The Angels announced that they have claimed right-hander Osvaldo Bido off waivers from the Marlins. Miami had designated Bido for assignment last week when they acquired Bradley Blalock from the Rockies. The Halos have an open 40-man roster spot for this claim but their agreement with infielder Yoán Moncada is not yet official. By filling up their last 40-man spot today, they will now have to make a corresponding move whenever Moncada’s deal does become official.
Bido, 30, seems to fall into an unfortunate fringe roster position where several teams like him but not enough to hold a roster position for very long. He has worked as an up-and-down swingman in recent years with some encouraging results at times. However, he is now out of options. He ended 2025 with the Athletics but has since gone to Atlanta, Tampa, Miami and now Anaheim via waiver claims.
It seems likely that several different teams would like to pass him through waivers unclaimed, which would allow them to have him in the minors as non-roster depth. He has never been outrighted in his career and has less than three years of service time, so he wouldn’t have the right to elect free agency if he were eventually outrighted.
Bido’s best showing in the major leagues thus far came in 2024. He gave the A’s 63 1/3 innings over nine starts and seven relief appearances, allowing 3.41 earned runs per nine. He struck out 24.3% of batters faced and gave out walks at a 10% clip. His fly ball rate was on the high side but that worked well while the A’s were still playing in Oakland and the pitcher-friendly confines of the Coliseum.
The club moved to a minor league park in 2025, which seemed to significantly hurt Bido’s results. He had only allowed three home runs in 2024 but then allowed 19 in 2025, in a slightly larger sample size of 79 2/3 innings. His strikeout rate also dropped a bit to 18.7%. The result was a 5.87 ERA, which presumably helped launch him into the DFA carousel this winter.
Perhaps he will find himself on waivers yet again but he has a spot with the Angels for now. The Halos have a decent amount of question marks in their rotation. Yusei Kikuchi and José Soriano should be in two spots but there’s not much certainty beyond those two. Reid Detmers is going to get another chance but was in relief last year. Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah will be looking to bounce back from injury absences. Caden Dana, Sam Aldegheri, Jack Kochanowicz and various others are on the roster but could be kept in the minors as depth.
The bullpen is also fairly open. Four spots are likely taken by Robert Stephenson, Drew Pomeranz, Jordan Romano and Kirby Yates. That still leaves four spots for other arms. Chase Silseth is out of options and could have one. Guys like Ryan Zeferjahn, José Fermín, Sam Bachman and Cody Laweryson will be in the mix but have options.
If Bido hangs onto his roster spot with the Angels, there should be opportunities, especially since he has experience both starting and relieving. If he still has a roster spot at season’s end, he can be retained for future seasons via arbitration.
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Keep piling them up. They are much better than no pitchers!
But how many 5th starter types does one organization need?
I think of Bido as more of a reliever than a SP
The weekly Osvaldo Bido article appears
Seeing as they seem to have an 80 man roster, why not?
Oh goodie , another reclamation project for Perry
Gonna assume its Wade Meckler that’s gonna get DFA’d.
@kellin. Can’t they just send someone else down with options, but this is stashing season.
If you are on the 26 man roster, you can be sent down to the 40 man if you have options. When it comes to the 40 man roster, there is nowhere to be sent down to. Someone has to be removed.
The 26/40 man roster thing will never make sense to me.
I only made the comment because the article said a “corresponding move” will have to be made. Meckler made the most sense because he was the most recently acquired via waivers.
