Havent chimed in much this year however:

1) Don't want Carlos Lee but if it's just a 3 month rental ok.
2) It shows you how dire our system is that no one has stepped up. Kasten is totally
right. Look at what the Angels produce and what we have. The best strategy IMO has always been
draft position players and buy pitchers. It's what the Rangers do now after learning the lesson of Arod. That's been the Angels philosophy. Considering our current predicament we may have to sacrifice our pitching prospects for position players for now.
3) This bugs me most of all. Since the early eighties I can't remember us ever
Having a mostly injury free season. I can understand a Mark Ellis type injury. But when guys pull hamstrings running and hurt obliques check swinging those are game preparation injuries. And they happen too often with the Dodgers. We need to figure out what we had from 1963 to 1981 that worked for us and go back to that.

") This bugs me most of all. Since the early eighties I can't remember us ever
Having a mostly injury free season. I can understand a Mark Ellis type injury. But when guys pull hamstrings running and hurt obliques check swinging those are game preparation injuries. And they happen too often with the Dodgers. We need to figure out what we had from 1963 to 1981 that worked for us and go back to that."

What worked for us was a guy named Bill Buhler...

I was gonna mention his name but I thought the kids would say "the guy who let the
ball go through his legs for the Bosox?????!!!"

In the last dozen years the Dodgers drafts have produced just as much quality as the Angels, and possibly more. The difference between the Dodgers and Angels is that the Angels have also spent money to sign foreign youngsters (Morales, Aybar, Callaspo, Santana), have traded away fewer prospects, and made some better trades and free agent signings.