TODAY: Suzuki told reporters (including Jack Janes) today that Rodriguez will indeed be placed on the IL. This sets Kochanowicz and Johnson up as rotation members, and Walbert Urena will also make the team in a long relief role. The 22-year-old Urena will be making his big league debut whenever he makes his first appearance for the Halos.
MARCH 19: Angels right-hander Grayson Rodriguez may begin the season on the injured list. Manager Kurt Suzuki told reporters, including Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register and Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com, that Rodriguez has a “dead arm” and will be slowed down. With Opening Day now just a week away, that makes it possible Rodriguez starts the season on the 15-day injured list, depending on how things progress in the coming days.
At this point, it doesn’t appear to be a major issue. Rodriguez isn’t even being shut down, with Fletcher noting that he still threw today, but it’s concerning nonetheless. Injuries have been in the spotlight for Rodriguez in recent years. He made 43 starts for the Orioles in 2023 and the first half of the 2024 season. He hasn’t made an official start since July of 2024, primarily due to shoulder issues.
He underwent elbow debridement surgery in August of last year. He was flipped to the Angels early this offseason in a one-for-one-trade for outfielder Taylor Ward. After that deal, Rodriguez spoke about his health and seemed optimistic. He said that he had been dealing with bone spurs in his elbow for three or four years. He believed this was adding stress to his shoulder and causing his numerous problems with that part of his arm.
For Rodriguez to now be dealing with arm problems once again is less than ideal. Perhaps it will remain a fairly minor issue but the Angels don’t have a lot of margin for error. They came into camp with a rotation projected to include José Soriano, Yusei Kikuchi, Reid Detmers, Alek Manoah and Rodriguez. Soriano and Kikuchi are fine but the group is fairly questionable after that.
Detmers had a 3.96 ERA in relief last year but a 6.70 ERA as a starter the year prior. He has a 7.27 ERA in spring training so far. Like Rodriguez, Manoah is looking to bounce back after a lengthy injury absence, but he has a 9.39 ERA this spring.
If Manoah gets optioned or Rodriguez needs to spend some time on the IL, that could open a spot for Jack Kochanowicz. He’s having a good spring but posted a 6.81 ERA in the big leagues last year. Fletcher suggested yesterday that Ryan Johnson has a chance to earn a spot, getting an aggressive Opening Day nod yet again. The Angels gave him a spot in their bullpen to begin last season even though he hadn’t yet played a game as a professional. He posted a 7.36 ERA through early May, at which point he was optioned down to High-A.
It’s worth reiterating that there’s still nothing to indicate Rodriguez is dealing with any kind of major issue. He may still avoid the IL if he feels better in the coming days. Even if he lands on the shelf, Opening Day IL stints can be backdated three days, so he could be back in less than two weeks.
But the Angels are going into a season where they hope to contend but need a lot of things to go right in order to that to be possible. They went 72-90 last year and didn’t make strong moves to upgrade the roster this winter. The Playoff Odds at FanGraphs give them just a 4.9% chance of cracking the postseason. The PECOTA Standings at Baseball Prospectus are even more pessimistic, giving the Halos just a 0.1% chance.
A minor setback for a club’s fourth starter wouldn’t always be a cause for worry but it looms larger for the Angels than with other clubs since any setback can further diminish already-slim those odds.
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Shocker.
Considering he was injured for huge chunks of both of the 2023 and 2024 seasons and didn’t play in the majors at all last season this was expected by almost everyone.
check the batteries in your sarcasm detector Web
Sarcasm or irony?
Yes, ha ha.
Oh my goodness. Really?
As long as hot dogs are cheap and the drinks are cold, apparently I don’t care. This philosophy is the same as Costco. Arte has paralleled the business strategy of a store that sells tampons in bulk.
Not a major issue? hes ailing and has a history. And a dead arm in March.
Elias didn’t trade G-Rod for a season of Ward without knowing that he’s all but done, or at the very least, has a microscopic chance of ever fulfilling his potential.
Bone spurs. Apparently the kid felt the best he’s felt in years this spring.
If it’s just arm fatigue from lack of use, he won’t be out very long. If it’s more, then there should be concern. And, actually, if it’s a typical Angels feint, we’ll know by next weekend because the decision will be made that he needs TJS.
What else is new
“But the Angels are going into a season where they hope to contend but need a lot of things to go right in order for that to be possible.”
