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Angels Outright José Quijada

By Darragh McDonald | August 5, 2025 at 4:00pm CDT

The Angels have sent left-hander José Quijada outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That indicates he cleared waivers after being designated for assignment last week.

Quijada, 29, has the right to elect free agency but it’s unlikely he will do so. Players with at least three years of service time have the right to reject outright assignments and head to the open market. But if they have less than five years, they have to forfeit any remaining salary commitments in order to exercise that right. Quijada is in that three-to-five-year window. He and the Angels avoided arbitration in the offseason by agreeing to a $1.075MM salary. There’s a little over $300K still to be paid out. Presumably, he’ll want to collect that money and will report to Salt Lake.

That sequence of events played out in March, leaving Quijada as non-roster depth for the Halos. He was selected back to the big league roster a week before the deadline. He made two scoreless appearances but was bumped back off the roster when the Angels acquired Andrew Chafin and Luis García from the Nationals.

Quijada now returns to the depth role he’s been in for most of this year. He had some good results for the Angels earlier in his career but missed most of the 2023 and 2024 seasons due to Tommy John surgery. This year, the Angels had him with the Double-A Trash Pandas prior to his promotion. He put up good numbers there, with a 2.73 earned run average in 26 1/3 innings. His 8.6% walk rate and 42.6% ground ball rate were both decent figures, while his 37.1% strikeout rate was quite strong.

He’ll now report to Salt Lake, which should be more of a challenge. In addition to simply being one level closer to the majors, the Bees play in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League. He’ll try to put up some good numbers there and position himself to be called back up when the Angels next need a fresh arm in the big leagues.

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  1. gold masters

    2 months ago

    He plays with a lot of enthusiasm. Remember Scott speziio 2002

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  2. gold masters

    2 months ago

    Spiezio

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    • HBan22

      2 months ago

      Spiezio was a mad man back in the day.

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  3. kellin

    2 months ago

    Ah yes. The badpen is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to relief pitchers the Angels can’t get rid of.

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