APRIL 24: The Angels have officially announced the signing. Kendrick will start for their Triple-A affiliate today, according to Taylor Blake Ward of InsideTheHalos.com (Twitter link).
MARCH 30, 12:43pm: It will be a minor league deal, MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez tweets. While that’s not surprising, it certainly would’ve been possible for Kendrick to ink an MLB pact if he was going to open the season in the majors. Instead, it seems, he’ll head to Triple-A.
12:22pm: The Angels are working to finalize an agreement with free agent righty Kyle Kendrick, Ken Rosenthal and Jon Morosi of FOX Sports report (Twitter link). The veteran starter was released earlier in the spring by the Braves.
Kendrick, 31, hasn’t posted a sub-4.00 ERA season since 2012 and was hit hard last year with the Rockies. He also turned in wholly uninspiring results in his minimal spring action before being released by Atlanta.
But Kendrick is also a known commodity with 212 major league starts under his belt, and that’s something the team certainly could use. Though he Halos entered the spring with a seeming rotation surplus, injuries have sapped some of the depth and left the staff exposed in the event of any setbacks.
Yikes. That’s all I have to say about that
you know your team is desperate when they sign………
Agreed. I know quality pitching is hard to find at times, but you should be able to do better than this. I know he pitched in Colorado last year, but he led the league in number of earned runs and home runs while only throwing 142 innings!!!
This is depth for our depth. Hopefully he doesn’t see the bigs
It’s a meh signing, at least he hasn’t topped out at 80 mph.
MLBTraderumors Poetry Corner… “Oh to have been born a lousy pitcher, I’d be millions and millions of dollars richer” thank you.
Well alrighty then.
Nice to know they want sub par starters in AAA too.
Kendrick can be a good pitcher, he’s a ground ball pitcher which he would work with the angels defense.
Ik it was in Colorado, but he gave up the most homers in the league last year with a 38% ground ball rate. Personally, I have no problem ever with any minor league deal, so it’s ok for the Angels I guess, but he’s really not a good pitcher at all anymore (if he ever really was one in the first place)
He was solid for the phillies a couple years, his final year I think he put up good numbers. If he can throw his sinker and his two seamer then he can be a solid pitcher.
He’s OK for depth, but at this point in his career, I’m fairly certain that the Angels want him to stay in Salt Lake City for the whole year. Not a guy you really want to rely on
25 days to make it official either shows a lot of interest on the Angels part, or shows that Kendrick exhausted all other options before signing.
Very true!
As a Phillies fan, all I can say is for years my only thought when he would take the mound would be, “well, we’re gonna lose this one.”
Well, he won his first game. 4 ER, 3Hrs, 6IP