The Rockies plan to activate Dinelson Lamet from the 15-day injured list to start their Wednesday game with the Diamondbacks, MLB.com’s Thomas Harding reports (Twitter link). Reports surfaced last week that Limet was being considered for a return to starting pitching, and with the Rockies increasingly desperate for rotation help, Limet will get a look as a starter for the first time since the 2021 season when he was still a member of the Padres. Karl Kauffmann has already been optioned to Triple-A, creating space for Lamet on the active roster. Lower back tightness has kept Lamet out of action for almost all of May, and he struggled to a 12.66 ERA over 10 2/3 relief innings this season prior to his injury.
Some more items from both the NL and AL West…
- Andres Munoz will start a Triple-A rehab assignment on Tuesday, as the Mariners reliever is on the way back from a deltoid strain that has sidelined him since April 8. Thought to be a minor injury at the time, Munoz was then bothered by a sore shoulder that required a PRP injection, extending his time on the IL to just shy of two months. Munoz only pitched 3 1/3 innings over four appearances before heading to the injured list, but assuming everything goes as planned, he’ll be back in the Seattle bullpen and looking to follow up his outstanding 2022 season.
- Dodgers reliever Daniel Hudson told reporters (including Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times) that he will throw a bullpen on Tuesday. It’s a positive step for Hudson, who hasn’t pitched since tearing his left UCL last June. During the last update on Hudson two weeks ago from Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, the veteran righty was throwing but without any specific plans for a rehab assignment due to some continued discomfort in his knee. Hudson said today that he’d received a cortisone injection in his knee, and was hoping that the bullpen session would be the first step towards a “ramp up” of his recovery.
- Angels GM Perry Minasian provided some news on some injured Halos players to the Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher and other reporters, though neither Anthony Rendon or Chris Rodriguez seems close to a return. Rendon has been taking part in some light baseball activities, but even with more than two weeks passed since Rendon hit the 10-day IL due to a groin strain, Minasian wasn’t sure of a timeline for when Rendon might return or take on a fuller rehab process. Rodriguez underwent shoulder surgery in November 2021 and didn’t pitch at all in 2022, then had a setback in early April after starting the season on the 15-day IL. It doesn’t appear as though there was any further damage to Rodriguez’s shoulder, as Minasian said the team has “done what we need to do medically” to assess the situation, and Rodriguez is throwing again but not off a mound.
Lamet will start the game on Weds and return to the IL on Thurs
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Maybe instead they should start this “Limet” guy that the post mentions a couple of times.
Yeah, he’s that French born pitcher, right?
If it was not for the Strasburg contract, Rendon’s deal might go down as the worst in MLB history. Of course the Angels are no stranger to bad deals after Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols.
wait until Mike Trout’s contract continues
Unless Trout has a career ending injury tomorrow, his contract will be a great one. He is top 5 in baseball with 17.8 WAR in the first 4 years of his contract and that includes the 60 game 2020 season. That is about $152 million in value already.
He has been paid $16 million in 2019, $13.33 million in the shortened 2020 season, and $36 million in 2021 and 2022. At total of $100.78. That is $50 million in surplus value so far in his deal.
This season Trout is on pace for 6 WAR. That would provide another $18 million in surplus value.
I am not an Angel fan and I can see the incredible value he is. If you were a real Halo fan, wouldn’t you also?
It’s common for the know it all Angel fan to dump on Mr. Trout. They won’t realize what a great player he was until he retires. ?they expect him to hit 2 Hr’s every game to justify his contract..
If 1 War equals $8 million he has already provided nearly $700 million worth to the Angels. His contract is worth every penny.
What if 1 WAR being equal to $8 MM is incorrect? What if WAR over values stats, like HRs and BB, and under values others, like RBIs and AVE? It probably wouldn’t effect Trout much, as he is good at everything. It would definitely effect players like Schwarber, and Muncy. Just a thought.
WAR doesn’t put any value into RBI’s, HRS, walks, batting average, OBP, or slugging%. It’s calcualted through batting runs, fielding runs, has a positonal and league adjustment, and is divided by runs per win. I’m not defending WAR. It’s really only good to get a general idea of how good/bad a player was. Plus small differences are pretty much negligable. There’s pretty much no difference between a 3.3 WAR player and 3.0 WAR player at the same position.
Either way, I still believe Trout’s contract has worked out well for the Angels. Since his extension, he’s batting .290/.405/.615 with a .421 wOBA, and 171 wRC+. He leads all qualified batters in wRC+, wOBA, is the only batter in that time with an OPS over 1.000, and outpaces the likes of Aaron Judge, Yordan Alvarez, and Pete Alonso in isolated slugging percentage. The only rate statistics he’s not in the top three in are walk rate (8th place. but 14.6% is still elite), batting average (still ranks 18th), K% (185th)
2019-2021 when he signed the extension, a point of bWAR has been worth $8.5 million. This season its worth $9.2 million. Trout has been worth so much in surplus value that if he never played another game the Angels could pay him the rest of his contract and still pretty much break even. Instead, he is on pace for another 6 WAR season in 2023.
What if the earth is flat? What if we really live on Mars? Just a thought.
WAR considers HR, walks, OBP, and SLG because those things all contribute to batting runs.
