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Originally Posted by bababui
In recent years the Angels have lost Troy Glaus, KRod, Judas Teixeira, Washburn and the list going into this offseason is frightening.
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Troy Glaus left because the Angels didn't want him anymore; he signed for less money with Arizona than he'd been making in Anaheim. KRod only got a few million more per year from the Mets than he'd been making; they could have re-signed him if they wanted, but their management was savvy enough to realize he was headed for a drop-off. As for Teixeira -- what did you expect? Why would he have been more likely to sign with the Angels than any other team? Did you really think those two months he spent in Anaheim were going to instill some kind of organizational loyalty in him? Heck, they only acquired him because Atlanta wanted to dump salary.
In the meantime, it's not as if the Angels have been hiding from free agency. Guerrero, Hunter, and Matthews were all signed to contracts that looked really outlandish at the time.
I honestly get it when fans of teams like Toronto or Tampa Bay or Kansas City or Pittsburgh complain about how much money the Yankees pay out. When someone rooting for Anaheim, though, a team with an enormous market and shiny new stadium, complains about the Yankees, it drives me nuts. There's no reason at all that the Angels or Dodgers or Mets or Red Sox or Cubs or Phillies can't generate the same kind of revenue that the Yankees have. If you want to complain about anything, you should complain about how your teams' front offices did such a poor job relative to the Yankees at making money.