I guess the comment above is accurate, but feel like its a colossal understatement to say the Angels need a lot of things to go right to contend.
This seems to be the case every season.
Lately,yes. But not when Minasian took over this team.
Halo – We have all been talking about this same thing long before Minasian became GM.
No, we were not. At least I wasn’t.
@angels. My magic 8 ball said yes when I said they will win the world series. Definitely not a surprise already losing before the season started, maybe sign tyler Anderson on a one year deal doesn’t have to move.
They need to overhaul everything from Moreno on down.
It’s too bad MLB can’t relegate teams.
Its too bad MLB can’t fire team owners. Moreno is a disgrace.
MLB did take away the Dodgers from McCourt and his wife. but that’s because they were taking money and buying houses with it and not putting money back into the team.
And fans lol
@dole. No fans it’s soccer mom’s, and kids.
Do the Angels have access to the internet? Deeply confused franchise.
Pitiful that the AL teams representing the second and third biggest media markets (Angels and White Sox) are non-competitive embarrassments.
Chicago is 4th behind NY, LA of A, and Toronto in the AL, population wise.
Houston is bigger than Toronto
Media market size does not = population.
Look up Nielsen DMA Rankings to see the number of TV households in each market.
Even if you are talking only about population, Chicagoland at 9.4 million has a much higher population than metro Toronto at 7.1 million or metro Houston at 7.8 million. Dallas is bigger than either Houston or Toronto at 8.3 million
Every single comment so far was what I came here to see!
They’ll never let us down!
Where are the people saying G-Rod was a “good pickup”
“Where are the people..’good pickup’..”..I believe those “people” were always in Baltimore.
You will eat those words. He has been out for 1.5 years. He will be back. God awful trade for O’s.
You’re writing him because of a dead arm period, which probably affects 20% of the pitchers? I was shocked he was this close.
He has a dead arm. Not in September after 25 starts. Not even in May when he may have pitched 22 innings in the last 3 starts. In March, when he hasn’t even ramped up to a starter’s workload. Oh…after not pitching since July 2024.
Yeah, great pickup.
Dead arm is much more likely to happen during ramp up in camp than during the regular season. Its normal and we see news of it every spring. It requires rest and it means that the pitcher has to reset their build up to throwing 90-100 pitches so they can make starts in regular season games.
The Angels are saying that his velocity dropped in a bullpen subsequent to his last spring outing and this is precautionary. I didn’t look at that start to see if it dropped during the game too. With his injury history I thought that it was almost a certainty that we would see something happen to his arm during the year.
It was a bad trade because the Angels gave up a player at a position of need to get a serious question mark. I think it was about money. Ward will make far more than Rodriguez.
Web’s – he’d only pitched 12.2 IP in 4 spring starts so he wasn’t exactly built up to a starter’s load before it happened. That’s worrisome.
It would be different if he was at his last spring start and threw 70 or 80 pitches, then he’s not starting from scratch once rested.
Add to that, the same thing happened last winter originally before the elbow injury was diagnosed. He had started throwing and had fatigue, and had to stop again.
Figure on an even slower and more cautious re-build once he’s rested than the already extremely cautious approach they have to take with him by necessity.
You could be right for the Angels with Ward and shedding salary. But Ward is going to start the season in the lineup, hopefully adding value on opening day. The Orioles supposedly had no payroll limits and they certainly didn’t spend it on top level starting pitching.
Right here. Too much upside. Just like Monah coming back from TJS.
It was a worthwhile pickup. Taylor Ward isn’t going to make enough difference for them, and then he’s gone so get GR and maybe it’ll be good. It’s fine and quite possibly a nice bit of business. If not, nbd really. I hope it works for him just as a player.
Ward is going to hit more home runs than this kid will have innings pitched. You basically traded
Ward for nothing.
They were going to be bad this year with or without Ward. Then he’d have been gone after the season.
He’s still a good pickup.
He’s settling into the Angels roster quite nicely.
Gotta love this time of year
Spring weather, sunshine, trees blooming, birds chirping….. and half the league’s pitchers going out with shoulder problems, elbow problems, limited range of motion, dead arms, fractures, TJS.… not in november december January february… no…. In march, A week before OD
Yes, injuries happen. Whats your point?
No birds chirping here yet but the frogs are indeed ribbeting.
Are those frogs ribbeting or tummy rumbling
Very astute comments. …. I think
In important baseball news to everyone that is not an Angels fan, the Padres signed Don Orsillo and Mark “Mudcat” Grant to long term extensions as their TV broadcasters.
