The Angels have activated right-hander Matt Harvey from the injured list and designated outfielder Jarrett Parker for assignment, the team announced.
The 30-year-old Harvey is returning after missing almost two months because of an upper back strain. Signed to a one-year, $11MM contract in the offseason, the ex-Met and Red started this season with a nightmarish 7.50 ERA/6.22 FIP and 6.56 K/9 against 3.94 BB/9 in 48 innings before going on the IL.
Harvey will start for the Angels on Saturday against the Mariners, though he’ll have an extraordinarily difficult act to follow. The Angels’ pitchers, honoring fallen left-hander Tyler Skaggs, threw a combined no-hitter versus the Mariners on Friday in what will go down as one of the greatest team efforts in baseball history.
Parker, 30, didn’t last long on the Angels’ 40-man roster. They selected the former Giant’s contract from Triple-A Salt Lake on July 3, but Parker only collected 15 plate appearances as a Halo before losing his spot. Parker has slashed an outstanding .296/.424/.604 with 19 home runs in 283 PA with Salt Lake this year, however. Furthermore, although Parker had to settle for a minor league contract with the Angels last winter, he owns a solid .249/.330/.441 line with a 107 wRC+ and 15 home runs in 397 trips to the plate in the majors. Most of Parker’s success in the bigs occurred from 2015-16, though.
Let’s go Halo Harv! Time to earn those wings buddy.
Praise to the Halo’s for the no hitter on Skaggs birthday. I had no idea that Skaggs mom (who threw the first pitch of the game) was Skaggs pitching coach. That’s cool. I found that out today. I have heard of many fathers coaching their sons into MLB pitchers but not many moms. Anyone else got info on this?
There was an article (I forget where… ESPN, CBSports, LATimes?) the day or so after Skaggs died that went into detail about his youth, his mom coaching him and how he promised rings to the women’s college team his mom coached. I think she coached at Santa Monica CC,they won he bought the rings.
My bad…she coached Santa Monica HS, not the CC.
Skaggs’ birthday is actually today, but all around incredible story nonetheless. His mom is a softball coach and got him into baseball and allegedly would still comment to him on his mechanics.
I was about to say about combined No-Hitter.
His Birthday was the next day (the 13th)…..
Skaggs’ birthday is today 7/13.
Wonder why the Angels didn’t give Parker more of a shot to see what he could do. He’s been tearing up AAA pitching this year and while his ML career has been a bit bumpy to say the least – he has at times put up some pretty solid numbers in the Majors and minors. Hopefully for his sake he gets a chance somewhere soon to see if he can reclaim any of the glory that he once had as a top prospect.
Anaheim is where careers go to die. Wells. Wilson. Pujols. Hamilton. Cozart. Feel free to continue this list.
Nolan Ryan, Rod Carew, Fred Lynn…. feel free to continue the list.
Salmon.
Ryan made 5 All Star Game appearances as an Angel, only his second stop…
Believe that was chalk’s point.
Good to know you’re going back in the archives 30 plus years to find guys that were actually in their prime. It was a joke toward the big contract signings that never panned out.
Tim Salmon had an excellent career 12 seasons all with the Angels. Nolan Ryan left as a free agent in 1979 after throwing four no-hitters.
The Angels have definitely picked up guys at the end of their careers but your premise is way off.
Maybe he missed that on account of it making no sense in the context of his original post.
Sometimes I wonder about the IQ of some people on here. Salmon didn’t “go” to Anaheim as a FA or a trade. He was drafted by them and stayed for his career. The guys I mentioned all signed big FA contracts with Anaheim, and then their careers flamed out. Not to mention, as I stated earlier, it was a tongue in cheek comment. My gosh. I get troll comments out of this? Some of you need to get thicker skin and a less dense skull.
No need to insult people, you are the one acting like the troll. My “tongue and cheek” comment in response to yours was to make a point that Anaheim isn’t the place that all “carriers go to die”. You asked for the the list to continue, don’t get but hurt when people don’t agree with you.
“The guys I mentioned all signed big FA contracts with Anaheim, and then their careers flamed out.”
Right. Everyone gets that. What no one understands is “why did you do that?”
People aren’t being dense or trolls here, they’re charitably attempting to play along with your posts which continue to have nothing to do with Jarrett Parker or anything else mentioned in the article/comments.
I’m so tired of this troll crap. Give it a rest.
Start making sense!
Any semblance of intelligent or non trollistic posts by Nick Stevens…
Mr. Perkins I think I can sum up your comment with one word. NOTHING! The comment is about, NOTHING.
Okay.
I assume it’s a typical move for a solid 3rd place team.
You are catching on Mr HaloShane
should have designated Harvey
Or Traded him to Red Sox.
The Angels need more pitching than anything right now . Parker was expendable that looked over matched in his limited MLB stint this year . The Halos still have Jarod Walsh on their 40 man who is a 1B/OF/LHP who is also tearing up AAA right now
So I hope Harvey does better this time around . We can definitely use him right now . Now about last night… Where do I start? …. It first started with wanting the free umbrella give away a few weeks ago. Many of you know about Tyler passing away a few weeks ago. So what happened last night will go down as my most memorable and special game i have ever been to (I have been to more than most)….
My beautiful lady and I arrived late due to life and as we walk in my guy Trout hits a 2 run home run and by the time we sit down we have a 7 run lead at the end of the first inning. Then I realized that all our players had #45 on for Tyler. I knew it was going to be a good night/game. Around the 7th inning I didn’t want to jinx it but I knew we had something different going and a buzz in the air. Now I’ve been to a playoff game and some pretty big series… this was supposed to be just another summer game. It turned out to be a no hitter and was unlike anything or any game I had seen or been a part of. I feel honored to have been there and able to experience it with MY team. It was truly for you Tyler. Everything lined up in the universe to give him the best memorial game he or any of us could ask for. You will be missed by me and many others. I know you are still with the team and will be forever in their and all our fans hearts. Thank you to my Halos for a night at the ball park that I will always remember! Most of all, RIP Tyler
Aren’t LA fans known for showing up late?
Well…pretty sure Halos are in Anaheim. And by all means. Is that the only thing you can think of to comment? Please have some respect and troll somewhere else. Thanks Jorge
It’s Anaheim not LA and no we are not known for showing up late. However have been known to leave early when they reverse the escalators in the 7th unless Trout or Ohtani are due up lol.
it looks like this new pitching coach hasn’t work well with Cahill and Harvey the young pictures who have been promoted looked good. but they’ve been taught to pitch in the minor leagues so the new pitching coach has no effect on them
So the tracks of this logic train are:
-Cahill and Harvey, with a combined 18 seasons, 358 starts, and a recent history of injury/underperformance are being somehow negatively affected by their pitching coach.
-Young, recently promoted pitchers are somehow impervious to a pitching coach’s instructions because they, uh, were in the minors.
It’s a .441 slugging percentage!
.771 OPS…..
Good thing he said solid and not great
Well…pretty sure Halos are in Anaheim. And by all means. Is that the only thing you can think of to comment? Please have some respect and troll somewhere else. Thanks Jorge