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ANAHEIM — On the archetypal time of the offseason, Perry Minasian said the Angels are astir to acquisition a thorough reappraisal of everything they did successful a disappointing 2021, from the mode players performed to the mode they were coached to the reasons they ended up injured.
The Angels wide manager said connected Monday it starts with a look successful the mirror, though.
Asked if helium has been analyzing his ain decisions, Minasian said: “Every infinitesimal of each day.”
Minasian is little than 11 months into his archetypal tally arsenic a large league wide manager, and he’s got a 77-85 grounds to amusement for it, contempt having the apt American League MVP – Shohei Ohtani – connected his roster.
Obviously, plentifulness of different things went wrong, immoderate unforeseeable and immoderate the results of Minasian’s decisions.
“This is my archetypal twelvemonth doing this, and I americium not cleanable by immoderate stretch,” Minasian said. “I bash not person each the answers. I similar listening to different people’s opinions. And I similar people’s criticism, to beryllium honorable with you. I’m trying to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic I tin beryllium too.”
The main criticism, of course, is that the Angels didn’t person capable pitching. Their 4.69 ERA ranked 22nd successful the majors.
“We recognize that the mound is simply a spot wherever we’d similar to importantly improve,” Minasian said. “Not conscionable improve, but importantly improve.”
Minasian said Ohtani, Patrick Sandoval and José Suarez person earned the close to beryllium successful the 2022 rotation, but different they are unfastened to who volition capable the 2 oregon 3 different holes, arsenic good arsenic the extent spots they’ll request to get done the season.
Manager Joe Maddon – and each Angels instrumentality – has already said the Angels request premium starters.
“Would you similar to adhd frontline starters? Absolutely,” Minasian said. “I’d emotion to adhd three, 4 frontline starters, that would beryllium outstanding. Realistically, that’s truly hard to do.”
How astir two?
“Two is hard too. One is difficult. I deliberation if you asked each 30 teams, each azygous idiosyncratic successful my presumption would accidental ‘Yeah, I’d emotion to find a frontline starter, whether that’s commercialized oregon escaped agency.’ That’s thing that’s easier said than done.”
The archetypal question is however overmuch wealth the Angels volition person to spend, and Minasian said helium and proprietor Arte Moreno haven’t yet agreed connected the budget. The Angels besides don’t yet cognize what the luxury taxation threshold volition beryllium due to the fact that a caller corporate bargaining statement is coming successful 2022.
In 2021, though, the Angels spent astir $180 cardinal connected their large league payroll. They presently person 5 players signed for astir $109 cardinal successful 2022, with a comparatively tiny arbitration people that is led by catcher Max Stassi and reliever Mike Mayers. All of the Angels’ arbitration-eligible players volition apt marque little than $10 cardinal total. Figuring different $15 cardinal oregon truthful for each the pre-arbitration players, and the Angels could person astir $50 million to walk connected caller players.
The archetypal question they’ll person to code successful escaped bureau is whether to widen a qualifying connection to person Raisel Iglesias, who made conscionable implicit $9 cardinal successful 2021. The deadline for that determination is 5 days aft the World Series. The qualifying connection fig is typically astir $19 million. Liam Hendriks, the apical person connected past year’s escaped cause market, signed a three-year declaration worthy $18 cardinal per year.
Most of the Angels’ wealth figures to spell toward the pitching staff, but they besides seemingly request a shortstop. This winter’s escaped cause shortstop harvest is peculiarly loaded, led by the Dodgers’ Corey Seager, the Houston’s Carlos Correa, the New York Mets’ Javy Baez and Colorado’s Trevor Story. Minasian besides suggested they could instrumentality to an interior enactment astatine shortstop.
“(Luis) Rengifo played a truly coagulated shortstop successful September, which was truly encouraging,” Minasian said. “I deliberation (David) Fletcher has the quality to descent implicit if we wanted him to. As bully arsenic helium is astatine second, he’s precise assured helium could play a high-level shortstop too.”
Minasian said specified interior solutions volition beryllium captious astir the field, and adjacent connected the mound, due to the fact that the Angels request much than a fewer acquisitions to go contenders.
“We tin spell retired and marque a escaped cause splash with 1 feline and ‘win the offseason’ to a definite extent, but determination needs to beryllium a batch of interior betterment too,” Minasian said.
Which of people besides means the players the Angels already person request to enactment connected the field. The Angels were crushed by injuries successful 2021. Three-time AL MVP Mike Trout and 3rd baseman Anthony Rendon were injured for astir of the year, but the Angels had dozens of injuries to important players each season.
Minasian said looking astatine the causes of those injuries volition beryllium “a important portion of the review.”
“We’ll spell done each idiosyncratic injury,” Minasian said. “What was done the past offseason, who they worked with, what they did in-season, clip successful the value room, clip successful the trainer’s room,” Minasian said. “What their betterment was like. What their regular is. It’s going done each idiosyncratic player. And it’s not lone the guys that were hurt, but the guys that were healthy, and wherefore did they enactment healthy? Is determination immoderate benignant of accommodation we tin marque arsenic an enactment to support guys connected the field?”
NOTES
Minasian said right-hander Chris Rodriguez is the lone 1 of the players who finished the play connected the injured database who is questionable to beryllium acceptable for outpouring training. Rodriguez, who had a strained lat, “could beryllium retired for an extended period,” Minasian said, adding that determination was nary circumstantial setback, but “rehab-wise, it conscionable wasn’t feeling great.” …
The Angels person not yet made decisions connected the presumption of the coaches for adjacent season, Minasian. That volition beryllium determined during this week’s reviews. …
Minasian said the Angels person been moving connected changing their policies with respect to their insignificant leaguers, but they person “nothing to denote today.”
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