Aug. 29: Slegers has elected free agency, per a team announcement. He was eligible to do so because he had been previously outrighted in his career.
Aug. 28: The Angels announced that right-hander Aaron Slegers has been outrighted to Triple-A, and that righty Kyle Tyler’s contract has been selected from Triple-A. Roster space was created last night, when right-hander Cooper Criswell was optioned back to Triple-A following his big league debut.
Tyler is now in line for his first MLB game, after three seasons in the Angels’ farm system since being a 20th-round pick in the 2018 draft. The 2021 season saw the righty pitch beyond the high-A level for the first time, as he delivered a 3.38 ERA over 72 innings of Double-A ball and then a 5.14 ERA over 14 innings at Triple-A. That latter statistic is perhaps a bit misleading, as Tyler was crushed for seven runs over two innings in his very first Triple-A outing, but he has allowed just one run in 12 subsequent frames of work.
Baseball America ranked Tyler 28th on their midseason list of the Angels’ top prospects, praising the “tremendous natural cut and ride” on his fastball. This is his only plus offering, however, so Tyler’s chances at becoming a starter at the MLB level could hinge on the development of his secondary pitches. Tyler has started 14 of his 20 games in the minors this year, so the Halos could give him a look as a regular starter, a reliever, or perhaps a combination of both roles (i.e. swingman or bulk pitcher). Since Patrick Sandoval will miss the rest of the season, Anaheim will have some room in the rotation to audition Tyler and other younger arms in the organization.
The Angels acquired Slegers in a trade with the Rays last February, and the righty’s first season in L.A. has been a tough one. Slegers has a 6.97 ERA over 31 relief innings, with only a 16.8% strikeout rate. While he has a career-best 57.9% grounder rate, Slegers has also been hurt badly by the long ball, with six home runs allowed for a 23.1% home rate. The 31 innings represents a new career high for Slegers, who tossed 58 total innings while appearing in each of the last four seasons (2017-18 with the Twins and 2019-20 with the Rays).
Slegers has been horrible this season. He really should have been designated a while ago
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Don’t think I’ve ever seen that high of a GB% coupled with that high of an HR%.
Huh.
What’s that all about? Sinkers that sometimes do not sink?
Trump is a competent narcissist jerk. Biden is an incompetent clown.
Ducky, Slegers misses his spot alot… and by alot. As a result, instead of missing outside the zone, he frequently misses over the plate. Alas, this would describe several Angels pitchers the past couple of years…
Ok.
So it’s command/control?
Looked him up over on Savant. Unsurprisingly, he relies primarily on a sinker/slider mix. But he throws a 4-seamer 16.3% & a change up 9.1% of the time.
I wonder if eliminating one (or both!) of those would help.
Typically, guys that run a GB% that high keep the ball in the yard. Still seems like a weird coupling of stats to me. Location could certainly be the problem.
Hal,
Got bleach?
Competent? His term was a dumpster fire. Neither guy is remotely close to our best and brightest.
Prepare yourselves, a lot of long, wordy posts to follow. If you keep going, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
All the Slegers fans will be happy. Not sure if these Angel pitchers getting the call are actually prime time ready like dion. Detmers will be nasty but I was thinking next season. Seems like all of a sudden theyre farm is packed with MLB ready throwers. I thought they drafted up a team of pitchers. I suppose it’s a good sign.
Everything now is an audition for next year, or to raise trade value. Angels will go after Scherzer hard in the off season, and I do believe they have to consider trading Adell for a front line young starter. If they added Scherzer and a premium young arm to go with Ohtani, Sandoval, Detmers, that would give them a really good rotation, and great depth with Canning, Suarez, Barria, and the rest of their young guys– not to mention Bachman on the horizon– he’s for real. And they need to build out a real bullpen.
Then what do the Angels do with RF next season? Upton is always injured. I like Ward as the fourth outfielder slash super utility player. But he isn’t an every day player. Besides that unless it’s a bad contract or the team just wants to get rid of the player. Adell by himself isn’t bringing back a front line starter by himself. Let alone a young cost controlled front line starter. Hell the Indians wanted Adell and Fletcher, for over rated always injured Kluber. Yes I said over rated. Pitching in the AL Central he pitched against bad lineups, that helped him pad his stats. Take for instance Marquez from the Rockies, who is the best, with a team friendly deal starting pitcher who very few people know about. It would take Marsh, Detmers and other prospects to even get the Rockies to even stay on the phone. Besides that, no one seems to ever bring up Chris Rodriguez when it comes to options for starting rotation next season. As I’ve said many times on here and other places, Rodriguez has the best pure stuff and highest potential out of all the Angels young pitchers.
