We’ll track Friday’s minor moves from around the league here…
- The Angels announced that right-hander John Curtiss cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Triple-A following his prior DFA. The Halos designated Curtiss, 26, for assignment Tuesday when they selected the contract of top pitching prospect Griffin Canning. Curtiss came to the Angels in a minor offseason swap with the Twins and has struggled mightily in Triple-A to open the season. Through 8 2/3 innings there, the once-well-regarded Twins prospect has allowed nine runs on 11 hits and eight walks with 11 strikeouts. He appeared in one game for the Angels early this season as well and in 2 1/3 innings worked with a fastball that was down roughly three miles per hour from his 2017 MLB debut. Curtiss has never been outrighted before and has fewer than three years of MLB service time, so he doesn’t have the option to reject the assignment. He’ll remain with the Angels organization and continue working in Triple-A as he hopes to round back into form.
Glad that the Halos were able to keep him. We seem to need all the available arms we can get…sure he will be called back up soon.
They will not call him up again unless there is something there. As far as available arms. I’m assuming you mean bullpen arms. The Angels have them. A lot of them.
Justin Anderson should have been here all year, why he was sent down I’ll never know. Buttrey can flat out pitch. Add to that Bedrosian, Robles, Garcia, Bard, Cole, Ramirez, and you have eight pitchers with an ERA+ of 150 or more.
Do you know any other team that has 8 bullpen arms like that? The numbers are not going to keep up, but every one of these guys has an arm. And when Heaney comes back, Pena will go to the pen. That’s 9 really good arms.
If you are an Angel fan, you can hope Allen is out for awhile.
Edit – Ramirez ERA+ is 144.
As a Halo fan, I know the numbers don’t lie. We can use all the pitching we can get. Nothing bad…just the truth.
Our BP has been highly ranked all year. I’m glad Allen is out for a bit. Once we lock down our rotation, our pitching staff should be the best we’ve had in years.
The tag “the once well regarded prospect” seems to be associated with more failed Twins prospects than most other teams. Sure the Yankees and Red Sox seem to have the prospects that get the headlines (Swihart, Refsnyder) but the Twins seem to have them in bulk. Meyer, Jay, Gordon, Buxton (should be more than replacement level being the prior #1 prospect in MLB 2 years straight). Sano and Stewart are getting close. A couple have turned out in Polanco, Kepler and Berrios but nothing on the level of The Dodgers, Astros, Cubs, Yankees or Red Sox. The Twins should definitely shake up their scouting system. Whatever they are using to judge young players and their future production is definitely faulty. They should try to pilfer a few scouts from systems with a better track record. A small market team like the Twins can’t afford to waste high draft picks and international money on prospects that never pan out.