The Angels are nearing a deal with free-agent lefty Grant Dayton, reports Robert Murray of FanSided (Twitter link). Dayton, a client of KVA Sports, opted out a minor league deal with the Marlins last weekend.
Dayton, 34, has appeared in parts of five big league seasons — two with the Dodgers and three with the Braves. He carries a 3.43 ERA with a 27.6% strikeout rate against a 9.0% walk rate in 102 1/3 innings — all in relief. He’s been a generally effective reliever throughout his big league career, when healthy, although that’s a notable caveat. Dayton missed all of the 2018 season due to Tommy John surgery and has missed considerable time in subsequent seasons due to a broken foot and shoulder inflammation.
Dayton has spent the past three seasons with Atlanta, the first two of them with solid results. (His early time with the Braves overlapped with that of current Angels GM Perry Minasian, who was working in the Atlanta front office as an assistant general manager at the time.) Dayton’s 2021 campaign saw him limited to 13 frames by that shoulder issue while posting a 6.23 ERA along the way. He opened the 2022 season with Miami’s Triple-A club, pitching to a 2.35 ERA with a 24-to-5 K/BB ratio through 15 1/3 innings of bullpen work before opting out.
The Halos have a pair of lefties in their bullpen at the moment, with offseason signee Aaron Loup and homegrown southpaw Jose Suarez helping to serve as bridges to closer Raisel Iglesias. Down in the minors, lefties Kenny Rosenberg and Jhonathan Diaz give them an additional pair of the 40-man roster. Assuming a deal is finalized, Dayton will add to that left-handed depth and could get a look in the big leagues if he’s able to keep up the form that he displayed with the Marlins’ top affiliate to begin the season.
great! another alphabet in maddon’s stale soup!
quite well put
And there goes whineondoomer again.
Absolutely right, whineonesooner. Minasian was clearly wrong when he signed Syndergaard and Lorenzen and Tepera and Loup and Iglesias, and pulled Velasquez and Wade from the waiver scraps, and ate Upton’s contract to open up space for Ward and Marsh. What the hell does he know about talent?
Is onewhineyloser Halo11 alt account?
Nice. Bullpen arms are up and down. The more decent ones you have, the more likely you’ll catch a hot one.
Pitching depth is never bad unless it’s bad pitchers. He looks like he has decent numbers. It’s the injuries apparently that have stopped him. Hopefully that’s all behind him.
@winonesooner: Why don’t you go away. No one is interested in your lame takes.
Since Stassi went down, Halos lost 4 in a row. And to poor teams Rangers and A’s. Here we go again…no playoffs.
There’s still plenty of time to right the ship
Angels actually looking pretty good this year