The Angels have signed veteran starter Mat Latos, Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register tweets. To clear space for Latos on their 40-man roster, they recalled catcher Rafael Lopez and placed him on the 60-day DL with fractured hand, tweets MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez. Latos will not be eligible for postseason play, but he can pitch for the Angels the rest of the regular season, after which he’ll become a free agent.
Latos began the 2015 season with the Marlins, who traded him to the Dodgers in July. The Dodgers designated him for assignment and then released him earlier this month. Latos is making $9.4MM this season, but most of what’s left of that deal will be paid by the Dodgers (and by the Marlins, who sent the Dodgers an undisclosed amount when they traded him, via Cot’s).
Latos has had an uneven year, posting a 4.95 ERA, 7.7 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9 in 112 2/3 innings. From the Angels’ perspective, though, the precise quality of Latos’ play going forward is probably less important than the fact that he’s a veteran starting pitcher they could acquire quickly and cheaply. His acquisition appears to be merely a short-term move for an Angels team that needs an extra arm, either for its rotation or its bullpen. Jered Weaver has a shoulder injury, Matt Shoemaker has a forearm issue and won’t make his next start, and Huston Street and Joe Smith are dealing with injury as well.
A true sign of desperation.
Good thing is, if he doesn’t do good, he’ll be a free agent after the season
Wow. fallen on hard times, even though Angels won’t be paying his salary.
Enjoy
Your rant right there didn’t make any sense in the english language.
If I can pick it apart, I think you’re complaining that they don’t allow curse words? If thats the case, this is a civilized baseball site for fans. If you feel the need to use ‘bad words’ in order to get your point across on a baseball matter, then you’re a problem.
I blocked that person just now. That was…something.
I don’t really understand the thinking here. You’re going to end up paying him 25-30K for 1 start that may or may not mean anything, and he may or may not give you solid results. Couldn’t they just pull up someone to make a start? Or a BP game?
I think someone doesn’t like your opinion lol. I was thinking this might be something the Angels are doing to introduce him to the org and make a run at him this off-season if he fits in with Mike and Co. Obviously a great buy low candidate.
In fact, I have worked a day in my life time, however, that is none of your concern. I think you’ve made your very irrelevant point. I’m here to talk baseball, not rant about irrelevant topics and attack other people. I think we’re done here.
You probably work at a freaking mcdonalds buddy, and hows it any concern to you how people spend their life?
Now why would i ever move out when im 16 years old? Im sure your sparkling personality has gained you so many great jobs over the years as well. Stop complaining about how others live when you are really just an obnoxious tool who has to attack people over the internet
Aren’t you running late for a tea party rally? This isn’t a political website. You must be lost…lost in general.
I’ve only seen like two or three of your posts in other threads, and they were all filled with histrionics and mild cursing. If your posts are constantly getting moderated or removed, maybe take a step back and see if you’re doing something wrong.
Good luck with the mental case
According to crazypants here, no one but him has a job, nobody pays taxes except him, everyone has food stamps, a free phone, and worships Satan…AND everyone knows Barack Obama, personally.
Take an anger management class for goodness sake!
Yankees will lose to Blue jays in the ALCS.
So you think the Yankees will make it to the ALCS? I am dreading the wildcard game.. I have a feeling they will face Houston and have to go against Dallas Keuchel.. If that indeed happens I don’t think my beloved Yankees will make it to the ALCS..
The Astros will be on the road, where their overall record is awful. I’m not sure who’ll start the for Yanks though?
And the Rangers are cooling off. They’re the weakest AL playoff team, on paper anyways.
There is freedom of speech until you start abusing it like you are. Please leave this baseball website because your posts are completely irrelevant and discriminatory.
Someone doesn’t understand the ins and outs of the freedom of speech. We, as commentators absolutely do not have protected rights to expression on this forum. Nor would freedom of speech even apply or be remotely relevant in this situation.
How do we report an exceptionally annoying user who’s not contributing? Use to be a report button before I swear and usually this website has a sparkling reputation of cleaning up trash posts, what happened in this article?
Apologies for the delay in getting Yankeetuna out of this thread (and off the site for good).
We’re working on adding more features, of course, but if there’s ever someone like that in the comments going nuts and he’s not taken care of relatively quickly, you can feel free to fill out the contact form, and we’ll be made aware of it on the spot.
Many thanks, Steve..
Thanks Steve, I mean I get it, its the internet, but wow he was something else.
get some help
What are you babbling about?! Turn off CAPS lock. This isn’t iworkharderthaneveryoneintheworld.com. Your tax dollars aren’t more valuable than everyone else’s. Your fragile emotional health will eventually be treated and funded by my tax dollars, by the way. That’s called Medicare. Do you plan on signing up for that when you turn 62? That’s a “gov’t handout.”
During any of your 57 years ” in these THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” have you ever taken an English class? My 3 year old daughter, makes more sense asking for a cookie, than you have in your rant.. Regardless, I think you should lighten up a bit.. If you do not like the way these boards are ran, perhaps you should find another site..
as mentioned in the mailbag, Ray Searge may just be the guy to fix Latos next season
Great sign!!!
His arm is to good to be done at his age