Pretty simple, and I’ll try not to confuse this any further. The Major League roster can only have 26 players on it. 26 man team, under normal circumstances 13 pitchers and 13 position players. The 14 other players that compose the 40 man roster are players that can be added or taken away from the roster at any point due to performance or injuries. (If they have options) So, say if a player gets hurt and has to go on the IL, he has to be replaced by a minor league player that is on the 40 man roster. Players that have less than 3 years of service time are optionable, so they can be optioned to and from the 26 man roster in case of injuries or poor performance. So say there’s a top prospect that gets called up from the 40 man to the 26, and he struggles, he can be optioned back to the minor leagues and to the 40 man. So there are basically 14 players from the minor leagues that a team can choosen from. In the case of Bido, he’s been added to the 40 man roster, so in order to make room for him, another player from the 40 man roster has to be removed, or designated for assignment(DFA). If Bido has options, he can be optioned to the minor leagues when the 26 man rosters are set. If he does not have options, he’ll have to be added to the 26. If a player is DFA’d he goes to the waiver wire. If not claimed by another team, he can be outrighted to the minor leagues and removed from the 40 man. Michael Siani, another player that has been DFA’d now 4 times this year is an example. Teams add him to the 40 man, then DFA him in hopes that another team won’t claim him, so that they can outright him to the minors for roster depth, without giving him that 40 man spot.
where’s Peter Gabriel when we need him? Bido! Bido!
Very good chance I’m the only one here who gets that but well done anyways!
I don’t remember, I don’t recall that reference.
Biko! Biko! Knew the reference immediately. Peter Gabriel is one of the most interesting and original musicians ever. Many people don’t know that Phil Collins replaced him as the singer for Genesis back when they were considered Prog.
Ha, I get the reference too! A song off my favorite Peter Gabriel album.
As an A’s fan, I remember Bido being quite decent in 2024, so this seems a low risk move by the Halos.
He was good in 2024.
This years Diego Castillo.
Angels bid 1, Marlins bid 0. Bido adieu
Embarrassing once again Angels!
What if the angels pitch this year like the rangers did last year. With maddux there, this could happen. Remember the 02 angels. Who ever heard of Ben Weber. Who ever heard of denzer Guzman. Maybe, just for fun, the angels win 89 games and enter the tournament. All a fan wants is one playoff win at home, with thunder sticks, and silly rally monkey. Kirby Yates can be nails. Madrigal makes contact. Sandlin can strike hitters out. I love what Perry has done this winter. Grayson Rodriguez with a first quality start sets the pace. Aldegerhi can pitch. Jack k, can pitch. Dana can pitch. Klassan can pitch
I wanna see if Monah can make it back
Worth a shot. It’s not like our bullpen is the Nasty Boys or our rotation is the 90s Braves.
Just wish a team that is obviously cutting payroll and not going to compete would do a full tear down and make a path to a better future rather than make this half assed attempt.
If you aren’t going to build around Soriano, Detmers, and Adell trade them for players who can be part of a new core.
How old do you think Adell is? We deserve to see him rake. For a long time he was a laughing stock by most fans of the game, especially Angels fans. He was promoted way too early and his confidence was clearly shaken. I how he hits at least 45-50 homes this year. I think he is one strongest players in the game. When he squares up a pitch he hits no-brainers. Key 2025 Statcast Metrics & Rankings:
Average Exit Velocity: 93.3 mph (89th percentile)
Barrel Percentage: 95th percentile
Expected Batting Average (xBA): .281
Competitive Swings: 90.3% (Ranked 4th in MLB)
Adell is two years from free agency. The Angels won’t be good for longer than that. Letting him play out those two years gets the team no closer to winning.
However, for the reasons you stated, he had trade value and could bring back pieces who can help longer term.
The Angels won’t win again until they have a talent pipeline. Trades are a great way to build that pipeline.
I have very very low expectations for this year. Hope I’m wrong!
I hope you’re spot on. If there’s any magic that leads to success they’ll congratulate themselves and continue down the path of attempting to turn trash to treasure.
The latest article on the MLB Angels site sums up Moreno’s intentions for 2026:
“Angels have internal options to fill out 2026 rotation”
Winning begins and ends with pitching. The pitching staff as it sits today will not get this club to the playoffs.
The pitching staff as it stands today will not get the team to 70 wins.
That is likely true. I don’t think this off season moved the team to more wins in 2026. Especially with Detmers as part of the rotation again. We haven’t improved team batting average at all, which was a miserable .228. And we lost our closer. I predict maybe 70 wins.
