The Angels announced they’ve re-signed lefty reliever Joey Lucchesi to a minor league contract. He’ll be assigned to Triple-A Salt Lake.
Lucchesi was designated for assignment over the weekend when the Halos needed a roster spot to promote George Klassen as a spot starter. He cleared waivers and elected free agency. After a brief return to the open market, he’ll circle back to the Halos. That’s a common outcome for veterans who have the service time to refuse an outright assignment.
The 32-year-old southpaw had a very brief stint with the MLB club. He signed a major league contract at the end of Spring Training and made three appearances. Lucchesi allowed five of six hitters to reach in his season debut. He followed up with a pair of scoreless outings but walked at least one batter in all of his appearances. He wound up issuing five free passes (four walks and a hit batter) across 2 1/3 innings.
Lucchesi spent last season with the Giants. He opened the year in Triple-A but was called up in the middle of June. He remained on the active roster for the final three and a half months, turning in a 3.76 ERA over 38 1/3 innings. Lucchesi got grounders at a 53% clip but had a modest 18.8% strikeout rate that led the Giants to drop him from the 40-man roster at season’s end. He returned on a minor league contract for Spring Training and was granted his release when the Giants picked up Ryan Borucki late in camp.
Drew Pomeranz and Brent Suter are locked into Kurt Suzuki’s bullpen as veteran southpaws. The Halos recently recalled a third lefty, Mitch Farris, as a long reliever. Farris will probably be up and down from Triple-A throughout the season. Tayler Saucedo and Angel Perdomo are also in the organization on minor league deals.
A nice depth piece in AAA.
Hopefully he finds some consistency and can make it back and contribute.
Yeah. Given his decent track record, I’d rather have him than Shaun Anderson.
The Shaun Anderson thing is the craziest part of the Perry years
And Hunter Strickland.
Lol
3.72 era in 101 innings as Angel is why Strickland gets invited back.
Yes. Despite bad underlying stats.
Some years for pitchers are like that. Ride the wave until it crashes.
I thought it already did. Mike Morse would agree.
Anderson does look much better than most of his outings last year. Luck say sea is a good pick up. I like nick sandlin. It would be great if the angels could have 5.5 April.
Yes, Sandlin gives a different look than the other high octane relievers, and has a track record to back it up.
He’ll be up sooner rather than later.
Joyce is making progress. Yates may be back soon.
I’m still a little skeptical of the bullpen, but so far it hasn’t been the freakin cluster I anticipated.
Bauchman looks great
Typical Perry move. Angels are the Home for Broken Relievers and 2B. Add in a side order of leftover 3B and a veteran OF that can’t hit his weight. Say what you want. Perry has done nothing in his years to construct this roster.
Right hes been half steppin the entire way
Does anyone realize it’s Arte that holds this thing back,it’s not on perry.
Perry gets paid too and has assistants they can figure something out
Finally a fan that has said exactly what I have been saying for two seasons now. Just go look at the starting lineups batting average
Smart on his part. He’ll be back in the majors this year, possibly this month.
Why?????
Does anyone actually think Minasian is an adequate judge of talent? I really hope not.
I’d say most Braves fans believe Minasian is an adequate judge of talent. Every pundit and Angels podcaster blames Moreno for the state of this team and agrees that Minasian is just the GM Du Jour following marching orders, strapped by Moreno’s limitations.
No good free agent signing, no good trades, and in spite of high draft picks, a rotten farm and other than Neto, mediocre at best talent.
And the worst records Angel history. Yeah, he’s done an adequate job…sure.
Yet he still gets a paycheck…….
Exactly Soccer, Arte is a terrible owner and one reason is because he keeps giving Perry a paycheck.
As usual, Halo, you misplace the blame.
Arte believes in Perry. Arte is a terrible owner and doesn’t know what he’s doing.
As usual, your points don’t make a lot of sense.
This series was a great example of the competence of Minansian. Just after Minasian was hired, he exposed Soriano to the rule 5 draft, lost him to the Pirates, and did that to sing Claudio. Thank goodness the Pirates returned him to us.
Drafted Bachman well above slot so they could give him a smaller bonus so they could pay Silseth way over slot and missed out on players like McLain, Painter and Frelick who all got bigger bonuses….and some people want to blame that on Moreno.
That’s all Minasian.
I really wish Arte Moreno would give Perry Minasian a bigger budget.
There was quite a few bargain, free agents this year no money to spend,but he’s constantly forced to work with limited resources. If the Angels want to compete, they need to invest in free agents and give the front office the financial flexibility to build a complete roster. The team has too much potential to keep operating on a tight budget. It’s time to open things up and actually support this baseball team
Minasian doesn’t know what he’s doing. You want him to throw money at problems and hope that solves something? Moreno may be bad, but he’s not as dumb as politicians.