The Angels recently signed reliever Angel Felipe to a minor league deal (h/t to Baseball America’s Matt Eddy). While the contract details aren’t clear, it seems fair to presume that was a two-year pact. Felipe underwent Tommy John surgery last month and will miss the entire 2024 season.
Felipe entered Spring Training holding a 40-man roster spot with the A’s. The 26-year-old righty had made his major league debut with Oakland a year ago. A waiver claim out of the San Diego organization, Felipe tossed 15 innings of seven-run ball for the A’s in the second half.
While he held his job over the winter, the surgery marked an end to his A’s tenure. Oakland designated Felipe for assignment shortly after announcing he’d go under the knife. They released him after the DFA, as injured players cannot go on outright waivers.
In parts of eight minor league campaigns, Felipe owns a 4.65 ERA. He allowed 5.46 earned runs per nine innings in 30 appearances between San Diego’s and Oakland’s Triple-A affiliates last season. The 6’5″ hurler missed a decent number of bats, fanning a third of opposing hitters. He also walked nearly 14% of batters faced, continuing a trend of career-long issues finding the strike zone.
Angels really do play for the Angels.
I hope Moreno will change his mind and sell the team how embarrassing I never thought the franchise would go to pot
Moreno missing in action
Robert Manfred
you need to step down as commissioner too many changes in the game I don’t like the pitch clock. I would like going back to extra innings without the added base Runner at second base. what’s next shorten the game to eight innings?
Yeah, ‘cause HE’S the answer!
Angels don’t have anyone besides Stephenson signed past this year. So it’s a warm body that probably will be a camp invite next year or mid season call up next year.
He had good numbers in the minors. Hopefully he comes back strong in ’25 mid-season.
aragon – “In parts of eight minor league campaigns, Felipe owns a 4.65 ERA. He allowed 5.46 earned runs per nine innings in 30 appearances between San Diego’s and Oakland’s Triple-A affiliates last season. The 6’5″ hurler missed a decent number of bats, fanning a third of opposing hitters. He also walked nearly 14% of batters faced, continuing a trend of career-long issues finding the strike zone.”
Those numbers are crap!
Decent shot he pitches as many innings this year as Stephenson.
No team has hates like the Angels
Trout is washed, he doesn’t even have any trade value. Hahahaha! Let’s hate!
Not his fault. His was just signing a long extension with Anaheim when the team refused to acquire front line talent, other than Ohtani around him for 14y most of the time.
Trout will be 33 this summer, has borderline HOF #’s already. Maybe it’s normal to stop putting up crazy numbers year after year for this long?
Trout only option is leaving Angels for a team close to a championship. the smartest thing for the Angels is trade him this year to one of those playoff teams and get something back.
Trade trout he’s old and washed up, I will say besides listening to ESPN, and the media. Trout has a ntc clause and doesn’t want to be traded so that’s a big hurdle in other words not going to happen unless he wants out.
Borderline? He’s in the hall, book it.
Top 5 WAR and the highest barrel rate of his career trout or a different guy?
Trout still has a lot to prove to himself. I would like to see him play a lot like Mickey mental.
Old news. He was signed a couple of weeks ago. Odd that MLBTR is just now announcing this.
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