The Angels have defeated left-hander Reid Detmers in arbitration, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com. He’ll be paid at the team’s desired $2.625MM rate rather than his camp’s $2.925MM filing figure.
Detmers is coming off a strong season in which he worked as a full-time reliever. The former 10th overall pick tossed 63 2/3 innings of 3.96 ERA ball while striking out more than 30% of batters faced. He picked up his first three career saves but worked mostly in a leverage role in front of Kenley Jansen, collecting 13 holds in the process.
The season ended on a bit of a sour note, as Detmers was placed on the injured list in the middle of September with elbow inflammation. It’s not expected to impact him going into camp. He’ll build back up as a starter, the role he held for the first four seasons of his MLB career. Detmers has shown flashes out of the rotation but has been up and down, ultimately tallying a near-5.00 ERA over 75 career starts. He projects as the #3 arm in Kurt Suzuki’s rotation behind Yusei Kikuchi and José Soriano. The Angels are counting on a handful of reclamation types — arguably including Detmers considering he posted a 6.70 ERA in his most recent rotation work — to fill out the back of the staff. Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah are the favorites for the final two spots.
Detmers was the only Angel player to go to a hearing this year. His loss is just the second for the players out of nine cases that have been announced so far.
Cha ching! Arte showing the little guy who is the boss! That $300K will take the sting out of the TV contract losses.
Its wild that they don’t just settle in the middle for these. I guess teams wanna keep arb salaries down across the board. But still.
That’s exactly it.
Wow! Only the second win. This is less than normal.
Relievers are under valued by the arbitration system.
This is doubly worse for Detmers because they are converting him back into a starter.
Well relievers play 50-60 innings a year. Some players do that in a week.
We won’t be reading “The Angels have defeated…” much this year, ha ha.
This is worthy of a Main Street Disney Electrical Parade!!
Mainstreet Sports?
Good news is whatever you say the opposite happens. Last season you said the Angels would undoubtedly lose over 100 and that the Doyers would walk all over them.
The Angels announced their TV viewing options today on their website.
@dole. I was hoping they were going to victory+. Looks like they took the mlb deal to get half the money back. Atleast the check won’t bounce.
@Rex. YesSir
So much for the rumor about them starting their own RSN.
How you gonna lose an arbitration hearing to the Angels? Do better, man!