The Angels designated lefty reliever José Quijada for assignment. That’s a corresponding move for the now official acquisition of relievers Andrew Chafin and Luis García from the Nationals. Lefty Jake Eder, one of two players headed back to Washington, was already on the 40-man roster. The Angels only needed to create one opening as a result.
Quijada’s contract was just selected last week. He made two scoreless appearances, striking out three batters in an inning and a third. The 29-year-old southpaw had been designated for assignment at the end of Spring Training. He cleared outright waivers and has spent the majority of the season at Double-A Rocket City. Quijada turned in a 2.73 earned run average through 26 1/3 innings while striking out 37.1% of batters faced at that level. That earned him another brief stint in the big league bullpen, but he’s been pushed off by today’s pair of veterans.
The Angels can technically try to trade Quijada until tomorrow evening. The likelier outcome is that he’ll just go back on outright waivers. He’s playing on a $1.075MM arbitration salary that checks in a little above the MLB minimum. Quijada would need to forfeit that salary to elect free agency, so he’d likely accept another minor league assignment if he clears waivers.
That likely means they are out on Suarez. I don’t see how Hayes impacts the offense in a positive way. I am sure Suarez was too costly and also too risky with his recent injury. Maybe they can still trade for an outfielder.
Obviously meant for the Hayes thread, but the Reds need an outfielder and the Angels have Taylor Ward. I think it would benefit both sides.
But but but who’s going to do the karate leg kick while staring down the batter? …mind you after he just gave up a 3 run home run…
Hansel Robles.
Damn, I love this guy even if he forgets how to pitch every 3 appearnces.
Wonder if the Quijada experiment is over or if he’ll just end up back in the Angel’s minors system.
I think someone picks him up. He was setting up or closing out games prior to his injury, and he’s look decent for Rocket City.
Anybody else think of the Simpson’s scrabble episode “Quijeebo” when seeing this guys name