The Angels have agreed to a minor league contract with left-handed reliever Sammy Peralta, per the team’s transaction log at MLB.com. He’d been pitching with El Aguila de Veracruz in the Mexican League and will head to Triple-A Salt Lake for the time being. He’s represented by Premier Talent Sports & Entertainment.
Peralta, 27, has spent the majority of his career in the White Sox system. He reached the majors in both 2023 and 2024, logging a combined 35 innings of 4.37 ERA ball with a 17.9% strikeout rate, 11.1% walk rate and 41.7% ground-ball rate. The soft-tossing southpaw has averaged just 89.3 mph on his four-seamer in the majors and complements that pitch with a slider sitting just north of 78 mph and a changeup that averages just under 82 mph.
Peralta opened the 2025 season with a strong showing in an intensely hitter-friendly setting in Mexico — interestingly doing so as a starting pitcher. The 6’2″ lefty has spent nearly his entire professional career as a reliever but started four games with Veracruz and notched a 2.53 ERA with a 22-to-2 K/BB ratio in 21 1/3 innings (26.5 K%, 2.4 BB%). All 25 of Peralta’s major league appearances have been relief outings, and only nine of his 150 minor league games have been starts. He’d never pitched more than four innings in a single professional appearance prior to signing in Mexico.
It’s not yet clear which role Peralta will hold with the Halos. I’m told he stretched out in Mexico not necessarily due to a preference to move to a starting role but just to expand his versatility. Angels starters rank 19th in the majors with a 3.99 ERA, though both Jack Kochanowicz (4.71 ERA) and Kyle Hendricks (5.32 ERA) have struggled in nine starts apiece. The Angels’ bullpen is dead last in the majors with a 6.82 ERA, and they recently lost Ben Joyce to season-ending shoulder surgery. Peralta posted a 4.44 ERA in 50 2/3 relief innings at the Triple-A level in 2025 and carries a career 4.80 earned run average, 21.1% strikeout rate and 8.8% walk rate in 125 2/3 innings at the top minor league level.
Who?
Sammy Peralta, MLB player who has played for the White Sox and was drafted out of the University of Tampa in 2019.
How about you? Who are you?
University in Tampa? Did they mean Carabas?
Im me, who are you?
When you have no actual depth you do things like this.
Thought that all pitchers draft was supposed to help?
@kellin. They traded most of them for grichuk,moustakas,Cron, and giolito. Some retired. The rest apparently suck.
It should’ve. I’m still shocked Luke Murphy didn’t become a bullpen stud.
Then again, the Angels player development sucks.
@halosheavenjj. That’s why i want them to sell off. Problem is they don’t really have anyone with value. Maybe Tyler Anderson, kenley, ward, and rengifo. They can wait out free agency and just grab guys that couldn’t find homes.
If you playing, you winning.
After Christian Moore hits 2 two run homers in the same game, for the 2025 angels, then you will know that they will win the 2025 ring. No pressure, there Christian, it’s either you or kyren Paris, to fulfill this dream. if kyren hits two, two run homers, in the same game, this year, then you will know that the 2024 dream, “remember the titans” will come true.
Note: last years remember the titans dream interpretation: Washington has united the team, and they will win it all.
This dream refers to the movie with Denzel Washington.
Note: remember the. 02 angels, where every other game there was a Moncada.
Was this some sort of fever dream? I didn’t quite follow..
I get all my Peraltas confused for some reason. Seems to be a lot of them in and out of baseball. Maybe I need a visual graphic for my wall.
Dream number one: remember the titans
Dream number two: a rookie will hit two, two run homers in one game
Both dreams during 2024+spring training