Why do you like Ward as the 4th outfielder? His defense is poor, not even league average. He is not consistent at the plate, or at least enough to be a productive outfielder daily, or off the bench. I do think he’d have great value behind the plate– it was not wise to move him off the dish– he’s really good back there. Gosselin has been very valuable as the extra infielder, and he’s better in the outfield than Ward.– and much better at the plate.
Wards value is his ability to play multiple positions. Long term that is most likely his role with the Angels. Gosselin is a FA after this season. Ward was moved to third, because at the time the Angels had a huge hole at third. Crapzart was always hurt. So they had no one to play third.
Let’s look forward. The Angels need a shortstop. A bullpen, and someone who can be expected to be a middle of the rotation starter.
They get those things, they’ll be fine. Their is a lot of young talent on this team. Upton is the 4th outfielder.
This is why the Angels are garbage. You have an overpaid, overrated LF in Upton who should be paid off and taken off the roster. You have an overrated and overhyped player in Adell who is proving that he is overmatched at the big league level and you have a backup OF in Ward that you think is a good 4th OF. The Angels are a dumpster fire that won’t get better until the billboard man sells the team and they get an owner that 1)Wants to win, 2)Knows the game of baseball, 3)Gets the players they need and not Superstar types that they don’t need. Artie is up there with Donald Sterling and Georgia Frontiere as the worst owners in the history of So Cal sports.
@Dodgers Jr, overmatched is Lux. Now Adell hasn’t lived up to the hype. But at 22 and anyone who has watched him play this year compared to last year, can see he has made improvements. Especially in the outfield. The Dodgers might get stuck paying a pitcher 45 million next season to play for another team. Now when the Angels traded for Upton, the Angels had not had an every day left fielder since Garrett Anderson. They gave him a one year extension, so they wouldn’t get in a bidding war trying to get a left fielder. Now how could you not mention McCourt as one of the worst owners? Buy your Seager jersey now, because he won’t be with the Dodgers next season. Now have the Angels always make the right decision when it comes to FA? No they haven’t. But no team has made every right decision when it comes to FA signings. Hell the Dodgers have a 80 million dollar Bullpen this season and it’s what will probably cost the Dodgers again in the playoffs. Yes I know the Angels won’t make the playoffs. But with a 300 million payroll, the Dodgers have no excuse not to win it.
I’ll take either Gavin Lux or Jo Adell off your hands for Mickey Moniak, and I’ll throw in Matt Klentak. Deal?
None of them can hold a candle to the McCourts (plural) who plundered an entire franchise for personal gain. He still owns the parking lot at your stadium, so you pay him a few bucks every time you park there.
When that ownership has been expunged from your franchise’s record, then feel free to criticize other teams. Until then, your posts here regarding the Angels has been tedious, ill-informed, and irrelevant. Have a seat.
The Angels went into the season with one RP who was likely to be reliable. Perry did a horrible job of building a bullpen, I hope he learned something.
The Angels need three relief pitchers who are likely to be reliable and three who have a reasonable shot at being reliable.
If they don’t resign Iglesias, they have zero of both.
You’re right in principle, but I can’t blame Minnassian because he was limited by Moreno’s imposed budget and bloated contracts. Perry knew they weren’t winning anything this year. There’s a reason he drafted all pitchers– he recognized the need. Murphy from Notre Dame will fast track to the bullpen by mid season next year. They look like they have only three bullpen arms they MIGHT be able to count on (Warren and Marte)– and that’s if they are healthy and can re-sign Iglesias, They’ll need to add in all likelihood seven guys either by free agency, trade, or promotion… they have work to do. If they sign Scherzer that will eat up all the money they save on Pujols.
angels still had $27 mil going into the offseason. they had $11 mil to start a season. so, your statement was not accurate. what’s more ailing the angels is they spent money on wrong players. for the wrong reasons!
Vizion, if Perry was trying to build a bullpen there is no way a smart GM signs Claudio and reserves a roster spot fo Guerra.
To call it stupid is an understatement. I realize why fans had a hard time seeing it then, but after the fact, it’s pretty hard to miss.
You mean they had a whole $27MM to build an entire 10 man bullpen, add a right fielder, catcher, and backup infielder, and add multiple starting pitching? You think that’s a big budget? It’s not a fair criticism. Minnassian will be saddled with certain contracts until the end of next season when Upton’s backloaded deal comes off the books. The fact is they played .500 ball despite missing the best player in baseball for the whole season– and Rendon, and Fowler, and all the rest. You can swap out Claudio for Melancon, and Quintana for whoever you want and they still wouldn’t be in the playoffs. Those two low costs moves were made due to budget limitations– not sure how that can be argued.
