December 19: The Angels announced that Rosenberg has been outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake. He’ll stick with the organization but without occupying a roster spot.
December 12: The Angels announced that they have signed right-hander Justin Garza to a one-year, non-guaranteed split contract. To make room on the 40-man roster, left-hander Kenny Rosenberg has been designated for assignment.
Garza, 29 in March, has spent his entire career in the Cleveland organization up until now, having been drafted by them in the eighth round back in 2015. He made it up to the big leagues in 2021, tossing 28 2/3 innings in 21 games. He posted a 4.71 ERA in that time along with a 22.7% strikeout rate, 14.1% walk rate and 36.7% ground ball rate.
Garza was outrighted at the end of that season but cleared waivers and stuck with the club for 2022. He spent all of this year in Triple-A, logging 42 2/3 innings with 4.64 ERA. That mark isn’t especially impressive, but he did strike out 28.7% of batters faced. His 10.9% walk rate was a tad high but was actually a step in the right direction relative to his 14.1% rate in the big leagues and 15.1% rate in the minors in 2021. Whether that control was a factor or not, the Angels liked what they saw in Garza enough to give him a spot on the 40-man.
As for Rosenberg, he was drafted by the Rays but came to the Angels a year ago in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. He was selected to the club’s roster in April and spent the season getting shuttled between the majors and minors. In 10 2/3 big league innings, he posted a 4.22 ERA, getting strikeouts on 17% of batters faced while walking 12.8%. He fared much better on the farm, tossing 68 2/3 frames with a 3.54 ERA, 23.3% strikeout rate and 9.6% walk rate. The Angels will now have one week to trade Rosenberg or else put him on waivers.
Who???
This dude was awesome at CSUF. Have not heard his name in a while
If he played there he must have tools.
he was the Saturday night starter behind Eshelman. Same team with Matt Chapman, Lorenzen, Wallach, etc
Thank you, that where I know him from CSUF.
Great college player, he played all over the field for the Titans
Justin’s middle name is Charles so I hate the move already
He was in Charge
Angels love their local guys
Fullerton kid.
You need guys in AAA who can come up and not get shelled. Hopefully he’s one of them. If not, oh well.
Perry doesn’t seem to know the difference between depth and dearth. We have a dearth of bullpen talent and adding this kind of fodder is not going to help.
Worst case scenario, which is also the most likely scenario. Some of these bullpen arms will get the AAAA players out in Spring training, make the team, pitch horrible in April and cost this team 3 or 4 wins.
It happens every Spring and these geniuses never seem to figure it out.
1. it’s december
2. EVERY TEAM signs guys like this every single year
most good teams have bullpen cores and add these kind of pitchers. angels are not playoff bound with these kind of pitchers.
You’re making the assumption that he will make the team, and the team won’t make any other moves.
wadr, i hope the angels move faster to grab essencial pullpen pitchers. there are about 25 teams that want to upgrade the pen.
And every year the Angels make the same stupid bullpen mistakes. Every year. If you don’t see that by now, you are deaf, dumb and blind. The last time the Angels made the playoffs they had a good pen, and the next time they make the playoffs they will have a good pen, and the next time they make noise in the playoffs they’ll have a great pen.
It’s amazing how many fans keep ignoring the obvious.
Yeah, listen to the cockmeister. It’s not Claudio o. A major league deal.
@Halo Its December they need arms in the minors too.
If they didn’t do this every year, I’d simply chalk it up to exactly what you are saying. But this scares me a lot more than shortstop and I promise you this will make or break their team. A shortstop won’t.
If the pen pitches well, they’ll make the playoffs. I wouldn’t bet on this group.
What a whiner. Dec 12 and Halo is complaining about the roster like it’s Opening Day.
Man, I haven’t heard that before. If I didn’t know better, it’s like I’ve never been right about this. Oh wait, I’ve always been right about this. And only a fool blows me off.
11 is right here. The Angels have a history of going into camp with a bunch of guys like these and hoping a couple stick. Particularly during the Eppler years.
I hope this is not another year if it. In fact, I think 3 Trash Pandas make it up this year and the bullpen is revamped.
But until history stops repeating itself, I can’t blame 11 for assuming we’re on the same path as usual.
HHJJ, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this is the year the Angels start reaping the benefits of Perry’s recent drafts. As you have noted multiple times, the Angels have several intriguing arms on the Trash Pandas.
My best guess is that the BP that breaks camp will be overhauled by mid-season. The AA arms will benefit from some additional fine tuning in April-June before their arrival in Anaheim.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Rodriguez is the key to this pen. But let’s say he is. He’ll be the fourth or fifth choice coming out of spring training. How many games will the Angels blow until this sorts itself out.
They do this every year. At least last year they tried. It didn’t work, but they tried.
This year, unless the sigh. A.O. It doesn’t even look like they are going to try.
I think Perry is in a bit of a tight spot with the bullpen right now. He needs to have one to start the year but also not block his promising AA arms.
Loup and Tepera are on their last years but have track records of success. They have to be given shots. But if they suck they can be cut and replaced.
Thing is, like you said, if we blow 5 games seeing what the bullpen has before making changes, those could be the 5 games that keep us home in October.
that is all the reason to sign the best arms now. if the kids come up and perform we have good trade cheaps in veteran pitchers. if not, we still have a great pen.
If we didn’t do this every year, it wouldn’t be so frustrating. With this signing, who do we lose off the 40 man roster with our next signing? These spots have value.
