The Angeles announced they’ve designated infielder Miguel Sanó for assignment. The move opens active and 40-man roster space for Anthony Rendon, who is back from the 60-day injured list.
Sanó made a return to professional baseball this year after sitting out the 2023 season. He signed a minor league deal with the Angels in January and hit four homers in 23 Spring Training contests. That was enough to nab a spot on the Opening Day roster in a backup role. Sanó got a bit of run as a designated hitter through the season’s first couple weeks before a left knee injury sent him to the injured list.
The veteran slugger was out of action for nearly two months. The Halos reinstated him from the IL on June 25 but have only gotten him into seven games over the past few weeks. Sanó only has one hit since his activation and carries a .205/.295/.313 batting line over 95 plate appearances. Opponents have punched him out 36 times (a 37.9% rate), continuing the career-long struggle Sanó has had in making consistent contact.
Rendon’s return should push Luis Guillorme back into a glove-first utility role. Guillorme and Keston Hiura will serve as infield depth behind Nolan Schanuel, Brandon Drury, Zach Neto and Rendon. Manager Ron Washington has Rendon at the hot corner and atop the lineup tonight against the Rangers and Jon Gray. It’ll be the veteran infielder’s first game action since he suffered a partially torn left hamstring on April 20.
The Halos have five days to trade Sanó or put him on waivers. He’s not likely to draw any trade interest and could decline an assignment to the minor leagues, so he’ll very likely be released this week.
But word is Sano actually likes baseball.
and is a more pleasant human?
Certainly than you are.
What a brilliant retort. I think you’re wasting your time here and better served by pursuing a career in politics.
@hudler’s son what about your ten accounts saying the same troll comments over until you find a new one for the week.
Just tell him to hang around town for a couple of days until Rendon tears a fingernail. Back in business.
@hud well I know you copied my name, and there’s about 10 of you that say the same things. Fine mute me. I’ll see you post the same garbage on a different name.
Anyone with a pulse…
Are you kidding me? This is a joke, right?
More mindless mind readers.
I don’t really follow the angels much, but this is sort of a lateral move. Is it not?
We joke about it, but Sano will be back on the big league roster when Rendon will inevitably get hurt. It’s musical chairs.
It’s musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The Angels want to hang onto Anderson who is turning 35 when they can get two high end prospects? Taylor Ward is turning 31– he’s good, but replaceable and brings back a top prospect. Trade everyone you can not named Neto or O’Hoppe.
That’s an insult to the Titanic. They at least made it out into the ocean and hit an iceberg. This ship sunk at the pier with the ropes still tied to it.
I think you may be overvaluing Anderson and Ward here. Anderson is having a nice year but you’re not going to get two high end prospects for him. Maybe one, but not two. And there’s no way you’d get a top prospect for a guy who, in your own words, is replaceable. He’s a 1.4 WAR. He’s your average joe outfielder.
Hey dm, I believe an average Joe outfielder is a zero WAR. You’d gotta give Ward at least being a slightly better than ave. OF. Minimum.
How do you know what the Angels want to do.
Slightly off. Average player is 2.0 war. Replacement player is generally thought of as an average glove and 80ops+
That’ a Replacement player? 800 OPS+? An 800 OPS+ would be the greatest player whoever lived. You can’t even do that in a video game.
Rengifo’s OPS is exactly 800. His OPS+ is 123.
That’s a replacement player? I think you just arbitrarily picked a number.
@HaloFan11, rockiesmagicnumber probably changed their post because it doesn’t say 800 OPS+ anymore, it says 80.
Actually, it still does, But it reads 80ops+.
Players like Ward are not just replaceable. You can’t just go out and magically get a player like that. Thats why even good teams often have a chunk of young productive players they called up from their own system. Because they get the numbers with the ability to control those salaries. And if those teams have the money, and are willing to spend it, it’s to fill existing holes. Replaceable players are the ones at the bottom of the roster, or that starting player who just can’t get it together.
I agree Ryan.
Baller, all you need to know about the Angels is in this article.
They are activating a primadonna to play 4 games before his inevitable next injury and are DFA’ing a guy who should not have been on an MLB roster to begin with.
Speaking of nonMLB guys, the article mentions guys like Guillorme and Huira, who have no business collecting a MLB check.
To say this team is a dumpster fire would be wholly accurate and I would be happy to light the match.
@nukeg angels have plenty of those guys. Sano just came back he looked decent before his injury hard to justify Calhoun over him he can play first and third. I don’t want to see willie in the outfield. If they can trade pillar for a peanut vendor they can call up marisnick.
Nukeg saying Hiura doesn’t deserve a MLB paycheck is ridiculous. The man has a career 104 OPS+ and is still only 27. He deserves to be on a MLB roster. And it’s not like he fell off. He was an above average hitter last year and smashed AAA this year.
A1 day. Hyperbole on a message board?… say it ain’t so.
Many posters are incapable of making solid points, so they spice it up with hyperbole.