@prov We both know that the Angel’s haven’t had a playoff contenders pitching staff in roughly 10 years. I believe the GMs hands have been tied for the most part when it comes to pitching, though I could be wrong. You’re right though, you can see the hopes and prayers on the deals that have been made so far and what we have right now likelywont pan out. I think that we are simply trying to acquire trade currency.
Mad Man Perry is stocking up arms to go to war.
Macrio Luciano and Osvaldo Bido going into each team these last fee weeks
“Bido, 30, seems to fall into an unfortunate fringe roster position where several teams like him but not enough to hold a roster position for very long”
Perfect fit for the AAAA Angels.
I suspect on Opening Day. Perry will don his General Patton uniform. Climb on the rock formation in center field at Angel Stadium and give a rousing speech that will have Major Suzuki and the troops clawing and scratching for their 2nd World Championship.
Take no prisoners Men, Don’t strike out looking. Take that extra base. Play every game, every inning every pitch like it’s your last. And I guarantee that World Series Trophy will be in its rightful place. Not in the arms of our enemies, but in the bowels of Angel Stadium not Dodger Stadium.. Now if you excuse me, I have a date with a bar stool at the Kit Kat Club
That made me literally laugh out loud.
Inspiring! Makes me want to don my uniform (Mike Trout all star jersey) and then run through walls.
For most guys on this roster it is the last
The Osvaldo Bido winter waiver tour continues
More dumpster diving. Skaggs settlement has emptied Arte’s wallet. Until he or his heirs sell the team, we can expect more of the same.
No, the settlement was covered by insurance. This year’s excuse is the TV contract. I’d have to look up what the excuses for dumpster diving were going back to the DiPoto era.
Arte was spending$$$$$ in the Dipoto era
Hunter
Pujols
Haren
Hamilton
C J Wilson
Arte did open up his pocketbook if he though a move had PR value. Then he wouldn’t eat the stupid signings when they went bust…..Pujols, Blanton, Hamilton, etc.
But, be honest now…..how many “throw ’em at the wall and see what sticks” moves did DiPoto make to try and build a balanced team around Arte’s big-name moves and stay within Arte’s stupidly rigid budgets? There were times that it seemed like DiPoto was trying to set a record number of transactions.
No, it wasn’t. They are never covered completely by insurance and in cases like this that involve wrongful death allegations the settlements themselves are almost never covered.
I have run a large project construction company for going on 35 years now and because of the size of projects we work on that run in the hundreds of millions typically, we contractually obligated to have the maximum liability insurance available. Not just the minimum. We carry general liability for bodily injury at $5 million per occurrence and $20 million aggregate because we often deal with hazmat, professional liability at $1 million for things like delays and equipment losses, and the policy will normally cover up to 80% of any settlement up to those amounts depending on whether its bodily injury or professional liability.
Over the years we have had multiple cases where we have been sued, a few that have involved loss of life. Normally we have settled because that is generally cheaper even if you are in the right. We have never recouped 100% of our costs. Not once.
In a wrongful death suit with a payout of $90-100 million its possible that his insurance coverage paid him $5 million which did not even cover his attorney’s fees. Arte is cheap. There is very little chance that he was carrying as much liability insurance as we do.
The Angels have not lost any money on TV yet and have already announced they will be available on all the same carriers as before. Spectrum, Cox, DIRECTV, and ATT U-verse will all be carrying the games in 2026 just like they were in 2025. Advertising costs have increased, so that means the Angels may be making more money because Fan Duel Sports Network will not be taking a cut.
This new dumpster diving is 100% because of the beating Arte took in the Skaggs case.
I thought Angels and several other teams have severed ties with Fan Duel? Their were reports ESPN would step in to assist in carrying the games.
The Angels did sever the contract with FanDuel because they were missing payments and MLB will step in to broadcast the games in 2026. MLB has already negotiated deals with all the same carriers as last season.
I think that revenue from those sources may not be as steady as they were before, but they may make more money. Look at teams like San Diego and Arizona that lost theirs and increased spending. Team will not do that if they are losing money on TV.
outinleftfield: “They are never covered completely by insurance and in cases like this that involve wrongful death allegations the settlements themselves are almost never covered.”
