With the playoffs officially out of the question for the Angels, they’ve decided to shut injured reliever Cam Bedrosian down for the season, Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register tweets. Meanwhile, outfielder Justin Upton underwent an MRI on his right knee Wednesday. The results aren’t yet known.
Bedrosian has been a clear bright spot in a Halos pitching staff that has lacked reasons for optimism this year, but the right-hander hasn’t pitched in two weeks on account of a forearm issue. Fortunately, the Angels didn’t find any kind of alarming issue before shutting him down, per Fletcher. They’re simply erring on the side of caution because their postseason hopes are gone. The 27-year-old Bedrosian’s 2019 will end with a 3.23 ERA/3.83 FIP, 9.39 K/9, 3.23 BB/9 and a 47.6 percent groundball rate in 61 1/3 innings. Bedrosian’s set to go through his penultimate trip through arbitration in the offseason, when he’ll collect a raise on his current salary of $1.75MM.
Contrary to Bedrosian, Upton has gone through a rough 2019 – the second season of a five-year, $106MM contract. The 32-year-old has typically been an above-average contributor since his career began in 2007, but Upton has been among the least valuable players in baseball this season. Since missing the first few months of the season with a toe injury and debuting June 17, Upton has hit a meager .215/.309/.416 with 12 home runs and a personal-worst 30.5 percent strikeout rate in 256 plate appearances. Depending on the severity of his injury, Upton could join Bedrosian in missing the last couple weeks of the season.
Upton is a huge disappointment. Hopefully he starts working out his kinks for 2020 immediately upon getting cleared.
Upton is a much better hitter than the guy in 2019. He had no Spring Training, then had to rehab from a painful injury, before he could join his teammates. There is no value on having him continue this season—just spend the offseason getting healthy and look for a rebound in 2020.
This year he has been a liability for sure. But when I look at his career stats: BA .266, OBP .347, and Fielding .975, those are all average MLB numbers. I don’t get the excitement over him. He appears to be a lazy defender when the ball is hit to him and he looks confused at the plate. We’ll see how a healthy Upton plays next year since he’s not going anywhere for a while. But his career numbers are underwhelming.
I was happy when he left the Braves. He could’ve been great but he acted too lazy at times.
The excitement was you had a power hitting left fielder that finally filled the gap of well below average talent that held the position after Garrett Anderson left. Upton was a drastic improvement over those players. However, I can’t completely disagree with you as now the Angels have players like Goodwin and rookies like Walsh and Adell that could be improvements over what Upton is at this point in his career.
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With the Halo’s now officially out of the playoffs, it would be best to also shut down Upton and let Walsh play. Also, give Pujols less AB’s and let Thaiss get the majority of AB’s while allowing Taylor Ward to also get more playing time.
Angels are the worst run, big market team in baseball. When will they realize that pitching and defense wins?