The Angels re-signed righty Shaun Anderson to a minor league deal (h/t to Matt Eddy of Baseball America). The MiLB.com transaction log indicates the deal was agreed upon shortly before the New Year.
Anderson is back in the organization after bouncing on and off the roster in 2025. He worked out of the rotation at Triple-A Salt Lake for the majority of the season. Anderson took the ball 24 times and tossed 116 2/3 innings of 6.02 ERA ball in the Pacific Coast League. He had a below-average 16.7% strikeout rate but generally avoided walks and did a decent job keeping the ball in the park in the minors.
The Halos called upon the 31-year-old a couple times when they needed an extra arm to work in long relief. Anderson made seven appearances over scattered MLB stints. He was tagged for six homers in 11 1/3 innings, allowing 13 runs in the process.
Anderson has pitched in the big leagues in six of the last seven years. He owns a 6.39 ERA over 163 1/3 frames. He spent the ’23 season in Korea as a member of the Kia Tigers and owns a 4.35 earned run average over parts of seven Triple-A campaigns. He’ll head back to Salt Lake as rotation depth.
Another great pickup Perry. You’re sure working time value money. You’re brilliant Perry. Now do us all a favor and quit before you get fired.
I think, along with the rest of the reclamation projects, he expects Maddux to work his magic and make Anderson a Jensen.
That being said, I’ve heard speculation that Perry won’t be out at the end of 2026. Let’s hope that’s not true, but at the same time, do we really want to wonder who the next GM will be?
GM’s almost never resign.
The money they saved on Rendon is being used to pay the Skagg’s settlement and the loss of their Fan Duel TV contract means they have to reduce payroll from last years total so they have no money to invest in the team period! They are 30M below last years payroll right now! We will lose over 100 games this year!
I think they’ll win the same or close to last years total. They signed Kirby Yates and another guy in the pen that I forgot his name to 1 year deals, so I think the pen wouldn’t be as bad as last year. They haven’t done much with the bats yet.
How many games they lose depends on how many injuries they have.
Under Minasian, they have already set the record for most losses, that record is once again in range.
Mainly because due to the 2nd half of 2024.
Oh gotta love Moronassian
I think with this signing the Angels are now I want 103 loss team
Disagree. While the team isn’t significantly better than last year, they’re also no where near that bad. It’s a minor league deal, and at best Anderson will have as much impact this year as he had last.
@kellin. Yeah it’s not bad. They got high contact guys, and the defense should be better. Now they need Bader or saurez. If you get Bader. trout can play left and the outfield defense is solid. If they get saurez he play second or third, and grissom can play left field.
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Anderson’s back after 21 starts for the Bees in 2023. He’s a known innings-eater a stabilizer a guy who can keep the lights on while the big club tries to pay the electric bill.
No cable deal. No big-league signings. No money for free agents. But hey the farm system’s got depth.
Perry Minasian: GM or Director of Player Development?
Perry’s free agent signings have been a disaster. His trades? Mixed bag at best. But when it comes to the draft, the man’s got an eye.
He doesn’t have much to work with no cable deal, no big payroll, no front office clarity. But give credit where it’s due:
Zach Neto. Nolan Schanuel. Caden Dana. And others.
That’s a foundation. That’s a future.
He flipped Brandon Marsh for Logan O’Hoppe a win.
He took a shot on Carlos Estévez, who gave them a solid first half.
He’s not building a contender, but he’s quietly building a farm system Arte never wanted.
Maybe Perry’s not the guy to run the show.
But he might be the guy you want running the lab.
Player development. Scouting. Draft room.
That’s where he’s earned his keep.
Eh, it’s been a bad strategy. Starting the MLB clocks on that core will lead to expensive salaries soon with no complement from a barren system. Same strategy for over 10 years: sign MLB lottery tickets who never come close to their ceiling. And Perry’s boast this year? “Well, we improved from 99 to 90 wins.”
Schanuel and Christian Anderson will probably never be expensive. By year six both coumd realistically be non-tender candidates.
O’Hoppe is a win? the guy with a .286 OBP and 3.1 bWAR in 311 games? Marsh achieved 3.1 bWAR in 2024 alone.
Schanuel? He’s James Loney v2 but at least Neto is actually a good player.
The org is hopeless under Moreno.
His pitching picks have been pretty terrible if you ask me.
ah yes, in his 6 years at the helm he’s quietly built the farm system up from 30th to 28th.
@klink. He hasn’t finished his 6th year. Either way who will take the gm job. The guy who makes Friedman coffee in the morning.
I’ll take that guy in a heartbeat. Look, I don’t dislike Perry- I’m well aware that his hand has been forced to constantly draft guys who are at or near major league ready, high floor low ceiling (Neto notwithstanding) since Arte refuses to embrace a rebuild. But even with that mandate, he still should have been able to bring the farm system up to at least top 15 in half a decade. It’s time for a change, plain and simple.