Only a moron would make this comment and trash on greatest player in his generation.
Ever heard of a guy named Chris Davis?
Mike Hampton can be on the list.
@Longtimecoming: Yeah but the Colorado schools were great!
What kind of bad contract is less valuable? Instances where the player is never healthy, or instances when the player is a negative contributor?
And I’m hoping that Shohei Ohtani doesn’t get added to that list. Any team that will pay him the projected $45-50M a year from 30 thru 40 years old is nuts. God I hope it’s not the Angels. Great player, stupid projected contract.
Wait until the Mookie Betts deal plays out. You can’t help but to like him but it will get ugly
So far into Betts’ Dodgers contract – the partial 2020 season, two full seasons, and 1/3 of this year – Betts has, at $8M per WAR, been worth about $47M more than he’s been paid.
It seems the surplus value players often provide early in their contracts is usually forgotten at the end when their performances diminish.
Torn ACL for Hudson, of course, not UCL.
Dinelson Limet shows up on this article too. Mark P must’ve been a little tired when he wrote this one.
We have third base covered. Rendon can be a hotdog vendor at this point.
He’d get hurt walking up and down all those stairs.
Next he’ll go on the IL for hurt feelings.
LAA is stuck with Rendon through 2026. Given that he’s aging quickly and is only good for about 60 games a year, perhaps they should simply “gift” him (i.e., eat the contract save for the league minimum) to Kansas City or Oakland and begin to build a team with players that can actually play. And who play hard when they do.
Anthony Rendon. Yet another time Arte got what he wanted then told the GM to build a team around him.
Rendon has averaged less than 47 games a season, this is somehow his second best season as an Angel even at the lowest number of games played thus far. If you added up all his games as an Angel, he’s played for 1.154 seasons, he’s generated 3.6 WAR over 1.154 seasons, so 3.12 WAR if he played for one full season- worth about $18M at the top of the market. He’s been paid $114,127,240 thus far and if not for the pandemic shortened season, would have been paid about $141M over that period.
At this point, even if he had 3 dream seasons from 2024-2026 and generated 25 WAR he’d still be overpaid in total to the tune of about $55 million- possibly more, depending on how you value Dollars Per WAR.
Just saying.
Addendum Thought:
It’s entirely possible that Rendon cannot come back from his various injuries and diminished effectiveness and either retires early, is effectively banished to the IL semi-permanently, or is usurped by literally any player who can generate more than 1 WAR and be a consistent presence in the line up and for $245M or $219M (the difference in the pro-rated pandemic season) or whatever Rendon is paid in total, Rendon will produce less than 10% of the value of the contract.
This might be the worst contract in baseball history. I can’t think of one that went objectively worse, even if there are a few doozies of rough overly long contracts out there that produced under their value (Jason Heyward, Jacoby Ellsbury, Chris Sale, etc.)
In my 50+yr life, I’ve never seen a player as richly compensated as Anthony Rendon seemingly milk every apparent “injury” he claims to sit out as long as possible.
The same player who once said as a pro he doesn’t really like playing baseball.
He will go down as the biggest bust considering how many times he’s gone down and how long he takes most times to finally make his brief appearances before the next “injury”.
Complete bum. Total waste of a career.
There’s a lot of players in the various leagues- baseball, football, etc.- who have either openly admitted themselves or acknowledged that other players have admitted in private that they don’t actually like the game they play professionally, they just happen to be naturally skilled at it to the point they get paid millions of dollars.
There are a lot of jobs people don’t care about, have no passion for, etc. that they’re good enough or they have an aura or essence about them such that they rise in the ranks and earn a ton of money- whether it’s earning $75k or $750k or $7.5M or $75M, etc. and they just don’t really care about that thing, but they recognize they’re good at it or appear good at it in a way that is marketable and allows them to make a salary that makes them rich.
A lot of those people mentally check out and do the bare minimum to not be fired or have their contract voided- like Rendon.
There are occasionally even guys like this who walk away seemingly at the height of their career because they feel like they’ve made more than enough to be set for life and then some and dislike the thing they do for the money so much, they’re rather give up the future income than keep doing that thing.
Rendon is definitely baseball’s poster child for a guy who doesn’t care about or like the sport and does it because he was good enough at it to get paid like he’s been paid.
Also definitely the current poster child for a guy who put the effort in to get the biggest guaranteed contract possible and then checked out mentally- although I think the All Time Great for this is Yoenis Cespedes, who tried to yada yada injuries through basically his entire $110M contract while he played on his horse ranch- until they proved he was in dereliction of his obligations to the contract and got docked most of his pay in his final season, I believe? He got paid like $6M out of the $19M still owed to him on the deal or something like that.
I just remember he only actually lost out on about $13M total once he got called out on and reprimanded for avoiding playing while collecting his paychecks.
Rendon is definitely doing that. Putting in minimal effort and milking any and every injury to avoid playing while he collects his $37M a year in salary.
I would consider Rendon a bust, and the Angels should be in no hurry to rush him back with Urshela batting around .300. I was impressed he came back last year before the season was over and served his 5 game suspension so he could play on opening day this year. Fingers crossed he can bounce back for the rest of the year and make a difference!