All of You Haters-<br />Mention one hitter in the American League that can hit like Manny. Your comments dont make sense, they are based on hate and envy.

Manny is going to wish those last 2 years at $20M a piece were not voided by the Dodgers.

Reagins and Artie better sign Manny or Milton to DH or its going to be a long summer and I'm gonna have a frickin stroke. Kendry is going to be alright at first, 285, 15-20 hrs, and 75 to 90 rbi, it all comes down to where he hits in the lineup.

Manny would be a good addition to the Angels, big Mike is the guy to manage him. I am sorry, but i won't give in to Morales at first until all possibilities are gone. Hopefully they can trade him.

oldoug<br />I truly think that you are senile. The Angels or any other team (and that includes the Red Sox, a team I have been a fan of for 50 years) would be lucky to have a hitter like Manny. All the rest of the whole Manny business is just so much BS. Only someone with limited mental abilities does not realize that on at least some level...whether they want to admit it or not.

I will say this, I am shocked that we baseball fans have heard so little from the left coast.

Morales is anything but a better hitter than Kotchman, but it is what it is. He's now the first baseman and I will agree, it's case closed.

as a full time Angel fan living in OC, I can assure everyone who'll listen, the Angel 1B IS Kendry Morales, there is no fix needed, better hitter than Kotch, not on the same level with the glove.

I think to fix the problem at first the Angels should get Mike or Mark Sweeney or get Richie Sexson they should also look into Tony Clark and Sean Casey.

Guys, guys.<br /><br />The Angels made the EXACT same offer to Tex that the Yanks did. This wasnt a lack of effort on the Angels part. This was simply about Tex wanting to be on the East Coast. Thats it.<br />In hindsight, I'm upset about the Kotch/Tex thing, but wasnt Morales hitting pretty good IN THE MAJORS (he hits off the charts in the minors) towards the end of the season there? But when the trade originally went down, I was stoked. Its too bad they couldnt have factored in his desire to play on the East coast and the fact that eliminated the Angels no matter their offer. Maybe they did, who knows.

ART MORENO SAYS THAT HE WANTS TO BE THE STEINBRENER OF THE WEST COAST..........?????????????????? WHY ARE PEOPLE OUTRAGED ABOUT THE BIG 3 MAKING SO MUCH MONEY AND FLYING THEIR PRIVATE JETS WHEN THESE ATHLETES ARE OUT OF CONTROL????

OMG here we go again about salary caps. You mean like the NFL? Where there are no guaranteed contracts and quality vets are routinely released because of the salary cap? Or like the NBA where the salary cap only applies to other teams free agents but not your own and where owners circumvent the cap by signing other free agents before signing their own? <br /><br />Salary caps are a joke. They don't work, never have worked, and would never work in MLB. <br />Did you know that as a percentage of revenue MLB pays their players the least of any of the three major sports? And that's without a salary cap.<br /><br />If you want to level the free agent landscape, the way to do it is with revenue sharing, not a salary cap. MLB doesn't share revenue like they do in the NFL. If they did, then every team would get a piece of the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox lucrative media packages. That would change things quite a bit...

Congrats to Moreno and Reagins for opting out of the Manny market. Since he's not going to get the ridiculous contract that he and Boras want, he will go into the season pouting. Whoever is foolish to sign him will have headaches for the duration of his contract.

If the Yankees, Boras and Selig continue to run baseball then let them start a new league of their own. Get them out of MLB all together and put a new structure in place that would be fair to all teams. Everyone thinks MLB needs these them to succeed by that's the furthest from the truth. Even Yankee fans themselves should be embarrassed at the way the Yankees try and buy their way into a championship. No youngsters from the farm to watch or talk about and the ones who are on the Yanks team are always being considered for trade like Cano and Cabrera. Kick these self absorbed idiots out of the game and the sport wouldn't be such a joke compared to those who enforce salary caps.

The Braves are not going to let Kotchman go. He is there 1st baseman. Man I'm really just can't get over that trade. Yes Texieria is better, but Kptchman was doing his job that Tex was doing at that time and was carrying the Angel when he got traded. The Angel have enough pitching and yes Peavy would be great but you don't trade Figgins.

correction to Morales....if he can't pull his weight.

Hey guys - don't rule out a Kotch return to Anaheim. I know it seems like a stretch, but if Morales can pull his weight defensively it could happen. I think the Peavy thing is really going to heat up and very well might happen. Pitching wins championships and we know our Angels are not an ove rzealous, flashy offensive team. Look at Mike's way of playing ball the last 10 years. Unfortunately, Figgy might have to go in a Peavy deal, but there are other lead off guys out there to be had. I LOVE Figgy, but if trading him brings 3-4 years of Peavy I'll take it. And I'm sure that would lure Lackey and other free-agents-to-be in staying with the organization. <br /><br />Arte - THANK YOU! Thank you for standing up for your customers. Thank you for not being held hostage by Mega Agents like Bor-Ass. And especially thank you for keeping us competitive! <br /><br />Because of the best owner in baseball that is why we attract passionate, quality guys who make the clubhouse a harmonious place to work/play.

I was a big time Angel fan, but now I have decided to just hate baseball once the Angels gave up Kotchman who I knew wouldn't resign with the Angels because he and his agents are greedy and Teixeria didn't want to play on the West Coast. I feel that the Angels gave away a player who should have been an Angel for a lot of years. Kotchman was a great fielder and he was just starting to hit. Now the Angels are saying that they will trade Figgins. WHAT ARE THE ANGELS DOING ?

Fanscorner, I have to ask the question -- What is corrupt in what the Yankees and Boras have done?<br /><br />I'm a big time Angels fan, and have been since I was a small boy growing up in a burgeoning community called Anaheim back in the mid 70's. I rooted for guys like Mike Epstein, Bill Singer, Dave Chalk, and so many others. I remember the Cowboy going out and signing Joe Rudi, Bert Campinaris, Bobby Gritch, Dan Ford, Don Baylor, etc and bringing a division title to Anaheim in 1979. It wasn't corrupt then and it itsn't corrupt now. The dollar figures have just grown exponentially.<br /><br />What I'm angry about isn't Tex signing with the Yankees. I'm angry because Reagins knew what it would take to sign Tex when he traded for him last season and he failed to make the offer. He traded away a legitimate gold glove caliber first baseman and a left handed power hitter for a three month rental with no intention of making him an Angel for the next several years. <br /><br />Boras and the Yankees didn't make Reagins do that -- he did it on his own. It was a bad baseball decision and a worse business decision. What the Yankees have done is what the Angels should have done -- namely signed the best availble hitter on the open market.

Boras & Yanks have corrupted baseball while Selig and company get paid off and turn their backs. After 48 years I have lost faith in anyone who operates this sport forever. When one Sport can be dominated by ob=ne agent and the Yankees to this extent the game is no longer worth supporting. Sabathia, Burnett, Teixeira, Manny and $500 million later in this economy and there is nothing corrupt?