The Angels have reached an agreement with tenth overall pick Reid Detmers, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis reports (Twitter link). The left-hander signed for $4.67MM, which is slightly below the $4,739,900 slot price attached to the tenth pick. Callis adds that Detmers will be added to Los Angeles’ 60-man player pool.
After Asa Lacy, Detmers was the consensus choice as the best southpaw in this year’s draft class, with Baseball America, Keith Law, and MLB Pipeline all ranking Detmers as eighth-best player overall in their pre-draft rankings. (Fangraphs wasn’t far behind in putting Detmers tenth, in his eventual landing spot.) “Polished” is the common word in many of these scouting reports, as Detmers has displayed both excellent command and a knack for pounding the strike zone during his time at Louisville. The lefty has been able to rack up the strikeouts thanks to both a fastball in the 90-94 mph range and a curveball that Fangraphs describes as “arguably the best pitch in the entire draft.”
With Detmers now in the fold, the Angels have signed all four players from their 2020 draft class while remaining under their $6,397,100 spending pool limit. The Halos only had four picks in the five-round draft since they had to give up a pick as compensation for signing Anthony Rendon (a qualifying offer-rejecting free agent) this offseason.
For his sake hopefully the Angels have changed everything they were doing with their pitchers.
From the minor league staff to the team doctors.
Never seen a team destroy so many arms
at least they don’t cheat!
at least, they don’t cheat!
And in spite of all those high draft picks, which pitchers have the Astros drafted and developed and haven’t been hurt?
No comparison.
Comparing the penthouse to the outhouse
You’re right. There is no comparison.
The last drafter Astro first round starting pitcher who had a WAR over ten was Floyd Bannister in 1976,
The last time the Angels had a pick inside the top ten was 1997.
The Astros have had four #1, a #2, a #4 and #8 in the last decade.
How are their pitching picks doing? There is no comparison.
What a whole bunch of nonsense…
The Angels entire staff has had major surgeries the last 4-5 years.
Something wrong there. Cannot keep your pitchers healthy.
Don’t care if they are drafted in the first round or the 30th.
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Angels did a great job with Tyler Skaggs
So you are saying the Astros can’t develop pitching?
That maybe true, but they also can’t keep them healthy.
Angels did a great job with Tyler Skaggs
And the Astros did a great job with J.R. Richards. Of course unlike J.R. Richards, who the Astros threw under a bus, the Angels had no idea about Skaggs.
– Houston Astros pitcher J.R. Richard charged team physician Dr. Harold Brelsford and three Methodist hospital staff doctors failed to diagnose his impending stroke in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed in state district court.
You aren’t even making sense.
How are Skaggs and Richard comparable?
Believe Richard still lives full time in Houston. Doing well.
Can’t say the same about Skaggs
You’re right. The Astros misdiagnosed Richards and Skaggs took illegal drugs.
Are you blaming the Marlins for Jose Fernandez coke habit?
Adults secretly taking drugs is quite different than misdiagnosing a player that would have prevented an early death.
But I didn’t bring up Skaggs… you did.
That is a pretty big bite for only a little bait.
Two aren’t comparable.
Richard is doing perfectly fine. Was actually celebrated by the city of Houston last year.
You’re the one who brought it up. And the Astros are responsible for Ken Caminiti as well.
Good to know. AND they don’t know how to keep their young pitching healthy and develop pitching.
But they do know how to cheat.,
There is actually a website that will cure your ignorance. Google Tommy John Surgery Tracker and check out the google spreadsheets.But I’m sure youre not interested in facts, just hyperbole.
there are ten teams that have had more UCL issues in the past five years than the Angels. You posting about them too?????
Glad to see a polished college arm added to the system.
Agreed.
With his MLB-ready curveball and sneaky good fastball, Detmers has a chance to pitch for the MLB club this year. Would probably be out of the bullpen and will probably take a couple of injuries for him to see the field, but injuries and Angels pitching go together line PB&J. I’d like to see how good that curve really is this season.