The MLB rankings are probably flawed, when the Angels had the most players taken of all 30 MLB teams in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft
@alexpulido. Also people talk about perry’s strategy on drafting. Most of the players he drafted get called up to the team after two weeks in the minors like schanuel or neto 2 months that would bump the rankings up. Also who cares about the rankings. how many top
10 players have the angels signed that busted out from different organizations.
You and I completely are in complete disagreement regarding both his trades and drafts.
At catching the Angels finished 29th in fWAR.
24th at first
28th at second
Dead last at 3rd
20th at short
LF 15th- traded and nothing to do with.
CF 19th – and nothing to do with
RF- 22nd
Minasian has no idea what he’s doing on any level.
It doesn’t really help that Arte is meddling too. Perry wanted to trade Ohtani in prior to the 2022 season for what I recall.
TUD. No it doesn’t help.
As I keep saying, it’s a two headed snake.
It is nothing but a minor league deal. But it is Shaun Anderson.
I dont care if Suarez is a mediocre defender, the dude just mashes homers to help replace wards power.
Never forgot him saving one of the games against the Dodgers last season on our way to our first of 2 sweeps against them. I don’t care what you want to say back to me but watching their fans crying to fire everyone like Eagles fans is always hilarious.
Who cares about what Perry or farte does. Angels are 4.3
That’s better than 2.1
Anderson ain’t that bad. What a phrase.
Forget hope, face facts, angels suck.
Looks to me like the angels farm system is okay, as a lot of the angel players are from within their system. Jack K, Dana, klassan, aldegheri, Mederos, etc THese guys can pitch.
Yeah.. no. Angels have been specializing in AAAA players since the days of Brandon Wood and Dallas MacPherson.
@bigA. Its still open for 3rd base and centerfield. Im hoping for Bader or saurez. Adding saurez replaces ward’s production. grissom could move to left field. Problem is I doubt the angels will spend and it looks like they been getting rid of swing and miss guys and focusing on high contact no power players.
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6 homeruns given up in 11 innings. Solid
Same strategy same results.
Just embrace the rebuild Angels!
So much angst for MiLB signing that adds stability to SLC‘s staff that will likely feature at least 2 pitchers with limited AAA experience.
fansincethe80s – you have me muted for some reason so here’s a question for your post: “So much angst for MiLB signing that adds stability to SLC‘s staff …”
Specifically how does Anderson add stability to Salt Lake, and more importantly the Angels?
I don’t have you muted, I can see your posts. Something’s up on your side.
This is a depth signing, Anderson can provide AAA innings in a tough pitching environment. If Anderson is brought up to the MLB, he’ll be a mop up guy/last one out of the bullpen.
This will allow Klassen/Urena and possibly Dana to stay in the minors and further learn how to pitch.
Definitely going to miss the postseason, yet again. The postseason drought is worse than the 1987-2001 years. I believe another issue is a quality player. Doesn’t wanna play here in Anaheim. Taylor Ward‘s gotta be so stoked about getting out of Anaheim and the pitcher they got in can only have a good attitude need to pitch well so I can get a good contract and get myself the hell out.
I agree no one want to come to Anaheim. Not unless they’re getting paid way more than they’re worth. That’s been the pattern the last few years overpay guys who are past their prime
But players today want more than money. They want to win. They want to play in October. And right now, the Angels aren’t offering that.
Arte’s gutted the team. No direction, no plan. Just quick signings, castoffs from other teams, and a hope that something sticks. It’s not a rebuild. It’s not a reset. It’s just noise.
RHP Aneurys Zabala signs a minor league deal with the Halos.
I like this move.
Zabala’s a pitcher who reinvented himself in Japan two seasons with the Nippon Ham Fighters, refining the chaos, finding command. Once a Marlin, now back stateside with a fresh edge and something to prove.
Big arm. New mindset. Low risk, high reward.
@JB Yes, seems like a low risk flier for a big arm. The rotation and bullpen seems like a lot of question marks. A lot of players that have had success in the league, but not necessarily recently.
They still haven’t addressed the two biggest holes heading into the off season, 3rd base and CF. It looks like Rada and Grissom are the answers.
Arte seems to be signing a lot of 1 year deals. I don’t know if he is planing to sell the team or if he just wants to see if there is a lockout next December.
How the family of Rio Foster speaks of the Angels Organization will speak volumes of the Ownership and Management. Regardless of what we do for a living there are things more important in life.
Do the right thing for the right reasons.
The Angels just led all of MLB in losing players.
Us being ranked as the worst farm system other teams saw value I find this so unfair. The worst team in baseball gets rated of their prospects
Seven Halos were snatched in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 Draft — the most of any team. That’s not a typo. While MLB rankings keep calling the Angels’ farm system “bottom tier,” rival front offices clearly saw value where the rankings didn’t.
Here’s who got poached:
• Nick Jones (LHP) → Royals
• Jake Madden (RHP) → Pirates
• Mason Erla (RHP) → Nationals
• Coleman Crow (RHP) → Mets
• Eric Torres (LHP) → Giants
• Werner Blakely (INF) → Rays
• D’Shawn Knowles (OF) → Guardians
So either:
1. The Angels are sitting on underrated depth, or
2. They just let seven usable arms and bats walk for free.