That is a post where you just keep digging. They had plenty of money to spend on a bullpen.. All the needed to do was take the money they gave Quintana and spend it on two RPs. Their were plenty available, but once they added Claudio and Guerra, who were pretty much guaranteed spots, there weren’t the spaces available.
The signing of Claudio and Guerra is very very strong evidence you are wrong. What did Moreno have to do with that? Add to that Quintana and I’m sure you are wrong.
You can’t blame Moreno for Perry’s screw up.
The Claudio signing and Guerra signings are proof Perry was clueless. I get why fans didn’t see it then, however there is no excuse for not seeing it now. I hope Perry learned something, he botched it big time.
You can swap out Melancon and Guerra for whomever you want, and the Angels still wouldn’t have made the playoffs. Minnassian was working from the discount shelf. No, those two did not work out– you’re right, but Minnassian knew, as did you and I, as well as everyone else… this team was going nowhere with Pujols and Upton. Management attempted to sign several other more prominent starters– those starters did not want to come. With Ohtani, a healthy Trout and Rendon, and the emergence of Fletcher, Walsh, Marsh, etc., the team will be more attractive to free agents this season and beyond– and with a ton of payroll coming off the books this year and next Minnassian can ‘Build Back Better’, sorry–couldn’t resist.
Stop blaming Artie for everything. That’s biden blaming Trump for his failures. Too many teams with less to work with did a lot better.
I’m sorry you brought up any politicians, but I agree. This was clearly not Moreno’s fault.
Who hired Perry?
That a valid point. I’m hopeful Perry has learned while acknowledging he screwed up big time last off season.
Stop blaming Artie for giving Pujols a 10-year deal that crippled the team for a decade? For continuing to bring in aging bats and ignoring pitching? Stop blaming ownership for the revolving door of GMs coming and going? Who do I blame for six or seven years in a row of sub-500 ball if not ownership? It’s ownership that made these horrific deals and then refuses to go past the cap to get what we need. The drafts overall under Eppler were horrific. Beyond Marsh and Addell where is the MLB ready talent after five years of drafting in the top 12 spots? How do the Dodgers draft at the bottom, and yet do so much better?
The Pujols comment is an ignorant one. The Pujols contract allowed them to have a high payroll year in and year out.
Blame things on Moreno that are actually his fault. There is enough to go around without adding the absurd.
The bullpen is Perry’s failure…100%. How is this not obvious to everyone?
Claudio? How dumb must you people be to still not see that.
I’m not sure why you make nasty comments like… this is ignorant? Are you trying to be offensive and shut down any discussion? Your heavy handed approach says more about you than me, but it’s Sunday, and I’m just having some fun talking baseball– not getting personal. You say that overpaying Pujols allowed them to have a high payroll– what does that even mean? By any measure it was a a bad sign– a bad contract. Pick a metric? Upton’s deal was another bad contract. Together that’s nearly $60MM annually out the window. There is no metric, none, that transforms these gargantuan contracts into reasonable deals. You already know the list of sexy sluggers that took us down the rabbit hole to losing on their big deals. Moreno has not invested in scouting– international scouting especially. Why does he not employ more modern training techniques that incorporate yoga and stretching– keeping players limber and not bulky? I see no innovation or forward thinking throughout the organization. You keep saying that the bullpen is on Minnassian– and that’s true because he’s at the helm, it all comes down to him, but to not acknowledge the extreme limitations he’s had both in budget and available talent willing to come– as well as where this team is at as a franchise rebuilding itself is to miss the point entirely. I love his first draft, and I think he and his team did a brilliant job– very strategic around what we need, and that is pitching. Solidifying an every day position for Fletcher and signing him to a ridiculously inexpensive long term deal– smart. Allowing Ohtani to play every day was his decision and it’s allowed Ohtani to become a league MVP. Fowler was simply to be a one-year bridge to either Marsh or Adell, but I guess you can say that was an idiotic move. Everything Minnassian is doing is with the plan of two seasons from now, so to judge the Claudio deal as make or break is shortsided. Claudio was simply an available arm they needed to fill out a pen– it didn’t work out. Plug in Melancon instead of Claudio and the outcome for the season would be no different. Now, you may disagree, but what I’ve said is far from ignorant my friend– I just see things different than you do.
It is ignorant. The Angels TV contract was up and they needed to make a splash and them Moreno signed a great TV contract. The Angels Stadium deal was up, so they locked up Trout and Moreno signed a great Stadium deal.
