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Angels Acquire Deck McGuire, Request Release Waivers On Juan Graterol

By Steve Adams | June 24, 2018 at 2:28pm CDT

JUNE 24: The Angels have requested unconditional release waivers on Graterol, per a team announcement. His release will become official in 48 hours if he clears waivers.

JUNE 19: The Angels announced Tuesday that they’ve acquired right-hander Deck McGuire from the Rangers in exchange for cash. In order to clear a spot on the 40-man roster, catcher Juan Graterol has been designated for assignment. McGuire will head to Triple-A Salt Lake, per the Angels’ announcement.

Texas claimed the 28-year-old McGuire from the Blue Jays last Friday, but he appeared in just one game with the Rangers’ Triple-A affiliate before being designated for assignment in order to clear a spot on the roster for the return of Elvis Andrus. Now, McGuire will change organizations for the second time in a span of less than a week.

A former first-round pick (11th overall by the Blue Jays in 2010), McGuire has yet to establish himself as a viable Major League arm. Prior to the 2018 season, in fact, he’s posted largely unsightful numbers at the Triple-A level. However, McGuire enjoyed a strong season with the Reds’ Double-A club in 2017 and carried that success with him back to the Jays organization in 2018, pitching to a 3.22 ERA with 8.1 K/9, 3.8 BB/9, 0.6 HR/9 and a 39.7 percent ground-ball rate in 44 2/3 innings at Triple-A Buffalo.

After making eight promising starts in Buffalo, the Jays summoned him to the Majors, where he was tagged for six runs on nine hits and five walks with seven strikeouts in 8 1/3 innings of relief. But the Rangers and Angels, apparently, both saw enough in his work out of the Buffalo rotation to hold some interest in seeing if the former top prospect can emerge as a late bloomer at the big league level. For the Halos, McGuire will at the very least serve as a spot start/depth option in the upper minors — an important addition following injuries to Shohei Ohtani, Matt Shoemaker, J.C. Ramirez and Nick Tropeano.

Graterol, meanwhile, has made just one plate appearance for the Halos this season, going 1-for-1 with a single. He’s been up and down with the club on multiple occasions dating back to 2016, however, and has now been designated for assignment by the Angels on three different occasions. The first of those instances saw Graterol bounce around the league, briefly landing with the D-backs, Reds and Blue Jays before making his way back to Anaheim. The defensively-sound backstop is a career .222/.225/.283 hitter in 103 MLB plate appearances but carries a more encouraging .290/.318/.349 slash in 449 PAs at the Triple-A level.

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  1. halofan20

    3 years ago

    Well if they didn’t land Kelvin, plan B is just as good.

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  2. madmanTX

    3 years ago

    Hope the Rangers got at least $65mil for him.

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  3. doug4848

    3 years ago

    More like 56 thousand

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  4. snake120

    3 years ago

    Let jimmer tree tell us all the facts

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    • jimmertee

      3 years ago

      Attaway Snake. Good on u. for the nod…

      I got nuthin on Deck except I think he`ll be as good as Garcia is for the Jays. I need to watch him a little more.

      But on Graterol, he’d look good in a Jays uni I like him better than Maile, not that Gratty is a star, he is what he is.

      I called the Jays mgmt to keep Graterol last year but the no minds sold him back to the Angels in APril. And what happened in 2017 at the catching position?

      In 2017 the Jays blew through Lopez [24 games], Maile [46 games], Martin [83 games], Montero [27 games]. Ohlman [6 games], and Saltalamatccia [7games].

      What waste of time and money. As I mentioned in these pages last year, If the Jays had listened to the JimmerTee say in 2017 spring training that Salty was never going to make it and to acquire, keep and play Graterol the entire year, they would have saved time, energy, money and lots of grief to the pitching staff.

      Another example of poor Jays Mgmt and scouting.

      By the way, anyone notice that Maile is slowly coming back to earth and can’t hit anymore?.#Scoutseyes

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      • TrimReaper

        3 years ago

        Garcia’s been bad but the contract was worse. Could have given 3 vets minor league deals to compete for his spot with incentives rather than blow $8mil with a $2-mil buyout. I know, innings eater. And he delivers gifts to hitters.

        Yes to your question about Maile. A lot of people thought he could keep it up. Unreal. Nothing against Maile but c’mon Jays fans…

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      • Pike Parker

        3 years ago

        @jimmertee – In all fairness to the Blue Jays, the person you spoke to usually only takes orders for tickets and doesn’t have much authority when it comes to player acquisition.

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  5. bkbkbk

    3 years ago

    Watch your ligaments Deck…

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  6. bradthebluefishbradthebluefish

    3 years ago

    That’ll surely help the fading Angels.

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    • thegreatcerealfamine

      3 years ago

      3 lengths behind now and losing ground fast…

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  7. Angelfanforlife19

    3 years ago

    The way to go with all these pitching injuries is to develop them and lock them in, in their 20’s avoiding ucl injuries choosing 60 to 70 percent pitchers and signing position players scioscia love affair catchers is a waist of money and effort.

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    • RyÅn W Krol

      3 years ago

      They developed almost all of their starting rotation. The only way to avoid UCL injuries is to teach proper mechanics and not overuse pitchers in their youth.

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  8. ndiamond2017

    3 years ago

    “largely unsightful numbers at the Triple-A level”

    … that’s bad, right?

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