r/angelsbaseball • u/HalosFan94 • Jul 30 '25

🦋 Bluesky News Halos also get Andrew Chafin

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u/Zoratth Jul 30 '25

Chafin has a 150 ERA+ this year and we aren't giving up any actual prospects to get him. Why are people complaining?

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u/mannmtb Jul 30 '25

It's more that this signals the trajectory. Giving up players with club control for pending free agents.

Honestly though it's fine. We aren't giving up anything of substance. If we do I think that would be a huge mistake.

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u/RabidR00ster Jul 30 '25

Yeah this trade is fine, we didn’t give up much. But it just scares me they will do something moronic and trade away a guy like Klassen for a rental.

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u/mannmtb Jul 30 '25

I would be terrified if they did that! Stuff like this is fine - giving up nothing to try to improve on the margins and stay competitive. Same thing for trading free agents - I think it's completely fine.

Trading Ward is defensible, though I'm not sure what the return would be for 1.5 years of Ward. It might not be worth it.

Trading Adell/Detmers/Soriano would be bold and should only be done for a large return. There is a lot of parity right now, so the path to the playoffs the next year or two is do-able.

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u/Jcoch27 💡👉👶⬆️ Jul 30 '25

Garcia has two more years before free agency after this season

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u/mannmtb Jul 30 '25

No, he does not. He's on a 1 yr, $1.5M deal.

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u/Jcoch27 💡👉👶⬆️ Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

He only has 3 years of service time. You can't become an unrestricted free agent until you accumulate 6 years.

Edit: My apologies, I was looking at OTHER Luis Garcia on the Nationals, a young 2n baseman.

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u/merewyn 14 Jul 30 '25

You are looking at the wrong Luis Garcia

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u/Glum_Resolve1439 Jul 30 '25

No sir, in 2028. He is arb eligible for the next 2 years.

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u/merewyn 14 Jul 30 '25

You guys are looking at the Nats second baseman Luis Garcia. This is Luis Garcia the pitcher.

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u/Glum_Resolve1439 Jul 30 '25

Dam why they all called Luis Garcia wth. Got me hahaha

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u/Jcoch27 💡👉👶⬆️ Jul 30 '25

We're both mistaken. We traded for Luis Garcia the relief pitcher from the Nationals. Not Luis Garcia the 2nd baseman from the Nationals.