Just read the post below mine by remember the coop.
I’m sure Rendon will be back on the IL by the weekend.
or in the stands.
The weekend is a long ways away ! He’ll pull a hamstring walking into the clubhouse
I wonder which retread gets that roster spot in a few days when Rendon goes back on the IL?
Was wondering similarly. Do you think Sano makes it through dfa limbo in time to get picked back up or he still there when Rendon goes back on the IL?
Sano might as well accept that assignment. He’ll be back before you know it.
Rendon getting hurt, pulling a hamstring again, is a lot like death and taxes. Sano will be back filling in, in no time.
Accept the assignment and then wait at the team hotel for a few hours until his recall from the minors
Sano has never been able to hit for average and strikes out constantly. If he can revive his career at this point, he’ll be extremely fortunate.
@hopeful yeah I agree but he’s more valuable than Calhoun because he’s surprisingly a good defender. It’s pretty much like grasping at straws but he can play 1st and third, and willie would go unclaimed.
I can’t believe he’s still on the roster in July. I know he had a good spring and Wash wanted to set the precedent for rewarding hard work. But his at bats have been so ass this year
Hard work should’ve been applied to diet and conditioning
He actually wasn’t in bad shape just got hurt.
He was in the best shape I’d seen him in years at the start of the year. Like, since he was a rookie
@sodo hiura pushed him out since he’s been lighting up triple a. I would’ve got rid of Calhoun because you could’ve slid him back to minors possibly
Are you referring to former Yankees and Angels cleanup hitter, Willie Calhoun? Lol, still blows my mind
We need a third baseman for when Rendon goes on the dl. I give it 10 days.
IF he could have gotten enough at bats I think he had a real shot to break the single season strikeout record
Geez
Only 10 games back
I really think the angels can get a wild card or the division this year
Watch for a bunch of wins before all star game
Was it painful when you lost your sight or were you born this way?
Biggest issues with SANO has been not being able to go down dugout steps without becoming winded and being unable to fit through the door to the clubhouse. Although I do recall one story that recalled that he became stuck in the tunnel to the clubhouse..
I’d say that Sanyo’s career fell off of a cliff, but that wouldn’t quite get the idea across. Unless the cliff was in the Himalayas, maybe.
Sanyo was a good tv brand in the 90’s
Throwing a TV off of a Himalayan cliff would be fun to watch.
I said before the season started that Ron Washington was the worst manager in baseball. He was doing cocaine while managing the Rangers. That is completely unacceptable. Should have been banned from baseball. Looks like I was right again
“Worst manager in baseball”…Talk about exaggerations. Wash took the Rangers to back to back World Series appearances and came within a misplayed fly ball(in RF) of winning a World Series. He’s arguably the most coveted fielding coach in MLB and has been credited with reviving several careers, including the Rangers’ Marcus Semien. And lastly, Anaheim’s issues reside in the owner’s box, not the manager’s seat, hence the hiring of new managers on an almost yearly basis.
Butch Hobson fired as manager and never seen from in mlb again after busted with coke, Washington busted, less than handful of years later he’s back on the job and fans annointing him some kind of kingmaker ever since and that’s been going on for years.
Wonder what difference between Washington and Hobson.. Hmmm
@johnsilver its the same reasons why guys like Chapman, Jose Reyes, Domingo German, Julio Urias, etc. all got second chances but a former Cy Young award winner like Bauer still is without a job, who I’ll add was never found guilty of any crime
I applaud the consistency of your trash posts. I hope Drew Smith refrained from lube
“What difference between Washington and Hobson”…There are major “differences” between the cocaine cases of Ron Washington and Butch Hobson. One is that one was a criminal case(Hobson)and the other was more of a civil/administrative case “prosecuted” by MLB(Washington). Hobson got arrested and booked by the local Police and taken to jail whereas Washington failed an employer drug test and therefore faced only an administrative punishment(by his employer) but not a criminal one like Hobson. In the long run there’s a huge, huge difference between catching a criminal case versus catching an administrative or civil one.
Goodnight sweet prince.
Who, specifically, designated Miguel Sanó for assignment?
Another terrific find by Minasian and the boys in the Latin American scouting department. Of all the players in the Dominican Republic you sign a guy who’s so overweight he goes on a crash diet and then burns his knee from a heating pad….Actually he’s perfect for the Angels.
In the Angels trade deadline outlook thread i posted Sano would probably be DFA’d but i thought he’d at least make it to August 1st, let alone the end of the day
Rendon is on the 3-day playing list.
Sa nooooooo!
What a shocker!!? Lol. This isn’t surprising given that he’s been cold as “Sano” offensively this year
Everyone is talking about Rendon getting hurt. How about the fact that he can no longer hit? Seems the team is better with him on the IL.
I really wanted this guy to turn it around with the Angels. Would’ve been a steal. Thats what happens when you get hurt while already trying to bounce back from a major injury.