Right-hander Tayron Guerrero has signed a minor league deal with the Angels, reports Francys Romero.
Guerrero, 33 in January, has 106 innings of major league experience but hasn’t appeared in the bigs since 2019. He signed a minor league deal with the Reds going into 2023 but was released in June after posting a dreadful 11.51 earned run average in 22 2/3 innings. That’s a small sample of work and the ERA was surely inflated by unlucky numbers in terms of batting average on balls in play and runners stranded, but he also walked more batters than he struck out.
After being released, he caught on with the Diablos Rojos del Mexico of the Mexican League. He posted a 1.17 ERA there, but in an even smaller sample of 7 2/3 innings. He then joined Naranjeros de Hermosillo for some winter ball in Mexico. He has a 1.10 ERA in 16 1/3 innings for that club, striking out 26 of the 65 batters he has faced while walking 7, respective rates of 40% and 10.8%. Romero relays that Guerrero hit 101.6 mph on the radar gun.
That velocity has long been an enticing part of the package with Guerrero but he hasn’t always been able to harness it. He walked 13.6% of batters faced in his brief major league tenure and 18.8% of Triple-A hitters when with the Reds in 2023. He has been in better form since being released and heading to Mexico, as he didn’t issue any walks for the Diablos and then had a reasonable rate with the Naranjeros.
For the Angels, there’s no risk in bringing him aboard via a minor league deal and seeing what his control looks like early in the year. If everything is clicking, perhaps Guerrero can earn his way onto a roster spot, though he is now out of options and can’t be sent back down to the minors without being exposed to waivers.
World Series move!!!
Ohtani WHO?
General manager Perry Minasian Should’ve just resigned from being the Angels general manager position once Arte Moreno killed the the Shohei Ohtani trade, there was a trade-in place would’ve hauled in five high prospects looks like Moreno has no intentions of building a successful team. Moreno never invested in the farm system. All the good free agents are coming off the board I hope fans don’t show up boycott the games at the stadium. Stay home and watch the games on TV forcing Moreno to sell the team
You guys crack me up. They’ll be a half a dozen signings like this at least before camp. Every team does this, you haven’t noticed yet/ever. Lol
Angels shopping at the 99 cent store again.
He’s tall
Ohtani replacement in the rotation.
Minasian must be still loving the speed.
Not really the most original nickname: El De Bocachica.
If he can get some control on his pitches, he’d be pretty decent. All the videos I watched of him on Baseball Savant were balls in the dirt and out of the strike zone. Guy has great extension and lots of speed but seems like he’s scared to throw the ball in the zone.
This what I’m talk about Gm is worthless
It’s the owner not the GM.
Perry. Minasian he doesn’t have any chips to get on the poker table Moreno makes all the baseball decisions you know that Albert Pujols Hamilton, Wells, Rendon don’t blame Perry blame Arte Moreno penny pincher doesn’t spend money on the farm system developing players he won’t even give Washington the coaches, the bench coach he wanted hitting coach. He wanted
While other teams lock up major league pitchers, this is the Angels’ response. Moreno will be back to his personal payroll cap of about 175m now that Ohtani is gone. We can’t improve if we don’t change our failed strategy.
Meanwhile the Dodgers are still looking to bolster their pitching staff. That’s the difference between an owner set on winning and an owner set on making personal income.
Arte still has Trout to sell to the fans, so he’s still going to make some good money marketing him.
People forget that just last year, in 2022, Trout hit 40 home runs. 2nd in the league behind Judge, but ahead of Yordan and Shohei,
This past season was his worst statistically, but a lot of that can be attributed to a crazy 3-for-32 black hole he experienced the first week of June.
He, alone, will determine how much the Halos miss Ohtani.
Oakland going to beat us out for last place I have plan to wacth this team there not sign anybody worthless owner and gm
People need to seriously stop blaming the GM for this team’s troubles. If different GMs == same result, then its not the GM, its the President/Owner.
Fans are Charlie Brown, the owner is Lucy, the GM is the ball.
It’s both. Arte isn’t telling Minasian to sign a pitcher with an 11 ERA in triple-A. Arte most likely sets the team salary limit and allows Perry (and prior GMs) to make the majority of moves. Arte didn’t tell Minasian to fire Maddon, that was Perry’s call with Arte’s blessing. Same when Dipoto fired Hatcher strictly to stick it to Scioscia. Arte only gets involved when it comes to major signings or trades (i.e., Rendon, Pujols, declining Ohtani’s $700M contract) but not whether they should sign Tyler Anderson or Aaron Loup, that’s all Perry Minasian.
Misanian has brought up more promising youth than any Angels FM in about 15 years. That is what’s important. They have not been ready for a long time, and with that and their payroll, any playoff appearance would’ve been a matter of luck. That’s basically what they’ve been doing. Rebuilding and supplementing at the same time on the off chance it might make the team competitive. Every team did this same thing before salaries started skyrocketing in the late 1990s. Dipoto was more of a problem. Eppler tried to rebuild the farm system but it didn’t pan out, same as the Padres and White Sox. But Misanian needs to just keep doing what he’s doing. Keep bringing in youth and makes those moves that can make the team competitive. The Rangers were a couple years away and signed some guys so they could lock them asap up for when they were ready. Well, that mix just happened to have a lot of good years in 2023, thus accelerating that timeline, and won the World Series. Front offices should be taking notes.
