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Angels Sign Dustin Ackley To Minor League Deal

By Connor Byrne | February 7, 2017 at 2:02pm CDT

FEB. 7: Ackley’s pact features a $2.25MM major league salary and $1.4MM in incentives, per FanRag’s Jon Heyman (via Twitter).

FEB. 4: The Angels have announced the signing of infielder/outfielder Dustin Ackley to a minor league contract. The deal comes with an invitation to spring training for Ackley, a Boras Corporation client.

[RELATED: Updated Angels Depth Chart]

It took Ackley just under three months to land anywhere after the Yankees released him in late November. That came on the heels of a truncated season in which the 28-year-old accrued a meager 70 plate appearances and hit an ugly .148/.243/.148 before undergoing surgery on a torn right shoulder labrum in early June.

Ackley was far more successful in 2015, a year divided between Seattle and New York, as he slashed a still-unremarkable .231/.284/.429 in 264 trips to the plate. All told, Ackley has posted a .241/.304/.367 line over the first 2,347 PAs of his career, which makes the lefty-swinger’s major league tenure a substantial disappointment after the Mariners took him second overall in the 2009 draft. Ackley then ranked as one of Baseball America’s 12 best prospects to conclude both the ’09 and ’10 campaigns.

On the bright side, Ackley has mostly earned plus defensive grades at second base and in left field – his primary positions – and comes with first base experience. Defensive Runs Saved (plus-19) and Ultimate Zone Rating (10.7) have liked his work in 2,514 innings at the keystone, while he’s at plus-2 DRS and 3.7 UZR in 1,588 innings as a left fielder.

In his return to the American League West, Ackley figures to vie for a bench role behind Angels second baseman Danny Espinosa, first base options Luis Valbuena, C.J. Cron and Albert Pujols, and outfielders Mike Trout, Kole Calhoun and Cameron Maybin. The club’s top bench choices entering the spring are light-hitting infielder Cliff Pennington and outfielder Ben Revere, whom the Angels gave a guaranteed $4MM earlier this winter.

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  1. chri

    5 years ago

    Mariners could have had Trout instead of this guy back in 2009

    Reply
    • pd14athletics

      5 years ago

      Along with nearly every other team in baseball… he was the 25th pick!

      Reply
    • drfelix

      5 years ago

      Yeah and now the Angels have the #2 overall pick and the #25 pick (Trout) form that year. All 24 other teams were humiliated by their picks compared to Trout.

      Turns my stomach as a Mariner fan…not that Angels have Ackley (who cares)…just all of us overlooked Trout and could have had him on our roster. Wow

      Reply
  2. Weighed

    5 years ago

    The man that never was…

    Reply
  3. Hiro

    5 years ago

    To be fair, once he got traded to the Yankees, he did pretty well; I think he hit about .280/330/360 or something slashline.

    Reply
    • Visions_of_Blue_LA

      5 years ago

      In his first stint he was replacement level if that. And in 2016 he was just awful.

      Reply
  4. 24TheKid

    5 years ago

    I only really watched him in the outfield when he was in Seattle so I don’t know about his second base, but I remember having a terrible throwing arm so I don’t know if that affects his defensive stats. But he had really good range.

    Reply
    • warpaint

      5 years ago

      How could he have really good range if he had a terrible throwing arm?

      Reply
      • redking

        5 years ago

        He can cover a lot of ground but can’t throw. Not the first player in history with those attributes.

        Reply
  5. rper4182

    5 years ago

    Has versatility

    Reply
  6. rper4182

    5 years ago

    Meant ackley

    Reply
  7. tenman85

    5 years ago

    A can’t miss prospect that missed. He’s still fairly young though.

    Reply
  8. lesterdnightfly

    5 years ago

    Ackley has come a long way since his days in the renowned baseball book “The Catcher in the Rye”.

    Reply
  9. GeoKaplan

    5 years ago

    So the Angels just signed their first Boras free agent since the ill-fated attempt to sign Teixeira.

    Maybe there can be a Weiters deal after all.

    Reply

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