No one cares outside of Padres fans. But you knew that already.
#1 broadcast team in the nation. LOTS of people care. Red Sox fans are still up in arms because they let Orsillo go.
How does a local broadcast team get credit (or officially ranked) at a nationwide audience level ?? Are these folks tuning in all over America to the Padres local radio broadcast over the web or something? Or mlb.com ?? Just curious how that’s calculated. I wouldn’t necessarily think Padres broadcasts would be up that high nationally for having a relatively small local market at home.
I hate the phrase “dead arm.” Dead means gone and never coming back. This is just a tired arm that will likely be okay with just some rest. Although with this guy, it might actually be a dead arm.
You seem fun.
You sound like my ex-wife.
Must have been a fun dinner table
Dead career
Better than a Weekend at Bernie’s situation where you actually have to drag the corpse around and act normal.
Wow 43 starts in 2023? Those are Dead-Ball Era numbers lol
You forgot to finish reading the sentence, “and the first half of 2024”
*23 starts
Welp, I guess that means Kochanowicz and Johnson will be the #4 and #5 starters. If the Angels stick Manoah as #5, that’s just clear proof they’re not serious about winning. He’s done nothing to show that he “deserves” a rotation spot.
He will probably go to the minors. He still has options left.
Both guys seemed to be benefiting from the new pitching coach.
Jack K’s velo is up 1 MPH on his fastball and 2 MPH on his slider, along with a huge improvement on his changeup.
Johnson has refined his splitter and is now throwing it 20% of the time.
Maybe this Maddux guy can help, after all.
Angels love their injured guys. Everybody knew this kid was a big injury risk. I think they like paying guys for doing nothing. Because they sure do it often enough.
@unclemike1526. Doesn’t matter they traded one year of ward for four years of Rodriguez. He was already going to be capped around 100 innings. Think they are being more cautious.
They traded $12 million of Ward for $780k of Rodriguez. I don’t believe Moreno cared about getting any production back for Ward, as long as he didn’t have to pay his salary.
@web’s. It has to do with control time, and you get a good pitching prospect if he’s healthy. Its easier to replace a outfielder and especially because Moreno doesn’t approve pitching signings, and if he does he has a price he doesn’t go over.
It has to do with money. Moreno lost more in that lawsuit than most of this board will earn in their lifetimes. He is cash poor and needed to dump expensive pieces. Ward was relatively expensive on a team that is not going to contend. He was not replaced unless you call a platoon of Lowe/Teodosio a replacement. Rodriguez is cheap and will continue to be cheap. If he never performs, he is still cheap. Moreno wanted cheap. Moreno approves or denies every signing and trade. He even said so this spring. He has said in the past that he will never again sign a starting pitcher to a deal longer than 3 years.
@web’s. Moreno isn’t poor he just has a profit line he operates on. Ward was walking so they got 4 years of control time with Rodriguez. I dont think lowe will be much different than ward, and they got a pitcher. Also I doubt teodosio makes the team its probably siri since teodosio needs to start and get more reps. If it doesn’t work out they can make the switch. Rodriguez was getting capped on innings this year anyway the move was made for the next three years.
All Orioles fans are frozen in place, eyes wide, mouths agape at this incredibly unexpected update.
Agape or a grape?
Yeah, he spelled Agrape wrong
I’m sure it’s similar across the league but it seems like the AL East is riddled with these future aces that never turned out to be anything close to what evaluators expected. Rodriguez, Hall, Dylan Bundy, Deivi Garcia, Nate Pearson, Chance Adams, Darwinzon Hernandez, Jay Groome, Alek Manoah, Anderson Espinoza, Hunter Harvey, Brent Honeywell, Matthew Liberatore, James Kaprielan.
Even Shane Baez and Taj Bradley could be approaching that territory based on the next couple of seasons.
I thought it was hilarious when the guy in the other article said that Moncada was a good replacement for Rendon because he was a more healthy option. When Moncada spent 8 years on the White Sox and 4 of those on the IL. Although I suppose on the Angels that would make him an Iron Man. Huh
Averaging 62 games per season on the field is an improvement over Rendon.
Lot of those names weren’t supposed to be “aces”
Being a top 100 prospect doesn’t mean that they project you as a future ace.