“Promising youth” lmao. The only promising young player on the team is O’Hoppe, who they got in trade. Their farm system has no promise at all, and is the laughing stock of baseball. This franchise is in complete disrepair and its the owner and his front office to blame.
orange2001
What do you expect under Arte Moreno’s ownership? He hired four general managers that were assistance or room boys shall we go over them Tony Reagan, Jerry DiPoto, Billy, Eppler Perry Minasian no major league managerial experience now who’s to blame here look what happened when Walt Disney owned the angels, hired Bill Stoneman, who hired Mike Scioscia World Series champions you gotta invest in the future
Rebuilding and supplementing. When you lose a hall of fame player to free agency and failed to trade him for future stars when you had the chance, you better do some dramatic stuff to keep your fan base. That means spending big on other players to compensate for what you lost or tearing it all down and start from scratch. More of the same won’t do anymore for most fans or Mike Trout. Moreno owes it to Trout to give him a chance to win, either trade him for some great prospects, put a winning team on the field, I.e sign Yamamoto, Bellinger, JD Martinez, get more pitching and more pitching and more pitching or start over. The time has come and past before last years trade deadline.
You’re being somewhat melodramatic. There ARE some promising young players on the team.
Neto
Schanuel
Detmers
Silseth
Joyce
All under the age of 25.
The talent isn’t really the issue with the Halos.
It’s HEALTH.
The team was on a 90-win pace in June when the injury avalanche occurred. That would have gotten them into the playoffs.
Heck, even with the injuries (most in MLB), they were still on an 85-win pace at the trading deadline.
Unfortunately, the weight of all the injuries caught up to them over the last two months.
Neto hits .225 with a 600 ops and has a bad back. Yeah he’s reaaaaaal promising lmao. Seriously dude, look at Detmers career numbers, then look at Silseths… Schanuel is the epitome of punch and Judy. He’s a bench warmer at best. Their group of “young home grown talent” is all garbage. Open your eyes and read the stats, if you can’t see how bad they are just watching the games. No drama there chief, just facts.
Neto pre-injury .259/.338/.431
Neto post-injury .174/.262/..296 (dude, he was playing hurt)
Neto 2024 projection ..245/.324./413
Detmers
2022 ERA+ of 106 (22 years old)
2023 ERA+ of 100 (23 years old)
One no-hitter already, and took another no-hitter into the 8th inning at Texas.
Schanuel
Drafted as a power hitting 1B
21 years old with an OBP of .402
Projections have him at .273/.367/.416
All former 1st round picks.
Are they stars yet? No. But they have tons of potential. Hence the term “promising.”
No drama there chief, just facts.
His hurt is a bad back, i.e. for life…He’ll always be hurt.
Yep.
That’s what they said about Vlad before he signed with the Angels.
Except Vlad was an all star on a Hall of fame trajectory when they signed him. Neto is a .225 hitter with a 600 ops. Comparing Vlad to this kid, that’s made of glass, is comical. What’s next, this kid is the next Cal Ripken?
You completely missed the point. Vlad had a bad back, and many thought he would be hurt “forever”, just as you said about Neto, without any medical proof.
Whatever.
You don’t like Neto.
Got it. Time to hit the Mute button.
angels fan for life
I understand you venting Perry Minasian doesn’t have any poker chips to get on the poker table. The farm system is thin already Moreno doesn’t invest in the farm system doesn’t invest in a player development pinching pennies in the coaching staff Washington wanted hurdle bench coach chili Davis hitting coach Perry Minasian had a trade in place for Shohei Ohtani Moreno was the one that didn’t want to trade Otani barking up the wrong tree.
Arte is the root of the problem but Minasian is no good, either. Stoneman was good but he refused to bring back Bengie or Kendrick. Was that Arte? who knows?
Perry is just a puppet. Arte calls all the shots.
Angels have begun the silent rebuild… They’ve accomplished nothing this offseason
Small sample size? He’s been “unlucky”? No risk? We’ve been listening to these loser mantras since Minasian got here. Where does he get these bums?
Scrap heep. Angels are perinial dumpster divers. That’s why this will always be a Dodgers town.
What is the Angel Death wish? They don’t even have to sign big money pitching. They could have signed Wacha to be there #3. Go get Ryu who is now healthy– a one year deal. Make a trade for an established pitcher somewhere (Burnes, Cease, or a Marlins’ starter). And there you have it, an upgrade 1-3 with Detmers and Silseth as your four and five. Trade Sandoval in a package for an established starter (it could include Ward, regnifo, Adell, pick your favorite underachiever). Sign 2-3 more relievers, and then go sign Teoscar Hernandez to play left and Justin Turner to DH, play third and platoon at first. There– I just remade the team. For little money and on one or two-year deals. A cheap and a credible team with an actual chance at the playoffs. Watching Moreno and company screw this up is like watching a monkey F— a football. What are they doing exactly?
They could give the trash pile that is Neto, Adell and Detmers and get Cease.. but they’re idiots.
Please sign belly halos!!!!
Sell the team you cheapskate of an owner!
Really? Will somebody please tell me how many batting practice pitchers the Angels need.
I won’t be happy until I see the Arte Sells Angels headlines. Until then, I’ll be looking for a team with integrity and intelligence.