May 1: Lucchesi has again exercised free agency after clearing outright waivers, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. It wouldn’t be surprising if he again returns on a minor league deal.
April 29: The Angels recalled lefty Mitch Farris from Triple-A Salt Lake and designated fellow left-hander Joey Lucchesi for assignment, the club announced Wednesday.
Lucchesi was selected to the major league roster Sunday, marking his second stint of the season with the Halos. The 32-year-old pitched in Sunday’s game and again last night, combining for an inning of work and surrendering three runs. The well-traveled southpaw has totaled 3 1/3 frames in the majors with the Angels this season and been tagged for five runs on seven hits, six walks and a hit batter. He’s fanned four of his 24 opponents (16.7%).
Lucchhesi made 56 solid starts for the Padres in 2018-19, his first two seasons in the big leagues, but has since bounced around the league, working mostly as a reliever and swingman. Dating back to the 2020 season, he’s pitched 142 2/3 innings for four teams (Padres, Mets, Giants, Angels) and logged a 4.16 ERA with a 19.4% strikeout rate and 9% walk rate.
The Angels have already designated Lucchesi for assignment once this season. He passed through waivers unclaimed, elected free agency, and quickly re-signed on a new minor league contract. About two weeks later, he was back in the majors. A similar sequence could well play out again, though a team in need of some left-handed depth could always scoop him up to fill a short-term need. Lucchesi will be traded, placed on waivers or released within the next five days. Waivers are a 48-hour process, meaning his latest DFA will be resolved within a week’s time.
I saw him in game last night. He’s horrible
Lucchesi has a lot of assignments to do.
He needs to write 100 times. “ I am not a major league pitcher”. ???????
I expect him to be back next week after they bring back and cut Shaun Anderson
Ferris wheels can be scary.
Not gonna lie, I think he’s better off trying to go to NPB/KBO and get an opportunity to start. His lack of velocity shouldn’t be a problem
Another Perry Minasian masterclass in building a bullpen
DFA’d 3 times since the end of March… I wonder what the record is for the number of times getting DFA’d in a season …
Ask Jesse Chavez.
Richard (aka Dicky) Lovelady is right up there with him.
Perry has drafted about 60 pitchers in 5 years and look at the bullpen.
Total failure.
Yep. Say what you will about Arte’s interference, Perry has had the resources and draft time to build a bullpen and has failed. It’s killing this team.
Completely unrelated, but love your work with On SI. Just a small correction that might be due to autocorrect, but I’ve seen you refer to Oswald Peraza as Oswald Cabrera a few times now.
Thank you and noted. I’ll keep an eye out for that. Pretty sure that’s on me, not autocorrect.
How long until Yates and Joyce are back?
They should help solidify the pen a bit.
Joyce
Remember the golden rule
Elbows heal. Shoulders don’t
Yates has appeared in 3 rehab games, possibly 4. Did not look great in his outing on Saturday. But he should be back soon.
Joyce has yet to start a rehab assignment but he did pitch to live batters at the Angels facility recently. He’s a good month away if he pitches again.
In rehab, Yates has lost several miles off his fastball. Don’t count on him.
Unfortunately you’re better off not counting on anyone.
Just saw that Joyce is joining our A ball team this week.
Ask Richard Lovelady about the record for DFAs.
Really? I’m shocked.
You don’t treat Joey Fuego that way!
For the life of me, I can’t recall how he got that nickname
“He got his nickname, Fuego, when a Southeast Missouri State teammate suggested it while Lucchesi was trying to create a Twitter handle.”
The revolving door continues.
Stuff I have been pointing out for the last three years. He has “rebuilt” the bullpen every season he has been a Gm.
Like is said the other day.
Deck chairs on the HMS Titanic
It’s pretty obvious three or four guys they keep rotating through the bullpen that they are not major league arms. All 29 other teams have had a shot multiple times now to claim one and they are all like “naaa I’m good”.
Let’s look at some other things that are gonna come back and bite us
Or already have
Team era. 4.67. 6th worst Soriano saves this number
bullpen era 5.68 worst in baseball.
Walks issued. 146 2nd worst
8 blown saves second worst
Amazing contributions from Manoah and Rodriguez oh wait my bad.
305 strikeouts as a team. Leads the league on pace to tie the all time record of 1654.
Hit into 26 double plays. Second in the league
Neto on pace for 241 strike outs. Not exactly what you want from a leadoff hitter
The only thing saving this team right now is. Soriano, 5th in home runs and third in walks. The starting pitching staff is above average.
We have lost 9 out of our last 10. That great start is now well in the rear view mirror and we are playing like who I thought they were. A 100 loss team Right now on pace for 102 losses
Rebut me if you want but NUMBERS DO NOT LIE!!!!! In baseball numbers are everything
And they lead in Hit By Pitches. At least they’re good at that.