Hey jdgoat the jury may still be out on Liberatore. I heard he revamped some things and looking good in camp. We shall see though.
Wow, I didn’t see this coming at all. Color me shocked. Flabbergasted, bewildered, beside myself.
The Orioles had the Iron Man in Cal Ripken.
Then they had the Glass Man and finally cut ties with him in Grayson Rodriguez. It is a shame, he had a lot of talent.
In other news, water is wet.
And always level
In Florida, I heard the water table is absolutely fu#$ed.
Headline could’ve stopped at “Grayson Rodriguez May Begin Season.”
Controlled til 2030, costing next-to-nothing currently, Rodriguez was always a longer-term play for the Angels. There is still plenty of opportunity for this to benefit them.
Except …
it’s the Angels …
so in actuality, this is just bad news.
There is almost certain to be worse ….
What he cost was 37 home runs out of a lineup that can’t hit a beach ball. Let alone score runs
Ward will never hit 37 home runs again.
Soccer_ref is and will always be at the front of the doom and gloom line. Dead arm is nothing new in ANYONES spring training camp. It happens all the time all over spring training.
Taylor Ward is an average fielder, with an average bat and power. He also struck out 175 times or about 30% of his ABs. He struck out the second most times on the Angels last year. You have complained about how much the Angels struck out last year, yet they trade one of the biggest SO issues, and suddenly it is convenietly left off your comments.
I do not in any way feel the Angels overpaid for Grayson Rodriguez.
First off the not doom and gloom. I look at numbers and they do not lie
Average is a superstar on this roster.
Yes Ward strikes out a lot but Adell Neto Trout there were almost 500 k between those three. And over 1600 as a team.
673 runs. Ranked 25th
1627 strike outs. Ranked 30th second most all time as a team
.298 on base percentage. Ranked 28th
226 home runs ranked 4th loss 37
.225 batting average. Ranked 30th
4.15 runs per game. Ranked 25th
482 walks ranked 24th.
So let’s trade 37 home runs away for a pitcher that is throw less than 50 innings if at all this year
Read those numbers. Really think about them and ask yourself. Has this team improved? Is this team better than a 90 loss team from last year?
Rendon has a new friend
It’ll be interesting seeing just how bad they can be this year. I’m excited.
Will this be their first 100 loss team?
What’s life without ambitious goals am I right?
I will never understand the stupidity of this general manager.
Just because an article on ESPN called you clueless. (Correctly by the way) Don’t make deals and moves that proves it I hated this deal the moment it was announced
When a pitcher no matter how old he has two full seasons of major arm issues. NEWS FLASH. They will always continue to have arm issues.
So in your wonderful baseball brilliance. Let’s trade 37 home runs away from a lineup that can’t hit for a pitcher pretty much walking from the operating room to the mound. Then do absolutely nothing to replace the loss of power that was traded away.
Let’s make a bet. Will the angels have more wins or Rodriguez will pitch more innings? Who wants odds???
Perry just a heads up. Filing for unemployment (god willing) in California is a painful and long process. Just start now
Operation extreme redundancy the quest for 110 lost season
And remember guys we hate winning
At least he didn’t tender a contract to Ryan Mountcastle. That’s real stupidity.
I’ll take Angels wins. Even if its 59.
Operation extreme redundancy? You are the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.
You have repeatedly referenced that same ESPN article!
We get it you do not like the GM. Find something NEW to complain about.
I can complain about what ever I want
I will quote that espn post till he is fired.
All you do is mock other posts. Let’s see your game. Tell me why or how this team is better? Then when you come back to reality with a big splat and you start to realize that you can’t.
Till then stop complaining about what I write
Mock??
Someone seems to be a bit sensative.
Do I feel this team is a 110 loss team NO! I have said so already. Do I feel they will have ONLY 2 starters batting over .230? NO! Again I have said that I do not feel that.
Am I overly concerned about Rodriguez “dead arm”? NO, because it is still Spring Training and dead arm issues arise in everyone’s camp at one point or another.
Never once have I said this team is better, so for you to challenge me and state I should , falls right in line with your complaints. You bandstand on the WHAT IFS, I choose to let the season play out. I have not once stated I feel the Angels are going to the world series, or even the playoffs. You on the otherhand have repeatedly stated they are 110 loss team, even before the team has play one regular season game.
You rare right, you are allowed to complain. I just don’t understand why every single time an article is written, you have to complain. Then complain again. Then complain again.
