The Angels have selected the contract of righty Jose Rodriguez among a series of roster moves, the team reports.
Rodriguez, 23, had posted strikeout rates of 10 or better at both Double and Triple-A this season. He isn’t one of the team’s most well-regarded prospects, with FanGraphs profiling the righty as an “up-and-down” arm, though he seems a mere temporary fill-in for Noe Ramirez, who was placed on the 10-Day IL with a viral infection.
The back-end of the Angels’ pen, anchored by an ascendant Ty Buttrey and resurgent Hansel Robles, has been mostly effective this season, though there’s certainly room for improvement at the front end. The club sits just 4.5 games back in a top-heavy AL Wild Card race, so a systematic patching-up of any and all holes will be at the fore of the club’s deadline plans.
It’s less that he’s a fill-in for Noe and more that they needed an emergency starter today because Canning pitched on Thursday.
(in other words he’ll probably get sent down after one game)
Peters is starting today
He isn’t starting but nice try
Check your local source again. He is starting ya troll.
I think pbwalk meant that hose-rod wasn’t starting today.
He has a 7.27 era at AA and 6.49 in AAA… they were looking for anyone.
That’s very Josexy.
Anyone not named Trout, Ohtani, Simmons, Adell, should be made available.
This organization has zero pitching depth. The bullpen had been really good, but they are gassed, and there is no hope that any combination starters in this “rotation” would be capable of stringing together more than one game going into the 7th inning. They’ve had incredibly bad luck with Skaggs, injuries and Cahil & Harvey not panning out, but at some point you have to turn tail and be a seller.