Sam Blum reported the following in the Athletic (Dec 19th, 2025): ….the jury had already determined liability against the Angels, and were at least considering punitive damages, which would not have been covered by insurance. Insurance companies covering the Angels began authorizing settlement payments on Thursday, said sources familiar, though it’s unclear how much of the deal is covered.
So, sorry….you are being misleading at best and just flat out wrong at worst.
Wrong. Even blum was not stupid enough to claim that insurance paid it. As I said, insurance paid a small amount, with the maximum in a single case being 80% of a policy that may have been as large as $5-10 million. If you think that Arte paid a GLI policy of greater than that when all he was required to carry was $2 million, you are being totally ignorant of the way he has proven to do business.
You are guessing and using unverifiable guesses to assume that Insurance didn’t pay a significant part of the settlement…..even though others with more knowledge have reported otherwise.
Pretty misleading or even just wrong.
@Outfield-Insurance paid the Skaggs settlement .
See my comment above. It most certainly did not pay it.
See my response to outinleftfield’s comment above. Insurance certainly did pay it, although the amount in unclear.
As I said, insurance paid a minimal amount on a $90-100 million settlement.
I actually deal with large insurance policies. You and Blum obviously do not. Even Blum admits he didn’t know how much was paid by insurance but you keep claiming you do.
Top 5 Osvaldo of all time?
I did do some research on the newest Angels player claimed 30 year-old Osvaldo Bido most likely a Swingman long man in the bullpen spot starter
Let’s hope Bido bring some heat to Tempe.
Fastball sits mid-90s, with a slider with some bite and a changeup that keeps hitters honest.
Role? long man, mop-up duty, or emergency starter if the rotation hits a snag.
Pros: Durable arm, funky delivery, flashes of swing-and-miss stuff.
Cons: Command can wander, and he’s been hittable when he misses spots.
2025 with the A’s: 5.87 ERA, he’s brings depth play the change of might do him some good with our pitching coach Maddox
Today, as you mention, Osvaldo Bido was claimed off waivers (from the Marlins) by the Angels. And now you might ask why this move is so important in the scheme of fantasy or even real baseball? After all, save a couple decent months in ’24, Bido has been a fungible pitcher who causes more damage to a fantasy staff than actual value. He ended 2025 with the A’s but has since gone to Atlanta, Tampa, Miami and now Anaheim via waiver claims. When the Yoan Moncada deal becomes official as you touched on, perhaps he will find himself on waivers yet again in search of his 6th team this offseason. Former top prospect Marco Luciano is another player making the rounds since the end of ’25. He was with the Yankees for the last four days. Since the end of the 2025 season, Luciano has also been on the Giants, Pirates, and Orioles.
Piling more trash
Perry getting every piece of merch he can out of the bargain bin Groupon he had burning a hole in his pocket since the offseason started.
Just waiting for soccerref to copy and paste his one long post with green check marks. Honestly surprised I’m beating him to this article
I’m jealous of the checkmark making ability.
I think he has windows98 to thank for that
I have it ready to go. This move is so pathetic it is not worth adding
Understood 🫡
Yeah, the one who said that Okamoto was sign by a team worse than the Angels.
As far as the franchise has fallen apart, the Angels might as well reclaim the name California Angels.
Arte Moreno’s latest move? Renovating the Big A on a fresh coat of paint but now Anaheim city officials are stepping in. City Manager Jim Vanderpool confirmed they’ve finally completed a full stadium evaluation something the Angels had blocked for years and are now “reviewing the results to determine the stadium’s future.”
Translation: even the city doesn’t trust Arte’s blueprint anymore.
The cracks aren’t just in the concrete they’re in the foundation of this franchise. From payroll to player development to public trust, it’s all unraveling.
At this point, it’s time to drop the “Los Angeles” charade and bring back the California Angels but only with a new owner who actually gives a damn about the team, the fans, and the future.