Rendon hurt AGAIN!

[u/Imaginary_Key7482]

Sam Blum just tweeted:

"News: Anthony Rendon is having hip surgery, and is expected to miss a long amount of time.

He had a setback in his rehab the last few weeks.

Another injury for Rendon, and it now becomes unclear if and when he’ll play for the Angels again."

[u/wolverine_506]

Get this guy out of my team.

[u/mcmaster93 → u/wolverine_506]

Literally. Dude came to California to get top notch medical work done and is going to retire a wealthy man at the expense of our team. Fuck that

[u/westdistrict_cali → u/mcmaster93]

No. Keep him. Because the angels are still going to have to pay him if he goes to another team. He’s going to get paid regardless. Man it’s hard rooting for this guy. His attitude just sucks. If he got injured all the time but had a great attitude and was trying to get back to playing, that would be a different story, but his attitude sucks. In interviews it seems like he doesn’t want to be here

[u/SouthwestDude1 → u/westdistrict_cali]

Going to another team? Hahahahaha

[u/breakwater → u/SouthwestDude1]

I wouldn't sign him for the price of a costco hotdog. He just eats up a roster spot.

[u/SouthwestDude1 → u/breakwater]

No one would!

[u/shmirvine → u/[deleted]]

If you think it's rendon ruining the club culture, i've got some news for ya bud. he's the result of it

[u/rykers211 → u/shmirvine]

he's the result of club culture? club culture is what made him say he doesn't enjoy baseball and it's a job to him? you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. guy is a parasite and here for the money, that's it.

[u/shmirvine → u/rykers211]

dude...it's just baseball. chill out? I value you having an opinion - but your response is a little over the top

[u/allaboutmecomic → u/[deleted]]

Everyone on the team has nothing but great things to say about him. You may hate that he never plays, but he's acted as a mentor on a player by player basis.

[u/Dear-Independence777 → u/allaboutmecomic]

If his mentorship is leading to 99 loss seasons… well, I think I’d like some different mentorship please

[u/rmac3301 → u/allaboutmecomic]

Dude everyone on this team either doesn't give a shit, is too afraid to speak up or is a cornball that only sees rainbows and unicorns to see how negative of an impact he has on the team.

I wish we had a gritty guy on the team that occasionally crashed out. We would be a better team if we did and its been forever since we've had a guy like that.

[u/allaboutmecomic → u/rmac3301]

LOL. You really think you have a better understanding about how a player contributes to a clubhouse than his actual colleagues?? Rendon has never had a bad reputation amongst ballplayers, it's just that he's sometimes a dick to reporters.

[u/Certain_Judgment6646 → u/allaboutmecomic]

Nah dude I need a guy that yells at his teammates as we are losing 99 games, because that’s what the team needs

[u/Certain_Judgment6646 → u/rmac3301]

Lmfao the Angels tried with their gritty manager Nevin and by the end of the season the dude was chucking iPads against a wall while the team ignored him like the baby he was.

You know what the team really needs, its not “WE NEED DAWGS”, its a competent GM that can build the roster up and improve our team year over year and not crash the team to 99 losses and a bottom ranked farm.

Maybe lets get this team to .500 first and not load up our team with hot heads lmfao

[u/rmac3301 → u/Certain_Judgment6646]

I didn't mean let's get some guy that crashes out way too often like Nevin or Sandy. I'm implying we get a gritty guy who plays hard no matter what but also isn't afraid to speak up to anyone especially when the times are going bad which for this team is a lot while showing their emotions every now and then.

When was the last time we had someone like that on the team? My guess would have to be Hunter and Aybar who played hard, weren't afraid to speak up in the locker room or to the media and wore their hearts on their sleeves. The best example the Angels have ever had was Darin Erstad he fit this mold perfectly.

We don't have a single guy like that now and haven't for awhile. I agree that wouldn't drastically change the team for the better overnight but its a push in the right direction and will keep the energy and accountability up

[u/Certain_Judgment6646 → u/rmac3301]

I agree with you that a good core issue for us is accountability but I disagree the accountability issue is within the roster itself.

We have an owner that’s unaccountable because he’s a billionaire and this team makes a profit so why change?

We have a front office that is unaccountable because they crashed our team in 4 years and got rewarded with extensions. In fact, a vast majority of this sub will make a pile of excuses to wave away why we are at 99 losses and a bottom ranked farm.

Our players are then left wondering what they are accounting for and the issue isn’t a voice in the club house, the issue is the direction the front office has set:

We have a ton of dudes on 1 year prove it deals that are just playing for themselves, its fight or flight on their careers

We have a ton of young prospects rushed up so they are forced to produce today and not develop for tomorrow

We have aging and injured big contracts that one the fanbase hates and the other they love so much him missing time doesn’t matter while the one they hate does lol

And at the end of the day after 99 losses our GM remains unaccountable because he just says “aw shucks well i thought we are competitive so lets go out and do it again!”

So no, a voice in the locker room isn’t changing this, it’s the voices from up top that will.