@AngelsFan,
Oh come on that keyboard wizard Soccer knows EVERYTHING about running a MLB team. He sits in his basement and preys for a article about the Angels so he can prove to us ALL how much he knows.I guess he forgot Ward can be a FA after the season. And the Angels can resign him. Rodriguez coming off surgery. Sometimes it take some pitchers longer to come back. He’s worth taking a chance on.
I’m sure if we had the internet back in the early 70’s He would have written the same response about the Angels trading Jim Fregosi for Nolan Ryan…
I would take wards bat for a year to help a historical bad offense over a pitcher with an arm that is being held together with duct tape and super glue.
Players do not contribute from the IL if Rodriguez pitches 50 innings. That would be the parting of the Red Sea part two
There is a sucker born every minute and Perry is the sucker of the gm world
Thats why he is the perfect MORONassian acquisition. The angels are full of players like this.
@Soccer- I guess we’re going to have to listen to your bellyaching all season loooooong. You’ll only come in here when there’s something wrong. and it will be 4 paragraphs long.
Nope I’m just complaining until opening day. Then the box score and standings can speak for me. The over/under on wins is 70.5. I bet $500 on the under and I feel very good about that
Sad part is we cannot even have a fire sale outside of Neto Trout Kikuchi and o’Hopp Who would want to trade for anyone on the this dumpster fire of a roster
Come on opening day!!!
Ref for someone who has been adamant about this being a 110 loss season, 70.5 is an oddly high over/ under. Just like your .230 average suddenly jumped to .240 when I challenged you about it.
Bad team man, we’ve got a bad f***^^g team! Apologies to the Jim Healy Show.
Hooray for the Jim Healy Show. I’ve seen more pushing in the mens room
Grayson’s son will be gray by the time the Angels sniff the playoffs.
The Angels and injuries are common as they don’t know how to manage their young prospects to keep them healthy. Also, next to the Braves they are one of the laziest teams out there in complaining about not having pitching depth but then being too lazy to sign anyone or do anything about it.
Lazy?
But most of the best players in baseball today were once, you know, top prospects. They can’t all make it big. There’s only room for so few at the top.
“Grayson Rodriguez May Begin Season On Injured List”
Technically true for EVERY player
If Grayson Rodriguez can’t step right into the rotation or if he ends up spending a little time on the IL I’m perfectly fine with the Angels turning to Jack Kochanowicz.
The kid looks different this spring.
He’s got a full season under his belt, he’s throwing with confidence, and he finally looks like a guy who knows he belongs. This is the most composed we’ve seen him since he came up.
And don’t sleep on Ryan Johnson either.
He’s been one of the quiet spring standouts, and he gives the Angels another legitimate option to round out the rotation without having to scramble or force anything.
Let’s go with the youth, the young gunslingers no journeymen this year
@Johnny bravo. Looking like that’s going to happen. Kochanowicz and Johnson will be forced in the rotation to prove themselves if not we got dana and Klassen. I wouldn’t mind signing Anderson back so they can finally flip him.
Two letters sums this up. IF
Sign Giolito because why not?
@turd_ferguson. He probably costs more than 5 million. Guessing that’s Anderson’s price.
Anderson would probably cost $2M-$2.5M at this point of his career. Giolito probably wouldn’t sign for anything less than $10M.
@orange2001. Yeah the price is probably dropping. My guess is he priced himself out of a job. I say 5 million because didn’t lorenzen get 6-7.
Didn’t expect anything different.
If this is true, “dead arm” is quite simply muscular fatigue and inflammation.
Most of us experience this after a hard weight lifting leg workout at the gym, and our thighs feel “dead” for a day or two.
Honestly, I’d be surprised if G-Rod DIDN’T experience this during spring training.
As an o’s fan I thought we undersold his talent some in the ward trade and there’s still a chance that we did but I could understand why we had to move on from him. At this point I just hope he can have a good career given the injuries that have derailed him so far.
The O’s knew what they were doing. The guy has been injured in each of the past 3 seasons and didn’t even pitch at all this past season. Shocker, he’s already hurt this season and will most likely miss a huge chunk of time. They were lucky to get much of anything for him, much less a starting caliber player with big power potential. You weren’t going to get a mega star for Grayson now. Maybe a year ago you would have gotten more. Sure Ward has some warts, but he’s a 1 year deal and if he flops you move on. What you get is power and run production if everything is going right with him. Ward is a throwback to an early 2000’s, “three true outcome” hitter. While he strikes out a lot, he is starting to pick up his walks, and he hits homers, although last season he also hit over 30 doubles to go with his 36 HR, which means he doesn’t just go into launch mode.
