Los Angeles Angels: Five biggest things on the Angels’ Christmas list

4. Signing Dallas Keuchel

The Los Angeles Angels missed out on Patrick Corbin with Corbin signing a six-year, $140 million deal with the Washington Nationals. While you don’t want to see your team miss out on a big name in free agency, it might have been a good thing that Corbin did not sign in LA.

First of all, Corbin’s contract is going to be atrocious down the line. Personally watching a lot of Diamondbacks games myself, I don’t think that Corbin has proven to be worth $140 million, at all. He is set to make $35 million in his age 35 season at the end of the deal, that would have seriously hurt the Angels down the stretch.

I understand just throwing caution to the wind and going for it but it is probably better to go after the other big arm on the market, Dallas Keuchel, instead.

Now, Angel fans have to be careful in being too optimistic about Keuchel. While he is a great pitcher, he is not the same Cy Young pitcher that he was in 2015. Since then, Keuchel has had an ERA of 3.77.

That is certainly solid but if we know anything about the Angels it is that the team will pay him like he is still a Cy Young. If I were the Angels, I wouldn’t want anything over six years and $120 million.

Spotrac estimates that he will get five years and $111 million, which I would be more than ok with. This would give the Angels a nice frontline arm to pitch ahead of Tyler Skaggs and Andrew Heaney with Harvey and Cahill serving as the back end of the rotation.