The Angels announced that right-hander Shaun Anderson has cleared waivers and elected free agency. The Halos designated him for assignment earlier this week. He has the right to reject the outright assignment because he has a previous career outright.
Anderson, 30, has gone down this road before. The Angels signed him to a minor league deal in the winter. He was selected to the roster in May. He lasted about two weeks before getting bumped off the roster. Since he is out of options, he was designated for assignment. He cleared waivers and elected free agency but then re-signed with the Angels on a new minor league deal. The same sequence of events played out the next month, with Anderson on the roster for a few days in June.
The same script was followed this week, though at a quicker pace. Anderson was added to the roster on Monday. The Halos were leading the Dodgers 7-0 after seven innings. They put in Anderson to try to save their top bullpen arms, but it didn’t work out. Home runs by Shohei Ohtani and Max Muncy led to four runs going on the board, with Anderson only recording two outs.
The next day, he was designated for assignment for the third time this year. Like in the previous two instances, he has cleared waivers and exercised his right to test the open market. It wouldn’t be a surprise if he returns to the Angels on a new deal, as he has before. He has thrown 163 1/3 major league innings with a 6.39 earned run average. His minor league work has been better overall but he hasn’t been putting up great numbers this year. Pitching in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, he has a 6.44 ERA in 81 innings in 2025.
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Can we not re-sign him this time? That would be great.
Good ole Shaun. Kinda looks like an angry bouncer.
Maybe the Dodgers can sign him.
Dude is trash sheesh 😒 his stats are abysmal one season under 5 era -2.4 war in his career
So…Shaun is out but Jose Suarez is OK right….right?!
Twins on line 3
don’t do it giants
Complete and total garbage. Take the entire bully with you. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
6 home runs allowed in 7 relief appearances this season. He was brutal.
Something tells me that you are not going to run into many Angel fans that are also Shaun Anderson fans.
Mederos was the call-up for his dfa, who I thought had some decent stuff if he can get his sinker in the bottom part of the zone consistently. We don’t need to re-sign Shaun Anderson, if we need a guy to pitch a hr derby we can just call Kochanowicz back up (who I hope gets it figured out because 6’7 hard throwing starters are not that common. should he be looked at as a flamethrower in the pen?)
Mexican league or Taiwan.