The O’s moved on, knowing they couldn’t count on Grayson to be a major contributor to their rotation going forward. The O’s are in a contention window, and he didn’t fit that plan. They couldn’t wait around for him to finally have a healthy season, which may never happen.
Like you, I don’t with anything bad upon him, it is just a harsh reality. He has talent, but his arm is breaking down and once you get chain reaction injuries like he has, the other body parts try to overcompensate. He’s going to blow his arm out at some point.
Well, you have a steady outfielder with Taylor Ward with some pop I’m hoping it’s a trade that’ll help both teams
“Grayson Rodriguez has a dead arm.”
Well, that’s a really harsh assessment, but I agree with it. These reports always start off as something nominal. Oh, he’s got some discomfort in his throwing arm. There’s some inflammation so we’re just going to give him some rest as a precaution. You expect the guy to miss a few games maybe and be back after the proper rest. Then he doesn’t come back. There’s silence for a while. Then they report, “Well, he experienced a set-back as we were getting him ready to ramp up his work. He tweaked a little something and felt some soreness in his shoulder.” The decision is to rest him and start up again. Then there is a shoulder pain issue. More rest and then before you know it, half the season is over and you still haven’t seen this guy on the field. Then you get a report of some sort of major injury that requires surgery and they’ll miss not only the rest of this season, but most of, if not all of next season.
We’ve seen this happen time and time again. Guys with great promise to be something special, but their bodies just can’t hold up. The best ability is availability.
I was hoping that the angels would go with a six man rotation to give a Rodriguez an extra day keep the young arms fresh
I highly doubt he ever throws an inning again at the major league level. They will back off with him a couple weeks and then get him going in the minors and shut him down again. The Amgels conditioning staff has sacked for years akd everyone seems to know it EXCEPT the Angels. At least I’ll be able to die having been to so many of those great playoff games in 2002, but I was also there in 1986 for the Dave Henderson home run.
Time to re sign Anderson
Let’s hope to heavens above Grayson Rodriguez comes out of this with no structural damage. After Arte slashed payroll and shipped out Taylor Ward just to free up the little money we had left, we need this kid healthy.
This season is basically a referendum on the youth movement the front office pushed all their chips onto the table and said, “Fine, let the young arms carry us.”
So here we are.No safety net.No big‑ticket reinforcements.
Just raw talent, upside, and a whole lot of crossed fingers.
If these young arms pop, the Angels look smart.
If they don’t well, we all know how that story goes.
I can hear the fans already chanting
sell the team
sell the team
Giolito is standing by…
Attention valet to the front, please.
Requesting Mr. Giolito’s car.
Yes, Giolito the car that refuses to warm up unless you talk nicely before turning the key because it might stall
Bring it around, thank you.
Why would Giolito or Anderson want to come pitch for this team and get no run support.
Just kick back and wait for on the the 4th or 5th starters on a team idk that can actually contend to get hurt or implode and come in like the Calvary in just the nick of time
Goes to show you how pathetic this roster is. Your this late in free agency and you could go to to the Angels and slot in at the #3 in the rotation Or could be that the roster is so bad the Boras says to his client. Your not gonna go pitch at the raging tire fire known as the Big A Your numbers will kill any chance you get a future contract with pretty much any team in MLB
You’re acting like the stadium is cursed or there’s some kind of bad juju scaring players away.
Come on. Pitchers sign with bad teams all the time if the contract is right.
Agents don’t block clients from money. That’s not how this works. I didn’t quite get your post The only point I get from your point trash talker from the peanut section
If pitchers sign with bad teams why are these guys still on the market? If it is about a paycheck you take what you can get This late in your career. They have the money. They are chasing a ring or a shot at the playoffs
Typical Angels move with Urena. He did walk way too many but after starting 75 of 78 games they put him in their BP. He’s barely 22, this isn’t the way unless they givin up on him as a starter. Who spot in the BP will he take? Only Bachmwn might have options, and he’s pitched great this spring. He might be a bright spot once they let Urena get shelled like they did with Johnson game one. BTW Johnson is a future stud
Is anyone who has even remotely followed Rodriguez the past two and a half seasons surprised?