You must not follow the team very closely. Minasian is the most competent GM the Angels have had in a long time. The Angels pitching and farm situation has been in bad shape well before Minasian. . Minasian’s two predecessors left nothing but dead trees in the Angel’s backyard for years. It takes time to develop talent. He can’t make talent out of nothing. He is a GM, not a magician. Minasian is the first GM to plant seeds and tried to develop within. It won’t be long before those trees begin to bare fruit. The Angels have had success at the A and AA level, which is something you should expect at 2 years in of having a competent GM.
lol!
He has yet to make a move that has helped the major league team. Maybe this year will be the first. The first two years he didn’t do anything regarding depth. He threw away the highest draft pick the Angels had this century.
The team’s ten or twelve best players he’s inherited. It’s you that doesn’t follow this team.
As I said a month ago, when Perry farts, some people thinks it’s Devine wind. He’s thrown away two years and unless this pen pitches a lot better than the prognosticators think, it will be three years he’s thrown away.
Perry has done some things that has helped the major league team.
1. Traded Noe Ramirez to Reds for the Raisel Iglesias One of the best closers in the league. The Angels were 8th in WAR in MLB in large part because of Iglesia’s performance in high leverage situations.
2. Traded Jones to Orioles for Alex Cobb. Even though Cobb wasn’t great, he was much better than most recent Angel starters.
3. He bought 2 years of Ohtani’s arbitration years. This allowed him to sign some bullpen pieces that he would not have been able to if Ohtani went to arbitration after his MVP season. Perry doesn’t want to have to sign 4 bullpen arms, but with the sad group of relievers he inherited, he had little choice. They were some of the best available bullpen arms. I know it didn’t plan out, but most Angel fans were happy something was done in a area neglected for so long.
4. He signed Jimmy Herget to minor league deal, not unlike this one. Herget was by far the Angels best bullpen arm last year.
That is 4 things that I can name that were positive that I can name without thinking. I guess I was busy watching the team while you were analyzing Perry’s fart.
You can say he inherited some talent, but he also inherited some bad talent and some bloated contracts. Pujols, Upton, Adell, Marsh, Heaney, Bundy, Rendon, etc
As for wasting “the highest pick”, he needed a close to ready major league starter. There were two option, Rocker and Bachman. Rocker was a top 3 pick, but a lot of teams were passing because of the red flags. The Angels chose Bachman and passed on Rocker, like all the other teams. The Mets choose Rocker and threw the pick away. Adell was a 10th pick overall and has yet to live up to the hype.
I don’t hate Perry, two years isn’t a lot of time, but I see a GM that has made some pretty obvious mistakes.
Iglesias was a good move, but he didn’t back him up so it was a worthless move.
Letls see Herget do it again. These breakout pickups happen all the time and have always fallen on their faces the following year..
And he did blow the first pick. There is really no need to justify it.
Halo11, you relentlessly defended Adell for 2+ years despite his struggles, but now write off Bachman before his MLB debut? I don’t understand why Adell was capable of improving, but Bachman is already lost cause.
Halo11 in response to Googleme , you said “He has yet to make a move that has helped the major league team. Maybe this year will be the first. The first two years he didn’t do anything regarding depth”. Googleme gave you not one but a list of things. You gave reasons why each is not valid but are you really going to say that each move did not improve the team? Raisel Iglesias was not an improvement to the roster even if you could have gotten more value from his performance. Is not Herget is an improvement over what they had at the bottom of the roster. Bachman you could be correct about because most of what we know about him is pre-draft. I get it , you are in the camp that thinks he won’t make it as a starter. Perry and others think he can. I don’t really have an opinion about him yet. His velocity was down with injury. The injury is a concern but it’s not like he needs TJ. Bottom line if Perry really did not do one thing to help the MLB roster, you would probably say “I hate this guy”.
I like Bachman and his arm is very real. He had some minor injury setbacks that I believe have to do more with his young age and all the heavy lifting he was doing. Your body needs to be equally balanced. When it’s not and you’re throwing 100MPH you strain and tweak muscles. His body just needs a little maturing– he’s fine.
Thank you Angels & NL West………finally found a way to shut Halo11Fan up.
Dang, what’s the chances Rosenberg falls down to the Tigers?? He looks good for waiver’s sake
Garza’s interesting depth but at the expense of Rosenberg?
They look like coin flips to me.. neither one particularly amazing or bad.
Trash in. Trash out.
Trash Panda?
Their new Halo Blue uniforms are sick!
Chalk I haven’t heard or seen anything about those!
Garza won’t be good enough for the Trash Pandas. He’ll end up with the Salt Lake Bees.
2002 All over again! It wouldn’t be right if we didn’t get into the playoffs with a WC spot!
This is depth. We need MLB ready BP arms first…and a short stop…and a catcher.
@Chalk- Where did you see them?
Winslow, I found them. Trash Panda’s Blue Uni’s!!! Hahaha
waaytv.com/news/rocket-city-trash-pandas-unveil-ne…
Thanks Chalk!
Ken Roaenthal was DFAd??!! Oh no! Hope he broke the story
Nice! I’ve been waiting and waiting and hoping and praying!! NOT
Kenny should get an opportunity to show what he can do during pool play in the World Baseball Classic in March. Conveniently, the games will be in the Marlins’ Loan Depot Park. So, Grapefruit League scouts can watch him pitch for Team Israel against Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
I’m a graduate of CSUF, sign me for the bullpen.
CSULB for me.
csun and the csula.
Glad the Angels didn’t lose Kenny Rosenberg. I’d rather have him as depth over Garza.
for those minasian believers, is this a postseason-bound team as it is built?
I smell a pennant…
I wish this was the Angels announcing they were signing Seth Lugo.