz., Erick Aybar for Alfonso Soriano).
Why on earth would he have wanted to trade for has-beens like Carlos Delgado or Jim Thome when he could waste at-bats (and games) on guys like Kendry Morales, Reggie Willits, Tommy Murphy, Dallas MacPherson and Jeff Mathis and thus expose all but a few of these “prospects” as either not ready or not good enough, diminishing their trade value further?
The bottom line is that he made it through the season with all his prospects. Well done, Bill.
CRAIG DUNKIN
La Crescenta
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Could someone please tell Adam Kennedy to stop swinging for a home run to right field on every pitch? It has been almost four years since Game 5 of the 2002 American League championship series.
BRUCE LIEBMAN
Los Angeles
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Poor Jered Weaver. Will this slump never end?
WES CORRELL
Laguna Beach
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