Nailed it.
I do like the development of Soriano, Detmers, Kochanowicz and at times Urena. I believe in Urena and realize there will be some growing pains but he reminds me a ton of a young Soriano.
I predicted a minor improvement from last year. 72-90. But with this bullpen it looks like I was overly optimistic.
@halosH
I really thought the team had a chance of being 81-81, but oooof this bullpen is the worst in over a decade. I don’t even think Yates coming back will do much to improve it.
Eh, it wont stay THIS bad and we have good starting pitching. THis season feels better already.
Guys
You know I’m on record for months that this was a horrible roster a clueless Gm and was going to be a 100 loss season. I even went more drastic and said 110 losses and no more than two players would hit above .250. That’s looking very possible
I am glad you guys are seeing it from a numbers standpoint. 110 losses might be a reach but 100 is definitely a possibility
This might. And will be then worst team in franchise history
Your were on record stating no more then 2 players would hit .230 then you changed it to .240, now it suddenly rises to.250
Now you are fluctuating on the 110 loses.
It seems as if YOUR numbers are lying to me.
I’m sticking to my 230 and 110 losses
Then why say .250 and 100 loses?
They say hindsight is 20-20 but it was pretty obvious that the bullpen going into the season was highly suspect. Putting any faith in the myriad of formerly good pitchers was not sound, as was hoping for chronically injured pitchers to be suddenly healthy and capable. To me, the saddest part is that spending wisely with the salaries that left the books could have helped prevent this. If the Angels coverted only 2/3 of their 12 save opportunities, they’d be 16-15, tied for the top of the West. To Perry’s credit, thus far the pick ups of position players has gone well. Still only 4 games back despite the horrendous bullpen which only converted 4 of 12 save opps. Maybe some minor leaguers are ready? Hail Mary time it feels like in April again. Sheesh, i already committed to my Angels TV subscription.
I think its safe to say most of us were baffled that they didnt bring back Jansen. The “basket of relievers” for the same price clearly didn’t work out.
Live update…4 out of 13 save opps…but Farris looked good…maybe pulled him a bit early…
Position players are good????
Moncada. .183 33k
Lowe .182 24k
Candelario DFA
Hitting below .200 if your an everyday player or DFA 7 games into the season is not good.
I’m not talking about the bench either. There are some guys hitting but with under 50 at bats.
Frazier, Grissom, and Peraza have been good so I think my statement is valid, for now at least.
Yes but look at the amount of AB’s they have.
Thats the key. 50 abs means your contribution is 10 games or less. They are not everyday players
soccer_ref
THANK YOU. You have finally confirmed what many of us already knew. You complain about something you no very little about!
Thats the key. 50 abs means your contribution is 10 games or less. They are not everyday players
Wrong!
Wow.
ONCE AGAIN TROLL ME
DO THE WORLD A FAVOR
SAY SOMETHING REPUTABLE. HAVE A TAKE. GIVE AN OPINION ABOUT THIS GARBAGE WE CALL A BASEBALL TEAM
SO FROM NOW ON THE MORE YOU, TROLL THE MORE I POST
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW YOU POST ARE IRRELEVANT. WORTHLESS. AND ADD NOTHING TO THE CONVERSATION.
Impossible.
You post more than anyone and all of it is nonsense.
Joey can’t pitch that good.
I long for the days of the Arson squad where our bullpen was merely bad.
I would take bad right now. Right now we’re horrible atrocious god-awful high school bullpen
The Angels might be right under .500 with a bad bullpen.
The good news is this will be Minasian’s last year as GM, the bad news is he’ll still have the opportunity to screw up yet another draft and the Angels will have trouble reaching 70 wins.
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At this point might as well bring up young arms in the bullpen and if that doesn’t work, keep chanting Arte sell the team
We desperately need a new owner, one who knows the priority is winning games, not exotic food, fireworks giveaways, bobble, heads, T-shirts we want to win
We absolutely need a new owner. And a new GM. Both would be a great
Ironically, one of the reasons I really dislike Minasian is his high draft picks are a work in progress with low ceilings. I’ve never seen anyone draft like that.
Bremner has two pitches, a fastball and change up. To put it nicely, his off-speed pitches are a work in progress. You know what you do with pitchers like that….you put them in the pen.
Normally a Devin Williams type pitcher goes in the second round…but we are talking about Minasian, therefore he’s the number 2 pick.
Good. Lucchesi never should’ve made the team after being cut by the Giants at the end of ST. He’s looked awful with the Angels. The bullpen is already improved without him (and Shaun Anderson).
Drew Pomeranz might be next to be DFA’d if he doesn’t turn things around soon.
I love how the Angels think they can build a good baseball team with a reliever that has been cut by 4 different teams.
Meanwhile, Brock Burke has .63 ERA in 14 innings of work and a 1.1 WHIP.