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Originally Posted by Mathgod
They bungled the Ohtani situation about as badly as they could have. I can't believe people still defend their decision to be buyers at the deadline instead of moving him to the highest bidder. I get the whole "don't want to go down in history as trading the best player ever" argument, but if properly done this could have brought back a number of quality futures to the Angels. Instead, they will probably lose Ohtani to free agency anyway and they don't have much of a future to look forward to. Besides, even if Ohtani stays, his days as a starting pitcher are likely over.
Just because Edmonton bungled the Gretzky trade, doesn't mean generational players shouldn't ever be traded.
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Well it’s easy to laugh at them now when everything is going totally wrong. But they did what they thought they needed to do to keep him.
I don’t really get the Gretzky comparison since Ohtani was a rental. It’s obviously turned out horribly for them but without improving their ability to draft and develop, acquiring a couple more prospects wasn’t a difference maker IMO.