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Angels Sign Jose Ureña, Place Tyler Anderson On Injured List

By Nick Deeds | August 31, 2025 at 12:16pm CDT

The Angels announced this afternoon that they’ve signed right-hander Jose Ureña to a major league contract. He’ll take the active roster spot of left-hander Tyler Anderson, who is headed to the 15-day injured list with a left oblique strain. A timeline for Anderson’s return to action is not yet available, but Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register suggests that the injury is “likely” to end Anderson’s 2025 season.

Urena, 34 in September, has appeared in parts of 11 seasons in the majors. He began his career as a member of the Marlins and mostly pitched in a swing role to below average results, though he did manage to post a solid 3.90 ERA (100 ERA+) in 343 2/3 innings of work from 2017 to 2018. Since departing the Marlins following the shortened 2020 season, Urena has bounced around the league as a mostly below-average depth option primarily used on non-contending teams, with a 5.04 ERA (85 ERA+) and a nearly-matching 5.11 FIP across the past five seasons while suiting up for the Tigers, White Sox, Rockies, Brewers, Rangers, Mets, Blue Jays, Dodgers, and Twins.

He has looked better than that in recent years, however. Urena pitched mostly in multi-inning relief for the Rangers last year and turned in a perfectly solid 3.80 ERA despite a 4.62 FIP, with even better results when pitching out of the bullpen as opposed to starting. Urena’s work in 2025 is skewed by a single outing with the Mets where he surrendered five runs in three innings of multi-inning relief work, but his 5.00 ERA on the season drops to 4.08 when looking at his work out of the bullpen and 4.09 when looking at his work after leaving New York.

Perhaps unfortunately for Urena, it seems as though the Angels have designs on placing him in their rotation to replace Anderson. The 35-year-old lefty is a veteran of 10 MLB seasons at this point and has generally been a back-of-the-rotation arm throughout his career. He’s spent each of the past three years with the Angels, and while he pitched well enough in 2024 to be named an All-Star his 4.53 ERA and 5.02 FIP in 456 2/3 innings of work for the club have generally been lackluster. It’s been more of the same this year, with a 4.56 ERA and a 5.58 FIP in 26 starts.

Even while starting, Urena should be able to post production that rivals those mediocre numbers. Urena will be joined by Jose Soriano, Yusei Kikuchi, and Kyle Hendricks in Anaheim’s rotation, with Chase Silseth also in the mix as a long relief arm who could serve as a bulk starter in bullpen games. Outside of that group, it’s possible the Angels could look to someone like Caden Dana or Sam Bachman in the minor leagues to help fill out the rotation down the stretch, particularly if they ultimately decide to have Urena join Silseth in the bullpen.

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17 Comments

  1. mikevm3

    2 months ago

    He’s gonna tie Oliver Drake and Mike Baumann’s record

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    • GONEcarlo

      2 months ago

      Decent shot at taking on Edwin Jackson’s career teams record too

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    • nukeg

      2 months ago

      Becoming an Immaculate Grid legend

      Reply
  2. Dorkus Malorkus (3768902)

    2 months ago

    Erroneous Urena linked in post.

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    • kellin

      2 months ago

      I wonder how that mistake can be made because when you put Jose Urena in BR’s search, only the correct name comes up, not the one currently linked..

      Reply
      • Farting on Reagan’s Corpse

        2 months ago

        The writer didn’t add the accent or the tilde on his name, so it matched the only player with that exact spelling. Just laziness.

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        • kellin

          2 months ago

          I didn’t add an accent, either, and still got the correct person.

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        • Farting on Reagan’s Corpse

          2 months ago

          You typed it into bbref, didn’t use their tool to add hyperlinks. And when you search bbref it doesn’t take you directly to him. When you search it just gives the drop down as the only major league player, pressing search takes you to all of them.

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  3. orange2001

    2 months ago

    Was Marcus Stroman or Andrew Heaney not available?

    Reply
  4. GOP Lizards

    2 months ago

    Just so lacking organizational talent.

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  5. gold masters

    2 months ago

    Urena will come up big, by winning a couple of starts .

    Reply
  6. Rsox

    2 months ago

    Just what Montgomery needs; a narrow Urena…

    Reply
  7. prov356

    2 months ago

    Urena will get one win to end 2025 and the Angels will assume that’s his new normal. They’ll extend him for 3 years and crazy money and say pitching is important to them. Then they’ll give him the honor of starting game one in 2026, he’ll be DFA’d by the ASB, and we’ll be on the hook for the remaining 2.5 years of his salary.

    Reply
  8. ShootyBabbit

    2 months ago

    Likely the end of TA in Anaheim-FA after season

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    • nukeg

      2 months ago

      Many prayers would be answered.

      Reply
  9. RonTingley

    2 months ago

    Should have traded Anderson after he made the all star team. Now he walks for nada

    Reply
    • GOP Lizards

      2 months ago

      feeling is probably mutual.

      Reply

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