In relation to pursuing Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strausburg the LA Angels need to set a limit of how far they can go and still fill other needs in the future. As the (Mock) GM for the Angels in the FanSided GM Winter Meetings we felt that when contracts reached seven and eight years for Cole around 280 million that this was both too long and too much money for the Southern California native so we decided to bow out. He ended up signing with the Phillies for eight years at 286 million dollars (36 million per year).
LA Angels (Mock) GM bows out of Cole and Strausburg race looking toward Mad Bum and Wheeler
