A’s Outright Angel Perdomo

The Athletics announced that Angel Perdomo cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Las Vegas. The southpaw has the right to elect free agency since this is his second career outright, though the team did not provide any indication that he plans to do so.

Perdomo was designated for assignment over the weekend. He’s out of minor league options, so the A’s needed to get him through waivers in order to send him to Triple-A. The A’s had grabbed him off waivers from the Angels, who’d DFA him before Opening Day. Perdomo struggled through four appearances, giving up four free passes (three walks and a hit batter) in 3 1/3 innings. He recorded two strikeouts and allowed a pair of runs.

This was Perdomo’s first major league work in a year and a half. The southpaw underwent Tommy John surgery in the second half of the 2023 season while a member of the Pirates. That led Pittsburgh to waive him at the end of the year. Perdomo landed with the Braves, who non-tendered him but brought him back on a major league contract to keep him on the injured list for all of 2024.

Atlanta gave Perdomo a look in Spring Training. He pitched eight times, running a pedestrian 6:4 strikeout-to-walk ratio over 8 1/3 innings. The Braves concluded that he wouldn’t break camp and traded him to the Angels. Perdomo pitched twice in Spring Training for the Halos before they decided not to carry him on the Opening Day roster either.

Before the elbow injury, Perdomo showed interesting ability to miss bats. He fanned more than 37% of opposing hitters with a 3.72 ERA over 29 innings for Pittsburgh two seasons ago. Perdomo has a career 34.2% strikeout rate at the major league level, though his effectiveness has been undercut by a 16% walk rate.