Every time someone talks about the Pujols signing without taking that into account it’s ignorant.
I love Perry’s first draft as well, but the bullpen mess is all on Perry,
If you want to blame Arte for Hamilton, I agree. If you want to blame him for Wells, I agree, but I don’t blame him for Napoli.
People don’t seem to have much balance, it ruins their perspective.
Do you know what ignorant means? I have command of the facts as they occurred– I just disagree with you. Your theory that the Angels would not have received their current lucrative TV contract without signing Pujols is not factual– and I have specific information personally related to that deal. The Dodgers in fact received an even larger deal without Pujols, or a Pujols like signing. The network wanted to make sure the Angels were committed to putting quality talent on the field in order to compete for a championship year in and year out– that’s what the Pujols signing signaled. But management could have chosen to spend that same money in a myriad of ways that reassured the network– the Angels chose not to go in that direction. They decided to back one horse. At no time was there an ultimatum by the network that required Pujols be signed. in order to conclude the TV mega deal Artie enjoys the off season spotlight and wanted to make a splash. Well, a splash he did make and the wake of that splash has been drowning the team for 10-years. You’re right, people don’t seem to have balance in their perspective. If someone doesn’t agree with you they’re immediately labeled ignorant, stupid, naive, and a whole other list of other pejoratives. Why do you need everyone agree with you? And if they don’t agree — you become very upset. Embrace different opinions. Some of us are very bright, nice, and very well informed, and may even be in the business you are critiquing– we just see things a little different. People you otherwise might influence stop listening to your GOOD insights because you bombard them with insults– they become defensive. I look forward to reading your thoughts on other topics in the future– just keep it above the belt. Enjoy your Sunday.
Ignorance or stupidity is the only thing that explains the Pujols comment.
And I really can’t take the time to try to decipher posts that are not split up into paragraphs.
Regardless, Perry made more of an effort to solidify the bullpen than Reagins, Dipoto, and Eppler ever did. Remember what it finally took for Dipoto to spend money on the bullpen in 2014? Every year since 2009, basically when K-Rod left and Scot Shields got hurt, the Angels have been playing the bullpen lottery, and the second half of 2014 is the only time the Angels have had a good bullpen in the last 13 years! I find that really bizarre. In fact, I find their bad pitching vet the last decade even more bizarre because the Angels in general have been been one of the better organizations, pitching-wise, since their inception in 1961.
I think one thing people forget is that every quality free agent doesn’t necessarily want to play on the west coast, or for the Angels– especially when they know they are older and this team was not going to seriously compete for a championship. I’m not sure how people can knock a GM who hasn’t even been on the job for a year, and who has managed to get closer to a .500 season than Eppler came in five years? And the team has played well overall without Trout, Rendon, Fowler, and an extended loss of Upton, Walsh, Stassi, as well as so many others. Minnassian drafted well– taking Bachman over Rocker now looks brilliant. The follow up picks are substantial talents as well. Pujols is gone– his money and a lot more comes off the books. Perry can really start to shape the roster this off season, and by the following season I believe this team will be at an elite level with Ohtani, Trout, Walsh, Rendon, Fletcher, Marsh, Adell… and their pitching will mature. The future looks bright.
He made no effort to solidify the bullpen. Hope and Prayer is not an effort.
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Over the past several years, the Angels have made a concerted effort to draft and develop pitchers. The fruits of their efforts are currently arriving at the big league level and will continue to do so over the next few years – Sandoval, Rodriguez, Detmers, Bachman, etc. As a result, the future Angels pitching staffs will largely be made up of home grown guys with a SP or RP added via free agency only as a supplemental piece.
Other than a high leverage/closer type guy, I don’t foresee the Angels aggressively spending on a BP this off-season. Nor do I believe they will add SP beyond re-signing Cobb and perhaps an innings eater.
The salary cap is irrelevant. Moreno has his own cap of about $175m. He won’t go over that, especially for pitching. That’s been clear for a decade. If the past predicts the future, we will acquire several pitchers this offseason who are hoping to bounce back to what was at best a mediocre career at its peak. The only big splash will be a position player with a big bat who is past his prime. We will make a few lowball offers to a few FA pitchers just so Moreno can say “we were in on him but he obviously wanted to play elsewhere”. It’s the same story line every year regardless of who fills the GM chair.
Arte has refused to invest in their minor league teams. Until he does, this team is the definition of “middle of the road”. Never good enough to make the playoffs or bad enough to get top picks. They have been horrible at developing pitching, though this season it does look like their approach has changed. They seriously need to develop more pitching rather than dumpster dive the FA market for washed up arms.